All Female Creative Team: Jessica Jones shoots itself in the foot



The news of an all-female creative team behind the second season of the noir-drama didn't raise the roof like it should. Well, that's because it's the small screen and it's Netflix. Melissa Rosenberg, the showrunner decided to - in light of the MeToo, TimesUp and cry for more female representation around the industry - hire an all female team to craft the second season of fans-favorite, Jessica Jones.
I should state early at this point that of all the Marvel's Netflix shows, JJ is my favorite.

Now to real talk: When i first stumbled on the news on the show's Wikipedia page, I froze, cursed and screamed. It's less of the fact that I'm not a fan or supporter of MeToo & TimesUp (I hope this doesn't end my career before it even starts) and more of the fact that I want an impressive sophomore season that can trump Killgrave's run. I'm not saying women can't do it (the much beloved first season had a female showrunner, which is the right move by all means). I'm saying making the whole creative team women just for the sole purpose of... what is it now? 'Making a statement' ? is not a great move.
The result? A less talked about second season.



It's been two weeks and I'm still hooked on episode five (not the good kind of 'hook'). And just five(5) episodes in, I can tell that " Killgrave will be missed and his impact on the show will forever make fans wish he isn't dead" would be the end theme of the season. But in this post's defense, i wasn't sure i was gonna like the first season five episodes into it, so there goes my end theme dream.

My Main Grudge: So having an all female creative team means one or more of those numerous things women have been fighting for since the beginning of time will be snuck into a drama about a former superhero turn P.I.
The one that turns me off is the MeToo saga. Now that I'm typing this, i do feel it was deliberately added to turn me off. But why would they do that? Why do women do anything? No offense.

Trish a.k.a. Patsy at the age of 15 was forced to play a lead in a movie by her fame-hungry mother (Seriously, that woman should have been the one Malcolm punched in the face) and something happened between her and the 40 sth old director of the movie. What? Oh leh me tell you. It's the same thing that has been making industry veterans to lose their job since the past year.



Patsy is now a full grown woman. But she chooses to revisit that event because she wants to use it to blackmail the director into getting her some IGH info she needs. See where the "shoots itself in the foot" comes in?
So basically, if I'm to take a leap here, those women <insert any actors name> touched some kind of way like a decade ago who are back to ruin his career are blackmailers? Flow with me.

Here's where things got annoying. She practically - at the age of 15 - crawled into the director's bed in the middle of the night and some things happened ( the word 'rape' was suspiciously never used but hey, still in Episode 5).

Now she's back some 10 years later to accuse him of defiling her and she proceeds outside to [cry?]

Cry? Is it a bad thing to admit that at age 15 you were horny and you wanted hands on your body? You "crawled" into his bed, for fuck's sake!(no pun intended)

Now this is where it gets extra annoying: Our beloved protagonist, Jessica, who would sleep with any stranger she meets as long as he has a dick and who has been the IDGAF lady for 3 years on the streaming giant's slate is written to be angry about the situation. I mean, is she allowed to be angry? Screw the whole Killgrave situation, I refuse to delve into that. This ruins the whole scope of who Jessica is.

So In Summary: We have a second season that is not better than the first; an all female writing and directing team who couldn't travel into the future to learn how the same mistakes they were making gave the 2018 Academy Awards ceremony it's lowest rating ever; a disastrously bad MeToo moment sandwiched in between a female villain, a lot of female supporting characters with the only gay one having ALS and a protagonist, who last year didn't care if an army of misguided terrorist wanted to destroy New York City but now cares about what happened a decade ago to a former addict who 'wanted' to have a grown man inside her. But hey, it's her sister, right? Oh please. I just hope it gets better from here on out.


This post might be updated once I'm able to wrap up the episodes.

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