One of the things about comic book movies being the commercially dominant art form of the past couple of decades is that the genre has also been the most discussed and critiqued. This makes it very difficult for a genre already designed to be all-caps to still have any remaining minutiae left to expose or dissect. The challenges of finding new elements to pick apart within the world of caped heroes — or within the behind-the-scenes world of filmmaking, for that matter — are platformed in .
Despite hailing from and veteran Jon Brown, with and among its producers, the comedy series very quickly becomes . It has that level of insight and that level of unfolding momentum, complete with so many references to that you’d think ‘s parent company (also known as ‘s parent company) was a producer. It is not.
But does come from HBO, corporate sibling to DC Comics and the company behind many recent press releases trumpeting the success of the new DC Studios-produced drama . It will either bother you or it won’t that under the guise of lampooning “comic book movies” or “contemporary filmmaking,” the show is probably 90 percent targeting Marvel. It’s less “biting the hand that feeds it” and more “biting the obnoxious neighbor’s hand and then playfully licking the hand the feeds it.
” There are too many extraordinarily talented people involved with , on both sides of the camera, for it not to be occasionally scathing in funny and well-constructed ways, at least.
