Jessica Jones season 2 has been highly anticipated since its announcement in January 2016. She was last seen in Marvel/Netflix's Defenders (Review HERE) August last year but now it's her time to shine as she takes the lead again. The noir tones and narration continues in the fashion of season one (Review HERE); minus the purple tint to reveal a strong contrast between the sharp colours and the dark shadows, which instantly helps the show setup the moral grounds of the characters as we meet them.
The score has continued the theme as Sean Callery returns, giving the classic noir sounds from the lost-age of cinema a modern twist. The score builds on the scenes wonderfully as it adds atmosphere to aid the tension and bring some extra heart to the drama. All the returning cast do a brilliant job at matching their performances as Eka Darville (Malcolm Ducasse in the show) has upped his game and stands out this season as a possible talent to keep an eye out for. The plot opens with such a strong first half as pacing is intense as each episode teasers more mystery and Jessica's (Krysten Ritter) case gets deeper. That is until we reach episode seven, Which although still entertaining, fails to be any true relevance to the thirteen episode season's story. Now past the halfway point and we've witnessed a bad twist executed equally as poor, the plot takes a shift in direction. This shift in direction allows the secondary characters: Trish (Rachel Taylor), Malcolm and Jeri (Carrie-Anne Moss) have just enough more focus on them. This extra time with these characters doesn't just let them grow but their little side-stories that accompany each of them are more interesting than the season's story-arc with Jessica. That been said, there are some highlights in that last half that are far and few between. Most of the characters seem to be indecisive of their goals as it felt as if each of them, particularly Jessica and Trish kept changing what they wanted. The multiple switch of character goals doesn't just get stale but also necessary so the season fills its thirteen episodes. The biggest problem with the characters falls mostly on the villains shoulders as the villain didn't feel like a major threat but also had the show's tone drop to a B-movie. The villain had very little hold over their featured scenes causing disinterest into Jessica's (the season's) main story. As for dialogue, pretty much flawless at delivering the shows grounded and gritty characters their own personalities such as Jessica's sarcastic tones and Jeri's blunt attitude. Although the characters are still as entertaining (for the most part), the villain manages to overthrow that by being rather dull. Sadly a big build of intensity and intrigue from the first half leads to a very anticlimactic second half and a bad taste in your mouth for its bitter end. Mr Cynic rates this a 6/10 It's a shame as Season one is one of the best shows I've seen. Maybe I set my standards to high for this.
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