a5c7b9f00b Following the tragic end of her brief superhero career, Jessica Jones tries to rebuild her lifea private investigator, dealing with cases involving people with remarkable abilities in New York City. Ever since her short-lived stinta superhero ended in tragedy, Jessica Jones has been rebuilding her personal life and careera hot-tempered, sardonic private detective in Hell&#39;s Kitchen, New York City. Plagued by self-loathing and a wicked case of PTSD, Jessica battles demons from within and without, using her extraordinary abilitiesan unlikely champion for those in need… especially if they&#39;re willing to cut her a check. I loved the first episode. I liked the second episode. I tolerated the third episode. I didn&#39;t like the fourth episode. I didn&#39;t even see the fifth episode.<br/><br/>It started out promising, but,you can see, with each episode I gradually lost any interest I had for this show. I will try to explain my reasons now.<br/><br/>OK, actually, it is only one reason, actually - the show suffers from the limitations, I presume, Disney/Marvel put on it. For some reason this show has the same age restriction&quot;Game of Thrones&quot;, but it does not have more adult content than, let&#39;s say, &quot;Lucifer&quot; - which creates a certain dissonance that bugged me all the time. Apparently, heavy swearing does not exist in the MCU, so we are treated to a main character who is written like John McClane from &#39;Die Hard with a Vengeance&#39;, but doesn&#39;t utter a single F-word. Really… McClane suffered from some sort of a PTSD because of what he&#39;d survived. So did Jessica. McClane drowned his sorrow in alcohol and sarcastic remarks. So did Jessica. McClane swore like a drunk sailor. Jessica didn&#39;t, which normally wouldn&#39;t bother me at all, but it did help create the dissonance I was talking about.<br/><br/>The same with the nudity. Apparently, nudity also doesn&#39;t exist in the MCU. Within the first three episodes we are treated to at least five different love making scenes, showing various positions and techniques - I mean, obviously, the makers of the show were going for certain raunchiness, but, at the same time, you never see Jessica topless - either she won&#39;t take her bra off, or she will be filmed from behind, or the editing will be so choppy that you don&#39;t see anything. There are no exceptions.<br/><br/>The same with the violence. Now, we&#39;ve seen &quot;Daredevil&quot; and we know that extreme violence does exist within the MCU. It doesn&#39;t exist in &quot;Jessica Jones&quot;, though, and, given certain parts of the main character&#39;s life, this is actually a problem. The fight choreography is just awful, and whatever violence there is is completely bloodless. I don&#39;t like that.<br/><br/>Now, don&#39;t get me wrong, I don&#39;t need or want swearing, nudity or hard hitting violence in my TV, but if you&#39;re not willing to actually put them in your show, don&#39;t write it in a way that requires them. It creates a dissonance that, at least to me, is extremely off-putting. To put things in perspective, I had exactly the same problem, caused by exactly the opposite circumstances, with &quot;Da Vinci&#39;s Demons&quot; - that show was written like an adventure oriented at 12-year-olds, but, at the same time, it was loaded with porn-like nudity, heavy swearing and extreme violence - which, again, caused a dissonance that made me stop following the show.<br/><br/>Then, there are other limitations, undoubtedly coming from Disney/Marvel. Why, why did this thing have to be a part of the MCU? There was a time when I didn&#39;t mind the idea of a shared universe, but here, now, we have a TV-MA rated show referring &quot;Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.&quot;. Literally. In other words, to understand what you&#39;re seeing here, in this adult-oriented show, you have to be familiar with a show that only a kid can enjoy. Well, I think I don&#39;t need to explain why this is a problem to me.<br/><br/>Then, and I am truly sorry for writing this, there are the problems caused by the girl power angle. Don&#39;t get me wrong, I love strong female characters, but this is not the way to do them. Because if you make Killgrave and Luke women and Jessica a man, you will not need to change even a word from their dialogue, apart from the pronouns. Seriously, there was a reason I compared Jessica to a Bruce Willis&#39; character earlier - she is a Bruce Willis&#39; character, only this time that character is played by a woman. When it comes to Hogarth, the situation is even worse - it seems to me that the makers of the show had an LGBT-quota to fill, so… Well, Hogarth is Harvey Specter. Literally, only this time he is married and for some reason looks like Trinity from &#39;The Matrix&#39;. Hogarth acts like Harvey, speaks like him and has the same character flaws that he has. When I started watching the show, I didn&#39;t know Hogarth was a man in the source material but I began suspecting thissoonI saw him… her… whatever. As I said, I love seeing strong female characters, but this is not the way to make them. See &quot;Janet King&quot; and you will know what I mean - that is a courthouse drama show centered around an LGBT woman. It rocks. Seriously, check it out.<br/><br/>None of the things I mentioned above would be that big a problem to me if it weren&#39;t for the show&#39;s overly serious tone. Seriously, there is nothing to make you smile here. There are some jokes, but they are there only to show what a cynic Jessica Jones is. You will find more humour in a Christopher Nolan movie. To me, this can only mean one thing - the show&#39;s makers thought they were making something deep and meaningful. But &quot;Jessica Jones&quot; is not more deep or more meaningful than, let&#39;s say, Marvel&#39;s &#39;Iron Man&#39;. It is just less funny, darker, bleaker and slower. It is not what it wants to be, and,a result, I just can&#39;t continue watching it. Sorry. Just watched this series yesterday,and just fell in love with it And i think the villain &quot;KILLGRAVE&quot; is one of the best villains in TV SHOWS EVER!Krysten Ritter is Greatwell along with action,suspense it has a bit of comedy too that makes this show even more entertaining.I loved this show till 10 episodes but 11-12 were i think weakerthey were meant to be more entertaining,the story went little off after 10 in my opinion.but overall this show is great and after watching daredevil you&#39;ll love this too ,its dark,humorous and plot is great.Overall I think its entertaining full of thrilling moments and of the best superhero show
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