Marvel has pumped out a lot of TV shows onto Disney+ over the past few years, with plenty of hits and misses along the way. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law was an interesting case. Starring Tatiana Maslany as Jennifer Walters/aka She-Hulk, the show was a 30-minute legal comedy where the titular superhero takes on various cases and generally tries to navigate suddenly having the power to Hulk out like her cousin Bruce (Mark Ruffalo). Depending on who you ask, She-Hulk is either a fun gem from Phase 4 or terrible. Personally, I tend to lean more toward the former way of thinking; She-Hulk was a show that set out to do some very specific things, and to me it pulled off most of them.
However, the future isn't looking good for the series. Maslany appeared on a Codenames LIVE! - The New Class stream on Twitch this week where she gave a very brief and dispiriting update about She-Hulk: Attorney at Law season 2. When asked whether fans should hope for a sophomore season for the series, Maslany replied, "I don't think so." According to ScreenRant, she went on to suggest that budgetary concerns were a big factor.
This probably won't come as a surprise to anyone who followed the production of She-Hulk closely. While the show won over a lot of viewers, it also reportedly cost around $225 million to produce, thanks in large part to the extensive CGI required to depict She-Hulk onscreen for so much of the runtime. That's a lot of money to drop on a season of television, even for Marvel. Doubly so when it isn't a runaway success like Loki or WandaVision.
So it seems unlikely that we'll ever get She-Hulk season 2, which is unfortunate because head writer Jessica Gao told Collider in 2021 that she already had ideas about where the show would have gone in its second season:
"When I pitched the show, I already had an idea of where I would want it to go for another season and what the premise of that season would be. From the beginning, I had ideas of where it would go. But coming from TV, you can’t ever go into a first season show thinking you’re gonna get another season. You have to plan for the fact that this might be one and done, so you have to create a season that feels like it’s telling a complete story, and yet leaves the door open."
Sounds like things have changed since then. But hey, it's a big, wild and weird Marvel Cinematic Universe out there; surely there will be other opportunities to bring back the character?
Back in 2019, Marvel head honcho Kevin Feige said during a Hollywood Reporter interview that characters introduced in MCU TV shows, like She-Hulk, Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel, would likely appear down the line in movies. We've already seen that start with The Marvels, which featured Kamala Khan (Iman Vellani) following her debut in Ms. Marvel. Then again, that movie is currently the lowest grossing film in the MCU, so who knows where Marvel goes from here.
However you slice it, we imagine it won't be too long before we see Maslany again as She-Hulk. It's just a question of where and when.
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