It’s online today. My wife and I re-watched the first season the last couple weeks and it is easily the best Marvel show on Netflix. Great, great show.
However, it relied on having an amazing villain…who she killed at the end of the first season.
Can they live up to Season 1 without David Tenant as the main villain?
Spoilers as you watch; I’ll start tonight.
Thanks for the reminder. Luke Cage S2 comes out rather soon as well (3 months).
Reviews are decent, and the main criticism seems to be the loss of a good villain.
I binged it today - I don’t think it was a strong as the first season as they divided the focus between Jessica, Patty, and Jeri (and Jeri’s story was basically a rehash of what she did in Season 1). Still pretty good as an entry into the Netflix MCU.
Watched two of them last night.
So I guess they decided to end that police officer’s story. Huh. Bye!!!
:waves bye:
Just watched the first two episodes. I’m even more in love with Krysten Ritter than I was after season one, which I didn’t think was possible. Rachael Taylor continues to impress as Tricia (the “Patsy” scene in particular. You could see the desperation and loathing in the character’s eyes).
I’ve read reviews where they said the lack of a major villain was a negative. I’m not so sure. I like the direction this season is heading, dealing with the fallout of season one. I think it’s an important breather.
Funny I liked everything about the first season except the villain. While I enjoy David Tennant as an actor, I just hate mind control villains in general. It inevitably leads to a lot of lazy writing. Rescued that victim and about to send her along safely? Wait-- mind control! About to get the answers you need? Nope, mind control! Gang up with another hero to fight together? Sorry, mind control! Finally got the villain cornered? On no, mind control!
I finished it today. Uggh. What a train wreck. I totally lost interest after her mom went to jail…it dragged on and on and got stupider and stupider with every episode after that.
It’s going to have to have incredible reviews for me to watch. I hated Luke Cage season 1. The worst Marvel show by a mile.
I thought Iron Fist, which was only OK, was a lot better. Yep, even Iron Fist.
We just finished Ep 6 and so far I’m not thrilled with this season. It has less to do with the actors and more to do with the storyline.
I get that JJ needs to find who did this to her and who the murderer really is. I understand that digging deep into your own psyche can be ugly. Maybe it’s me, but I’m so tired of the trope it isn’t funny, and that’s across all entertainment genres.
I’m not blaming JJ because she’s not a fun superhero. Maybe she needs a stronger villian? I don’t know.
OTOH I love the casting of this season thus far. I hate Tricia’s mother with the fire of a million suns. She goes to jail, as somebody said upthread? Good. Couldn’t happen to a nicer woman snerk Making me feel that way? That’s acting.
Bite your tongue, sir. Luke Cage is far and away my favorite. If a show speaks deeply to my coming-of-age-in-the-70s soul, I am a fan forever.
Worse than Iron Fist?!? Really?!?
Heh. You know who that actress is, right?
Should I know?!?
Rebecca De Mornay used to be a Pretty Big Deal.
I really want to like his show but some of the dialogue is so cheesy! It always takes me out of the story.
OHHHHHHHHH! I thought she looked vaguely familiar!
:makes note to really notice:
Strongest disagree, although I’ll stipulate that we probably don’t consume entertainment the same way. Season 1 of Luke Cage is my second-favorite Marvel Netflix series, just behind Season 1 of Jessica Jones, and ahead of Season 2 of Jessica Jones. And the only reason I have it second is because it was, admittedly, dragged down by the second half of the season. The first six episodes of Season 1 of Luke Cage are, IMO, the best thing that Marvel Netflix has ever done.
I got through Season 2 of Jessica Jones over the last two days, and I enjoyed it. I’m curious to see where they could go with Season 3, if they’re determined to keep Jessica and Luke apart, though: they may have to create an entirely original storyline for the show. YMMV, but I feel like there’s only two good Jessica Jones story arcs from the comics that can be told, that don’t involve Luke and Jessica being together, and they’ve already told both of them.
OK, we’re up to Ep 9. I finally figured out why I’m having such a visceral reaction to this season:
It’s a mother-daughter story.
Finished last night. Didn’t like it as much as season 1, thought the story was stretched thin to make it last 13 episodes. So where is the Trish story headed? Next season, will her ability be World’s Greatest Hackeysack Player?
Just finished it - liked it, didn’t love it. Very good performances, production, atmosphere, and dialogue, not so great story, though I didn’t think it was terrible.
In retrospect, Season 1 — well, consider AKA 99 Friends: it’s minus Kilgrave, but that’s no loss: Will and Trish are reacting to what he put ‘em through in the last episode, sure as it ends with the Malcolm’s-Been-Kilgraved reveal to fuel the next episode, all while Jessica spends a lot of this episode doping out whether her new client was sent to her on a mission from Kilgrave…
…because, hey, what got the first episode going? Clients who came to her because Kilgrave told them to, so Jessica would point Hope right at homicide charges he’d arranged; Jessica then determinedly spends most of the season trying to clear Hope, until Kilgrave — eventually just shrugs and resolves that plot. Kilgrave likewise sets a suicide in Jessica’s apartment; she turns herself in for that murder, so he — simply resolves that plot away, too. Jessica has a falling-out with Luke, over what Kilgrave had her do; so we get what looks like a character-development-and-reconciliation plot, until Kilgrave explains that, nope, just me again…
…and that’s a story. Each episode of that season has someone doing stuff because Kilgrave said to, and for a reason, which is “his obsessive desires.” As in, Jessica is the protagonist — but you can describe her reactions in a context that basically boils down to “his psychology”: where, to the extent that any given development makes sense from his perspective, everything automatically hangs together.
This season didn’t really have that.