"Jessica Jones" A.K.A. Playland (TV Episode 2018) Poster

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7/10
AKA Playland
bobcobb30121 March 2018
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Some good moments in this episode, such as Jessica and her mother working together to save a family, and some bad ones such as forced "feuds" with Jessica and Malcolm and Jessica and Trish.

What they teased for the potential third season did not seem great as well.

Season one of this show was one of my favorite Netflix runs, but this second season, while it had some moments, was not nearly on the same level.
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8/10
If you think I'm bad, check out my mother...
Lejink8 January 2019
I've read comments elsewhere that the absence of an over-arcing super villain a la Kilgrave, weakened the premise for this second series of Jessica Jones. They probably have a point but quite apart from the man himself seemingly reappearing to Jessica just when she's at her lowest ebb in one of the best episodes, I found there were enough new characters intermixing with the old and two powerful storylines besides for Jessica to provide more than sufficient compensation.

These two storylines intersected and indeed superseded each other as Jessica initially in the first half of the run seeks to track down and expose the hospital and in particular the doctor who effectively caused her to have her unwanted powers and in the second half encounters and tries to reconcile herself to her meta-powered mother, herself a patient at the same place.

In other sub-plots, solicitor Jeri Hogarth seeks a cure for her terminal illness and runs into a couple of scam artists, Malcolm wises up and hooks up with Tricia briefly before stepping out of Jess's shadow as his own man, Tricia besides falls for a globetrotting news reporter, hits a drug habit, quits her chat show and then obsesses about Jennifer's dangerous mum while there's new love for Jess with the artist-come-counterfeiter downstairs.

It all ends up dramatically late at night in an abandoned carnival with a shocking outcome, though there was still time for some markers to be put down for hopefully a third solo series for this, one of the best of Marvel's TV series.
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9/10
Families are often the worst enemies
walliboy26 July 2018
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Well who says that a menacing villain is required to create conflict. Killgrave was quite horrifying and truly earns his name yet it is all about character development, and the connection between them (him) and us the viewers... Truth be told, Killgrave wasn't that too much of an antagonist. I didn't mind him ending up dead and also i didn't mind him being alive on the show. The reason i got attached to the infamous 'smile' sequence was because Jessica did what quite few super heroes do, which is homicide. She gave ol' Killgrave a smile of death before she snapped his neck After that moment we got the connection we needed to Jessica Jones.

As for the follow-up season... the threat didn't feel iminent due to lack of surprise. That was until Alisa showed up and stirred the coffee too well. What made her a force to be recogned with was her love for Jessica and granted... she's her mother so we already had a tiny relationship to her So after she was introduced in the second volume, we already knew what horrendous force would annihilate us. While it's over-exaggerated, the fear of losing control of one's own temper is frightnieng enough knowing it could drive loved ones away and give aloneness more space.

The finale would've been flawless if it hadn't been for the grand plot to be too crammed into one episode. It's not very convincing how fast both changed minds about each other when they been apart for 17 years. That should've left a too big hole in the heart for Jessica at least. She's always ice cold, and you could say: nothing can compare to motherly love... Jessica is a broken mess which couldn't fix the issue between she and her mother in such a short amount of time. But i admit seeing the two bond, melted my heart a bit. The relationship could've been developed more if the rushed Alisa's death in the haste it was when Trish hit bullseye. I'm glad Triish were the one because that would open conflicts that could play a major role in future seasons.

I guess what i'm trying to say here (in my awful writing) is that less physical evil acts and more mental ones or emotional ones could make for the greatest villains. As long as villains have their motives and we connect with them through their motive... We could emphetize with more antagonist and truly bond with them
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10/10
A stunningly well executed conclusion to a somewhat shaky season.
I went into this episode with little to no expectations, given the low IMDb rating and the quality of season 2 up to this point. While none of it is downright bad, and some of it is very good (such as the flashback episode), it feels like the writers spent most of their time trying and failing to find things for the side characters to do. They also never came up with anything as compelling as the Kilgrave storyline... at least, until this episode.

I really, really love this conclusion. It pulls together what felt like questionable decisions for the directions of the characters from previous episodes and justifies them with rich, gripping storytelling and a truly powerful conclusion. I was absolutely stunned by how dark and powerful the conclusion of the main storyline is. The ending of the episode is smart and satisfying.

In some ways, season 2 is the exact inverse of season 1. The first season was one of the most insanely gripping pieces of storytelling I've ever seen, but the last 3 episodes really lost the thread, from the convoluted Simpson storyline to the gratifying but ultimately anticlimactic and dissapointingly final conclusion to the Kilgrave storyline. Season 2, on the other hand, feels somewhat aimless and underbaked throughout a lot of it, but ends in a way that is very satisfying and justifies a lot of the decisions made throughout the season.
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8/10
Moving on Ahead
Hitchcoc4 August 2019
I just couldn't buy the whole business with Jessica needing her mother no matter what. Trish is obviously on board for the duration. Jeri is going to die but first she is going to go down as a horror show. This was a decent conclusion but it left me a bit empty. There are some storylines set up for Season Three. We'll see how it goes.
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7/10
Femme Fatale
kevin-mac-18 October 2020
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After Jessica's Mother was executed in the Fairground - The most realistic option would have been for Jessica to do likewise to Patricia Walker ..... after dispatching her obnoxious Mother.
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4/10
Weak ending
Leofwine_draca11 September 2021
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A weak ending for this season. The best character of the show by far is just offed in an offhand way and there's no comeuppance or sense of justice, it just...is. Very anticlimactic and undeserving.
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