{"id":4517,"date":"2016-04-27T06:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T18:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dfmamea.com\/?p=4517"},"modified":"2016-04-27T08:14:33","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:14:33","slug":"box-watch-marvels-jessica-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-marvels-jessica-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Box Watch: Marvel&#8217;s Jessica Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8e\/Jessica_Jones_Netflix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/8\/8e\/Jessica_Jones_Netflix.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">By Source, Fair use, https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=47431125<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ten episodes in and I feel like I&#8217;m on a hamster wheel where:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>our heroine, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jessica_Jones_%28TV_series%29\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Jones<\/a> (Krysten Ritter)\u00a0 catches her nemesis<b>, <b>Kilgrave<\/b> <\/b>(David Tennant);<\/li>\n<li>Jones&#8217; Greek chorus of friends, family and\/or acquaintances sing, <i>Kill Kilgrave else he will continue to murder people<\/i>;<\/li>\n<li>Jones counterpoints with, <i>No, I must not kill him yet somehow he must still pay \u2014 wait one while I ponder\u2026<\/i>;<\/li>\n<li>Kilgrave escapes \u2014 trimming Jones&#8217; chorus by one enroute \u2014 and continues his murdering ways;<\/li>\n<li>Jones catches Kilgrave\u2026<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do this catch-and-release routine once and if the heroine <i>learns<\/i> from the experience, it&#8217;s a <i>learning experience<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Do it twice, and if the heroine prevails in the end, it&#8217;s one of those <i>rule-of-three<\/i> narrative devices.<\/p>\n<p>Do it <i>three times <\/i>and there&#8217;s still three goddamned eps to go in the season, one begins to wonder: are the writers undercover <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wingnut_%28politics%29\" target=\"_blank\">wingnuts<\/a> highlighting the inherent weakness of liberals in this harsh, harsh world? or have I just been inured by decades of Old Testament-moral-style action films in which all manner of personal, societal and political problems can be resolved in a hail of lead?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten episodes in and I feel like I&#8217;m on a hamster wheel where: our heroine, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter)\u00a0 catches her nemesis, Kilgrave (David Tennant); Jones&#8217; Greek chorus of friends, family and\/or acquaintances sing, Kill Kilgrave else he will continue to murder people; Jones counterpoints with, No, I must not kill him yet somehow he &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/box-watch-marvels-jessica-jones\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Box Watch: Marvel&#8217;s Jessica Jones&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,9,4,6],"tags":[1174,1172,1173],"class_list":["post-4517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","category-film","category-scriptwriting","category-television","tag-david-tennant","tag-jessica-jones","tag-krysten-ritter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4524,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4517\/revisions\/4524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dfmamea.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}