Sunday 11 March 2018

Marvel's Jessica Jones returns: 'Well timed for the Time's Up moment'

The second season of Marvel's Jessica Jones is here, and has received broadly positive reviews from critics.

The Netflix show, which stars Krysten Ritter as the private eye with super strength, has been praised for roles that break with gender stereotypes.

The New York Times said the second season's premiere was "well timed for the Time's Up moment".

The paper's critic Mike Hale said it "inverts some familiar situations and characterisations".

He wrote: "We've seen a powerful person's downward spiral play out in a room with multiple hookers, cocaine and embarrassing dancing, but that person usually isn't a woman.

"We've seen protagonists whose bottled-up anger turns them sullen, violent and heedless of others, but they're usually men...


Source : bbc

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