Is it "bad?" I don't know. You guys know I think almost everything is bad, mostly cause it's lazy and derivative and lacks any spark of originality. In that case, sure...it's "bad." It's lazy. It's so lazy. The whole "hook" of the show is the super-hero gimmick and even that is only used in a "Teen Wolf" way. Everything else is the same "single woman in her 30s trying to make it in the big city" tropes that we've seen over and over and over for decades now.
Her sassy best friend has a date but she has to go face her "crazy" family. Her boss is a jerk that doesn't appreciate her and there's another guy that she works with that's a total weasel. YAWN.
A show like this might have been better served with a full season drop all at once.
Heavy shows like The Handmaid's Tale probably needs a weekly release because it's too much sadness porn all at once for viewers. I mean could you do a marathon of "This Is Us" without jumping off a roof top?
The Devil Wears Prada was a great film. It was basically full of cliches and standard tropes and even managed to hide the typically wooden Hathaway. But if you get talented enough people ( Streep, Tucci, Blunt) and pump enough money into the production values and you might be able to pull it all out.
So I don't mind the lack of originality. I do mind if it's a character that I have no reason to care about in any way. If they have no relatable qualities. If they jar too far from the world building around them.
We laugh because things are funny, but we laugh because they are true.
The comedy only really works if there are quiet truths in the script and on screen. GOTG1 had some pretty funny moments, but they were organic because they were true to the characters involved. And the deeper you got, the more you realized what was most honest was their pain. It's something James Gunn does really well.
I consider The Falcon And The Winter Soldier ( the one series with the absolute most potential possible out of these recent shows) as the most intellectually dishonest, and it's why it turned many fans off. There was nothing organic about it. No one wants to root for victims. No one wants to root for snobs. No one wants to root for characters as proxy for writers looking to lecture the world.
She Hulk can make it if it's intellectually honest with it's audience. The vehicle around it is, IMHO, less critical as long as it resonates at an emotional level with viewers. People rarely remember what you say, but they pay attention to how you make them feel.
