
Jessica Jones and Trish Walker
Marvel’s latest TV series, Jessica Jones, tells the story of a former superhero eking out a living as a private investigator in New York City. She’s incredibly strong and can leap tall buildings in a single bound. She also drinks a lot, and is generally a mess.
And rather than give us one strong female superhero, Marvel throws in a version of Patsy Walker (a Marvel character first published in 1944) as Jessica’s foster-sister.
There’s also a third Marvel hero, Luke Cage, Jessica’s on-again, off-again love interest.
And David Tennant is positively creepy as Killgrave, whose mind-controlling power nearly destroyed Jessica once before.
It’s a dark and compelling story. Marvel really ups the ante for superheroes on television with Jessica Jones.
Now available on Netflix, this series exists in the same universe as the Avengers and Marvel’s other Netflix show, Daredevil.
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