She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (1×02) Superhuman Law Review

For our review of the last episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, click here.

Now that Walters’ secret is in the open, this episode saw her learn to navigate this newfound though unwanted fame. She wanted to be praised for her merits, not for her powers or for who her relatives are but life certainly doesn’t work that way. Society has a way of putting people in the kind of box that they don’t always want to be in.

Despite doing the right thing by saving those jurors, Walters’ new powers were seen as a distraction by the LA DA office therefore they fired her. However, they were not the only ones who held that opinion thus finding another job proved to be difficult. It was inevitable that she would turn her fortune around sooner rather than later as the series looks to ramp things up. If anything, this latest episode of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was all about positioning. In order to do so, it needed to look back to a character from the past who makes their triumphant return. Perhaps not as action-packed as last week’s episode, this episode thrives thanks to some more strong dialogue.

Either way, Walters was not going to stay unemployed for very long though it wouldn’t be for the most ideal reasons. A former competing law firm sought to use her secret to their advantage to head up their superhuman law division as the She-Hulk. Unfortunately, her first case was the parole hearing of Bruce’s former foe Emil Blonsky/Abomination (Tim Roth). Obvious conflict of interest aside, he had asked for her specifically.

On the surface, he did not seem to have any ulterior motives but considering Blonsky, it’s hard to know for sure. His first on screen MCU appearance in 15 years (Abomination briefly appeared in Shang-Chi but that was CGI), Roth did not miss a beat as he shows a much different side of Blonsky. His chemistry with Maslany made for a strong scene as Walters met him for the first time in prison. Ultimately, just like Bruce, he claims to have moved on and that’s he a new and reformed person while his backstory is a sympathetic one.

With a blessing from a preoccupied Bruce, Walters took on the case, not that she had a choice. But trying to explain Blonsky’s appearance at that fight club in Shang-Chi was going to be a challenge.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.