Is This Not Real Magic?

This woman has trouble dating?

So we're to believe that a smart, successful, and gorgeous woman like Jen would ever have difficulty finding a boyfriend? And she would then have to resort to useless a dating app that apparently only attracts weirdo men, then she for some apparent reason has to resort to going on dates with?

Have the writers ever met a smart, succesful and beautiful woman??? She would have zero issues dating.

All that aside this episode again fills like another filler episode.

Are the writers incapable to writing a decent storyline with some actual substance and not having to resort to filler and clichés.

You cannot go wrong with Wong. He is irate that he cannot watch The Sopranos in peace in his Tibetan retreat.

Even more incensed that two bit magician Donny Blaze is using the mystic arts to transport people.

So he hires She-Hulk for a motion to file a cease and desist motion.

Meanwhile Jennifer tries out a dating app. Only to find that she gets more pings as the She-Hulk.

I found it to be a fun episode. I do think the CGI was better, in the previous episode She-Hulk was more animated.

It had a nice insight on going on blind dates from someone from a dating app. The shallow men.

It all goes bat crazy when Donny Blaze really messes up with one of his mystic art tricks.

I think I've accepted that this is going to be one of those shows that isn't entirely for me, but that I still have a soft spot for and want to watch when it's released. It's offering a big amount of charm and a good sitcom-style Marvel show that I didn't know we were getting. With this episode, they're once again exploring some areas of Jen's personal life that I like, while also taking on another bad guy in a classic villain-of-the-week structure that works. This episode was better than last week's because it didn't focus on a whole lot other than its main plot.

As much as this is a legal show, it's also a classic character sitcom that focuses on Jen's life and doings. So exploring the different aspects of her personal life is a lot of fun. A few weeks ago we got introduced to her family and now we get an insight into her dating life, which could honestly be better. But it provides a very fun gateway for the episode into making some of their classic jokes and touch upon the problems of dating at a certain point in your life. That's where this episode really works. Where it doesn't is on the front of its bad guy. While I like the structure very much, I didn't find this week's bad guy to be interesting at all. The character was super annoying and Rhys Coiro who I have enjoyed in other projects felt completely miscast here. And while what he was doing fit into the system world, it felt like such a departure from the other and more interesting antagonists that they have been setting up for this show. There was nothing that actually appealed to me about this character, and I felt like he was just there to give the main character something to go up against, which is normally what a villain is, but I like them with a little more to them than just that. Other than that whole aspect, this episode was a pleasant delight and gave me the vibes that I originally fell in love with about this show.

"Is This Not Real Magic?" took the show back to focusing on Jen and her problems and had that fun vibe that I loved earlier. It had some problems with its antagonist and that whole storyline, but for the most part, I looked over that because of the good stuff that regularly went down.

I wasn't planning on reviewing the next couple episodes until the end of the season but I feel like things have actually taken a change in episode 4. I actually liked it, much better than the previous ones and is a huge step up. The first few episodes were tolerable at best while I was actually engaged in this one, the story isn't anything mesmerizing(yet?) but it's a fun watch. Wong was really good in it and I hope he stays in the show for longer, and again I still like the post credit scenes even if others don't. It was actually what helped me keep interested enough to keep watching for the next episode otherwise I was only watching because I don't like leaving series without finishing a season. Everything's still not yet at Marvel standards but it's definitely taken a turn for the better. Hope that continues and the show might actually be salvageable.

This is the first episode of She-Hulk I've enjoyed watching. It was actually kinda fun.

However, there are still things I dislike:

Firstly, I'm having some trouble getting onboard with all the fourth wall breaking. It works in some shows, but I don't like it in an MCU show. Because the MCU is all linked, if one character acknowledges that's it's just a show, then it breaks any perception of realism for the whole MCU, which spoils it, at least for me.

Secondly, the Hulk CGI is bad, especially in Jen's face when she's talking as her Hulk self. It's almost cartoonish, with more than a hint of the uncanny valley about it. It's unsettling.

I think with better CGI, and none of the fourth wall stuff, I could probably start to like the show.