But that’ll be all the mention of Nikki’s

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That’s for billionaires and narcissists,” she aptly quips. And, on top of all that, She-Hulk attempts a case-of-the-episode structure but doesn’t have much time to add substance to them.Ginger Gonzaga and Tatiana Maslany in She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Photo Courtesy: Marvel StudiosOnce again, this is another MCU show — with the exception of the excellent WandaVision and Ms. Marvel, and the notable Loki — that feels like an overstretched origin story with no sense of an efficient TV episode structure.


But, more than ever, I had the feeling that this was a show made by committee, and the Taiwan WhatsApp Number message they wanted to relay was: “We are feminists at Marvel,” all while moving the storylines of several key Marvel characters forward. Besides its overt feminism, which feels calculated, the show also tries flaunting its queer stripes. It does so when Jennifer’s best friend Nikki (a very underutilized Ginger Gonzaga) takes a look at Jennifer’s dating profile and scorns: “Hetero life is grim.







But that’ll be all the mention of Nikki’s life outside of her work as Jennifer’s paralegal. It didn’t help She-Hulk: Attorney at Law’s case that Maslany in CGI She-Hulk form looks odd. I’m not dismissing her performance: if there’s someone who can play several characters at once or — in this case — the same character in two very different bodies, it’s her. It’s just that all the CGI involved in her Hulkian transformation doesn’t make her look very believable. What’s also not great for the show’s overall look is the fact that Attorney at Law is set in Los Angeles but shot in Atlanta, Georgia. Don’t expect many real-life locations to .