![]() Kilgrave’s powers are absolute mind control, and under his spell he reduced Jones to a plaything – not just totally submissive, physically and emotionally, hurting herself and others at his whim, but forced to smile throughout the ordeal, a Wednesday Addams-like rictus. The horrors that her (also supernatural) abuser, David Tennant’s Kilgrave, played on her are revealed in eerie flashbacks and tense dialogue as this long-absent abuser edges his insidious way back into her life, corroding the safety net she’s desperately knitted for herself – work, analgesics, mantras, isolation. And as a weary, burnt-out survivor labouring under the immense weight of PTSD in a grey city, Ritter is utterly, brilliantly convincing. But the well-chosen sets, from swanky offices and manicured parks to shadowy side streets and sooty subways across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, give the series a cold, gritty 70s-NYC meets gentrified, Noughties Village feel. There’s also little to no chemistry between her and Colter, who brings gravitas and sensitivity to his role as Marvel’s unbreakable New Yorker. Ritter never quite convinces as a high-functioning drunk – she’s too clear-eyed and fresh-faced, awkwardly elegant with a whisky tumbler where a true inebriate would be practiced and familiar. Jones’s powers – extreme strength, the ability to jump enormous heights – are handled with a nonchalance bordering on apathy, not a gift to be glorified in star-spangled spandex, but just another thing that marks her as ‘other’, a skill wasted in the service of ferreting out the city’s dirty secrets. Her office, like her psyche, is run-down and barely functional, nestled in the same ’hood that’s home to Charlie Cox’s Daredevil (who doesn’t make a cameo) and Mike Colter’s Luke Cage (due his own spin-off show), who plays a supporting role as Jones’s ally and love interest.ĭespite the unusually high quotient of gifted inhabitants in this neighbourhood, there are zero capes in sight – just disenfranchised heroes working dead-end jobs. A morose, alcoholic PI in the noir tradition, she hustles the streets of Hell’s Kitchen in a uniform of biker jacket and skinny-fit denim, delivering dry one-liners against a cracked, midnight-jazz soundtrack. ![]() Ritter (Breaking Bad, Don’t Trust the B**** in Apartment 23) brings the titular protagonist of Brian Michael Bendis’s Alias comics to life with a jaded panache in series one. ![]() Season 1 of Jessica Jones is available to stream on Netflix. ![]()
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