I started this show recently, and I enjoy it so far. Definitely better than other superhero shows, definitely way more feminist than other superhero stuff/tv in general, although neither of those are very high bars. It has a lot of suspense, the actors are really good, and Kilgrave is an incredible character. I haven't been keeping up with TV in recent years so I knew nothing about David Tennant before watching this, but now I'm pretty sure he's a genius. Unfortunately the writing does get cliched and heavy handed sometimes, but it still works. Jessica Jones is incredibly dark, probably the darkest thing I've seen on TV.
I'll write some random complaints which aren't spoilers here, then discuss episodes 9 and 10, which I just watched.
• The lawyer is REALLY annoying. I disliked her from the start and I dislike her more now. She's just a generic jerk, she's an incompetent lawyer, and she hardly serves a purpose plot wise. Jessica should have fired her a long time ago. The subplot about the divorce is really annoying and pointless.
• Apparently Kilgrave never meets anyone who doesn't understand English, or who is deaf.
• Jessica's alcoholism is dumb. She acts insane when the plot needs it, then a minute later she acts like she's sober. I get it, she's damaged, we don't need all the drinking to understand that.
So, the last two episodes were significantly stupider than previous episodes. The whole plan to force a confession out of Kilgrave instead of finding actual witnesses to his crimes makes no sense. The plan to put his parents in there with him REALLY doesn't make sense. The way Jessica convinced the parents, who had been hiding for decades, to confront him by claiming it's their responsibility was really lame. It's not even true, he isn't their responsibility. If your son is a serial killer you're officially off the hook as parents, congratulations. Someone else has to deal with it.
The whole support group attack was incredibly silly and out of place.
I read a pretty dumb feminist article claiming Hogarth is unrealistic because she's a jerk and women can't be
jerks I guess.