Jessica Jones
Cast & Key People
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Our Review
The best first season of the Marvel Netflix era: Krysten Ritter’s Jessica, a hard drinking PI with super strength and PTSD, is stalked by Kilgrave (David Tennant, the MCU’s best villain: a mind controller who genuinely believes he’s the good guy, the show’s thesis on coercion and abuse made flesh). Season 1 is a psychological thriller wearing superhero clothes: the investigation doubles as a survivor’s reckoning, and the show never flinches.
Ritter is a force (all armor and micro cracks), and the noir texture. Jessica’s window office, the sisterhood with Trish, Luke Cage’s introduction, the New York grit, gives the genre its first true detective story. Seasons 2 (Jessica’s origin) and 3 (the Sallinger arc) can’t match the Kilgrave year, but the character work stays elite. The most adult thing Marvel has put on any screen.
Verdict: Watch season 1 as one of the best superhero seasons ever made. Stay for Ritter.
