SERIES PREMIERE: Another streaming service drops the entirety of Season 1 of a new series today. On Netflix, it’s
Marvel’s Jessica Jones, its second TV series effort from the Marvel universe, following on, and set in the same world, time and neighborhood as its predecessor,
Marvel’s Daredevil. I liked
Daredevil, but like this new series even more. Krysten Ritter, who was so good in
Breaking Bad as Jesse’s junkie girlfriend, has another dark role here. She stars as a former superhero whose defeat and humiliation by a mind-controlling villain has driven her to drop her alter ego and costume, and work as a low-rent private eye. David Tennant plays the villain who broke her spirit – and though he doesn’t make an appearance until halfway through this first season, he magnetizes the proceedings the second he shows up. Jessica Jones, as a Marvel character, didn’t make her first appearance until this century, but makes a strong first impression here, in a series that’s as mature as the R-rated comic on which it’s based.
For a fuller review, see Bianculli’s Blog.