She-Hulk Season Finale Review

Spoiler Warning: This review will contain not only an analysis of the last episode of the highly polarizing Disney + show, but will also feature summaries of the plot points throughout the season. If you haven’t watched the show yet, click off this article and come back after you’ve finished. Otherwise, let’s proceed.

I find it funny that this article starts with the very word that has tainted our society as a whole. Spoiler. Kids used to try to get a spoiler about their Christmas presents by peeking through the wrapping paper or shaking the box. But as our technology has evolved, so have our methods. Marvel tries their best to give us presents we can’t peek into, but we’re using portable X-Rays to get that look we so deeply desire. That need to be in the know, to peel back the curtain to see The Wizard. Any form of information people can get their hands on when it comes to movies and entertainment is “fair game.” Leaks, set photos, casting sheets, contracts, even toy lines. We have to know if our favorite character is going to be on the screen soon. We have to know, speculate, formulate and weave threads together on a cork board to see the end of the story before it’s revealed to us. She-Hulk knew this and used it against us in such a brilliant way that I felt compelled to write this.

This day in age, information is everywhere whether you want to view it or not. That includes spoilers for episodes and Easter Eggs people comb through the run time of the show for. I try my best to stay away, but certain things find me anyway. I knew before the finale, thanks to some still shots of the trailers someone analyzed, that Hulk and Abomination would not only be involved but that we’d be getting a rematch of their epic fight from The Incredible Hulk (kind of). I also knew Titania would be involved because someone saw her in a shot with Abomination. But I still had no idea what was coming. Just when we thought we had the answers, She-Hulk changed the questions.

She broke the fourth wall to a degree that would make Deadpool sit up and take notice. She went behind the scenes and talked to not only the writers, but the true “person” behind the curtain. She changed her ending in a way I’m pretty sure no one saw coming. It was so meta it should be partnered with Facebook.

In the finale, before she smashed the ending, Todd was revealed to be HulkKing, the admin behind the Incelligencia…I mean Intelligencia group and website who’d recently ruined Jennifer’s life. Todd also used the blood he hired someone to steal to synthesize a formula to give him Hulk powers. Just as Todd takes the serum, and it somehow works, Titania and Hulk bust in like it’s a Royal Rumble. Thanks to Jen, however, this non-sensical ending was redone.

Let’s start with the changes made. First, the blood plot was completely scrapped. It never really made sense how Josh was able to get her blood in the first place. We saw no wounds on her, so he couldn’t have used that giant needle they’d developed to try piercing her She-Hulk skin. And, as an adult, I can’t even step on a Lego without curling up into a ball for five minutes. I know she’d have felt Josh sticking her with even a normal syringe. And if you really think about it, the blood plot wasn’t needed from the start. Taking it away still left Josh as someone who hired multiple people to assault her, physically and sexually, as well as doxx and attempt to slut shame her because she had something he wanted. Sounds like an inc…I mean, villain to me.

Titania and Hulk busting in also wasn’t necessary. Hulk knowing exactly where Jen was, and that she was in trouble, made no sense. The last we saw him, he was in Sakaar. Even if he somehow got the news that Jen was in trouble, he doesn't have the same homing beacon a certain caped individual has for his co-journalist so he wouldn't have known where to look. She technically needed saving from the group since she hadn’t broken the inhibitor yet, but Abomination was already doing that quite well. Also, I’m pretty sure she could have broken the inhibitor if she felt her life was in danger and the DA’s office wouldn’t have batted an eye.

Titania being involved also made no sense for almost all the same reasons as Bruce showing up except for one. Titania would've been right where she was in the redone ending; trying to capture a humiliating moment in Jen's life in yet another attempt to embarrass her on social media.

Although the initial ending made no sense, some people were expecting it because of what they believed to be left in the show. And, as Jen pointed out in her closing argument, it would’ve felt like just another Marvel algorithm ending. So she subverted our expectations and changed the ending to not only regain control of her life, but also to make the ending make sense. Now, she can deal with Todd and his group her way instead of doing it “the Marvel way.”

TLDR: I LOVED how the Season Finale turned the spoiler culture on its ear to give us an ending that made sense for her.

PS. Thanks for trying to find out about the X-Men, Jen. Appreciate it. K.E.V.I.N., not cool to tease a She-Hulk movie.