She-Hulk

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 4

  • Title: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 4
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Seeming to find its niche in exploring quirky little adventures marginally tied to current or past events in the MCU, the fourth episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law returns Wong (Benedict Wong) who needs some legal help from Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) in preventing a cut-rate magician from spicing up his lounge act with actual magic from Kamar-Taj. It turns out he’ll also need some super-hero help with the magician accidentally unleashes a horde of demons into the Earth.

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 2 / Episode 3

  • Title: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 2 / Episode 3
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Returned to her life, and with her new super-secret out in the open, Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) deals with the fallout of being a powerful woman (who is occasionally 8-feet tall and green) in a man’s world. Keeping the same lighter tone, even when dealing with a crisis for our heroine, the second and third episodes focus on a new direction for Jennifer’s role in a courtroom, attempting to work her alter-ego into her social life, and her struggles with how the world begins to fashion its own narrative about who She-Hulk is as our heroine remains reluctant to turn into the media storm. The focus of a super-woman in a man’s world can very much be felt here (especially with every male character a shmuck, a mansplaining Hulk, asshole, or creep with only a single exception who is about as asexual as you can get in the MCU).

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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – Episode 1

  • Title: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law – A Normal Amount of Rage
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Originally introduced back in 1980, She-Hulk has been around the Marvel Universe as a member of various teams include the Avengers and the Fantastic Four but her greatest success came from the 1989 series by John Byrne who kept the character in Hulk mode permanently, allowed her to break the fourth-wall and talk directly to the writer, and often had fun satirizing the hero genre and pushing the limits of the Comics Code. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law attempts to find a way to bring that sensibility to the screen while offering an earlier version of Jennifer Walters (Tatiana Maslany) who, like her cousin Bruce (Mark Ruffalo), can transform between human and Hulk.

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The Variants #2

There’s quite a lot happening all at once to Jessica Jones. Some old lingering programing from the Purple Man has resurfaced threating everyone around her, variants of Jessica from around the Multiverse have begun appearing (although since Jessica is in no mood to talk with them, it’s not clear what they are after), she’s a little too happy to see Matt Murdock is still alive, and an old friend is attempting to recruit her into a new super-team.

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