Main cast: Tatiana Maslany (Jennifer Walters/She-Hulk), Josh Segarra (Augustus Pugliese), Jameela Jamil (Titania), Ginger Gonzaga (Nikki Ramos), Jon Bass (Todd), Griffin Matthews (Luke Jacobson), and Renée Elise Goldsberry (Mallory Book)
Director: Anu Valia
I suppose there is something unintentionally meta about Mean, Green, and Straight Poured Into These Jeans, which sees Jessica Gao’s OC stand-in for herself being sued for generally crapping over an IP that is trademarked to someone else.
Oh, how I wish the Episode lives up to this brilliant premise, but sadly, the people behind this show still labor under the delusion that they are delivering hot-ass god-yes funny Ally McBeal-meets-MCU comedy. The result is something so startlingly forgettable that I actually have to watch this episode twice. I can’t recall much about it at all after my first viewing, and my second viewing only gives me a less hazy impression about it—well, mostly my brain is buckling over how ugly the make-up is for the female characters, especially Titania and Nikki.
Well, one can argue that Titania putting the ho in horrifying is intentional, but what’s the excuse for Nikki? Is this the class mean girl act of making one’s female BFFs as ugly as possible so that the mean girl looks so much hotter in comparison?
I think by this stage I am desensitized to the cringe efforts at one-liners and passing off of narcissism as female empowerment in this show—although to be fair, this extends to the rest of the present day MCU due to the low-caliber losers that Disney is hiring for cheap to defecate onto the franchise. As a result, I don’t feel anything while watching this one. No, I don’t grimace. I don’t groan. I don’t even wonder why anyone would Green light a comedy like this that feels painfully derivative and unfunny.
So yes, this episode exists, and frankly, who gives a damn. The best thing about it is that its existence means there is one fewer episode until the end of this interminably dull season!
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