Marvel's Jessica Jones

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 20, 2015
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
70

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 14 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
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Critic Reviews

  1. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Alex Abad-Santos
    Mar 9, 2018
    60
    The journey into Jessica’s past feels like familiar territory, making the show seem less urgent and less captivating than it previously did. The back end of these 13 episodes is much more exciting and also a lot weirder (in a great way) than the first half.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Mike Hale
    Mar 7, 2018
    60
    The early episodes of the season make a lot of room for fairly static character development, with proportionally less attention paid to the traditional genre pleasures, like atmosphere and action, which were central to the first season’s invigorating noir-superhero synthesis. ... The apparent new villain is murkier in motivation, less overtly frightening and less charismatic. That’s the most significant onscreen change in the show, and it’s a bummer.
  3. UPROXX
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Feb 27, 2018
    60
    Ritter is so charismatic, and so good at toggling between sarcasm and outright pain, that a lot of this is more watchable than it should be, given the glacial pace at which the plot moves and the amount of time spent on lesser characters and filler stories.
  5. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Mar 8, 2018
    58
    The first five episodes of Jessica Jones reflect the Very Long Movie problem, the feeling that you’re watching a two-hour plot idea overstretched to absurdity.
  6. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Mar 7, 2018
    55
    The second [season], alas, grinds along so slowly as to significantly blunt its appeal, feeling less connected to its comic-book origins and more like an ABC drama where the protagonist occasionally puts her fist through a wall.

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#73 Best TV Season of 2018
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#14 Most Discussed TV Season of 2018

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User Score
6.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 321 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 175 out of 321
  2. Mixed: 72 out of 321
  3. Negative: 74 out of 321
  1. lascottla
    Mar 9, 2018
    2
    What a waste of a second season. The writing really let the series and the actors down.
    Horribly written dialogue. Incredibly weak character    What a waste of a second season. The writing really let the series and the actors down.
    Horribly written dialogue. Incredibly weak character arcs. Clunky, and often just plain silly, plot devices.    … Full Review »
  2. Rowl
    Mar 9, 2018
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click full review link to view. I don't understand what they were going for. Even Agents of SHIELD had a better use of the "missing parent coming back as the bad guy" trope... and it did it TWICE! Hey, I'm a fan, and I can sit through 13 episodes of this, but I found myself distracted by my phone and having to backtrack the episode. It simply wasn't engaging, finishing it up felt like a chore.

    It's seems the makers of the series forgot this is a superhero show, Jessica Jones has no idea of what it wants to be as a show. Sure, tackle all the issues you want, but never forget what people are here for. Character studies and ABC-like drama can be found in other shows, and no one looking for that kind of entertainment will look for it in a Marvel production. Your protagonist is a raging alcoholic with super strength and the ability to kind of fly, why waste that?
    Good job forgetting Jessica had limited flying powers AGAIN, by the way, at least in Smallville people had Clark's inexperience to blame for his lack of using all of his powers.

    Ritter is still a good actress, unfortunately her character is still unlikeable, even if it's entertaining to watch JJ mess up, she still ends up boring me with her inconsistency in her choices regarding the characters of the story. One moment she hates her mother, the next she goes against every moral fiber in her body to aid her, even after the mother crosses multiple lines. Adding that to the already hard to love characterization of Jones as crass, foul and hostile and it one feel that after her show's first season and all of Defenders, she should be in another place, emotionally speaking.

    I am absolutely convinced that if Iron Fist had these flaws people would've been THAT much more critical of it. However, since this is Jessica Jones, a show about a powered woman -and opening on Women's Day, no less- she probably gets a pass from critics, who I can see are showering the season with praise.

    The most thrilling part of the story for me was watching Trish Walker's evolution into her powered alter ego from the comics: Hellcat. Still, the series only manages to give us the briefest glimpse of a promise of her future role in the last few moments of the show. The most touching part of the season for me was definitely Carrie-Anne Moss' character, who by the way delivers the best performance of the entire cast, as her character goes in a roller coast of emotion, facing her own mortality, inevitability, goes through a deep breakdown involving satisfactory revenge and emerges on top, though still with an uncertain future.

    Overall, a if you had to define this Season with one word, it would be BORING. Jessica Jones Season 2 ranks as my least favorite season of all of Netflix's Marvel shows.    … Full Review »
  3. aamerkastoff
    Mar 10, 2018
    1
    The short and simple truth is that the season 2 was not written with entertainment and a good story in mind, in fact the writers and directorsThe short and simple truth is that the season 2 was not written with entertainment and a good story in mind, in fact the writers and directors admitted such in interviews and via twitter/Facebook/etc. Season 2 was written to push agendas and identity politics and story be damned.

    Take your favorite, or more likely for the educated and logical, your least favorite bits of leftist/feminist propaganda (the easily debunked stuff your five year old can prove are blatant lies) and then do your best to forcefully wedge a superhero story around it. That is exactly what happened in all of season 2.

    The message was clear from the first episode and then hammered home ad nauseam: All white males are bad. White women are better than everyone (even when they are mass murderers). White women should only have sex with non-White males. Every other female is a raging homosexual.

    Now that may sound harsh but it is easily verified by forcing yourself to watch this train wreck of leftist insanity in the guise of a superhero show all the way through. You could drunk easily off of making it a drinking game to take a shot every-time leftist/feminist propaganda pops on screen (Warning you will end up drinking more than Jessica).

    The actors gave solid performances but they are all forced to read stilted dialogue and spout lines that sound like the fanfic of your typical sexist, racist, bigoted feminist/leftist. You know the one that tells you that racism and sexism against White males doesn't "count" as racism or sexism right before they go set fire to a building or hit you in the face with a bike lock because they don't think anyone who disagrees with them should have rights.

    The second saddest thing is it could have been a great season but the (all female look it up) directors and (leftist/feminist) writers decided your time should be wasted on their propaganda and that you don't deserve to be entertained by good writing.

    The saddest thing is the overt and not so covert sexism, racism, and bigotry portrayed constantly through out the season.    … Full Review »
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