Finally! The moment you’ve all been waiting for!
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| A very good lawyer. |
…Is not in
this episode. Sorry! BUT! The door for it to happen has been opened, so just
wait and see.
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| Titania making that bank. |
Overall,
this was a fun episode that saw Shulkie dealing with Titania’s
(Jameela Jamil) legal
shenanigans, on top of her bestie, Nikki (Ginger Gonzaga), going to great
lengths to help Jen get a new wardrobe appropriate for her double lifestyle. I
enjoyed myself quite a bit watching this. Nikki and Pug (Josh Segarra) are this episode’s
Wong (Benedict Wong) and Madisynn (Patty Guggenheim) and make a
fun pairing. Also, once again, the callbacks are coming in (albeit not THAT far
back this time around).
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| A comic book show with great art. |
And can we just give a shoutout to
the phenomenal artwork of Kagan McLeod
that graces the credits of each episode? Among the repeated images seen every
episode, we get fun renditions or episode-specific scenes and even the fleshing
out of what could be just throwaway lines of dialogue. It’s almost like getting
a bonus scene in every episode.
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| "Okay, I will make her clothing. But no capes!" |
That said,
this episode highlights the major problem of She-Hulk: the runtime. This
half-hour runtime is doing a serious disservice to the potential this show
could reach. The few cases they’ve presented so far have been interesting, but
all-too-brief. The case comes in, they do some courtroom banter, case closed.
And to remind you, that’s just a few minutes out of everything else going on.
We don’t get much lawyering in this “lawyer show.” I, for one, would like to
have seen more of the characters dealing with these legal situations in their
unique, quirky ways.
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| Mallory Book will legally eviscerate you as soon as defend you. |
Additionally,
the secondary characters are being woefully underutilized. Let’s take the
character of Mallory
Book (Renée Elise Goldsberry).
Readers of Dan
Slott and Juan
Bobillo’s She-Hulk
comics will recognize her as the
office B who holds Jen in all kinds of contempt after Jen spoils her flawless
winning streak in the courtroom. In She-Hulk the SHOW, she’s seen for
all of 10 seconds in the third episode as a potential lawyer for Jen’s former
colleague Dennis Bukowski (Drew
Matthews). This was the first episode where we got her to any great degree,
and while Goldsberry delivers a fine performance as the character, we don’t
know why she is how she is, or why Jen is working so hard to be her friend, or
why the moment outside of the courthouse meant a lot for both Jen and the character.
Instead, she comes off as just another person who puts up a hard front but
actually gives a crap inside (at least a teeny, tiny bit).
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| There's a fun pair in this episode, but it's not who you thiiiiiiiiiiink. |
But
honestly, it says something when a one-off character manages to be more
memorable than your regulars. Within one week of her appearance, Madisynn has
gotten memes galore, an official series poster, and even her own emoji hashtag
on Twitter. Characters like Pug and Mallory? I’ve seen YouTube reactors get
their names wrong while they were watching the episode! Hell, I, myself,
can’t even recall the boss’ name without looking it up. Yeah, we get a couple
of cute character interactions and maybe a quirk or two, but overall, these
characters are just not given the prominence they should in an ensemble. Nikki is
only slightly ahead of the game by the virtue of her just being on screen more
than the others. We shouldn’t have had to rely on the credits artwork to fill
in some of those blanks for us.
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