She-Hulk: Attorney at Law's second episode sets Jennifer as super attorney and the laughs in her superhero fame! Last episode, we were introduced to deputy district attorney Jennifer Walters, in an accident, her cousin, Bruce Banner, had his blood mix with hers making her a Hulk! Bruce trained Jen and when she returned to court, a super powered woman burst in, and was stopped by Jennifer’s Hulk power! Reports are coming in about the Metropolitan Courthouse brawl. It involved the “superpowered influencer” Titania trying to get out of traffic court. The reporters are from the local ABC news station; Jovana Lara, John Gregory, and Rachel Brown. The tagline says that Titania’s lawyers blame it on low blood sugar! An onsite reporter dubs Jennifer, She-Hulk! At the Legal Ease bar (love that name!), the patrons all shout out “She-Hulk!” Best friend, Nikki, notes the shouting for her, but Jen doesn’t want the fame. She gives in and turns into She-Hulk!
Jen gets drinks as She-Hulk from Nikki who tells cynical Dennis to walk away. She tells Nikki that she doesn’t want to be a superhero and lists off the billionaires and “adult orphans” which is a jab at comic books. Nikki brings up she could be an Avengers. They are interrupted by her boss (Keith Flippen) who asks her to transform back and she becomes woozy with the drinks, funny performance. He says the defense, GLK & H (Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway) called for a mistrial, he doesn’t want the attention of having She-Hulk around and fires her. The firm's name is a nod to Marvel Comics with publisher, Martin Goodman, Lieber as in Stan Lee, and Jack Kirby is noted with Kurtzberg with both creators' birth names. This shakes Jen out of her drunk state. She wakes up in the morning from a recording by Bruce. There is a montage of interviews rejecting Jennifer for the same reason. Afterwards, Nikki goes over possible law firms. Jen looks up possible alternative jobs including a Swiss Village Mascot! This show is full of funny!
Also note the side bar on the page Jen is looking at: “Man fights with metal claws in bar brawl”! Then, she gets a text from her mom for a family dinner, Jen pleads with Nikki to go with her, but she has a date. At night, Jennifer walks into the family house, she is greeting by her father, Morris played by Mark Linn-Baker! I remember him as part of the sitcom, Perfect Strangers, “Now I’m so happy, we do the Dance of Joy!” She also sees her mother, Elaine (Tess Malis Kincaid). At the dinner table, cousin Ched (Nicholas Cirillo) instantly brings up that she was fire, does he also know she is She-Hulk? The dinner conversation is dull for Jen. Her father calls her to the basement to make certain she is okay. Jen has a way of rambling on when nervous. He reassures her since it is not the first time the family had a Hulk! Jen finishes her drink at the bar, when she is joined by Mr. Holliway (Steve Coulter) from GLK & H. He offers a job at a “new division”, she accepts if she can have her own paralegal, Nikki.
On Monday, Jen in her smart business suit walks in and is greeted by Holliway. I'm starting to like Jen in regular form even more than green with Maslany's comedy, but She-Hulk is fun! He wants her to head up the Superhuman Law Division as She-Hulk! We get Jen talking through the Fourth Wall wondering about the conditions getting the job and then is shown her office! Nikki is there excited about the new office. They are met by another lawyer in the same division, Pug (Josh Segarra), who has brought a welcome basket. Jen talks with Holliway who tells her that her first case deals with Emil Blonsky known as the Abomination. This was the first villain, Bruce Banner, faced in The Incredible Hulk (2008)! The case is so high profile that the firm can take it pro bono. Jen counters that she has a conflict of interest since Blonsky tried to kill her cousin. Holliway gives her a conflict waiver signed by Blonsky. He says her job at GLK & H is dependent on her taking the case.
So she goes to meet with Blonsky at the Department of Damage Control’s Supermax Prison. The guard wants her to change back to Jen without superpowers. Jen meets with Blonsky (Tim Roth), not in Abomination form, in his prison cell. Great to see Roth back as a Marvel villain, the only persons missing are Liv Tyler (Betty Ross) and Edward Norton! There is another nod to that movie that is hilarious! He says he is a changed man and can says he can change back. Blonsky notes that he has “seven soulmates”, supervillains?, through a pen pal program. Would they be the Masters of Evil?, they had seven members at the beginning with one mastermind. Correction: it looks like they are the Thunderbolts? He says he was under orders to go after Bruce and under the Super Soldier Serum. Recap of the Hulk movie. Dealing with that film was one of the unresolved parts of the MCU, but it looks like it is dealt with here in a funny way. Plus, a short scene with Ruffalo’s Bruce Banner. “Superhuman Law” sets up the show’s premise from Slott and Bobillio’s She-Hulk #1, but also has fun with the MCU!
Five Cheetos Chopsticks out of Five!
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