Jessica Jones

When the news about Jessica Jones burst out post-Daredevil I became rather giddy, and even more so when the tiny teasers popped up, teasing both the heroine herself acted by Krysten Ritter (known from Breaking Bad) and the devilish purple man played by David Tennant (beloved tenth Doctor). I was counting the days towards its release on the twentieth of November and I promised myself that I would try to limit my watching to one episode per day.

I failed spectacularly by watching all the 13 episodes in one sitting.

Jessica Jones is about Jessica Jones; she's a private investigator, earning money on taking photographs of people cheating on their spouses and the other classical stuff. She, however, is not the healthiest of people veering off to a rather self-destructive pattern with loads of alcohol besides pushing people away because of dark deeds in her past. If this was any old hero you'd not blink an eye, as it's regular business. Loads of detective shows are made with these anti-heroes who are all those things, conflicted and haunted by something, but it becomes certainly more interesting with a female in the lead because we're not used to that. There are loads of interesting characters, a surplus of females for that matter; with the lawyer who gives her cases Jeryn Hogarth (Carrie-Ann Moss), Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) aka her ex-best friend former child star and current radio talk show host and Hope the daughter of two clients who want her found.

Unlike Daredevil this show isn't so action-pumped, the violence is more toned down and the fight scenes aren't supposed to be spectacular either. This isn't so much about what she can do with her bare fists and her super strength, but about the characters, the emotion. There's a lot of things going on in Jessica's head, and among them are Killgrave who's rather charming despite being a complete - - 'Now we know that the C stands for' (the only really good quote from 007's Spectre) - the dialogue, the surprises, it's just top-notch fun to watch. It's a much bleaker series than Daredevil and that's saying something. You'd think Daredevil laid it quite thick already, but no, Jessica Jones drags it through the mud. I remember someone asked me after I'd seen the beyond excellent pilot - "Is it a chick show?" - I'm going to say yes now.

We chicks love our violence, drama and sex scenes.

Also David Tennant.