Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Hard-boiled detective noir with a side order of superpowers
Superpowers are one of the less interesting elements in Marvel’s Jessica Jones. They’re very useful, and they account for the heroine’s ability to sleep soundly despite having a broken front door, but they don’t protect her from life itself. No wonder she’s so pissed off.
She certainly doesn’t need superpowers to intimidate people. As played by Krysten Ritter, Jones looks like a model, dresses like a roadie in a metal band, takes no shit from anyone, and has a hard stare that can freeze your insides. She’s Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade, with a resemblance to Filipino movie queen Gloria Romero. “New York may be the city that never sleeps,” she says over the moody jazzy score, “but it sure does sleep around.” As a private investigator, she specializes in unearthing illicit sex and deceit, and if that wasn’t enough to turn her into a hard-drinking cynic, she’s also dealing with a personal trauma. That trauma provides the plot for season one of the Netflix series created by Melissa Rosenberg, based on one of the lesser-known Marvel comic books.
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December 18th, 2015 at 13:06
The best way to watch this series if it’s too much of a depressing downer is to go between episodes of Jessica Jones alternately with episodes of Don’t Trust The B In Apartment 23.
December 18th, 2015 at 13:24
volume-addict: Then see her as Jane in Breaking Bad and feel like death.
December 19th, 2015 at 14:44
Watching Jessica Jones na. Gloria Romero ba o Becca Godinez ang lookalike ni Krysten Ritter?