![]() When her business partners discover that she’s ill and offer her a severance package if she agrees to leave, she responds by opening her own law firm and poaching many of her previous firm’s most-profitable clients. However, this drastic life change only serves to show us what she’s always been: manipulative, calculating, and working solely for her own gain. After finding out that she has ALS, for instance, Hogarth has to confront her mortality while also attempting to retain her sense of self. In the world of Jessica Jones, only white women are able to navigate pain without being defined by it, which sharply departs from the show’s insistence on being empowering for all women. But most characters of color are overlooked or harmed without explanation or apology. The show’s second season emphasizes the relationship between pain and female rage for Jessica her mother Alisa Jones (Janet McTeer) her best friend Trish Walker (Rachael Taylor) and her former employer, lawyer Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Anne Moss). However, in both seasons, Jones’s realizations about her pain and struggles often comes at the expense of people of color and Black women. Jessica Jones also shined an important light on the impact of gendered violence on women, and gave us a messy woman with superpowers who we can relate to and root for. ![]() During the show’s first season, I was captivated by Jessica (Krysten Ritter), an unlikeable heroine trying to balance her superhuman abilities with her life as a private investigator. ![]() ![]() I’ve always had a complicated relationship with Jessica Jones. ![]()
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