‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 is a bit of an uphill climb

Marvel’s Jessica Jones Season 1 is one hell of an act to follow. It opened on an abrasive alcoholic and her deeply ingrained trauma, on a double homicide of parents by their daughter, and Marvel’s most fearsome small screen villain, if not an all-time contender.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that Jessica Jones Season 2 feels immensely slow by comparison.

Don’t get us wrong, Season 2 isn’t bad – at least, not in the first five episodes screened for critics – but it drags from the get-go and it’s hard to ignore. Jessica has all-but dissociated from everything with Kilgrave, and she’s essentially in denial of her newfound fame and duty since The Defenders (let alone all those supernatural shenanigans). She’s recognizable on the street and the phrase “superhero vigilante” is bandied about like this is Daredevil Season 1 establishing Hell’s Kitchen. Read more…

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