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Jessica Jones (TV Series Season 1 - 2015)
DIR By: Chiprocks1
Date: March 4, 2018, 10:11 pm
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[center]Jessica Jones (TV Series Season 1 - 2015)
3 Stars out of 5
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Okay, I've been looking forward to checking out Jessica Jones
for a while now, especially with all the Reviews pouring in with
titles like "The Best TV Series in year...." and "...the best
Marvel Series on air right now". With stuff like this, how can I
not get pumped up to see this? I went into this with way too
much hype and expectations and of course it did not meet them at
all. Don't get me wrong, the show is good. But is it the 'be
all, end all" that everyone has made this out to be? No.
Let me back up a bit here. The characters and the actors are
great in their roles and even the story itself was something of
a breath of fresh air. It's the pacing of the entire season that
does more harm then good here. Having Jessica going toe to toe
with Killgrave, a man that can brainwash anyone merely by saying
whatever he wants is a good plot point. My issue with the
entirety of Season 1 is that they kind of blew their wad a bit
too early. The first half of the season was great....it's the
second half that honestly was a bit thin. To me, they revealed
Killgrave way too early in the first half and since he is the
main Villain and naturally will have to make it to the end for
the final confrontation left the second half with what I would
call "filler" episodes. I mean, how many times can you capture
Killgrave only to have him escape at the very last second and
suspend disbelief? So, stretching episode after episode just to
save Killgrave for the finale is just asking too much from a
viewer. Well, for me anyway.
Another thing that was just a bit weird to see is there really
wasn't any FX shots save for maybe 2-3 all together. The series
comes off more like an Independent Film that has to use creative
editing to get around what a big blockbuster movie would use in
selling everyone's respective powers. So, all the fight scenes
that take place just come across as woefully underwhelming to
say the least. I'm not asking that they go crazy with FX shots,
but if you want to at least make it appear that both Jessica and
Luke Cage have incredible powers, than you're gonna have to come
with more than just clever editing. With that said, I do
recommend this as a Rent for sure. It's a good series.....just
not what everyone has made it out to be.
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