SHE-HULK EPISODE 4 REVIEW

 

A boating outfit and a cat with a matching hat? Swipe right on that!

            Dating in your 30s, amirite? 

"And for my next trick: an express portal to a hell dimension!"

            This is one of those episodes where you really need to turn your brain off and just enjoy. Why do I say that? Well, we get Wong back for another bit of crossover fun, and this time he goes to Shulkie in order to get a magician who flunked out of Kamar-Taj (the magical training ground from Doctor Strange) to stop using a sling ring (the ring that opens up the circular sparkling portals in the MCU) in his hokey magic act before he does something that could potentially disrupt the universe. The “turn your brain off” part comes into play when you logically figure the “sorcerer supreme” could have dealt with this rogue element in any number of ways (such as sling ringing into the culprit’s room at night and snatching back the ring or, as suggested in the episode itself, casting him into the mirror dimension) without relying on Shulkie or the American court system. Especially as seen in the show’s climactic fight scene. But the tone of the show seems to affect everything it touches and Wong is played more as the straight-man in a comedy routine. Particularly when he ends up constantly paired with drunk party girl Madisynn King (Patty Guggenheim). Yeah, I can’t get too much into that without spoilers, but you’ll likely find her annoying endearing (and speaking of spoilers: if you haven’t watched The Sopranos yet and plan to, you may not wanna watch this episode first).

Sexy fun time.

            We seemed to get a lot more Shulkie this episode. A lonely Jennifer attempts to hit the dating circuit with an online profile, but finds her human side either gets ignored or ends up with a total loser. So she makes a profile for her bigger half and discovers the joys of dating as a modern adult (read: mind-numbingly horrible). It does start Jen on the road to embracing her other self and starting to feel more comfortable in her gamma-irradiated skin, while at the same time paints the bummer picture that her world couldn’t give a crap less about plain, ol’, ordinary her (outside of family and friends, ‘natch!).

Maidsynn being...helpful?

            And can we just give it up for supportive superhero families? We’re getting back-to-back portrayals with the previous (and excellent) Ms. Marvel and the Khans, and now Mark Linn-Baker’s Morris Walters. From the one-on-one moment back in the first episode, to attempting to protect his superhero daughter from future attacks complete with a shovel to hide the bodies. Good families for the win!

"Okay, Twitter--say hello to my little friend!"

            Overall, another fun episode, although one you really can’t think too hard about. I did especially enjoy the little dig at online trolls like they did with the last episode. I’m also looking forward to seeing how all of these seemingly unconnected events find a way to intersect as the show goes on. With Jameela Jamil’s Titania set to return in the next episode after being largely absent since the first, it looks like the callbacks are beginning.