Jessica Jones starts her third and final season



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"A.K.A The Perfect Burger" begins with Jessica Jones on a beach in Mexico. That's right, she wears her ripped jeans and combat boots, and she works there, but the sunny spots reflect the slightly sunnier mood that characterizes the premiere of this season. The lighting is brighter, the colors are more saturated and even though things are probably never going to be perfect in the world of Jessica, they are the best they have been in a long time. For his first two seasons, Jessica Jones was defined by severe and gritty trauma. This first season offers a slightly different tone.

The final of the second season saw our main set burst but not without hope in their various trajectories. This first takes up these topics while telling us what has happened since the last time we saw our heroes. Despite the trauma of finding her mother, then losing her, Jessica remained faithful to her commitment to turn a more heroic page. With the help of Detective Costa and her new assistant Gillian (Aneesh Sheth), she regularly takes on pro bono business. Despite the onset of the first symptoms of ALS, Jeri Hogarth successfully opened his own law firm, where he employs Malcolm as a well-dressed researcher / repairer. Dorothy managed to save Trish's ruined career by giving her a show at the HSN where she sold personal items and camisoles. Trish, on the other hand, finds her accomplishment to the black as vigilant, using her newly acquired superpowers to help her.

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A question of morality is at the heart of all these scenarios. Jessica's pro bono cases are not just about helping angelic victims. Sometimes she ends up helping the assholes – like a divorced mother who has legal custody of her child but perhaps not a particularly empathic view of what is best for her. Malcolm is hoping that working for Hogarth will give him a starting point to launch his own P.I. firm, but for the moment, he has to do some rather dubious things, like covering up the drunken and dangerous antics of Cody Willamet, a star baseball client. Malcolm eventually draws his own moral line (dubious) in the sand by organizing a car accident causing enough injuries to Cody to allow him to continue his career. Jessica's moral limit is a little less clear.

The debate on morality is at the forefront in the fractured relationship between Jessica and Trish. As Dorothy describes it, the dynamic between the two sisters was the one in which Jessica was the powerful but loaded protector while Trish was the just but secretly jealous moral compass. Now that Trish herself has super powers (and the murder of Jessica's mother has created a gap between them), she thinks she can handle everything herself. Because Trish chose this life rather than imposing it on her, she believes she can be a powerful hero, with a keen sense of morality, in a way that Jessica could never have. As Jessica knows, however, having powers changes you, just like killing someone.

Trish's quest for super powers was one of my least favorite stories of season two, but I can not wait to see what happens now that she has them. Especially because his cat abilities really look like the action. Jessica Jones has never been a showcase of action like Daredevil or The punisher, but Trish's abilities could give the series a chance to challenge himself in the action department. We see a little bit in the sequence where Trish burst into the apartment of a violent man to steal evidence that would bind him to an assault. Hope that bigger and better action scenes are coming soon.

The goal of "A.K.A The Perfect Burger" is to reintroduce ourselves into the world of Jessica Jones, what he does with ease and style, if not with a revolutionary panache. While these Marvel Netflix series sometimes have the bad habit of launching a new season with a series of superfluous procedural elements that have little impact on the season, this is not the case here. This episode allows us to stay focused on the characters we know and care about. Rather than investigating a mysterious society or a related minor in a tangible way, Jessica's first big case comes when Dorothy hires her to find missing Trish. It's a smart way to introduce this season with a consistent sense of focus and purpose, not just to fill in the nonsense.

It's only been a few minutes since "A.K.A The Perfect Burger" is moving away from the characters we already know to introduce new players. This includes Erik (Benjamin Walker), a cynical "motivational speaker" and amateur chef Jessica posing in a bar. Their new sexy relationship is interrupted by another new character: a mysterious masked figure who stabs Jessica in the belly and lets her bleed in the hallway. It's an explosive cliffhanger on which to end the premiere of this season. Before Jessica can return to the task of determining right from wrong, she must first survive.


Observations lost

  • Welcome back to Jessica Jones Binge-reviews! I will cover the entire series this weekend, with four reviews published today, five on Saturday and the four finals on Sunday.
  • Jessica is always on good terms with Vido. So I'm curious to see where things stand between her and Oscar, Vido's father and Jessica's old flame.
  • The status quo in the previous final was that Malcolm was working for Pryce Cheng's private investigation firm, which had been hired by Hogarth. Now, Malcolm seems to work directly for Hogarth herself.
  • Although Hogarth prefers to die by assisted suicide, she realizes she will not have the emotional ability to cope. She asks Jessica to "follow her instinct" and decide on the right moment to secretly perform the act, which Jessica rightly recognizes as an absurd request.
  • Hogarth is also looking for Kith (Sarita Choudhury), a cello ex-girlfriend she has not talked to for 25 years. Kith is now married to a criminal law professor named Peter (John Benjamin Hickey), but she and Hogarth have set a catch-up period.
  • Benjamin Walker has a lot of credits for film and television, but I still think of him as Andrew Jackson of the Broadway musical. Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, which means that I will spend the whole season waiting for him to sing.
  • Not only is this the last season of Jessica Jones, it's also the final send for all this era of Marvel Netflix shows. Hoping that it fits the landing and we get a last appearance of Turk Barrett.

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