Jessica Jones season 3, episode 2 review: A.K.A You’re Welcome

Patsy Walker takes center stage in the second episode of Jessica Jones season 3.

Previously, on Jessica Jones, the third and final season got off to a nice start. Jessica accepted a case to “save” a kid from her father. Ultimately, it’s hard to tell if the mother (who hired Jessica) or the father was right in this situation. This leads to Jessica having doubts about what is and isn’t the right thing to do.

The show goes on to get into Jeri Hogarth, who wants Jessica to kill her if her ALS symptoms get worse. Later, Patricia “Trish” Walker’s mother hires Jessica to her currently estranged best friend. This ultimately find her, but not in the way she was expecting, which leads to a fight between the two. The episode ends with Jessica being stabbed right outside her office. Since we’re all in, what happens in this episode?

Patsy discovers her powers

Season 2 of Jessica Jones ended with Patsy finding out that she did get powers from Carl’s experiment, which is evidenced by her catching her falling cellphone with her foot. But what are they, other than super phone catching? We don’t know. This episode starts with her trying to find out just this. She tests herself by runing through a park and trying to maneuver throughobstacles. At first, she fails miserably but, after some training, she finds out that she’s more athletic and coordinated than she’s ever been. She tries again and succeeds in tremendous fashion. What’s next? It’s time to make good on what she said. Patsy told Jessica Jones that if she had powers she would do more. Now, she is.

After listening to a scanner, she realizes it isn’t as easy as she thought. There is so much going on, and Patsy doesn’t know where to start. Her first attempt doesn’t go so well, as the cops foil the crime before she can. Patsy is briefly discouraged, but gets back at it. She easily stops a guy after he steals a cellphone but unfortunately for her, the robber and the victim recognize her famous face. So it’s time to hide the face This leads to a montage full of costume attempts. They included a ton of hilarious options, including a Lucha libre aask and a version of the Hellcat costume from the comic books. A nice touch.

Not so easy, is it?

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This episode of Jessica Jones shows that Patsy’s idea of saving people isn’t as easy as she assumed. After getting served, learning that she has no legal ground, and seeing that it isn’t as easy as she made it seem, was a fantastic idea. The assumption that people can just get powers and go is incredibly irresponsible and false. This showed that you need the training and more to save lives. Maybe Tony Stark was partly right during Marvel Comics’ Civil War.

Patsy also admitting that Jessica was more than her powers added to this story, as well. She actually had to do detective work. Patsy did, in fact, save the day on her first try. She saw someone try to drug his date. Patsy didn’t know how to act and even tried to call Jessica Jones to ask for advice, but she still wasn’t answering her calls. Thankfully, Patsy was there to stop anything from happening, which resulted in her first big win.

Final thought

While this was a good episode, it was a bit off considering how episode one ended. Whereas the last episode concluded with Jessica’s stabbing, which is addressed in this episode, it mostly goes into the story of Patsy getting her powers and training to be a vigilante. However, the story did need to be told. Her first interaction with Malcolm Ducasse was perfect. She tried to judge him for his new job with Hogarth, but he threw that energy back at her. One thing that was spot on was the connecting of the dots to the previous episode. Things like why Patsy went after the guy who stole the sculpture and her unsent email to Jessica are given context, here. This installment may have been a left turn but, again, it was a story that needed to be told.