Jen Walters' world is turned upside down after a freak accident leaves her with superpowers.Jen Walters' world is turned upside down after a freak accident leaves her with superpowers.Jen Walters' world is turned upside down after a freak accident leaves her with superpowers.
- Judge Price
- (as George Bryant)
- Bathroom Girl #4
- (as a different name)
- On-Set She-Hulk Reference
- (as Maliah Arrayah)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen Jennifer Walters walks into the bar after her first "hulk-out," there's a QR code in a poster on the wall. If scanned, this and follow the link directs to a webpage showing the first She-Hulk comic, "The Savage She-Hulk" from February 1980.
- GoofsHulk throws a boulder that is shown making a sonic boom as it disappears into the distance. A sonic boom is created when an object breaks the speed of sound. If the boulder was thrown faster than the speed of sound, it would have created a sonic boom when first thrown. If it left the Hulk's hands slower than the speed of sound, there would be no way for the boulder to pick up additional speed once it was flying through the air.
- Quotes
Jennifer Walters: It's just so sad. Steve Rogers did so much for his country and he never got to experience sex.
[Jennifer continues sobbing]
Jennifer Walters: Did you see that ass? Like, that ass did not
[sobs]
Jennifer Walters: deserve to die a virgin. It's, like, so sad.
[Jennifer downs a large drink]
Smart Hulk: [sighs] Steve Rogers is not a virgin. He lost his virginity to a girl in 1943 on the USO tour.
[Jennifer puts down her drink]
Jennifer Walters: [smiles, brightening] Yes! I knew it.
Smart Hulk: You're not drunk?
Jennifer Walters: Captain America fu...
- Crazy creditsSPOILER: A brief mid credits scene reveals that Captain America did not die a virgin.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Critical Drinker: She-Hulk: Attorney At Law - LOL, Nope! (2022)
- SoundtracksMoney On It
Written by William Keegan, Daniel Bengston, Erik Jimenez, and Roland Cosio
Performed by Together Pangea
Courtesy of Together Pangea under exclusive license to Nettwerk Music Group Inc.
The writing isn't that great and it's your typical Disney Plus MCU level of writing and they just get into things without proper characterization and build-up, which is not a bad thing, but in this case, it kinda is. Usually with superhero movies or shows, the protagonist already has his/her powers and they do backstory through flashbacks, which worked with Daredevil for example, but some just need more time spent with the character before getting powers, and then delving into that. This one I think needed that because I'm still not that the whole Jennifer Walters and She-Hulk character.
She-Hulk is probably the first character in the MCU that breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience, but that doesn't add anything of value to this show, at least for the first episode. They are not that funny and I don't even know if they are written for the purpose of getting a laugh or not, but they're just not funny.
Tatiana Maslany is a great actress, I've seen her in Orphan Black and she's great in there. But with this level of dialogue and writing, I doubt we get anything good out of her acting ability other than your typical MCU stuff.
There is also a little too much amount of the same old cringey "men bad, and I'm a strong woman character" scenes and dialogues which we've seen in the trailers, and which I think are unnecessary because it's like they were written by a 14-year-old tiktoker and not a professional writer. Still, it doesn't hurt the episode as much as the bland storyline and writing.
My only confusion about these MCU shows, is that where does Feige find these writers? Like with the amount of money in their possession and the experience they've had over all these years of being in the filmmaking business, and also show making, surely they can find and hire better writers right? Right? I don't even know what Dinsey is doing with hiring these writers that are either just inexperienced or young and new in the business, or just NPCs and A. I. I feel like Disney treats everyone in the production like the dirt under its shoe and worships the actors like they're god. And seems like writers and VFX artists are the ones that Disney doesn't care about at all. They must be giving all the budget to the marketing and the actors and just find the cheapest desperate writers and underpay the VFX people.
These MCU writers also must have the easiest job in the world writing these half-hour episodes and only for 6 - in this case 9 - episodes with the most basic and unnuanced level of writing. Like I'm pretty sure a fan could've made a more entertaining introduction to this character than what these "professional" writers did here.
So in conclusion, the first episode is bland and uninteresting, not funny as advertised, things just happen and there's no real build-up and establishing scenes or letting the scene just sit and breathe for a while. There are cringey lines of dialogue and the superhero origin isn't that good at all.
I laughed way harder and way more watching Ant-Man and the Wasp and I didn't even like that movie. So if they're gonna sacrifice better writing and a better premise (an actual legal show like Daredevil, and not super villains just busting through the court) just to do comedy and le funny quip, they need to be damn good at writing comedy, which they weren't here at all. I'd say hopefully it gets better in the next episodes, but with my experience with MCU's phase 4, that's just a fool's hope.
- MamadNobari97
- Aug 18, 2022
Details
- Runtime35 minutes
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