Marvel Television’s Brad Winderbaum just said something out loud that the internet was absolutely not prepared for, and the discourse has been running hot ever since.
Brad Winderbaum claims She-Hulk is “best-performing shows”
Appearing on The Escape Pod podcast, the Head of Streaming, Television, and Animation at Marvel Studios made his position on the 2022 Disney+ series very clear. “I love She-Hulk. I’d love to make more She-Hulk,” he said.
Then came the part that sent the internet into a full tailspin. “I mean, I’ll tell you this about She-Hulk. That’s one of our best-performing shows. It just hit the general audience. So there was a mismatch between fan response and audience response.“
Now, to be fair, there is something to that. She-Hulk: Attorney at Law racked up hundreds of millions of minutes viewed on Nielsen’s streaming charts during its 2022 run, and the show earned a decent 80% on Rotten Tomatoes by 2026.
The problem, as anyone online will very quickly tell you, is that its audience score sits at 32%, making it one of the most review-bombed entries in the entire MCU.
The disconnect between general viewership and fan sentiment is real, but calling it one of Marvel’s best performers in the same breath as admitting it was never renewed for a second season is the kind of thing that makes people do a double-take.
Winderbaum did not stop there either. “I would love the opportunity to make more She-Hulk, honestly, hopefully one day. Maybe,” he added, with the caveat that current creative limitations make a renewal unlikely in the near term.
Star Tatiana Maslany has also struck a notably more cautious tone on the subject, saying on a Twitch stream simply, “I don’t think so.“
She-Hulk: Attorney at Law followed Jennifer Walters, a sharp attorney and cousin to Bruce Banner, who acquires Hulk-like powers after an accident, navigating superhuman legal cases, chaotic dating, and a fair amount of fourth-wall-breaking comedy across nine episodes.
It was divisive from the moment it premiered, becoming something of a culture war lightning rod for the section of the internet that needed a new target.
The show’s meta-humour and tone were either its greatest strengths or its most unforgivable flaws, depending entirely on who you asked.
Winderbaum also used the podcast appearance to tease that the first animatic for Marvel Zombies Season 2 was, in his words, “crazy,” and promised it would deliver something that has never been done in the MCU before.
That update got considerably less attention because She-Hulk was right there stealing the moment all over again.
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