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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 331565" data-attributes="member: 23">Jessica Jones Season Three (2019) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fcinecinemania.com.br%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F06%2Fjessica-jones-season-3-poster.jpg%3Fssl%3D1&f=1&nofb=1" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 533px" /> AKA The Perfect Burger / AKA You’re Welcome / AKA I Have No Spleen / AKA Customer Service Is Standing By / AKA I WishI’m impressed at the consistency of this series. While I don’t feel it’s had the highs of Daredevil, it’s also quite possibly the Netflix series with the least dips in quality. Tonally, as well, the series has the most consistent voice of the Netflix Marvel series. Antagonists may change, but I think random episodes from any seasons could play side by side and feel very in harmony with one another.New characters such as Erik or Salinger fit right in, and I enjoyed the reference to Whizzer when Jessica chose to believe Erik’s claimed powers. I like, too, that the super powers in this series occasionally fall down on the side of the slightly mundane. Jessica’s comment to Trish that Erik had a “shitty power” was accurate in this world, while at the same time reinforcing the believability of the world created, since someone with Erik’s abilities in the real world would be considered a god.Likewise, the loss of a spleen doesn’t seem very impressive compared with many of the more grandiose injuries sustained by superheroes. I love it. It brings it back to a very human level and it’s terrific to see a more vulnerable side to Jessica (it also reinforced her dependence on alcohol, since she couldn’t stop drinking even when her life depended on it). In far too many hours spent watching TV and film, I can think of only one previous instance of a character losing a spleen (Home and Away’s Frank, following his wedding day crash), so I must applaud them for taking the path less travelled.The fallout from the end of the second season is a welcome bit of continuity, and while Trish hasn’t been - and still isn’t - a series favourite of mine (mainly, as previously covered, because she’s so very unlike any iteration of Patsy with which I’m familiar), her evolution to becoming (presumably) Hellcat is enjoyable. I do enjoy an origin/training story, though I could have done without the perfunctory nose-thumb in the direction of the source material when she tried on the Hellcat suit.I noticed Krysten Ritter credited as director for the second episode, and thought it was clever to begin with one in which Jessica barely featured. I’m impressed. It looks really good; not overly showy, as actors-turned-first-time-directors are wont to be, but very in-keeping with the rest of the series.The slightly overlapping thing of the first few episodes - with certain events playing out in flashback and some key scenes shown from a slightly different perspective in different episodes - was a nice touch.Rebecca De Mornay continues to be great fun as Dorothy Walker: pushy stage mother from hell.While initially marvelling at the novelty of seeing her from Models Inc. and The Matrix, I’d never have dreamt that Jeri would turn out to be one of the best things about not just this series, but those other Netflix series in which Jeri appeared. The business with her going to any lengths to win back Kith - even if it meant destroying Kith’s family - has been fascinating. The scene where she watched Kith’s husband’s suicide/expose video was great because it was difficult to tell whether she was more upset at realising she was culpable for a man’s death; at the world knowing what she’d done; or at losing Kith.</blockquote>

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