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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 327200" data-attributes="member: 23">Jessica Jones AKA Start At The Beginning / AKA Freak Accident / AKA Sole Survivor / AKA God Help The Hobo / AKA The Octopus continued… One thing absent this season is a clear antagonist. While Season One had Kilgrave, Season Two has had been almost too many low-key threats and fake-outs from people who initially appear threatening but aren’t.Falling into the latter category (along with Will Simpson) are numerous new characters. The new almost-antagonists include the Super who wanted to evict Jessica, who quickly evolved into a generic potential love interest. Meanwhile, Trish’s too good to be true generic love interest had smouldering dark looks and a curious accent (I initially thought it was Australian but it evolved into a kind of Mockney-with-Americanisms), both of which suggested “villain”, reinforced by his mysterious secretive phone calls. The latest state of play is that he’s just a controlling, showy alpha type who gathered all Trish’s contacts in one space to watch him propose in order to guarantee an affirmative response. There’s also the smug rival Private Investigator and the mean film director giving Trish the requisite melodramatic MeToo moment. All these characters, and yet not one of them has proved engaging.Over a third of the way through the season and the Big Bad is still not quite clear. There’s Karl Malus and the Fake Dr Hansen, but neither has set the screen alight, and one feels Fake Hansen is as much a victim as the other supers. Watch this space, I suppose. The Whizzer was a little eyebrow raising. He seems to pay homage to the comics Whizzer in terms of the name, powers and penchant for yellow, and yet is incredibly far removed from the comics character (who was long before my time and whom I remember best for dying in the first Vision and the Scarlet Witch issue I read back in 1983). The slightly comical character here - right down to the daft effects used when he was running at speed - felt like another example of the MCU mocking the source material. On the subject of source material, AKA Sole Survivor featured what by my recollection is the first overt reference to an MCU character when young Vido Arocho (the Super’s son who makes me smile whenever he calls Jessica “Superlady") proudly showed Jessica his Captain America figure, mentioning him by name. Up to this point, every reference to the mainstream MCU has been oblique, with euphemistic names such as Flag Waver in place of Captain America. I can’t help feeling this shift means something, and it’s probably good news. After an almost complete lack of representation for gay men in the MCU to this point, the opening episodes of this season have gone to the other extreme with a plethora of them. All (apparently) unrelated. There’s the married couple obsessed with It’s Patsy who hire Trish to appear at their child’s birthday party. Jessica’s snarky landlord, awaiting the arrival of his mail order boyfriend from Cambodia. And there’s possibly Pryce Cheng and his “client”. Again, I can’t help feeling this is going to link up somehow. But perhaps I’m reading too much into it.</blockquote>

Verification: Who played JR Ewing?