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Quick (And Very Belated) Thoughts on Jessica Jones
The single-sentence, spoiler-free version: I liked it, muddy middle and all.
More (short and spoiler-y) thoughts under the cut.
Trish. TRISH. I don't hate her (and, honestly, I never could) but if s2 did one thing flawlessly it was hammering home the point that Trish is, in her own way, just as screwed-up as Jessica, with the main difference being she has a MAJOR problem admitting to it. Her huge fear of being insignificant and the way she wants so badly to live other people's lives and have other people's powers felt very true to me, but...come on, Patricia. Killing Alyssa was never, ever going to be her choice to make; I couldn't help thinking of all the times Jessica might have felt she had good cause to do the same to Dorothy and never did. Because it's Trish's life and Trish's mother and if there's one thing Jess does get (at least most of the time), it's boundaries.
Pacing-wise, things could have been better. As much as I loved getting to see a bit of a softer, more vulnerable side to Jeri I'm not even slightly convinced that her story line needed as much screen time as it got, and, as per usual with most of the Netflix shows, I remember the first few and last few episodes pretty well, but the middle is all a bit of a blur. But hey, at least it wasn't a slog--even the more slow-going episodes had enough going on in them to keep me interested. And, again, since pacing is an issue across the board with the MCU Netflix 'verse I expected some slowness going in.
Oscar is fine, but I'll never stop shipping Luke and Jessica. Trish and Malcolm hooking up was a nice surprise, and even considering how things are between them at the end of the season I'm hoping that it could turn into something more. Eventually. Maybe. S2 is like s1 in that it doesn't put a huge focus on the shippy side of things; the main emotional arcs mostly all had something to do with either friendship and sisterhood or mother-daughter relationships. It was great--I'll take an angsty mother-daughter relationship over an angsty romance any day.
More (short and spoiler-y) thoughts under the cut.
Trish. TRISH. I don't hate her (and, honestly, I never could) but if s2 did one thing flawlessly it was hammering home the point that Trish is, in her own way, just as screwed-up as Jessica, with the main difference being she has a MAJOR problem admitting to it. Her huge fear of being insignificant and the way she wants so badly to live other people's lives and have other people's powers felt very true to me, but...come on, Patricia. Killing Alyssa was never, ever going to be her choice to make; I couldn't help thinking of all the times Jessica might have felt she had good cause to do the same to Dorothy and never did. Because it's Trish's life and Trish's mother and if there's one thing Jess does get (at least most of the time), it's boundaries.
Pacing-wise, things could have been better. As much as I loved getting to see a bit of a softer, more vulnerable side to Jeri I'm not even slightly convinced that her story line needed as much screen time as it got, and, as per usual with most of the Netflix shows, I remember the first few and last few episodes pretty well, but the middle is all a bit of a blur. But hey, at least it wasn't a slog--even the more slow-going episodes had enough going on in them to keep me interested. And, again, since pacing is an issue across the board with the MCU Netflix 'verse I expected some slowness going in.
Oscar is fine, but I'll never stop shipping Luke and Jessica. Trish and Malcolm hooking up was a nice surprise, and even considering how things are between them at the end of the season I'm hoping that it could turn into something more. Eventually. Maybe. S2 is like s1 in that it doesn't put a huge focus on the shippy side of things; the main emotional arcs mostly all had something to do with either friendship and sisterhood or mother-daughter relationships. It was great--I'll take an angsty mother-daughter relationship over an angsty romance any day.