frelling_tralk

Yeah I had to give up after those two episodes because I'd heard that they were the high point of the show, but I still wasn't really feeling it, so there was no point in going any further. So much of the show depended on the cat and mouse game between Jessica and Kilgrave that perhaps I would have gotten more hooked if I had enjoyed the dynamic between them, I can't help being drawn in by a charismatic villain and their story, even though I know it's considered "problematic" these days to like the villains. But honestly those often are the stories that interest me in my entertainment, whereas the set-up of JJ was so clearly all about Jessica working to get over her PTSD from Kilgrave that for me it just wasn't entertaining to spend 13 episodes on that message. I did think the show had a lot of very worthwhile and important messages actually, and I've read some really interesting discussion that the show has generated, but the episodes themselves just weren't grabbing me when it came to actually sitting down and watching them

It could definitely have worked better with just 8 episodes, but I got the feeling that all of those Marvel shows automatically get 13 episodes and they had to stretch it out to fit that, rather than originally having a plan that actually required that many episodes? There were way too many near-misses with Kilgrave that could have been cut down for a start