Jessica Jones S1E9 AKA Sin Bin Review

This wasn't as good as last week's episode; which is surprising since it had all of the components needed to make a good episode. It had gore, manipulation and problems that are just messy and need to be sorted out.

The one thing that just still doesn't make sense is Jeri Hogarth's (Carrie-Anne Moss) part in all of this. The fact that her only point in this show is her divorce and how she calls on Jessica (Krysten Ritter) whenever she "needs" her to do something dirty. Of course, in this episode we see Hogarth tempted by Kilgrave's (David Tennent) power - she wants to use his mind control to sort her divorce out - but as she's so close to releasing Kilgrave, Jessica comes back and Hogarth has to act like nothing has happened. What is her point in all of this?

How much better would it have been though if this was a picture of Wendy - Hogarth's ex-wife?  They look similar and that would have made the Hogarth story line more interesting if Wendy was Kilgrave's Mom

Another scene that could have been better was the ending scene. Everything happened so fast. One moment Jones had found Kilgrave's parents (which seemed way too easy) and the next minute everything is going wrong and Kilgrave forces his Mom to stab herself, tries to get his Dad to cut out his own heart, tries to get Trish to shoot herself (luckily she had ran out of bullets from shooting the hermetically sealed tank that Kilgrave was in), Kilgrave makes Detective Clemons force himself out of the handcuffs and stop Jessica from catching him.

Now. That was hard to write. So can you imagine watching all of that happen in a matter of a minute?It was crazy.

One interesting thing that happened in this episode was seeing the character of Will Simpson (Wil Traval) transforming into his comic-book character: Nuke. The red, blue and white pills are introduced and in proper Nuke style, he loves the red pills (which increases his adrenaline). In the comics, Nuke has a second heart and takes the different coloured pills so that they can have different effects on his body. The blue pill brings him down from his adrenaline rush and the white one keeps his body balanced in between his missions, except Nuke doesn't like taking the blue or white pills. Is this storyline line going to carry on throughout the rest of the show? Hopefully.

Watching Jones trap Kilgrave in the hermetically sealed room, fill it with water that she could use to electrocute him if he stepped out of line was good because we finally saw the hero win at something. Of course that didn't last long.

What wasn't nice was the feeling of sympathy that we got for Kilgrave. Jessica had set up the videos of his parents experimenting on him in the back of his sealed room to torture him; you could see Kilgrave roll around on the floor covering his ears because it pained him to hear the videos and the voices of his parents. Whether this was supposed to make us feel sympathetic we don't know. But it worked really well. We got to see another side to Kilgrave and a slightly different side to Jessica. It was a nice change.

There was a lot that could have been better with this episode, it was too fast-paced and the Hogarth storyline is boring now but now that Kilgrave is free again and Jones realises that she cannot be controlled by his mind-control, everything is about to get a whole lot more interesting.

Jessica Jones S1E8 AKA WWJD? Review

This is the best episode of Jessica Jones so far. Nearly the whole of the seventh episode concentrates on Kilgrave (David Tennent) and Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) apart from showing a slice of Hogarth's (Carrie-Anne Moss) drama with her ex-wife and Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) being the go-to-person whenever Jessica is in trouble. 

What stands out the most in this episode is the chemistry between Ritter and Tennent. They have amazing on screen chemistry and it's captivating. It doesn't matter if Jones hates Kilgrave and can't stand him being in the same house as her, but the back-and-forth dialogue between the characters is mesmerising. 

We also see Kilgrave (sort of) change his psychopathic ways for Jones when we finally get to see what was on that yellow memory stick Kilgrave had Jones dig up the night she murdered Reeva. It was a memory stick filled with videos of when Kilgrave was a child and his parents were doing scientific experiments on him - mainly neurological. Was that a glimmer of sympathy that we saw on Jessica's face?

It's also brilliant of Scott Reynolds - who wrote this episode - to let us as an audience start to explore Kilgrave's past and what made him who is today; it was a fantastic addition to the show and even though it was inevitable for writers to at least show glimpses of his past, to add it into this episode was perfect. 

We see the horror that Kilgrave had to face as a child

Even though we knew that Jessica's plan to hopefully balance out Kilgrave's killings in the past - with him helping people for a change - wouldn't work (he's too much of a psychopath to change), it was nice to see Jones have a tiny bit of control of him for once. She got him to save four people's lives.

What is unclear at the moment is what her intention was during the episode. She wanted to help him be good, but then she injects him with sufentanil whilst they're having dinner together. What does she have planned for him? 

It was a good plot twist to end the episode on and to mirror that action by Jones with Kilgrave pre-conceived plan to give Will Simpson (Wil Traval) his bomb back (which is a live bomb) and kill Jessica's neighbour, Elizabeth De Luca (Kathleen Doyl). The shot of her arm at the very end just lying on the pavement is what Netfflix teaming up with Marvel is all about. Adding gore and grittiness to the Marvel world like they did with Daredevil.  

This is was an excellent episode and hopefully, the next 5 episodes will be just as good.

What did you think of Jessica Jones? Anything that you would like to see? Anything that you want the writers to change? Leave a comment below.

Jessica Jones S1E7 AKA Top Shelf Perverts Review

Jessica Jones continues to impress with it's dark and gripping seventh episode.

In this episode, Kilgrave (David Tennent) makes his dramatic appearance and it feels right. This is what the previous 6 episodes have been building up to; us seeing Kilgrave in the background psychologically manipulating people, then slowly becoming a bigger role by buying Jones' (Krysten Ritter) childhood home, to having a full five minutes on screen with Jessica.

We see how evil Kilgrave can also be, as he manipulates poor but odd Reuben (Kieran Mulcare) to kill himself as Reuben is lying on Jessica's bed. All Reuben wanted was to being Jessica some food. As soon as Jones comes back to her apartment and sees Reuben dead, she knows that enough is enough. She tried to get herself locked in Supermax prison - "Supermax only houses the worst criminals: top-shelf perverts, cannibals, serial killers who make mosaics out of their victims fingernails...It's living hell", as Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) describes.

Hogarth's presence in the show is still not fully understandable and her storyline with her divorce and Jones helping her finalise it makes another appearance in this episode. The writers surely must have a proper plan for Jeri Hogarth and her storyline and hopefully not just make her scenes filler episodes and a useless subplot.

Another part that is starting to lose it's effect is that of Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor). We get it, she's now having sex with Will Simpson (Will Traval), but that's all her scenes seem to be at the moment; that, and trying to convince Jessica not to do the wrong thing for a few minutes. Hopefully, she has a better character development further on into the show.

This episode is based around Jones finally realising what's making her crazy: when she murdered Luke Cage's (Mike Colter) ex-wife, Reeva under Kilgrave's mind-control. The grief is suffocating her and she realises that as long as she's around in the open air, she's also open to Kilgrave holding people that she loves against her to get what he wants. Getting told by Luke that she was a "piece of shit" at the end of the sixth episode has caused her so much emotional distress that she just wants to put things right: Jessica Jones style. 

It's when Jones goes to the police station with Reuben's severed head (yes, Jones actually pulled his head of his dead body) that she starts to put her plan into action - not knowing that it's going to fail. She proves to Detective Oscar Clemons (Clarke Peters) of her superhuman strength to try and get herself into Supermax because she's "dangerous" and that's when another officer walks in to tell her that she's free to go.

Turns out that Kilgrave knew that she was turning herself in and had mind-controlled everyone in the police precinct to hold a gun to their own head or a civilians - it's nice what a man will do for a girl's attention isn't it? No. It's scary. He's scary. It's here when he confesses his undying love for Jones, he's "yearning" for her and wants her to feel the same. 

So Jones does what she thinks she has to do. She surrenders to Kilgrave and meets him at her childhood home that he bought; hopefully she's going to develop a new plan to take him down whilst she's spending 'quality' time with him. 

We're also introduced to a new character. Trish's Mom and Jessica's foster Mom, Dorothy Walker (Rebecca De Mornay). We learn that she's the reason that Trish got addicted to drugs and that she's basically a terrible mother that only cares about herself and uses her daughter and took Jessica in to gain the media's attention. She's a nasty character, but it was interesting to see Jones go and see her. Why was she introduced now? Hopefully Dorothy will get some character development of her own throughout the series. 

This was a very good episode as it showed a new side to Jones that was essentially for the story to develop and have her continue on her path. It was fantastic for Tennent to finally showcase his talent as Kilgrave in an actual scene of conversation with Jones and for some reason, Malcom's (Eka Danville) character is becoming more and more loveable.

Bring on the eighth episode!

What do you think of Jessica Jones? Is there anything you wish you would've seen in this episode? Anything you think shouldn't have been in this episode? Leave a comment below.

Jessica Jones S1E6 AKA You're A Winner Review

In this action-packed episode, AKA You're A Winner revolves around the relationship of Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter). The whole episode is pretty much the two of them, but before you hate on the episode before even watching, you need to know that this is a magnificent episode.

Luke comes to Jones with a missing person's case that is close to his heart. We are told later on in the episode by Cage that they are looking for Antoine (Dante E. Clark) due to his sister having information about Cage's wife's death. Jessica is torn between helping him and screaming at him that she was the one who killed Reva (Parisa Fitz - Henley).

Malcolm's (Eka Darville) character is becoming more and more loveable. After seeing him go through hell and back whilst being Kilgrave's (David Tennent) spy, his addiction to drugs has worn off and we see his true colours. He feels like he owes everything to Jessica and because he doesn't know who Luke is, Malcolm goes to talk to Luke about Jessica and finally ends up telling Cage about Kilgrave. Malcolm is like an innocent, little boy and to see him fresh-faced and clean was refreshing.

A massive plot twist unveils in this episode. We see Luke find out who he thinks killed his wife and Cage then tries to kill which brings Jessica the courage to suddenly shout "he didn't kill your wife! I did!" The tension within that moment was unbearable as we see Luke stare at Jones with fury in his eyes and say "you were right. You are a piece of shit" after punching a huge dent in the front of the bus - just inches away from Jessica.

We see Kilgrave for only brief moments in this episode where he buys a new house. He persuades the owner of the house to pack up and leave by the end of the next day (without using his mind-control which was surprising). It's not until the very end of the episode that we see that Kilgrave has bought Jessica's childhood home and ever since we saw the room dedicated to photos of Jones. we see how obsessed he is with her.

Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) and Jones didn't team up in this episode which is a shame because their chemistry is amazing. Overall, this is a brilliant episode. It's not as strong as the previous ones but it still brings the action and a different kind of tension.

Jessica Jones S1E5 AKA The Sandwich Saved Me Review

Yes, I am binge-watching this TV show, yes it's hard to stop watching an episode after the other but I'm loyal to giving you the reviews on each episode.

In episode four, we learnt that Malcolm (Eka Danville) was the one giving Kilgrave (David Tennent) the pictures of Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) so that he could get the drugs that Kilgrave was supplying him to keep him loyal. Jones and Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) learn that up until six months ago, Malcolm Ducasse was a functioning individual, when drugs weren't clouding his mind.

So Jessica Jones did what any human being would do. She follows Malcolm to where he meets Kilgrave and learns that he waits until Kilgrave controls a member of the public to tell Malcolm where to meet him. A different place every day at the same time. Like clockwork. After seeing Malcolm meet Kilgrave, she starts to plot her revenge alongside Walker and Officer Simpson (Wil Traval).

Simpson has now become a recurring character. He was included in Jones' and Trish's abduction plan and since Simpson and Walker have now become an item, it's safe to say that we will be seeing a lot more of him in future episodes. Did the show need to bring in a love interest to "save the damsel (Trish) in distress"? Maybe. Maybe not.

The plan to drug Kilgrave obviously doesn't work. Why would it? It's still early on. No superhero catches the villain that quickly and easy.

Now that Malcolm is of no use to Kilgrave, he no way of getting the drugs to feed his addiction. Luckily, Jessica is of help and gives Malcolm a choice. She puts the drugs in front of him and asks him to choose between helping her or carry on living in a drugged-up daze.

Kilgrave also gives Jones a choice. Now that he's not getting his photos of Jessica from Malcolm, he needs to get them from somewhere to feed his obsession of her. So he asks Jones to send him one photo of herself a day. She agrees (for some reason).

It was brilliant to see more of Malcolm in this episode and to see some character development finally. We've only seen passing moments of him and he's just Jessica Jones' neighbour, but now there is some depth in his character and it's very good for viewing pleasure.

Flashbacks into Jones' past was one of the best things about episode five. We saw the moment that Jones saved Malcolm's life from men mugging him, we saw the first time Kilgrave and Jessica first met and we saw how much Trish loved the idea that her best friend could be a superhero - it was adorable. Walker was thinking of superhero names for Jones and even showed her a potential costume that Jessica could wear. It was cute to see this different side to their friendship, they had no worries, no villain to worry about. It was a breath of fresh air to see them so care-free.

All in all, this was another good episode and the progress that Malcolm makes with his withdrawal symptoms will be interesting.

Jessica Jones S1E4 AKA 99 Friends Review

"AKA 99 Friends" is Jessica Jones focused. There's no Kilgrave appearances (apart from an eight-year-old girl taunting Jessica in the street) and it concentrates on fleshing out the characters already in the show.

In episode four, Jones (Krysten Ritter) is reluctant to accept a new P.I case due to the last referral that she had, ended up with Hope Schlottman (Erin Moriarty) being controlled by Kilgrave (David Tennent) to shoot her parents. Officer Simpson (Will Traval) wants to make up for the pain he caused Trish "Patsy" Walker (Rachael Taylor) when he was mind-controlled to kill her, Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss) sends people to Jessica who think they have been mind controlled by Kilgrave and Jones starts up a 'support group' for the ones she thinks have been under Kilgrave's influence and Jessica searches for whoever has been following her on Kilgrave's behalf and gets her answer.

One of the interesting things about this episode is Jones' new client, Audrey Eastman (Jessica Hecht). We are made to think that Eastman was referred to Jones by Hogarth's business partner due to Eastman thinking that her husband is cheating on her and she wants proof. When Jessica follows Eastman to an abandoned building, she sees her with headphones on, music up loud and shooting at mannequins. Jones dismisses it, thinking she's getting ready to shoot her adulterous husband and convinces herself that Eastman isn't under Kilgrave's control.

Instead what's fascinating is the truth about Audrey Eastman.

Jessica follows Audrey's husband to see if she can catch him cheating but instead finds out it was a trap and finds Audrey in bed with her husband. We find out that Audrey's mother was killed during The Battle of New York and that she despises people with "gifts" and "abilities".

This is brilliant. It's brilliant how they've weaved in the story of The Battle of New York, but told it from a different perspective. Instead of everyone being grateful that New York was saved, we're shown the grief-stricken side of it, the side where we're told that people's families died, innocent people and it adds another dimension to the character of Audrey Eastman.

But when Eastman shoots Jones in the arm, we're then shown how strong Jones is. Yes, she bleeds but she pulls radiators from the walls and throws them near Eastman, again the show is adding dimension to the characters and it's brilliant.

The one uncertainty with this show is the relevance of Hogarth's marriage. The character of Hogarth herself is interesting and mysterious, especially when she said to Jones that Kilgrave "could solve so many problems with his gift". You start to wonder if she has a dark side to her as well.

But her marriage? Maybe it does have relevance in the upcoming episodes and that's why the foundations are being built now, but hopefully they're not just filler scenes.

Another interesting character development is that of Officer Simpson. We saw him in episode three be mind controlled by Kilgrave to kill Walker - luckily Jones intervened - but throughout this episode, he's trying to make up for his guilt by giving her a gun "for protection". After Walker and Simpson are sat on opposite sides of her door talking, she invites him in and we see the beginning of a bond forming and for the chance for Simpson to be a recurring character on the show.

This episode was again, entertaining and well written. It was nice to have the concentration on Jones for nearly the whole episode. Kristen Ritter portrays the character perfectly. With her one-liner jokes, sarcasm, swearing and the fact that she drinks whisky and energy drinks to keep herself going; she's not your average superhero. Which make her even this show even more enjoyable.

Jessica Jones S1E3 AKA It's Called Whiskey Review

This is it guys! This is the episode where things finally kick off and boy, is it fantastic.

The episode starts where episode two left off. With Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) and Luke Cage (Mike Colter) standing facing each other after just realising that both of them have "abilities". If you were Jones, wouldn't you just be standing there gawking at Cage whilst he puts an electric saw to his abs and it doesn't leave a scratch? The intense staring at each other finally leads to a much shorter sex scene (don't worry, they make up for it throughout the episode); and viewers sat there wondering "is this all they're going to do? Just have sex? All the time?"

Don't worry, we're then treated to a heart to heart between the two of them whilst they're sat in an outdoor cafe and you see a vulnerable side to Jones when Cage asks her "have you met anyone else like us?" You can see that she wants to say "yes, Kilgrave. He made me kill your wife", but she knows that it would just ruin the moment so what does she offer instead? Yes, more sex.

Jessica has found Kilgrave's weakness and throughout this episode, she makes it her mission to attempt to use it.

We meet the character of Kilgrave properly in this episode, coming face-to-face with the man himself  (David Tennent) and even though it's only for brief moments throughout, we understand more of what he is capable of. He controls a police officer to kill Trish "Patsy" Walker (and we get to see her use her self-defence training which is awesome) and for the police officer to then commit suicide. Kilgrave is dark and twisted but it's nice to see more of the character and to see how similar he is to Daredevil's main villain, Kingpin (except, Kilgrave can control people with his mind and not his money).

There's also a big character development between Walker (Rachael Taylor) and Jessica Jones. We see how caring and considerate Walker is with Hope Schlottman's (Erin Moriarty) case and see her try and help her case by broadcasting it on her talk show. Unfortunately, that doesn't go too well for her when Kilgrave phones in onto the show. But, she tried. Even though we can see that Jones is stubborn to ask for help off her best friend, we can see that she accepts it when Walker tries and that there is still a very strong bond there between the two characters even though Jones says to Walker that they "used to be best friends".

The last five minutes couldn't be more perfect. It couldn't be more sinister, eerie, it couldn't have built Kilgrave's character better. We see that Kilgrave is obsessed with Jessica Jones and it's perfect; the audience finally sees her slightly frightened by what she's decided to face.