Himesh Patel leads the comedy produced by Armando Iannucci and Sam Mendes, set behind the scenes of a big-budget comic book adaptation.
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.
Since I have very little stake in the Marvel/DC rivalry, I’m fully capable of understanding why Brown and thewriters chose to focus on the travails at Marvel. DC Studios has given the impression of being adrift during this fecund period, while Feige in particular has publicly and hubristically embodied Marvel’s powerful rudder.
The series rapidly becomes a loose assemblage of on-the-nose snark, in part because none of the characters or their interpersonal relationships are defined clearly. Sure, everybody onsounded a bit the same, but you knew in every situation where characters stood with each other and what drama or comedy you could get from each pairing.
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