Series Can't even be enjoyed ironically
Comic books always had a hook, something that made them different from others. There are so many characters and reboots and everything like that that there is truly nothing original under the sun, but She-Hulk was always Breaking the Fourth Wall comedy. Similar to Deadpool, She-Hulk was always aware of where she was and was unafraid to mention it. She does it on a much larger scale and uses it as her comic hook, whereas Deadpool feels more like a Meta Guy.
It was moved to a series, and, true, or at least tru-ish, to its roots, it went to be an over-the-top comedy. And it couldn't even do that.
Timing is everything, and She-Hulk's jokes fall flat. It attempts, badly, to create a character. They supposedly took their inspiration from Elaine from Seinfeld, and it shows in all of the worst ways: Jennifer Walters is just as insufferable, obnoxious, incompetent, and utterly lacking in self-awareness as her inspiration. Interestingly, it would be incredible comic irony to make the one character fully self-aware of where she is to be so impossibly dense. However, it's purely unintentional. At one point, She-Hulk begins twerking, and you can almost hear the people behind the camera screaming "Are we interesting yet?"
And it doesn't. She-Hulk attempts to be a number of things, but it never commits and fails at all of them. It's no good as a legal story because Jennifer is an incompetent lawyer. It's no good as a superhero setpiece because the CGI such things needs are horrendous and the stakes are too low. The attempts at comedy are nothing more than cringe. As a slice-of-life comedy, the main character possesses no interesting traits, and the heavy-handed lectures are as subtle as a brick to the face, and of course, given by a deranged sociopath.
If you're looking for comedy with insufferable jerks, watch Archer. At the very least, the writers know the characters are so awful. She-Hulk would be interesting if she was aware she was, while not the villain, at least in no position to be the hero. In this, She-Hulk is at least somewhat aware. But anticipating that the audience knows your story is awful is not an excuse for bad writing. Nor is it a substitute for good writing. She-Hulk belongs with other bilge like Velma, which clearly took inspiration from She-Hulk, sharing in the self-referential "humor."
Do yourself a favor, dear reader. If you want to see why She-Hulk was a comedic genius, get the older comic books.
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The MCU's MO is pretty well established by this point; generate utterly safe, formulaic movies two to four times a year, and keep the more clever, experimental concepts to the tv series. She-Hulk surprisingly turns out to be one of the most novel and weird concepts they've attempted to date. She-Hulk is a court-room and superhero sitcom about a wannabe lawyer who ends up with Hulk-like superpowers. She resents having the powers and just wants to get on with her job, but the world won’t let her.
And it's fun! It's not a hilarious laugh-out-loud comedy by my reckoning, but it has a decent and gentle humour that is a bit more adult orientated than the MCU’s usual output. We finally get a Disney superhero protagonist who is capable of grown up conversations and knows what things like sex are, which makes a nice change. A lot of the strength of the show is owing to the charisma of Tatiana Maslany, whose character Jen/She-Hulk has a tendency to break the fourth wall and address the audience directly about how the show is going. It manages to tread a fine line of having the fourth wall being a regular feature of the show, without that stuff being too frequent or too wacky as with other characters like Harley Quinn or Deadpool. At no point does the show ever get too serious for its own good, and whereas past Marvel shows and movies inevitably gravitate towards the tired old finale of “superhero fights an evil version of themselves”, She-Hulk is self-aware enough of the criticisms of Marvel to find a suitably silly way to give us something new.
There was some concern about how the final show would look, based on the unconvincing CGI in the trailers and the unfortunate news about Disney’s ununionized, overworked animators. The CGI looks fine for the most part in the show, though the quality occasionally drops in certain shots (usually when She-Hulk is in the distance).
Due to the sitcom nature, the series is a bit more episodic and lacking in a main plot thread than we've come to expect from an MCU show. There is a suggestion that we are driving to something, scattered across the episodes, and we do eventually turn up to it in the last couple of episodes, but it feels a bit aimless in the meantime. But at only 30 minutes an episode, and only 9 in the season, that never became a real issue.