“I guess [Kingpin is] like really into DEI,” mocks Lauren [Chen].

“If the obvious ESG push behind the show wasn’t enough to just kind of give you pause,” she explains, there have also been “reports of production issues as well as Disney being so unhappy with the final product that they even considered not releasing the show at all and instead just taking the loss as a tax credit.”

“I’ve watched it,” Lauren admits, and “I’ve got to say, if I were Disney, I probably would have taken the tax credit.”

[Even worse than ‘She-Hulk’? ‘The Marvels’? That’s really saying something. Disney’s basically chewing through the value of what had been popular franchises with lots of built-in goodwill and ready audiences. Marvel, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and its own animation IP — all are getting torched in the SJW messaging impulse. — Ed]