Jessica Jones Season 2
Overview
Jessica is famous now, and she hates it. Season two turns the investigation inward: a new case — plus pressure from Trish, who's chasing a bigger story and sliding into addiction while she's at it — forces Jessica to dig into IGH, the shadowy outfit whose experiments gave her powers and killed her family. What she finds buried in her past genuinely shocks her, and Janet McTeer arrives as a figure who reframes everything Jessica thought she knew about her own life. Krysten Ritter is still doing career-best work here: funny in a flinty, defensive way, then suddenly, startlingly raw. The season's real subject is mothers, daughters and damage handed down, which makes it heavier going than the first run, and yes, the absence of a villain as hypnotic as Kilgrave is felt — though David Tennant does drop by for one standout episode, inside Jessica's head, which is exactly where he belongs. But it's Trish's unraveling — a good person rotting herself with envy and pills — that gives the season its sting, and its devastating final stretch.
