Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans
"Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" | |
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She-Hulk: Attorney at Law episode | |
Episode no. | Episode 5 |
Directed by | Anu Valia |
Written by | Dana Schwartz |
Produced by | Jessica Gao |
Cinematography by | Florian Ballhaus |
Editing by | Stacey Schroeder |
Original release date | September 15, 2022 |
Running time | 31 minutes |
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"Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" is the fifth episode of the American television series
Tatiana Maslany stars as Walters, alongside Josh Segarra, Jameela Jamil, Ginger Gonzaga, Jon Bass, Griffin Matthews, and Renée Elise Goldsberry. Valia joined the series by December 2020 to direct multiple episodes.
"Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" was released on Disney+ on September 15, 2022.
Plot
Walters is annoyed to discover that Todd, one of her unsuccessful dates, is also a client at GLK&H, but this helps her to realize that she can use her dating-app history to establish a past record of her identifying as She-Hulk before Titania ever tried to gain the trademark. Thanks to her past dates' all being subpoenaed and testifying on her behalf, Walters wins the case, and a humiliated Titania is ordered to discontinue sales of every one of her products bearing the name "She-Hulk". Walters establishes a tentative friendship with Book, who had previously been hostile to her for getting to head up the superhuman law division over her. Jacobson agrees to design a new business outfit for Walters that she can wear as both herself and She-Hulk as well as another suit hidden from view.
Production
Development
In August 2019,
Writing
Exploring Walters navigating her dating life was "so beautiful" to Valia, because they were able to show with one of her dates, Arthur, the hurt she feels that he only was interested in She-Hulk and not Walters. Valia said, "the essence of what's being explored is like, 'You like this other side of me, but not both sides? That's also me.'" and conceded it was hard to understand given she believed Walters was equally as attractive as She-Hulk.[8] Mallory Book becomes better friends with Walters by the end of the episode, faster than the two characters did in the comics. Actress Renée Elise Goldsberry felt the change in medium warranted a faster bonding between the two, since she starts out by not respecting She-Hulk, but feels Walters earns Book's respect by the end of the episode, though still not necessarily making them friends. Goldsberry believed Book had to give Walters her respect in order to "to commiserate a little bit about what they have in common in the world they live in".[9]
The end of the episode shows Luke Jacobson has been creating a new suit for
Design
Casting
The episode stars
Filming and visual effects
Filming occurred at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia,[15] with Valia directing the episode,[4] and Doug Chamberlain serving as cinematographer.[16]: 1 More material of the Ramos and Pug subplot was filmed with Gonzaga and Segarra that did not make it into the episode. Valia praised the duo's chemistry for this part of the episode.[17]
Visual effects for the series were created by
Music
The following songs are featured in the episode: "Go Higher" by Prop Pilot, "Fire at Night" by Yianni Anastos-Prastacos, Alex Strahle, and Miles Eberhardt, "Shine" by Tiffany Pierce and Lestley Renaldo Pierce Jr., "Golden" by King Hawkins, and "Say My Name" by Tove Styrke.[13]: 28:32
Marketing
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Reception
Audience viewership
According to Nielsen Media Research who measure the number of minutes watched by United States audiences on television sets, She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was the tenth-most watched original series across streaming services for the week of September 12–18, 2022, with 403 million minutes watched,[23] a 20.1% decrease from the previous week.[24]
Critical response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 72% approval rating with an average rating of 6.60/10, based on 18 reviews. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jennifer Walters finds herself in the hot seat in an installment that could have used more heat, although She-Hulk's side characters get to shine and there's a devilish hint of better things to come."[25]
Reviewing the episode for Den of Geek, Lacy Baugher enjoyed the episode, giving the episode 4 stars out of 5, saying the series "finally seems fully confident in what kind of show it wants to be" since it was the "most cohesive installment yet, one that actually uses its broader plot to say something significant about Jen Walters' journey as a superhero". Additionally, the lack of cameo appearances in the episode helped She-Hulk present "a clear and purposeful identity of its own" and allowed the ensemble cast to shine, particularly Goldsberry, Gonzaga, and Matthews. Baugher liked the shift in story towards identity and self-acceptance, and was hopeful the series was building towards Walters embracing the She-Hulk identity, and that the two "are simply two halves of the same whole".[26] Giving the episode an "A–", Arezou Amin of Collider also felt that the lack of cameo appearances allowed the cast to "shine wholly on their own, and [helped further] She-Hulk's procedural style". Amin pointed out Gonzaga, who she called "a delightful comedic presence on the show", since she was able to help ground the series, and was glad Goldsberry began to have a more prominent role after her brief appearance in the third episode.[27]
Alex Stedman at IGN gave the episode a 7 out of 10, saying it had some "nice character development" for Walters and her feelings about She-Hulk, despite the series' format "beginning to feel a bit familiar". She added that Titania's beauty ads were "painfully realistic" and praised Jamil's performance of the character, while also enjoying the side storyline involving Ramos and Pug.[28] The A.V. Club's Mary Kate Carr felt the episode suffered from not having any cameo appearances and that it lost its "momentum" from the previous episodes, believing it started "very slow". Like her colleague noted in their review of the previous episode, Carr felt Ramos still lacked any meaningful character development "beyond supporting Jen personally and professionally", but did enjoy Ramos and Pug talking to Jacobson in their "Avongers" merchandise, calling it one of the episode's highlights. She gave "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" a "B–".[12]
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External links
- "Mean, Green, and Straight Poured into These Jeans" at IMDb
- Episode recap at Marvel.com