Jessica Jones: Season 1

So now it's finally happened. I just finished watching all of Jessica Jones on Netflix. I was very excited to start watching it and today I finished it. And yes, this is part of the M.C.U and is in the side of something like Daredevil. And if you recall, I absolutely loved the first and second season of Daredevil. They both showed really interesting corners of the M.C.U and overall they were both just really well executed and I liked how they tied into the M.C.U movies. So is that level of quality in Jessica Jones? Yeah, it totally is. In my opinion, Jessica Jones is absolutely amazing. Just like the rest of the M.C.U. And, let me just say, I'll be talking about spoilers. So if you haven't watched this show yet and you want to, watch the show then read this. You've been warned. So the show is about a woman named Jessica Jones, played by Krysten Ritter, who's a Private Investigator. And let me just say that she is absolutely amazing in this show. She has superpowers like super strength and she can jump really high. She got these powers from a car crash she was in when she was a small girl when her parents and brother died. She's also an alcoholic who can sorta be mean to other people and not a whole lot of other people like her. One of the only people she trusts in the show is her best friend Trish. The villain of the show is a man named Kilgrave, played by David Tennant, who has a superpower too. He has the ability of mind control. Meaning he's able to look at a person and just tell them to do something, no matter what it is, and that person will just do it. All the performances in this show are phenomenal. I cannot think of better actors for these characters. There also another character in this named Luke Cage, played by Mike Colter, who is so, so awesome in this show. This guy is so cool. He's also just extremely likeable and good choice for the character. He has a power too, unbreakable skin and he's also really strong. Through the entire show, Jessica is trying to find Kilgrave, and helping this girl in prison named Hope, because Kilgrave is a crazy murderer who also kinda wants to be with Jessica because he's in love with her but he wants to kill her. He's constantly killing people to try to get to her and that's what this show is about. I find that interesting. This show isn't really about super powers and superheroes. It's about investigations and trying to find Kilgrave. That is so interesting in this show in my opinion. But that doesn't mean there isn't any action. There is and it's awesome, but it's not the focus. It's also about Jessica's past because in the past, she was under Kilgrave's control and she did some stuff like kill some people and other things like that that she regrets very much. It also had a very character piece element to it and I liked that. And I can't say this enough, Krysten Ritter is absolutely astounding in this. She reminds me a lot of Charlie Cox as Daredevil. Not the characters themselves, just their way of acting. I thought that they were brilliant. Speaking of Daredevil, we even get some tie-ins to that show too. In one episode someone holds up a Nelson And Murdock card. Which is the name of Matt and Foggy's firm. And in the last episode we see Claire again. In case you don't know, Claire is the name of the nurse who was in Daredevil helping Matt a lot of times and was introduced in the second Daredevil episode. She even sorta mentions Matt when she's talking about a man she's met before who has "abilities" just like Jessica and Luke. I found that really awesome. There was also some cool tie-ins to the M.C.U movies like for example, there's an episode where a lady is trying to kill Jessica because of her powers and she thinks that she's just like the Avengers who she hates because the Hulk accidently killed her mother in the first Avengers when he jumped on that building. And so she wanted revenge and when she fails, Jessica says she should go after "the green guy and the guy who waves those flags all the time" meaning Hulk and Captain America. I loved those references. That gives me more hope of the Netflix heroes joining the Avengers and seeing them in the movies. I will also say that the supporting characters are really good. They're either likeable, lovable, hateable, sympathetic or just weird. 3 of them that really stood out to me were, 1. Malcolm, who's Jessica's neighbour and he's always trying to help Jessica is whatever way he can and you do feel it seeping off of him and you do care for him, 2. Ruben, who's another one of Jessica's neighbour's who begins to have a crush on Jessica and then one night as he's about to give her something, she isn't at her apartment but Kilgrave is and he tells him to cut his own throat and you feel really sad about that because you do like him and 3. Dr. Clemons, who's a doctor and you do feel really sorry for him when he dies in one of the episodes around the end of the season. David Tennant in this show as Kilgrave is a disgustingly, vile man who you almost don't know how to feel. And by that, I mean the fact that he reminds me a lot of Kingpin in the Daredevil show where sometimes you like him and feel sorry for him but then he does some absolutely terrible things that make you hate him again and you do support it when Jessica kidnaps him in one episode. That's pretty satisfying. And overall, you do like him at some small parts but you mostly just hate this guy. He's also probably one of the best M.C.U villains we've seen so far. Also the performance by David Tennant in this is amazing, which is ironic considering he's most famous for playing Doctor Who, which I don't like but I know that he is famous for playing that character. I will also say that his death at the end is really satisfying. At the end him and Jessica and a few other people that he's controlling are at the dock and Jessica manages to trick him to getting close to her and when he does get close enough, she grabs his face and the back of his head and just snaps his neck. That is so satisfying.

And the last few minutes of the last episode is pretty cool and we even meet that woman who was in Daredevil: Season 2 who I might have mentioned before but if I didn't there's this woman who's trying to plead the Punisher guilty and is going up against Matt, Foggy and Karen and you really hate her but then she dies and you don't know how to feel about that. Yeah, we see her for a minute and I immediately recognised her and I was so surprise because, yeah, this is before Season 2 of Daredevil so she's not dead yet so that makes sense. We even see Jessica's costume for a few seconds. And by that I mean the white and blue costume she has in the comics. Yeah, we see that for a few seconds. That was kinda funny. If I had to say a couple of nitpicks, they would be a sub-plot in this. In the show, there's this woman named Hogarth who has a wife and is divorcing another one of hers. I just didn't really care about that and I thought it was uninteresting. Whenever the show cut to that plot and away from the main plot with Jessica, I just didn't care for that. And also it's takes a while to really get into it. I mean, it only begins to get really great when Kilgrave becomes more of a major character. That's when things get incredible. But aide from that, this is another amazing Netflix M.C.U show. It's amazingly acted, written, directed and put together and I can't wait to see what comes next in this universe of Marvel Netflix shows. And if you have the time, definitely, definitely watch this show because it is amazing and once again, Krysten Ritter is phenomenal in this show. Remember that when watching if you ever do. Thank you all for reading and please comment down below to tell me what you think of this.