Jessica Jones season 2: The good and the bad

Credit: Marvel’s Jessica Jones – David Giesbrecht/Netflix

The Good: Empowering women

Some of these moments were very heavy and but also empowering.  Jeri Hogarth’s speech in the beginning was strong. She wasn’t talking to a bunch of girls. Jeri made it a point to call everyone in attendance a women. Words mean something and being called a woman rather than a girl is uplifting. You’re looked at as an adult and an equal. When the other partners were trying to force Jeri out of her firm, she flat out told them it would be over her dead body. She tells Jessica she will die with her name still on the firm’s door.

Trish has also become a stronger woman in this season. She is no longer a scared reporter only doing news reports for ratings. Trish has become a lot more hands on. She is willing to right into the middle of things. She even shot someone. Trish has continued to do the stories that she wants to do. Whenever someone tells her to go back to doing the entertainment pieces, she flat out tells them no. Her integrity is worth more than her ratings. An admirable quality that she should be commended for.

Each one of the directors did an amazing job making sure the women were strong and represented properly. They also did a phenomenal job making sure Jessica Jones was confident in her sexuality. She wasn’t pressured to do anything she didn’t want to do. If she wanted to have sex, she made it known and ha sex.

The origin story

We knew from the previews that we would be getting the origin story of Jessica Jones or at least some of it. But in episode 7 “AKA I Want Your Cray Cray,” we got more than we bargained for. We got to see why Jessica Jones became the bitter person she was, what happened to her mother, why she named her investigation agency Alias, and even the significance of Jessica’s leather jacket. This might not have been a groundbreaking moment for some, but it is an important moment. Connecting dots like this help people to understand the character more. An entire episode was dedicated to this and it didn’t throw off the flow of the series at all.