Jessica Jones

[selenak]

Reader, I binge watched. Of course I did.

Non-spoilery summation for comic book readers familiar with Alias: matches the noir detective tone perfectly (they even kept the first person narration, which in this case I think is crucial for said tone), uses elements from the comics but remixes them plus adds new elements, so even if you've read

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[selenak]

All the rich variety of women was truly a gift. Which, btw, I had no problem with Jeri's storyline at all. If Jeri had been the ONLY woman, or the only other than Jessica woman, it might have been different. But no. That's why it's so important you don't have just one or two female characters around, who then get taken as representatives of the entire gender/orientation. Whereas the women of Jessica Jones can be themselves. Jeri's a legal shark, and a middle aged about-to-be-divorced person, which makes a statement about no one else than Jeri Hogarth. And she's getting exactly the same type of storyline she'd get as a male character.

"How can we help?" and Malcolm saying it was such a great line to end the season with. (Nerdish sidenote: I seem to recall a conversation between Edith Keeler and James T. Kirk in City at the Edge of Forever where a line like this is called... hang on, I'll look up the exact quote... ah:

" Let me help." A hundred years or so from now, I believe, a famous novelist will write a classic using that theme. He'll recommend those three words even over "I love you."

re: Jessica in general, she's written that way in the comics, too, but in addition to Brian Bendis for inventing her that way, I'd give credit to Melissa Rosenberg who, it occured to me, has been writing Deb Morgan in Dexter for four seasons. Deb is less damaged (during seasons 1 - 4) than Jessica, but she is damaged, and tends to have a similar attitude while being fiercely loyal to a small group of people, not to mention she has an inner drive to do good.

I want a second season so much, too, with Jessica and Malcolm investigating cases (while the overall arc will doubtedly be about IGH). Here's hoping this one will be so successful Netflix produces a second one!