Marvel's Jessica Jones (2015)
Your powers can't save you.
After a tragic ending to her short-lived super hero stint, Jessica Jones is rebuilding her personal life and career as a detective who gets pulled into cases involving people with extraordinary abilities in New York City.
| Type | TV series |
|---|---|
| First aired | 20 November 2015 |
| Status | Ended, last episode 14 June 2019 |
| Genre | Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama |
| Created by | Melissa Rosenberg |
| Starring | Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor and Eka Darville |
| Seasons | 3 seasons, 39 episodes |
| Episode length | about 54 min |
| Time to watch it all | about 35 hours |
| Rated | TV-MA |
| Scores | TMDB users 7.5/10 |
Where to watch Marvel's Jessica Jones
Marvel's Jessica Jones is streaming on Disney+ ($15.99 a month) in the US. At ten hours a week, all of the series takes about 1 month of Disney+, or $15.99 at list price.
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What kind of watch this is
Created by Melissa Rosenberg, the series takes the superhero genre and drowns it in New York grit. It is 35 hours of a detective navigating a city where the monsters have insurance policies. The tone is less cape-bashing and more bottle-throwing. Krysten Ritter anchors the weight of it, turning a genre staple into a study of recovery. It asks what happens after the punch is thrown. The answer is a long, bruised recovery.
What the critics said
Critics met the first season with genuine enthusiasm. Rotten Tomatoes recorded a 94% approval rating, averaging 8.2 out of 10 across 81 reviews. The consensus noted the show builds a multifaceted drama around an engaging antihero, potentially delivering Marvel's strongest TV franchise. Metacritic agreed, scoring it 81 out of 100 based on 32 critics, a figure indicating universal acclaim.
Later seasons saw the numbers settle. Season two landed at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes, with Metacritic scoring it 70. By season three, Rotten Tomatoes reported 73%, while Metacritic gave it a 65. The final chapter earned praise for giving its complicated heroine space to change, though the scores suggest the initial high was hard to maintain.
How it did with audiences
TMDB users score it 7.5 out of 10. Netflix never disclosed subscriber counts, so the numbers live in the margins. In 2017, Marvel Television noted the show drew a large number of female viewers. The viewing path was less about release dates and more about interest. Audiences often started here, then moved to Daredevil. Strong women led the way, alongside Friends and Orange Is the New Black. The data mapped taste, not just time.
What came next for the cast
Krysten Ritter shifted from Breaking Bad and Big Eyes to El Camino and Sonic the Hedgehog 3. Carrie-Anne Moss returned to The Matrix universe after Memento, adding Brain on Fire to her résumé. Eka Darville moved from Spartacus to Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. The sequence of these projects follows Jessica Jones, though the credits cannot prove the series caused the pivot. Sometimes a role is a hinge, not a hammer.
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Sources
- Marvel's Jessica Jones on TMDB — synopsis, cast, ratings and recommendations
- Wikidata Q18605540 — review scores, box office and awards (CC0)
- “Jessica Jones (TV series)” on Wikipedia, by its contributors (history) — reception, audience figures and legacy, summarised and adapted here under CC BY-SA 4.0
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