Jessica Jones is Good but....

It's just way way way way way too long!

I went on a brief hiatus from writing because I wanted to write a review of this show, after I finished it. And it is incredibly long. For those who don't know about Jessica Jones, the new Marvel show, on Netflix, check out the trailer below.

So you get it? For those who have seen Daredevil this is a show in that same universe and your going to see two more shows focusing on individual superheros and then another show including all of them called the Defenders. Most of you know that I loved Daredevil, for the most part, there was some ridiculousness in the end, but I liked it overall. The grittiness to it, the blood, the violence, the acting, for the most part. Jessica Jones continues in the same vein, taking place in Hell's Kitchen in New York City and follows Jessica Jones, private eye, as she attempts to understand the trauma that she experienced while also solving some, albeit a small amount, of cases.

The things I liked about this show:

Mike Colter as Luke Cage. I've been a fan of him ever since I saw him on The Good Wife as Lamont Bishop. Very happy that he is going to have his own show and we are going to get to see more of him. Although his scenes in this show are limited, he still pulls it off quite well. He fell into his character's skin, even in an instance when he tells Jessica to put her helmet on because it's against the law not to have one. This is an allusion to the fear that Luke Cage has regarding prison and returning there. I won't spoil it but there is a lot of trauma and backstory there. Very much looking forward to his performance in his own show.

David Tennant as Kilgrave. He absolutely falls into this character and the scenes he shares with Krysten Ritter you can see him running circles around her. The scenes that stands out in my mind is an interaction that he and Jessica share in a police station. Even his appearance in the scene is fantastic. He played such a great villain on top of all of that and in my mind stands shoulder to shoulder with Heath Ledger's performance as the Joker.

The darkness and noir-ness of the overall show. I love noir. Mr. Robot dabbled in this. Daredevil dabbled in this. I love it when shows dabble in and but also include modern day issues/problems within them. This show does a good job of showing a darker grittier New York with it's violence and just generally awful people. There is an aspect of this noir that I did not enjoy however which moves me onto the aspects I did not enjoy from this show.

Things I strongly disliked:

The narration. Sweet Jesus was this too much? Yep it was. I felt it was incredibly obtrusive and did not miss it when it was gone and was shocked when it returned. Not only did it push me out of the show, some of what she was saying was nonsensical.

Krysten Ritter's overall performance. She played this in a fairly dead-pan fashion. I get it. She's been through a lot and she's fairly stoic about it but it just seemed like she was hardly there especially when compared with Colter and Tennant.

and finally, as I mentioned before, the length of this show. This show would have been fantastic if it was 8 or 10 episodes but 13 episodes allowed for a lot of unnecessary characters and A LOT of unnecessary plot. Such things as the other tenants in Jones' building, the support group, Sampson, Dr. Kozlov, and many many other various things. This was what made me fairly unhappy with the show because once we got to the end I was more tired then anxious and I just wanted to get it over with so I could watch something else.

If you watched the show, what did you think? Let me know!