Wow, eight episodes worth of She-Hulk reviews and you still haven’t lost your mind yet? You’re sane enough to still read? I’m just kidding, but seriously, welcome back if you’ve read my other reviews on She-Hulk. If you haven’t, go read them. I put so much time and thought into crafting the perfect review every single time. That’s no exception for Episode 8 of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law!
Today’s episode was a bit of an interesting one with some interesting plot points that are necessary for survival to cover, so let me just dive right on into it!
Synopsis
So, our terrible–I mean, great, show opened up today with Jennifer Walters needing to take on a case for this guy who calls himself Leapfrog. I’m sorry, but isn’t that a children’s toy?
Give me a second to look that up!
Ah yes, I’m correct. My memory is not failing me just yet. In fact, “LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. is an educational entertainment and electronics company based in Emeryville, California.”
Anyways, evidently, we now have a superhero named after a children’s toy company, so I’m not sure why, but here we are.
So, what did Leapfrog do to end up in a sticky situation? He got into a fight with some robbers and chickened out so he tried to fly away and his jets failed and he went crash landing in a spectacular fashion. Now, he’s blaming his eccentric fashion designer Jacobson for failing to make a proper super suit.
Like the good lawyer Jen is, she goes to Jacobson and tells him that he’s being potentially sued, to which our eccentric fashion designer gets offended and tells Jen he’s never making her clothing again.
Throughout this entire sequence, I stared deadfaced at the TV wishing that I could laugh, but I could not.
So, when Daredevil FINALLY showed up, I felt something. An emotion. I felt excited! Finally, here was a character that meant something. A character that I liked and enjoyed! FINALLY!
Anyways, they go to the hearing to which Jen finds out that educational children’s toy company put jet fuel in his boots and that’s why they failed and eccentric fashion guy’s instructions said to not do that, so the case was tossed out. The reason they found this out was because Daredevil could smell the jet fuel, so yeah, there you go.
Anyways, educational children’s toy company gets into a bit of a pickle and summons She-Hulk to come to his aid, to which she does. And then, She-Hulk finds out that Daredevil–who she did not know was lawyer Matt Murdoch–was chasing after Leapfrog.
Instead of trying to find out about why Daredevil was after him, She-Hulk proceeds to get into a smackdown with Daredevil and then unmasks him.
Woo hoo.
So, Matt explains what’s going on, he and Jen go to educational toy company’s secret lair and they fight off the henchmen and Jen stops him and they get Jacobson, who I forgot to mention was kidnapped by educational children’s toy company, and yeah, that’s the episode.
I’m just kidding, there’s more than that. This was a bit of a longer episode I think.
Synopsis…PART 2!!!
So, Jen and Matt get together midway through the episode. Earlier, there had been some “chemistry” in the bar, I guess. I really don’t know, but whatever. They seemed to like each other, I guess?
Afterwards, Jen has to go to this gala where she’ll be presented with the female lawyer of the year award or something or other. Now, because this show has to do stupid things, stupid things occur.
Jen goes to the gala as She-Hulk and gets presented with the award. The other female lawyers get up on the stage to get their awards and we get some great, totally natural dialogue about how female lawyers have it harder than male lawyers.
Look, make a point all you want, but it was very, VERY, horrendously badly written dialogue. It was so shoehorned that it really didn’t make any sense with the episode, and that broke the nonexistent immersion for me, to be honest.
So, remember those evil Redditors? Oh, sorry, Intelligencia or something. I’m just calling it Reddit. I refuse to call it anything else. It’s just Reddit.
Though, anybody that uses Reddit would know that this could’ve never happened because Reddit bans people for saying just about anything. It’s like Reddit and 8Chan had a baby or something.
I don’t know. It’s stupid and I’m calling it Reddit.
I guess they were compiling stuff to make She-Hulk look bad and then She-Hulk went after them and tried to attack one of the evil Redditors, but the Department of Damage Control that we’ve been seeing in a few movies and shows now decided to show up and that’s where we ended.
Overall Thoughts
This was probably the most likeable episode so far, to be fair. I thought there was a decent amount of action that I had been yearning for in a stupid superhero show. Daredevil was not as cringe as I assumed Marvel would make him, but him getting with Jen felt…forced? I wasn’t convinced, but whatever.
The evil Redditor subplot could’ve been so much better if they didn’t spoil the fact that Josh was an evil Redditor. It would’ve been a bigger plot twist. Something that wasn’t seen coming, you know what I mean?
I just want to say that from writing all of these reviews, this show really does leave me wanting something more. There’s not enough of anything in this show. She-Hulk isn’t funny as a show, it’s not engaging or interesting either. It’s just…boring. That’s my problem. I’m not laughing at the jokes. I’m not interested in the main character. The only characters I like are the cameo characters. Yikes.
Jen is unlikeable. The dialogue is bad. The plot itself is just kinda boring and lame. It feels like a show written by wine moms who think they know what us yungins like or something. How do you do, fellow kids type of feeling.
I really can’t believe how badly this show is paced. We’re almost done and the action just picked up. Wow. Just wow.
I’m disappointed. My mood is ruined. My day is destroyed.
Stay tuned for Episode 9’s review. Thanks.
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Zainah Yousef
Zainah Yousef is the author of The Fallen Age Saga and specializes in gaming, social media advice, and reviews. She's been writing all her life and she probably won't stop anytime soon.
