The encounter culminates in a powerful image: the unrepentant pervert cowering before his victim and her friend, reduced to nothing as Jessica punches a hole through his car. Trish Walker, Jessica’s best friend, comes face to face with the middle-aged man who gave her a part in exchange for sex when she was a teenager, and finally unleashes her own pent-up rage. It’s the same emotion that manifests in one particularly prescient storyline about a famous director taking advantage of an underage starlet. “And, not surprisingly, it sort of filtered its way into the storytelling.” Jessica Jones creator and showrunner Melissa Rosenberg says writing this season proved a vessel for her and her writers’ rage: “We walked in really pissed off,” she told NPR. presidential election, as a confessed sexual assaulter levied frequently sexist attacks against Hillary Clinton-and won. Season 2 was written in the heat of the 2016 U.S. It’s just a random coincidence, but this show is addressing a lot of those same issues.” “I think that everything that’s happened has forced everybody to do sort of an inventory of their own lives and get fucking pissed. “I think it’s exciting to have a show that has a strong female character at the center who’s angry and is kind of a mouthpiece for a lot of anger that women are experiencing,” says Ritter in a phone conversation with The Daily Beast. In a moment defined by righteously angry women leading change, from #MeToo to gun control and beyond, a furious female superhero takes on heightened cultural significance.įor Krysten Ritter, who plays Jessica with a magnetic mix of snarkiness and vulnerability, that’s part of the appeal of a character like Jessica Jones.
The sheer force of Jessica’s fury at realizing she was violated in more ways than she knew resonates in ways now that the show’s makers couldn’t predict.
She’s out killing people, and I’m in here bouncing a goddamn ball!” And now some maniac says that I am here for a reason. “I was abducted, raped, and forced to kill someone. Someone did horrific experiments on me,” she recounts to a slack-jawed group she’s ordered to go through anger management with. “My whole family was killed in a car accident. “The sheer force of Jessica’s fury at realizing she was violated in more ways than she knew resonates in ways now that the show’s makers couldn’t predict.”
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