Oh that sounds pretty much perfect. Frog-Man going to GLK&H to try and legally distance himself from an Alt-Right movement that uses his likeness for their memes. At least that’s how I imagine it.

I hope Volcana shows up at some point. Or at the very least Marsha Rosenberg. I wanna see what made Mary MacPherran into Titania as we know her.

Hoping we get Amadeus Cho introduced at some point… even if it’s small just set him up to be a larger player in the future MCU.

I believe the groundwork is set for that, actually. If I remember correctly, the scientist who created the chamber that Ultron used to build Vision was Amadeus’s mom.

Well hopefully we get him soon, especially if we get more Hulk projects moving forward.

Also, with the introduction as Mr. Immortal, I hope Squirrel Girl is around the corner. Especially if she can team up with Ms Marvel. They can even retcon her to be a mutant if they want.

Maybe finally give Milana Vayntrub the chance to play Doreen in live action that she was denied when the New Warriors show was pre-canceled!

Well, looks like Porcupine made it to the MCU faster than he did Heroclix.

I feel like this episode may have been a lot of misdirection. Lead us away from thinking that Emil Blonsky has anything to do with the Intelligencia, but I’m not buying it. The fact that the Wrecker showed up at his retreat shut down any sense of growing trust I was feeling towards
Blonsky as a changed man. Jury’s out on whether or not the other villains at the retreat are in on it, but the fact that Wrecker was there pointed my suspicion compass back to Emil.

Maybe! Would be a shame if they waste his character and the Wrecking Crew as well and that’s all we get. Who knows.

Don't forget when Jen met Santa and Mrs. Claus. :⁠-⁠)

It's funny, I've completely written off Blonsky as Intelligencia in hopes that it'll be the Leader, but who knows. Blonksy does make WAY more sense for a closed series, though, working with the characters that have already been established. I just hope Titania isn't behind it all. I like her better as a sideshow.

That said, I've seen theories that Blonsky may have more to do with the upcoming AGATHA series, given that all of his wives look rather wiccan-y.I feel like this show would definitely be fine keeping the Wrecking Crew as an impotent threat, but yeah, would like to see them fully powered.

It makes me wonder if the final two episodes will be connected, or if the show will continue to be mostly episodic.
I'd be very down to see She-Hulk & Santa fight Krampus.

Recap is up, bt tl;dr? Thought this was the best episode since the one with Madisynn. If EVERY episode was structured this well, it'd be MUCH easier for me to like this show.

Hilarious that Jen was up for best female lawyer when we've not seen her be a great lawyer throughout the series.

Last thought: My parents are visiting, and my Mom -who can't handle PG-13 violence and anything with sex- found the episode interesting and "cute." Without having seen any prior episode, she was getting into it. The real strength of SHE-HULK is that it's accessible for broad audiences, and I truly can't argue with that.

I will likely drop WEREWOLF BY NIGHT dials and thoughts before we get to SHE-HULK's dials, just because it'll be another week until the latter's finale.

And because I'm hella excited for an honest to God horror movie in the MCU.

IT'S GONNA HAVE MAN-THING!!! HOLY CRAP!!!

It's great to have something to be exited about

One thing I’ll add. SHE-HULK’s pilot was originally episode 8, the episode that would’ve occurred directly after this last episode.

To me, that throws the pilot in an entirely different context.

1. She-Hulk loses control when hit with revenge-porn, a tool that ####ty people use to harm, discredit, and disempower women in real life. Even if men are in these videos, it’s ALWAYS women that suffer the consequences.

2. This makes Hulk’s mansplaining a dire warning to She-Hulk that at some point, she will absolutely lose control to her rage.

3. That also makes Hulk’s mansplaining even MORE insufferable because the show basically says that he was right. That also kind of pairs with Daredevil mansplaining her to keep out of the rescue mission when She-Hulk has literally fought demons and sent them back to hell.

Real mixed on it, truth be told.

Oh, but it seems to have entirely been the point that Jen didn’t earn the Female Lawyer award because there was no award. That the whole thing was just some patronizing BS by a bunch of rich white dudes trying to show how progressive they are and instead being utterly and hopelessly tone deaf. She wasn’t supposed to have shown she was a great lawyer to earn an award because the award was just “look at us, we’re not sexist pigs! We gave trophies to all the little lady lawyers!”. Which to me made it all kind of brilliant.

This episode gave me everything I wanted from Jen and Matt meeting up. Thu got to spar in the courtroom, with Jen only losing because she was saddled with an absolute idiot who ruined her legitimate, decent case. The two had genuine chemistry together, with a fun and engaging superhero team up (and visually speaking I loved everything about The Lilypad - the lighting, the decor, the camera angles they used), and it was just so satisfying to see Charlie Cox get his role back. Cox losing Daredevil was the biggest tragedy of the Netflix cancellations, and he clearly has a lot of fondness for the character. That he got to come back in a full on Daredevil suit after spending NO time in it in the third season was a cherry on top.

That final scene at the banquet was both incredible and heartbreaking. Heartbreaking because you hate to see Jen lose her s**t, but incredible because it was real, it was visceral, and it was deeply personal, and I just love how even under the mocap, you can tell that Tatiana was performing the hell out of that scene.

This was a fantastic episode. I definitely agree that this was the strongest once since Madisynn and Wongers, but I’ve felt that the show has been overall pretty damn good. I’m excited to see what happens next.

I think the best female lawyer thing comes down to interpretation. I see and respect your interpretation of it, and I agree that the clear read is that it’s a pandering, BS, faux-inclusion award… but I genuinely can’t tell if it’s meant to be taken seriously in the world and why, it being what it turns out to be, why any of the women on stage would put up how insulting it’d be, why Jen would caught flat-footed by being one of many, or why there’d be a whole gala event dedicated to it as opposed to some real achievement for the firm. I get what it’s saying and doing; I just don’t believe in it in the worldbuilding.

Definitely agree the superheroics ruled, as did Matt & Jen’s rom-com-esque chemistry. Glad that their romantic arc was as strong and intense as it was. Even in the span of a half hour, I bought it.

Same deal for the profundity and intensity of the revenge-porn and and Jen’s reaction to it. I’ve seen divisive thoughts on it online, but given who this series has established Intelligencia to be and all that’s been hinted thematically from the pilot up through now —that it’s goddamn hard being a woman and that the Internet rewards people who take down powerful/overt women— this was the natural direction for the story to take.

I’m curious where this all goes from here. I’ve seen theories that Titania was a red herring and likely not being Intelligencia. Some of me suspects it was the creepy dude who called Jen a specimen. At this point, I don’t think it’s Blonsky, as I don’t see what he stands to gain; rather, I see him and his patients siding with She-Hulk during the finale against Intelligencia’s forces… presumably Wrecking Crew and a few of She-Hulk’s creepier dates.