# Jessica Jones - Series 1 Release Thread \[Open Spoilers\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 19, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993 "2015-11-19T17:41:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/1 "2015-11-19T17:41:42Z")
There have been threads and discussion on the Jessica Jones Netflix series, but I thought I would start a fresh one for the release, coming tomorrow. The NYTimes review was largely favorable. The describe it as less of a superhero show but more of an interpretation of Veronica Mars, a bit darker and with some powers in the mix. Cool. And yes, my daughter has reminded me several times that Krysten Ritter was on that show for a bit. I am not sure how we will be able to consume this, probably within a week. Are there any smart rules about spoilerage in these threads? I would assume that once released, all is fair game, and reader beware. If there is a better/standard approach - wait X days before spoilers, or something - cool. I hope it is great. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/2 "2015-11-19T17:45:48Z")
I’d say open spoilers, honestly. It just makes things simple. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/3 "2015-11-19T18:16:34Z")
If it was released normally I’d say open spoilers up to what has aired. But since the whole series is being released at once, this doesn’t work as well. Not everyone can (or wants to) binge watch the whole series. But I’m not sure one thread per episode is appropriate either, though that seems better to me. Brian ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2015, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/4 "2015-11-19T21:24:05Z")
I vote for full and open spoilers right away. Anything else will be annoying for the people who do binge-watch the series, and for everyone else it’s pretty easy to simply not look at this thread until they finish the show. 🙂 (I’ll be in the latter group, FWIW, and probably not able to finish the series until after Thanksgiving.) ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/5 "2015-11-20T02:03:16Z")
I mean, we could give it a week before open spoilers, but I don’t care. I will only likely see a few episodes a week. I say just make the whole thing open spoilers starting tomorrow, when it hits. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/6 "2015-11-20T02:55:16Z")
It’s 13 episodes. I’m sure anyone who is really interested in it will watch it within a month at most. I see no problem with open spoilers. I won’t binge-watch it all this weekend (I don’t think!), I’ll just stay away from the Thread until I’m finished. I’m looking forward to it. I just re-binge-watched _Daredevil_ in preparation since, as I understand it, there will be at least _some_ cross over with all the Netflix series as they lead up to the _Defenders_ series. I didn’t really like _Daredevil_ the first time around but I liked it better on second viewing. Basically, in the Netflix series anyway, he’s the superhero who fights against! …Gentrification! Which I thought was actually lame. Fisk was a bad guy, sure, but I felt like Murdock’s vigilante game escalated matters and I just rolled my eyes a lot. On second viewing, I focused more on the evil in the means through which Fisk was establishing his empire and with sufficient suspension of disbelief I accepted “the need for a hero!” I know each show has a different showrunner, so there are bound to be differences in tone, but if the world building is meant to be consistent across the various series then I think I’m ready to enjoy _Jessica Jones_. I had never seen Krysten Ritter in anything (except for a small role in _Big Eyes_) but I knew that I was interested in watching _Jessica Jones_ so I binge-watched _Don’t Trust the B- in Apt. 23_. I didn’t commit to binge-watching it but I started and soon found it pretty enjoyable. She is _easily_ the best thing about the series, I grew to like her a lot. If I like her as Jones, a different kind of role in a show with a completely different tone, then I think I’ll confidently declare myself a Krysten Ritter fan. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/7 "2015-11-20T03:17:32Z")
It’d just be too complicated to have a rule that makes sense for a show you can watch at any pace you like. A month is just as arbitrary as a week or two days, might as well make it clear it’s full open spoilers since day one and avoid any confusion. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/8 "2015-11-20T03:22:39Z")
Wordman, you wanna ask the mods to change the title to (open spoilers)? ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/9 "2015-11-20T03:29:30Z")
> [@DigitalC](#): > > A month is just as arbitrary as a week or two days, might as well make it clear it’s full open spoilers since day one and avoid any confusion. Oh, to be clear, I’m am on the side of open spoilers from day one. My comment about most interested viewers needing a month at most to watch it was meant in _support_ of open spoilers from day one. My point was that, at 13 episodes total, it will not take very long to watch. Therefore, there’s not much of a burden placed on people watching at a slower pace to simply wait and not come into the Thread until they’ve finished. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/10 "2015-11-20T04:27:11Z")
Fair enough. Open spoilers ahoy Brian ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/11 "2015-11-20T10:58:05Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > Wordman, you wanna ask the mods to change the title to (open spoilers)? Makes sense. Will do. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/12 "2015-11-20T14:00:19Z")
I assume it has dropped, then. I’ll watch one tomorrow or so. Anyone watching? ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/13 "2015-11-20T14:26:40Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > I assume it has dropped, then. I’ll watch one tomorrow or so. Anyone watching? I have reported the thread to the Mods to request the Spoilers tag. My daughter has something tonight. Have to see if I can get clearance to watch an episode or two on my own ;). Probably makes sense; she’s 15 so we’ll have to see how intense the psycho-sexual stuff is. She and I communicate really well, but that doesn’t mean she likes to watch stuff that can be skeevy with her dad. She sure as heck wasn’t interested in watching Outlander with her mom ;). ETA: oh, and to speak to your comment; yes, I got an email from Netflix to announce it, with a link to the JJ listing. Haven’t clicked. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/14 "2015-11-20T14:53:04Z")
I’m pretty pumped. Delaying watching The Man in the High Castle so we can see this first. ---
**Author:** ![RikWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@RikWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RikWriter)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/15 "2015-11-20T14:58:09Z")
I just watched the first episode. Jesus, this one is really damned dark and claustrophobic. Very creepy tone. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/16 "2015-11-20T15:10:14Z")
> [@RikWriter](#): > > I just watched the first episode. Jesus, this one is really damned dark and claustrophobic. Very creepy tone. That is what I am trying to get a sense of. Dark vs. bleak. According to the NY Times, though, it is not a bleak overall tone: > [@](#): > > With shows like “Orange Is the New Black,” “Daredevil,” “Sense8” and “Narcos,” Netflix has been charting a course between the darker, often more pretentious sensibilities of high-end cable and the lighter, poppier sensibilities of broadcast and USA Network fare. “Jessica Jones” isn’t a procedural mystery, but it has the heart — \*\*\*the storytelling beats and essential optimism \*\*\*— of a very good broadcast-network show. It might not be the best idea to binge-watch it — it feels as if it should be watched weekly. [bolding and italics mine] I wonder if this is like the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo books - very heavy, but as Steig Larson himself said, an adult version of Pippi Longstocking where the heroine faces big challenges but the story is ultimately not bleak. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/17 "2015-11-20T15:46:48Z")
> [@bienville](#): > > I had never seen Krysten Ritter in anything… Not even in _Breaking Bad_? ---
**Author:** ![Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/arrogance_ex_machina/32/192_2.png) [@Arrogance\_Ex\_Machina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrogance_Ex_Machina)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/18 "2015-11-20T16:52:57Z")
I was all prepared to be excited about this, until I heard the villain uses mind control. I’m not sure why but I’m not a big fan of enemies like that, not to mention Agent Carter just had a villain like that. I guess it is an easy way to create tension when you never know who is your friend and who has been turned. ---
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/19 "2015-11-20T17:28:11Z")
Evil Doctor Who is evil. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993/20 "2015-11-20T17:57:32Z")
> [@voltaire](#): > > Not even in _Breaking Bad_? Never saw even a single episode. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jessica-jones-series-1-release-thread-open-spoilers/737993.md?page=2)