Still in the group that doesn’t care about the CGI quality and has not found it distracting at all.
The reporters are intentionally over the top satires of vapid reporting. Not much different than how reporters were handled in The Boys with Starlight’s interviews. The show’s humor is overall a bit clumsy and stilted for my tastes but those bits at least mildly amused.
For the comic book fans- I get the sense that they were trying be MAD Magazine does Marvel. Accurate? If so I’m not sure the humor here hits the mark.
Just wanted everyone to know that I am so unhip and out of it that I thought Megan Thee Stallion was a fictional character.
Okay, now that’s funny!
Not as broad as MAD, but like that magazine’s movie parodies, there would be frequent comment about the conventions and cliches of the medium (the movies for MAD, comics for She-Hulk) and clever ways that she could take advantage of that knowledge. There was also a strong element of Chuck Jones’ Duck Amuck, where the writer/artist (John Byrne) would just mess with her so she just couldn’t get a break despite knowing how things would go in a “normal” comic book. The TV show doesn’t really even attempt that. So far, the fourth wall breaking is little more than Shakespearean asides.
There in no way a comic book that brought us characters like Doctor Bong and the Abominatrix would come up with a name as silly as Megan Thee Stalion.
Well, Doctor Bong was actually introduced in Howard the Duck’s original (written by the wacky and wild Steve Gerber) series. She-Hulk just used him.
I find this take especially interesting, considering that at least one of the reporters on the show is an actual reporter.
Yep. Astonishing that a real reporter can’t play a real reporter.
If it was the case, that a real reporter (who professionally plays the part of someone reporting the news and asking canned interview lines) could not do the same delivery given fictional news to report or canned interview lines to a fictional character, then yes, it would be astonishing.
Of course that’s not what the situation is. They are given absurd news to report and canned interview lines intended to be funny rather than either probing or setting up expected answers. They are not acting the part of reporter, they are acting as a comedic satire of what sometimes passes as reporting.
IOW
[Foghorn Leghorn]I say, I say, that’s a joke son. [/Foghorn Leghorn]
Well, that is more confirmation to me that one early rumor will become true: That Howard the Duck will get at least a cameo in this series.
I’m not talking about asking probing questions the way that a serious reporter would ask. Indeed, many reporters are fluff reporters and don’t fit into that mold in real life anyway. I’m just talking about the fact that they don’t come off as reporters in the way they deliver their lines. They painfully look like they’re trying to fake it and failing. This happens all the time, like Keith Olberman or whoever playing himself in a news clip in a fictional show but failing to play himself convincingly. They look like they are reading lines, not reporting.
“Asgardian.”
That’s what I get for watching the episode more than 3 hours past my bedtime.
In addition, the fourth wall breaking stuff comes from John Byrne’s Sensational She-Hulk series from the early 90s. That’s about the only thing they’re taking from that series.
The majority of the set-up for this show comes from the comics written by Dan Slott in the mid-2000s, called simply She-Hulk. That’s where Jen started working at GLK&H, with co-workers like Pug and Mallory Book (who we met only briefly in this episode, but who will presumably become more prominent). That series was still fairly light-hearted and comedic, but pointedly did not do the fourth-wall-breaking stuff, except for a single gag panel.
Was it ever in the comics referred to as 'Attorney at Law"…before the Harvey Birdman Attorney at law series?
Does anyone know the name of the song that played over the ending credits of episode 3? Because that slapped! Not generally my preferred type of music but that had some fun to it.
Seize The Power by YONAKA or Body by Megan Thee Stallion? The first played before the stinger. The second after.
The second one, thanks!
Apparently there is a contingent of snowflakes hyperventilating on the internet that She-Hulk would NEVER have been caught twerking! How undignified!
Meanwhile from the comics, here is She-Hulk jumping rope naked (SFW but two-clicked just in case):
