I just
finished plowing through all 13 episodes of the new Netflix series
Jessica Jones and holy shit. Based on the trailers I was not excited
at all to check the series out. I thought they were just cranking out
anything after the success of Daredevil and that we were beginning
the slow decline of cool comic book based shows and movies. I was
extremely wrong. This show had my ass all over the internet trying to
figure out who Jessica Jones and The Purple Man were. There will be
spoilers because they released every episode in one day.
This
show stars Krysten Ritter as Jessica Jones. She's a fuck up that has
gone through some things. Oh, and she has super powers. Really
strong. Can jump far. Durable. Loves to drink. Jessica runs Alias
Investigations where she pretty much snoops on people for others. She
is suffering PTSD after being held captive by this guy Kilgrave aka
The Purple Man played by David Tennant. He has the ability to get you
to do whatever he says just by saying it to you. And by whatever I
mean anything from killing others or even yourself. She managed to
break from his control and now he is all about getting her back.
Meanwhile she has a fucked up secret that is threatening to come out.
There
is also Rachael Taylor as Trish “Patsy” Walker. Her mother
adopted Jessica after her entire family died. Yes, you see how it
happened and it is such a simple way to die it'll scare you. She grew
up a child star and hated it. She now hosts a radio show and wants
Jessica to get her shit together. Oh, she ends up dating this guy and
once he popped some pills I knew exactly who he was and my nerd bonus
went up two points!
Mike
Colter plays Luke Cage and he is exactly how I would imagine this guy
would be if he were real. In one scene where he is being attacked in
his bar he isn't going after these guys to kill them. He seems more
annoyed because he knows his skin can not be pierced. There is a lot
of furniture smashing superhero sex between him and Jessica. There
are a few times when he uses his full strength where its like “Oh,
fuck messing with that guy!”
There
are a lot of characters in this and each episode is good but there
are some problems I had. The first episode didn't grab me and I was
close to giving up because I wanted to prove that I was right in
thinking that the show would suck. Thankfully I stuck it out. Also, I
was confused by her powers. She didn't seem all that unstoppable. A
frantic chick knocked her out cold for a while but she was also able
to take on groups of men with little to no damage. It was like this
throughout the entire season but thankfully the show wasn't hinged on
her abilities.
This
show had some very violent stuff in it so unless you're one of those
parents that like having their kids sleep with them or having to
explain why that woman has so much Kool-Aid coming out of her neck
then by all means go ahead and skip this. There are also some parts
where the people behave out of character for the characters they have
built throughout the season. No huge complaints though. This was a
pretty cool show. Hell, I dedicated thirteen hours to it!
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