So far, for me, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law has been a big disappointment. I’m a fan of this character, the comic series is great, but unfortunately, this show has done this awesome character a disservice. It’s a shame. You may not agree with me, but that’s cool.
It turns out that one of the main inspirations for the show is Taika Waititi’s Thor: Ragnarok. It’s not hard to see, as the series leans very heavily into comedy and there are silly jokes around every corner while watching it. She-Hulk director Anu Valia recently shared the following in an interview with Friends From Work:
“It’s funny because, as a fan, you wanna do service to the fans, but you also wanna create something new and not come from a place of fear… Just from a place of story… in a truthful and funny way. I feel like I was really… the comedic tone, balancing that and the emotional crux of the show, Jessica and Kat laid such a groundwork that I just built off of that.”
Valia added that she and the rest of the creative team looked at Thor: Ragnarok while developing the series:
“But I know personally, I was looking, I feel everybody feels this way, I was looking to what Taika Waititi did with [Thor: Ragnarok]. Like, he balanced that so well. I think that was maybe, out of the Marvel films, that was like the most forefront of my mind. Even the technical thing of like improvizing with a CGI character, that type of stuff. So personally, that movie was on my mind a lot. But I can’t say that I created the tone or anything, but it was sorta like building off.”
I’m not sure if that was the best direction for the series. But, there are people that seem to be enjoying it. I just think She-Hulk is such a strong character and deserves so much better than what this series is giving us. My two teen girls don’t even like it.
The nine-episode series stars Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters, Ginger Gonzaga as Nikki, and Jameela Jamil as Titania, as well as Mark Ruffalo as Hulk, Tim Roth as Abomination, and Benedict Wong as Wong, with Josh Segarra, Jon Bass, and Renée Elise Goldsberry.
Rick and Morty‘s Jessica Gao created the show and Kat Coiro split directing duties on the series with Anu Valia. Executive producers are Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Brad Winderbaum, Kat Coiro and Jessica Gao.
What are your thoughts on She-Hulk and how it’s playing out?
Via: The Direct