Last time, Jessica Jones realized
that Kilgrave had developed a pretty serious obsession with her. His latest
safe-house was filled with photos of Jessica in a bizarre shrine to her. She
has to split her time trying to figure out who’s following her, finding
Kilgrave again, and doing her day job. The latest case being following a woman’s
husband to figure out if he’s cheating. To figure out who’s spying on her, she
gets the cop from last time (his name is Will Simpson but I swear they don’t
say it for several more episodes,) to get her surveillance footage from police
cameras around the city. It’s very illegal, but Simpson is hell bent on making
up for nearly killing Trish. She also visits Jeri Hogarth and interviews a
whole bunch of folks that claim to have been controlled by Kilgrave. Some of
them come up with the most insane stories, but a few of them seem legit. After
solving the cheating hubby case, not going to ruin that one for you, she gets
info from one of the other Kilgrave victims, and learns the shocking identity
of who was following her. I won’t ruin it in this one, but it’s a major plot
point for the rest of the series, so I’ll be revealing it next time.
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| Love the look of the opener. It's great. |
The big side story of this one
involves Sgt. Simpson attempting to make amends to Trish for the whole…
strangling thing. After a few failed attempts, they bond through Trish’s
reinforced door, and Simpson give her a gun for protection. Oh, and lawyer Jeri
Hogarth demands that Jessica get dirt on her soon to be ex-wife to use. I want
to state right now, that this is the only subplot of this series that I absolutely
hate. But I’ll get into that as it continues to develop.
Another solid episode. It was here
that I started to get a sense for how paranoid being on the bad side of someone
like Kilgrave can be. Jessica has to be wary of everyone from her best friend
to random children around New York. Having to be so paranoid all the time must
be… stressful. Heck, the first quarter of the episode was dedicated to Jessica
following her new client, just to be certain that she hadn’t been controlled by
Kilgrave. That’s just bad for business. We also get to see just how wide spread
Kilgrave’s effect has been on New York. His victims range from a woman who was
forced to play her violin until and after her fingers bled, another woman that
was forced to smile for him for every waking moment, a man that served as his
chauffer for a week and was forced to abandon his son on the sidewalk, and a
dude who had his coat stolen. Okay, that last one was kind of…lame, but
everyone else’s story is solid. One thing that is touched upon, but not really
developed since, is that Jessica can somehow “sense” other Kilgrave victims.
She has Coat Guy stand up and she “feels” Kilgrave’s on the guy. It’s pretty
weird. If I have one nitpick, its that we're now a third of the way through the show, and we've seen very little of our main antagonist. Daredevil was very similar to this, but, again, the whole "Kingpin in shadows" thing was meant to build his mystique. Kilgrave is that kind of character that enjoys attention, so they idea of him dodging around so much just seems odd. But, again, this is only a nitpick. Overall, good episode. Next time, episode 5.
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