After the first season's cathartic depiction of triumph over abuse, the second season of Netflix’s “Jessica Jones” is an anticlimactic mess. That's disappointing. But it's also, almost despite itself, meaningful. The aftermath of trauma doesn't resolve easily into closure. The first seasons' weight of abuse and violence hasn’t disappeared. Instead, it sits there, festering, while both characters and writers try to find a way to make sense of it.
The first season of “Jessica Jones,” airing in 2015, remains the strongest television endeavor that Marvel has managed thus far. David Tennant as the mind-controlling Killgrave is a terrifying villain, not because his abilities are so unlikely, but because he so realistically captures the dynamic of abuse. The embodiment of the patriarchy, Killgrave’s power allows him to invisibly manipulate everyone around Jessica (Krysten Ritter), corrupting her friends, influencing her lovers and weaving a nightmare of control and violence that becomes indistinguishable from her life.
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