Well, well, well, it looks like the gavel has finally come down on Disney’s mess of a show – not that the MCU has been fairing too well otherwise recently, either – She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. If you listen keenly, you can hear the cheers of celebration.
Tatiana Maslany, the actress behind the green-hued lawyer, appeared on NerdIncorrect’s Twitch show, and after being asked if fans (that’s a stretch) of the show should expect another season, here’s what she had to say: “I don’t think so. I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, ‘no thanks!'”
Is anyone really surprised about this? Well, besides the part where she says they blew their budget, very few people really wanted to see a repeat of Marvel’s worst superhero project – yet!
Let’s not forget, Marvel never really teased us with promises of a second season. Sure, Jessica Gao, the head writer, was playing with ideas for a follow-up story, and the finale left us hanging on a maybe, but that’s all we got – maybes.
What really vexed most fans was learning that She-Hulk was a pricey affair, costing up to $25 million per episode. For a show that was more legal comedy than Avengers-style spectacle, that’s a steep bill, and one that can’t possibly be justified given how atrocious the final product was. Disney could just as easily fund a small country’s space program and call it Space Dreams or some other generic name.
Just the other day, it came to light that Disney is planning to lay off staff over at Pixar, and I couldn’t help but wonder: is that the right place to go looking for heads to roll? If Disney is really going full-blown on becoming a soulless profit-centered corporation, maybe the best place to start axing folks is Marvel Studios.
Don’t get me wrong, I am absolutely against the wave of layoffs and downsizing that has swept over companies and businesses lately. That being said, there’s a big need for Disney to look inward and find the systemic problems that yield so many half-baked projects across its divisions.
For years now, the quality of films and shows coming from Marvel has deteriorated, with no signs of intervention to remedy this. Complaints about VFX animators being rushed have persisted, leading to poor results for the likes of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania and She-Hulk.
“Less is more” is often associated with design and architecture, but in this case, it can (and should) apply to Marvel and Disney. Superhero fatigue is real, and it is here to stay. If She-Hulk does indeed close its chapter with a single season, then maybe there’s hope for Marvel Studios after all.
