#337: The crew watched She-Hulk and loved how it centered a woman’s persepective and experience within the MCU.

Josué Cardona 0:11
Welcome to GT radio on the Geek Therapy network, here at Geek Therapy we believe that the best way to understand each other and ourselves is through the media we care about, my name is Josué Cardona. And I’m joined by Marc Cuiriz.

Marc Cuiriz 0:22
Hey,

Josué Cardona 0:23
Link. Keller.

Link Keller 0:24
Yo,

Josué Cardona 0:26
and Lara Taylor.

Lara Taylor 0:27
Hey,

Josué Cardona 0:29
Lara, What are you talking about today?

Lara Taylor 0:31
We’re talking about she hulk

Josué Cardona 0:34
what is that? who is that?

Lara Taylor 0:36
Okay. Podcasts over, I can’t

Josué Cardona 0:38
why is that

Lara Taylor 0:43
Did you say? How was that?

Josué Cardona 0:46
I did? Yeah. also. Yep.

Lara Taylor 0:47
See, I can’t pay attention. Because I’m too obsessed with Tatiana Maslany playing She Hulk on Disney plus. And not just She Hulk She Hulk Attorney at Law. I mean,

Josué Cardona 1:00
yep, that’s a full title. I Marvel’s She Hulk Attorney at Law.

Lara Taylor 1:05
Very different from anything else. I think that Marvel’s put out on Disney plus,

Josué Cardona 1:12
yeah for a number of reasons. there’s a list

Lara Taylor 1:18
but I was very excited when they announced the show. Even more hyped when they cast Tatiana Maslany, who is a damn chameleon. i Okay, so I watched her an Orphan Black. And I was trying like, as she played Jen Walters, who is She Hulk, I was trying to figure out which clones from Orphan Black that she was acting like, and I could not, it was just a whole other character. She played like 10-15 characters on Orphan Black, and she just added another one. And wasn’t like it

Josué Cardona 1:53
I believe it was 17

Lara Taylor 1:54

1. Yeah. Yeah, but no, I love this show for so many reasons. I think they flipped a whole lot of things. They leaned into a lot of I don’t know, they said, FU to all of the bros that hated the fact that this was a show and hate all the changes and diversity in Marvel. They played on that a lot throughout the show. And just kept leaning into it the whole time. It was wonderful. As a woman watching the show, I was like, oh, yeah, that’s something that happens. Oh, yeah. That’s something that happens. Oh, yeah. That’s something that happens

Josué Cardona 2:42
men suck, they’re the worst.

Lara Taylor 2:47
So yeah, I don’t know, what did everyone else think about the show?

Josué Cardona 2:51
But just to what you were saying, right? I think part of the what makes the show special is that she’s, she’s breaking the fourth wall constantly.

Lara Taylor 2:59
That’s one of my favorites.

Josué Cardona 3:00
Yeah. And then And then within that, she’s like, acknowledging, she’s not only acknowledging us, as like, a part of like, experiencing it as the viewer, she she talks to us, but she also recognizes, or she’s, she’s acknowledging or the show acknowledges our world, which is what you were talking about, right? Which is yeah, not only the critiques of like the fan base, but also even critiques of the company itself.

Lara Taylor 3:24
Oh, yeah.

Josué Cardona 3:24
And and the

Lara Taylor 3:26
that last episode was great

Josué Cardona 3:29
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And the formulaic nature of it and all these things, and it’s um, yeah, and yeah, so I just want to emphasize that right that that’s what makes it they took the opportunity that like you said, to just address address everything from our perspective that’s that’s true about their world. And she Yeah, I think all of it Yeah.

Lara Taylor 3:51
Yeah, one of the best lines in the show. Spoilers for sure. Last episode, we’re hulk’s. That’s what we do. We smash things. Bruce smashes buildings I smash fourth walls and bad endings. And sometimes Matt Murdock and I actually really appreciate I really appreciated them bringing him in and him getting like to be goofy and not broody. He smiled a whole lot it was it was nice. I want more

Josué Cardona 4:21
he was broody, but like,

Lara Taylor 4:23
but also like,

Josué Cardona 4:24
like, like there was Yeah,

Lara Taylor 4:25
his little like walk of shame with his shoes off in his Daredevil costume was amazing.

Link Keller 4:31
I don’t think you can call it that because there was no shame. No shame.

Lara Taylor 4:36
No somebody. I think somebody else called it something I can’t remember what I will think hopefully think of it by the end of this episode, but it was perfect. I just wish I remembered it.

Josué Cardona 4:47
He’s so brooding that like basically he that’s like skipping for him. I can’t how he was walking out. Yeah, yeah.

Lara Taylor 4:55
Yeah, yeah,

Link Keller 4:56
I you know, I watched Daredevil when it first came out, and I was into it, and it was fine is whatever it is this second third season, so I was very happy to see him. in she Hulk, I was like, Oh, I missed you. I didn’t. I didn’t think that I would. But here you are. And I’m so happy that you’re here.

Josué Cardona 5:21
I know that guy.

Marc Cuiriz 5:24
So I actually never watched Daredevil when, when it was coming out. So, for me, like, I was getting hyped, because I was seeing everybody else get hype. So I was just like, it was just caught up in that, that hype train

Link Keller 5:40
second hand hype

Marc Cuiriz 5:41
of seeing Daredevil, but then kind of seeing his character in this and then knowing what the future is going to, you know, hope you know what it’s going to do with his you know, series coming back, it makes me want to be able to go back and rewatch like, watch it. So that way, I can sort of see where everyone’s kind of coming from in terms of the show. But overall, She Hulk, I also really enjoyed it. I loved a lot of the jokes that they were making, I loved all the fourth wall breaking it. It wasn’t there was a lot of it, like I think even more than Deadpool at times. But I never felt like it was like, like too much like I always felt like it was it was always purposeful in some way shape, or form, which is what I loved, like it was there. And it was constant. But it was with a purpose. Not just, oh, here’s a funny gag. And we’re just gonna do this. I mean, yeah, there was a few of those. But I just liked the

Lara Taylor 6:38
it was mostly commentary, right?

Marc Cuiriz 6:40
Exactly. Like, it was almost like, they were addressing the things that are happening in the real like out here in the real world, like everyone’s reactions to the first couple of episodes would then get addressed in like the third and fourth episodes. And then

Lara Taylor 6:54
which blows your mind because they already made the show, they knew exactly how people were gonna respond.

Marc Cuiriz 7:00
Exactly. So the fact that it was like going like it, it was following basically how everyone was going to react with it. It was insane. And I thought that was really well done. I enjoyed how this went. And I’m really excited to see how this is gonna go moving forward with with she hulk Attorney at Law and I also liked how through like most of it, they would change the title. Like when it was the episode where like, they didn’t want ...