Review: She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, "The People vs. Emil Blonsky" | Season 1, Episode 3
Meta moments highlight that Marvel *is* capable of making a recognizable episode of television
The breaking of the fourth wall is a creative choice that can generally serve two different functions. The first is to provide insight into a given character—Fleabag, for example, uses it to reflect the inner thoughts of its protagonist, orienting the audience to how she is experiencing every situation, and anchoring the story in those experiences. The second is to provide additional structure to a story, as a sort of built-in narration to keep things moving along.
In its first episode, She-Hulk primarily did the latter, using Jennifer’s address to camera as a way of introducing the story and then showcasing the “flashback” to her origin story. In the second episode, though, it was primarily the former, as she walk-and-talked with her new boss and offered additional context to her feelings about being used for her superpowers in the only law job she could get. Mixing these modes of address is fine, of course, but it did make me curious to see how the device would be …