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Jessica Jones, Episode 5: AKA The Sandwich Saved Me

It’s toxic masculinity ahoy inĀ “AKA The Sandwich Saved Me,” as Jessica teams up (rather grudgingly) with Simpson to track Kilgrave down and tranq him with Jessica’s newly acquired sufentanil. Simpson usefully discovers an old CDC facility with a hermetically sealed soundproof room where Jessica can keep Kilgrave once she’s got him. On my first watch-through of this show, I hoped that Jessica and Simpson were enjoying the kind of enmity that would later grow into grudging respect and then total trust. I can’t tell you how excited Whiskey Jenny and I were for Jessica to make use of Simpson’s exfiltration…

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Jessica Jones, Episode 4: AKA 99 Friends

The most important thing about Jessica Jones is its vehement assertion of the personhood of its characters. David Tennant’s villainy, as Jessica’s unintentionally-formed Kilgrave support group makes clear, is that he sees attributes and not people, and responds accordingly: a car and a driver (not a man with a toddler son); beautiful music (not the cellist creating it). The case of the week1 reflects this. What seems — once Jessica finally decides that Jessica Hecht from Friends isn’t a Kilgrave henchman2 — to be a routine infidelity case turns into a trap: Jessica Hecht lost her mother when the aliens…

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Jessica Jones, Episode 1: AKA Ladies’ Night

There hasn’t been quite as much reading in Jennyland these days as I’d like; I keep picking books up and then casting them aside in a huff. Instead of that, I thought I’d recap Jessica Jones for those of you who aren’t yet sure whether you want to power through it. Here we are with all the things that happen in the show’s first episode, “AKA Ladies’ Night.” Do not read about them if you don’t want to be spoiled. The latest of Marvel’s Netflix offerings, Jessica Jones is based on Brian Michael Bendis’s early-aughts comic Alias. Jessica, played by…

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