For a show that ended by kicking down Marvel’s own machinery, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” left behind a strange question: where does a character built around direct address, meta-comedy, and TV-specific rule-breaking fit inside the broader MCU machine?
Speaking with Mike DeAngelo on The Playlist’s Bingeworthy podcast while promoting her new Apple TV series “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” Emmy winner Tatiana Maslany was asked whether Jennifer Walters could work in something as big as an Avengers story, or whether the character makes more sense in her own corner of the universe.
Maslany didn’t rule it out, but she suggested the character would need the right creative hand guiding the transition.
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“Yeah. I mean, I don’t know,” Maslany said. “I think it would take somebody like Jessica Gao to weave her into that world because she knows that character so deeply and loves her and gets her tone, but there is something about She-Hulk being the star of her own show that makes sense. Do you know what I mean? Because of the direct address, she is our narrator. So, I think it would be a real cool challenge to see her in some other context, but I do think like the sort of joy of She-Hulk is in the singularness of it.”
That “singularness” was exactly what made “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” such an odd fit inside Marvel’s Disney+ era. The 2022 series, created by Gao, starred Maslany as Jennifer Walters, a lawyer specializing in superhuman legal cases who also happened to be a 6-foot-7-inch Hulk. The show’s final episode pushed its fourth-wall-breaking premise into full meta territory, directly confronting the formula of Marvel finales and folding toxic fan backlash into the story’s own villainy.
When Bingeworthy asked what she thought was more likely—a second season of “She-Hulk” or a crossover appearance somewhere else—Maslany answered with the kind of self-effacing bite that made the show’s relationship with fandom so sharp in the first place.
“I don’t know,” she said. “I think people would be so mad at me being on their screens again.”
DeAngelo pushed back, telling her he would love to see it. But for now, Marvel has not announced a “She-Hulk” Season 2, and Maslany has previously spoken candidly about not knowing what comes next for the character. Still, her answer here gets at the real creative problem: She-Hulk is arguably not just a green superhero who can be dropped into another ensemble—so she believes anyhow.
Maslany will next be seen in “Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed,” Apple TV’s darkly comic 10-episode thriller from creator David J. Rosen, which premieres May 20, 2026, with its first two episodes before rolling out weekly through July 15. The series stars Maslany as Paula, a newly divorced mother pulled into a spiral of blackmail, murder, and youth soccer, alongside Jake Johnson, Dolly De Leon, Brandon Flynn, and Murray Bartlett.
“Maximum Pleasure Guaranteed” premieres on Apple TV on May 20, 2026. “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” is streaming on Disney+. More from this interview soon. – Additional reporting by Mike DeAngelo
