Jessica fights, or rather drowns her demons with her addictive coping mechanism: alcohol. Netflix’s Marvel series’ have thus far focussed upon street-level heroes and the devastating stories of individuals fighting their own personal demons. Jessica has given up on being a traditional ‘ suit up‘ superhero and she scrapes together a living working as a PI solving the problems of the people left behind after the heroes have moved on to their next alien invasion. It’s not literally on your screen”, which means it isn’t sensationalised and the consequences of abuse are taken seriously rather than simply ‘ mined for melodrama‘).
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He made her kill on his behalf, and he raped her (the series alludes to instances of rape but as Krysten Ritter remarked: “There is the history of assault, yes, but we don’t depict it.
The titular character, Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), is rebuilding her life after being the victim of the obsessive mind-controlling sociopath Kilgrave (David Tennant), who physically and emotionally abused her. But the fantastical battles and large-scale world saving antics of figures like Captain America and Iron Man become secondary to the real-world daily struggles of the alcoholics, drugs addicts, and desperate people that occupy Jessica’s narrative universe. Referred to as ‘ the mean streets of Marvel Netflix’ by Brian Michael Bendis, the co-creator of the source comic Jessica Jones: Alias. Hell’s Kitchen is part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe ( MCU), the same fictional universe depicted in The Avengers franchise and specifically the Battle of New York. Jessica Jones is set in Hell’s Kitchen, the same dangerous New York neighbourhood in which Matt Murdoch/Daredevil resides. The active incorporation of science allows these small-screen Marvel adaptations to achieve a greater sense of verisimilitude and also tap into contemporary concerns about viruses, medical experimentation (specifically in relation to genetics), and uncontrolled science/scientists, alongside serious responses to addiction, rape, neglect, PTSD, and mental illness. Jessica Jones, Luke Cage, Kilgrave) and a childhood accident with radioactive toxic waste (Daredevil/Murdoch) – even if the explanations aren’t exactly entirely ‘accurate’. In the Netflix’s Marvel comic book adaptations the superheroes and their powers can be explained by science – medical/scientific experiments (e.g.
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