Jessica Jones Season 1 Review

I was under the impression that Patsy was going to be the vigilante, Hellcat, in this season. Instead, it seems she's more of a vigilante in training. She's got the safe room and high security in her apartment and she's taking Krav Maga lessons. I think I missed the explanation of why she's so paranoid about home security. On the other hand, in the age of supervillains and aliens, this may be more normal. I was actually hoping that the medicine the EMT gave Patsy to bring her down from the stimulant would only allow her to breath again and leave her with permanently increased stamina. That doesn't appear to be the case later on, but it would be a good explanation of superpowers. However, it's possible that even if that were the case, her body would just metabolize the drug and leave her in a normal state after a few hours.

For a while while I was watching this, I was under the impression that Daredevil was going to show up in the final episode. I remembered reading rumors a few weeks ago that he was going to show up sometime during the series. However, I couldn't remember whether those rumors were confirmed or denied. The synopsis for the last episode did seem to imply that he was going to show up, but it apparently referred to Claire Temple. I knew she was going to show up, but by about episode six or so, I figured it was just a bit part in a hospital scene and that I had probably missed it already. I now remember that somebody said she was going act similarly to Nick Fury and bring all the Defenders together. By the end of this season, she knows about three out of the four team members, so that could certainly happen.

In the comics, Kilgrave is actually purple, while in the show he simply wears purple outfits. I suppose a supervillain can't go around being so obviously a supervillain. Somebody like SHIELD would have noticed if that were the case. I thought that after the scene where his dad ramps up his powers, Kilgrave would permanently turn purple. When he was injected with more of the virus, his veins did temporarily change color, but I guess the rest of him didn't.

I feel like Jessica Drew (aka Spider-Woman)'s origin story could tie into Kilgrave's. I don't know much about her, but apparently she also underwent medical experimentation as a child to save her life. They could easily tie that into the same viral treatment as Killgrave, only instead the virus added in spider DNA. I'm kinda hoping to see her in the Captain Marvel movie, but they could bring her in early by having Luke dig around on that flash drive and try to find other powered people. I don't think Luke would really create a team of enhanced people, since he just wants a quiet life, but the writers could at least tease Spider-Woman.

I was kinda hoping for more flashbacks into Jessica's life pre-Killgrave. We only got the briefest mention of the Jewel codename and the costume and it mostly consisted of Jessica rejecting it for sounding too much like a stripper name. I almost want to see a super-powered teen drama set in the MCU, but I'm not sure how well that would go over. The IGH connection between the combat drugs and Jessica's powers seems interesting. That truck was probably carrying some sort of early prototype of the drug in liquid or powdered form that got into Jessica's mouth and cuts after the accident. I would not be surprised if IGH, the army, SHIELD, or Hydra took some sort of blood samples from Jessica and then stalked her to see how her powers manifested. If it's SHIELD or Hydra, they probably installed hidden cameras in her house or brainwashed her foster mom into reporting on her. This definitely seems like it could be part of the story arc for season 2, especially with Patsy digging into the research at the end of the finale.