‘Jessica Jones’: 5 Things To Know Before You Binge Watch

What Jessica doesn’t know is that Hope still has a few commands to perform, and when Hope gets in the elevator to leave with her relieved parents, she shoots her mother and father dead. All episodes of the Netflix exclusive will be available for marathon viewing on the said date.

Starting out in the mid 1990s as a writer/artist on series like Jinx, AKA Goldfish and Torso for independent companies like Caliber and Oni, Bendis’s first big break arrived in 1999 when he was recruited by Todd McFarlane to pen Spawn spin-off Sam And Twitch.

According to the report, the show has a much darker flavor than the other Marvel show on Netflix, “Daredevil”. Jessica Jones is simply the richest, most engaging storytelling Marvel has managed outside of comic books, the first of its TV shows or films that plays like an introduction into a world of possibilities rather than the cross-media establishment of existing brand fundamentals.

Whether or not any of these references pay off down the line is anyone’s guess for right now, but here’s how Jessica Jones ties into the rest of the Marvel Universe. “I wanted her to be identifiable immediately”.

“She lives in a dark place”, Ritter said of her character. “I don’t want to wear that”, she adds.

What really makes Kilgrave tick, though, is a singular obsession.

Continuing the press blitz for “Jessica Jones'” release, series villain David Tennant spoke to USA Today about perfecting his Kilgrave voice. “She’s super strong. She’s a bit of a brawler”.

“He was really supportive when I was doing Jessica Jones and now he’s doing Luke Cage and we text all the time and we’ll be doing Defenders together. Brian’s writing was also perfectly realistic and effortless, so I attempted to get that same type of feel in the art”. So if you’re someone who everyone always says “yes” to, what’s the one thing you have a chance of being obsessed with? Despite not wanting to be a superhero anymore, she’s constantly pulled back into the lifestyle. “It would be like a superhero knowing where Avengers Mansion was but not getting that ‘Avengers Assemble” call. After a stylish credits sequence set to a jazzy noirish score, we’re introduced to Jessica behind the closed door of her detective office. But Jessica later rejected her superhero past and became a private investigator in NY. “By any definition, that’s heroic, and writing about her self-discovery and the healing of her broken wings and wounds was something worth writing about”. It also allowed me to create this character that fitted perfectly into the world of the books that I loved in the ’70s and ’80s like Power Man And Iron Fist and Ms Marvel.

Ritter gets served a cliché question – common enough in the Marvel Cinematic Universe – but then she twists her lips ever so slightly, cocks her head perhaps, waits for a second, then crushes her reply. (Unlike in 2001, the coupling’s interracial aspect – Cage is black, Jessica white – seems entirely a non-issue.) Bendis let his Jessica sink lower, and he favors extended dialogue scenes more common to the stage or old Hollywood than to comics – the show isn’t as daring in this regard, but its creators do seem to get that episodic TV, even with tight continuity, is about investing in characters. “She’s got that kind of skill”. I had written her origin storyline – which was the last storyline – first, without showing it to anybody. Looking back over this hour, I am shocked that it was less than sixty minutes long with the sheer amount packed into it. My only complaint so far is the unnecessary voice-over from Krysten Ritter.

But Ritter is the heart of the show, a throbbing raw wound of emotion, showing who her character is with every sharp retort, every collapse of her apparently confident facade.

“She doesn’t use her sexuality, she simply has a sexuality to her”, Rosenberg explains, eyeing Ritter. You realise that no matter how self-involved or self-loathing you are, you have to stop that shit because there’s this little thing that needs you. “So Alias was filled to the brim with my neurosis about that, as I just projected it onto Luke and Jessica”.

But Jessica, the character, is also very, very amusing. She’s preparing for war. Beneath that chipper talk show facade is a woman who can dislocate a kneecap just as quickly as she can charm an audience.

“I thought, ‘If we can write Luke and Jessica as a couple and put a baby in their hands, putting them in Avengers Mansion and having them still be themselves would be fascinating.’ There’s a sense with Luke and Jessica that even after all these years, anything can happen to them”.