Marvel-s Jessica Jones - Season 1 Site

S1E10 "AKA 1,000 Cuts" – A bottle episode that is pure tension and horror.

Let’s be honest: Most Marvel villains want to destroy the world or rule a galaxy. Boring.

Kilgrave just wants her . And a good glass of wine. And maybe for you to cook yourself into a coma because your soup was lukewarm. Marvel-s Jessica Jones - Season 1

Absolutely. While later Marvel Netflix shows got bogged down by too many episodes (looking at you, The Defenders ), Season 1 of Jessica Jones is a tight, brutal 13-episode psychological thriller.

Years ago, a man named Kilgrave got his hands on her. Kilgrave (David Tennant) has the ability to control anyone’s mind with a simple verbal command. For months, he used Jessica as his puppet, his enforcer, his property . Now she’s free, but the PTSD remains. And when Kilgrave resurfaces, Jessica realizes the only way to stop running is to hunt the monster who broke her. S1E10 "AKA 1,000 Cuts" – A bottle episode

When Marvel partnered with Netflix, we expected grit. Daredevil gave us bloody knuckles and hallway fights. But Jessica Jones ? It gave us a panic attack in a bottle. Released in 2015, Season 1 of Jessica Jones remains the most mature, terrifying, and psychologically profound thing the Marvel universe has ever produced.

Jessica Jones Season 1: The Darkest Corner of the MCU (And Why It’s a Masterpiece) Kilgrave just wants her

This isn’t a show about punching. It’s a show about .

Forget the capes, the quips, and the world-saving. Jessica Jones isn’t about saving the world. It’s about surviving your own living room.

It is not a "comfort watch." It is a show that will make you angry, sad, and profoundly exhausted. But it is also a show about finding strength in broken places. It’s about a woman who decides that the worst thing that ever happened to her does not get to be the last thing that happens to her.

Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter) is a super-powered private investigator running a one-woman firm out of a grimy Hell’s Kitchen apartment. She has the strength to punch through walls and the drinking problem to match. After a brief, failed stint as a superhero, she now spends her days taking photos of cheating spouses.