A NEW SUPERHERO IS IN TOWN
After "Daredevil," the second collaboration between Marvel and Netflix takes the superhero and private eye genres in a horrifying new direction.
Genre: Action, Detective, Drama, Superhero.
Created by: Melissa Rosenburg
Based on: Jessica Jones by Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Gaydos
Starring: Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, Rachael Taylor, David Tennant
Marvel's Jessica Jones, or simply Jessica Jones, is an American web television series created for Netflix by Melissa Rosenberg, based on the Marvel Comics character of the same name. It is set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), sharing continuity with the films of the franchise, and is the second in a series of shows that will lead up to a Defenders crossover miniseries.
Origin (comic):
Midtown High student Jessica Campbell was present when Peter Parker was bitten by the irradiated spider which gave him his powers. She had a crush on him, and had just plucked up the courage to speak to him when he was distracted by the bite. She also had a celebrity crush on teen heart-throb Johnny Storm (Fantastic 4).
Jessica's father received tickets for Disney World from his boss Tony Stark. On the way home, their car collided with a military convoy carrying radioactive chemicals. Her family was killed, and, after spending several months in a coma, she awoke, stirred by the first coming of Galactus outside her hospital room. She was placed in an orphanage and adopted by the Jones family.
Jessica later discovered that her radiation exposure granted her super strength, limited invulnerability, and flight (which she never fully mastered during her superhero career). Jessica's adoptive parents re-enrolled her at Midtown High, where she was ostracized by her classmates, especially Flash Thompson. Peter Parker (who had since become Spider-Man) sensed in Jessica a kindred spirit—someone who had also lost family due to a tragic circumstance. Jessica mistook his kind attention and lashed out at him, believing he was merely pitying her.
She later witnessed a fight between Spider-Man and the villain Sandman in her own class. This inspired her to use her abilities in a positive light.
Following a tragic end to her brief superhero career, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her life as a private investigator, dealing with cases involving people with remarkable abilities in New York City
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| Krysten Ritter is Bloody Magical as Jessica Jones |
This is a darker show than we're used to seeing from Marvel
Jessica Jones, on the other hand, explores the intimacy of abuse. The more personal the show gets as it delves into the abuse, recovery, trauma, and guilt, the harder it is to watch. Amid all this blood, death, and trauma (and there is plenty of all three), the most terrifying thing is watching someone endure it all and go on living. Survival isn't natural. It's work. Hard work.
Jones is a solid, promising show, perhaps the most artistically and thematically ambitious project Marvel has ever embarked upon.
Kilgrave is the most sinister Marvel villain we've seen
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| David Tennant as Kilgrave |
Kilgrave is the most heinous villain we've seen from Marvel. He has the power to control the minds of others, from telling them when they're allowed to speak to pushing them to commit suicide.
His mind control makes for some darkly humorous physical comedy, but his true gift is in capturing the man's sinister streak while offering the tiniest possible sliver of sympathy — he can't see how psychotic he is because he was experimented on when he was a child. But he also can't see the difference between love and rape.
He is obsessed with Jones because she's the one thing he possessed once but can't control anymore. And he's determined to get her back, which he attempts to do by isolating her and hurting the few allies she has.
With rave reviews coming in and most audience reaction thus far being overwhelmingly positive, Jessica Jones should see strong audience numbers and go a very long way to winning Marvel a wider audience among different demographics that aren’t typically represented in large numbers for the superhero genre.
So, If you haven’t seen the new Marvel-Netflix series Jessica Jones, then do yourself a favor: stop whatever you’re doing and stream the entire first season right now.
Funk'd Up rating: 9/10
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