She-Hulk: Attorney at Law completed its first season this week with episode nine, an episode that could also potentially act as a series finale, should Marvel decide to end the project. Executive producer Jessica Gao (Rick and Morty, Silicon Valley), speaks on why she chose to opt out of a traditional ending for the Marvel show.
“I’ve been writing for TV for a very long time, and you can never, ever guarantee that you’re gonna get another season, especially for a season one show,” said Gao in an interview with Deadline. “So, the prudent thing for a writer working on a season one show is to tell a satisfying and complete story so that if it did end that way, you felt like you at least told one full story but still left the door open for, you know, six seasons and a movie.”
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law‘s season one finale was a commendation to John Byrne’s (The Tunnel, Cowgirls Don’t Lie) fourth wall-breaking comics and contemplation on how imitative Marvel’s live-action stories tend to be. The way She-Hulk, played by Tatiana Maslany (Perry Mason, Destroyer), has down-to-earth stakes and is invigoratingly personal, it gave the show a first season that felt completely different from the vast majority of Disney+’s other live-action Marvel shows. Similar to WandaVision, both the narrative structure and She-Hulk’s vanity gave this Marvel Comic Universe (MCU) show the competence to play with the boundaries of Marvel Studios’ methodology to give rise to characters on the big screen.
The show’s finale revolved around Jen being a misunderstood “monster” similar to her cousin Bruce Brenner. Encountering this will open the way for Jen to face off with somthing else she has fought against the whole series, ultimately an official hero in the MCU to combat and end dreadful groups such as Intelligencia.
New episodes of She-Hulk: Attorney at Law release on Thursdays on Disney+.