Better than it was before, but still worse than you might have thought possible a couple of months ago… She-Hulk has a few laughs land.
I’m just amazed that there’s anything this bad being produced by Marvel. It’s almost as bad as the actions of the company hosting this website’s servers. But that’s a story for another day once we migrate to a new company.
She-Hulk, on the other hand, is a story for today. It’s a story of a concept so poor that it boggles the mind it was ever approved. It calls into question everything you once thought about Kevin Feige and his ability to weed out the good from the bad. It makes you wonder just how bad something would have to be in order for Disney and Marvel to say, “nah, we’re not putting that out there.” It’s so bad that we’re actually tag-teaming these reviews so we don’t have to make one writer watch each one. And although the ratings for this thing are in the absolute basement, readership for the reviews are pretty great. That means people are like us: in awe it can possibly be this awful.
‘She-Hulk: Attorney At Law’ Premiere Ratings Fail To Break Into Nielsen Top 10, Another Failure For Victoria Alonso’s Business Strategy https://t.co/jtjZ1dOchL
— Bounding Into Comics (@BoundingComics) September 19, 2022
On the plus-side for Marvel, this episode is slightly better than the two prior outings. Jen goes to a wedding, gets drunk and has a girl fight. Sorry for the spoilers but that’s pretty much all that happens. There is a B-story with characters you somehow care even less about, but it’s a complete waste of time, so let’s just dispense of the notion we’ll chat about it. But points have to go to this episode for having something actually occur. Jen goes to a wedding! There’s actually a plot of some sort! It is annoying, poorly acted and it does nothing to move a narrative beyond the episode, but it’s content nevertheless. It’s like when a child hands you two blank pieces of paper and calls it artwork… when they give you the third and there’s a single macaroni noodle glued to it, you gotta take your victories where you can.
Also, there are exactly two jokes that land in this thing, up from zero before. A funny-looking dog also made me smile a little bit! That’s a big win.
On the bad side, the CGI is somehow worse than ever before. In a shot set under the sun, all the live actors have plenty of radiance while the She-Hulk CGI model has zero. It’s really weird looking. All the characters remain just as annoying as before. And there’s still really no reason to recommend watching whatever this is. Which, by the way, seems to be what everyone has already decided weeks ago.
If it were good, I’d say so. But this is one show that is just truly awful.
Score: 2/10 (Really Bad — But Better than Before)
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