“You feel admiration for this woman, don’t you? You can’t help it, can you?” reads a villain’s monologue in The Sensational She-Hulk #10, as he confronts Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk with a hologram collage of her greatest moments. This line kept ringing in my head as I watched the first four episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, the live-action Disney+ series that will fully bring Jen’s status quo into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Since her debut in 1980, She-Hulk has remained a little misunderstood by some superhero audiences, who (intentionally or unintentionally) reduce her to either a gender-bent version of the Hulk or a caricature of a muscular and angry woman. As decades of wacky and wonderful comic appearances have proven, there are so many more things to admire about the jade giantess – a fact that her TV debut appears to be embracing wholeheartedly. The first four episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law are endlessly and effortlessly entertaining, with a dynamic sense of identity and a love for Marvel lore that needs to be seen to be believed.
