“She-Hulk”: Season 1 ends squeezing its potential, crushing the fourth wall and setting the tone

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* We comment on some of the outstanding twists of ‘She-Hulk’ 1×09 – ‘Whose Series Is This?’. If you haven’t seen the episode yet, read on!

The best way to evaluate entertainment is to pay attention to one’s natural reaction, therefore, if everything is laughter from start to finish: that’s enough. This is what happens with the last chapter of the first season of “She-Hulk: Lawyer Hulka”, a series that says goodbye to its first batch of episodes. drawing a tremendously dynamic conclusion attached to an essence with a lot of body, go, that an ending is marked with style. Finding the tone, honing her comedy, and looking for a way to adapt elements of the Marvel Cinematic Universe while trying not to resort to its exhausted as well as effective formula, this series starring Tatiana Maslany puts an end. to a wildly experimental first season.

The journey, much by trial and error, begins to find its starting point, in a sixth episode that talks face to face with many women of Jennifer Walters generation, something that this television drama has tried to do from the beginning; And from there on. The closing of the season, a 1 × 09 entitled ‘Whose series is this?’, shamelessly dives into everything that makes “She-Hulk” special, “crushing” the fourth wall in the most extreme and unexpected way and sticking to that sitcom legal foundation that has so much to offer.

It ends with a bang, exactly as it begins: with a wonderful and hilarious homage to the 1970s series title, ‘The Incredible Hulk’. Scoring shot after shot in four-thirds, with noise-laden images and an eerie narrator, “She-Hulk” begins its finale with a nod to the said earlier television adaptation and the first comic that inspired this character. , titled Spain ‘The wild Hulka’. a delight

After this the laughter is constant, with highly successful dialogues and a depiction of Walters’ life and environment that connects to all millennials. “People go to jail every day”Says the father of the unfortunate superhero in an attempt to improve his daughter’s hard life, but without having the emotional tools necessary to do so.

And from a successful job and complete independence, we move to a Jenn in the room she grew up in, a bedroom decorated with the “Erin Brockovich” poster on one wall and of course the “Legal Blonde” behind the door. . The references of Jessica Gao, creator of the series, and the writing team, cannot be more than 2000, a flow of visual and stylistic winks that culminates with the practical ‘recreation’ of the scene from ‘Le vacanze (Vacaciones)’ in which the character played by Cameron Diaz cannot escape the narrator who describes his life as a disaster. All correct decisions. All in the line of a comic bet that finds its audience in those bonds with which it binds an entire generation..

That stylistic choice continues to improve to the point that She-Hulk breaks through the fourth wall like never before, with this heroine rushing to her show’s writers room to tidy up, of course. Gao herself is among those present who cannot believe that Jenn will have the audacity to go see KEVIN, a twist with which we discover that Kevin Feige, in addition to being a tremendously involved boss in all the Marvel Studios series / movies, is a: excited.

The laughs when it turns out Kevin is an “Electronic Visual Narrative Interconnection Kit” is priceless because they are born from a joke that works on several levels. Kevin is not only not Feige, but he is an artificial intelligence that ensures that his algorithm is foolproof when it comes to generating textures. And there you have a sour look at the possible but still avoidable future we’re headed towards and a sarcastic reaction to criticism. of those spectators who attack the aforementioned marvelite formula. There won’t be a final battle here because it’s not Jenn’s style, period.

“That’s what the Hulk is like, we crush. Bruce crushes the buildings. Me, the fourth wall and the lousy endings. And sometimes Matt Murdock.”. It is what must find that elusive character necessary for everything to work, that the moment you take it, everything fits and shines as it should.

The Difficult Diva Of The Law

Virtually every scene from 1 × 09 of ‘She-Hulk: Lawyer Hulka’ underlines the eureka the whole team must have felt when they found their way, a way of speaking with the viewer that flows and conquers, marking a language so well defined as to be all successes. But among all we could mention the one in which ‘the Difficult Diva of the Law’ goes from answering the journalist who asks her about her outfit.

It is those details of women’s everyday life that build a vision adequate to the reality of certain archaic dynamics that the majority of the female population tries to leave behind. In this line, the relationship between Jenn and Matt is established, a ‘romanticism’ that comes from the sincerity of a woman who asks for what she wants and does not hide that she may very well want to skip dinner to go directly to cover herself. another need ‘.

Daredevil enjoys indulging in a very familiar family meal of encounters that close virtually every “Fast & Furious” movie, with everyone around the table and someone being a victim of the jokes. In this case, Jenn’s parents aren’t shy about trying to find out if the boy who brought her daughter home is worthy of her and could dent her future. Again, a time when many single women will feel identified. What a joy that “She-Hulk: Lawyer Hulka” has found the key. Hopefully Marvel knows how to appreciate it and bet on continuing to give ground to this superhero legal comedy.