While She-Hulk: Attorney at Law received a mostly positive response when it debuted, the show suffered the same fate as many Multiverse Saga titles. It came, it went, and was largely forgotten due to a massive increase in MCU content which has largely robbed these projects of their former "event" status.
The Disney+ series also suffered from review bombing and backlash aimed at both the hit-and-miss VFX and a decision to make the show's antagonists a group of incels (which worked in the context of the story being told but felt like a misstep when The Leader and Abomination were on the table).
Yesterday, we shared comments from Jennifer Walters actress Tatiana Maslany about the chances of She-Hulk getting a second season. Her take was, "I don't think so. I think we blew our budget, and Disney was like, 'No thanks.'"
Now, io9 has shared an update. According to the site's source, "Maslany's comments are basically accurate, just lacking some context. That context is when CEO Bob Iger returned to Disney and changed much of Marvel’s direction, everything was reevaluated."
"So while Marvel works everything out, it’s not that a second season of She-Hulk has been completely abandoned. It just seems less likely than not at the moment."
They confirm She-Hulk's sizeable budget was an issue and share a belief that, should a second season become a reality, the series will need to be made far more cost-effective.
Last year, it was revealed that Disney CEO Bob Iger was "apoplectic" about Marvel Studios' widespread VFX troubles upon his return to the company.
That was at least part of the reason Victoria Alonso ended up being fired, with Disney "incensed that quality control on its Marvel productions was plummeting, particularly on the ever-expanding TV front." The pandemic also didn't help matters, of course, and neither did the fact Marvel Studios had essentially doubled or tripled its output of content post-Infinity Saga.
Final effects for both She-Hulk and WandaVision were added after their respective streaming debuts, and while much of the blame continues to be laid at Alonso's feet, it seems the issues run deeper than that.
A lack of oversight on script development caused a long list of problems, including a last-minute decision to shift She-Hulk's origin story from the eighth episode to the premiere. That left VFX artists scrambling to finish the scenes in time.
We've heard that She-Hulk's story will continue in Marvel Studios' long-rumoured World War Hulk project, though that could serve as a launching platform for the hero to return in a solo outing either in theaters or on streaming.