She-Hulk Episode 1-4 review: Tatiana Maslany as the new green superhero is the savage queen we have been missing

3/5

In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, Tatiana Maslany's character, Jennifer Walters, a lawyer who specialises in superhuman-related legal matters, must deal with the challenging circumstances of a 30-something single woman who also happens to be a green, 6-foot-7-inch superpowered hulk.

The spin-offs and emerging new characters from the MCU have gotten fans into dual minds since Avengers: Endgame. As a fan, we are all game for new characters and popular actors donning the cape and turning into superheroes, and eventually Avengers. But, there are a few hits and misses, and we don't need to mention them. Talking about She-Hulk: Attorney At Law, it's somewhere lying in between.

The review is based on the first four episodes out of the nine episodes of the series. Unlike a superhero entry, we see Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters gearing up to go for a trial. Her best friend at work,as paralegal Nikki Ramos (Ginger Gonzaga), who is too good, asks her to Hulk out. Going by the promotional activities, we know that she is She-Hulk, but wait, there's a back story to how she became one.

Maslany's performance as Walters and She-Hulk is ferocious from the beginning. She doesn't bow down in front of everyone, yet her being a lawyer comes into play as she gives the benefit of the doubt to everyone around her. You'll burst out laughing at times, especially when she just overpowers her cousin Bruce Banner, aka Hulk, while he touches her to control her powers and anger before revealing her alias identity.

However, unlike other superheroes, Walters doesn't believe in hiding who she is in every way. Moreover, we also see her nemesis, who comes and goes immediately. Yes, we are talking about Titania (Jameela Jamil), who is a superpowered influencer coming out of nowhere.

In the first four episodes, things are to be established about her, but there's going to be an interesting arc as the whole women's team, including the cast and crew, make the series meatier than it can be.

Ms. Marvel, created by Bisha K. Ali, showed a teenage girl fighting the world and discovering the other world at the same time.

In She-Hulk, Jessica Gao is the prime writer of the show, while Kat Coiro and Anu Valia have helmed the episodes. As a result, it should come as no surprise that the central character is no less than anyone, including her cousin Hulk, who is not always angry anymore.

Walters as the green superhero feels invisible in her personal life as her human self, so we see her going all out as She-Hulk even while joining a dating website.

There are many such moments in She-Hulk which will leave you engaged. However, it's still a slow burn and maybe the eventual episodes will leave you excited. The story goes nowhere, and the lack of cliffhangers until now has slowed down the tempo of the episodes. We have to watch the forthcoming episodes to see if the pace of the episodes is pumped up or not.

One of the best parts of the series is the mid-credit scenes, and one of them is indeed a show-stealer as it includes a cameo by one of the most surprising and funniest appearances in recent times.

She-Hulk tries too hard with its humour, even in the most serious situations, and doesn't land up properly. It's not even deadpan.

Although Maslany shoulders the whole series, the supporting characters, including Gonzaga, Tim Roth as Emil Blonsky aka Abomination (oh, he is interesting to watch and I hope there's more of him in the forthcoming episodes), Benedict Wong as Wong, well, his appearance comes as no surprise, as he is among the pioneers of the multiverse and the rediscovery of time travel. They do add fun and surprise elements, but nothing new that we haven't seen before.

In my opinion, She-Hulk starts on a decent note, and with five episodes remaining to be watched, I hope the scope of betterment and entertainment come along. Ms. Marvel did set a slightly higher benchmark for me with the way it started, and I hope She-Hulk equals it, if not at par.

She-Hulk starts on a mixed note with fewer surprise elements but makes sure to show that her experience is different physically, figuratively, and cognitively as a result of how Hulk and she have behaved differently in the world as men and women, despite her initial preconceived notion that it will be precisely the same as Hulk's.