Serial jessica jones dooble part 83/19/2023 Unfortunately, Trish also enables Malcolm's own addiction - offering him the inhaler and sending him spiraling once he recognizes that it's not quite as harmless as Trish has been insisting. That good deed also gets him some dirt on Jeri's other partner, Chao, but subsequently gets him attacked by some neanderthal homophobes - he manages to get a few hits in, but it looks like he's a goner until Trish shows up in full Hellcat mode, beating the crap out of them and even clawing one guy's face. He finds out that Benowitz is gay and firmly in the closet by catching him at a club, but refreshingly, Malcolm decides not to use that information, deciding that using someone's sexuality as blackmail material is too ugly, because it's nothing to be ashamed of. ![]() While Jess and her mom are having some quality time debating texting and driving and the appeal of Nirvana, Malcolm's finally taking some initiative and investigating Jeri's partners, since Jess has clearly dropped the ball on that case. People come with all sorts of baggage, and let's be honest, in the MCU, this probably isn't even in the top 10. As Jess points out, there's probably no version of this "s***show" that ends well, but wouldn't it be nice to think that it doesn't have to end, as Alisa suggests? Maybe Jessica could have at least some semblance of a loving relationship with someone, even if it's with a mom who's been dead for 17 years and is now a mass murder, as she so succinctly put it. And after 17 years apart, it's natural that neither of them can entirely live up to the idealized versions of each other that they've been holding on to - it's refreshing that the show doesn't shy away from the awkwardness and growing pains of their reunion.īut even if her parents' marriage wasn't as perfect as Jess thought, you can already tell what a huge impact it's having on her just to have her mom back in her life - never clearer than when she panics at finding Alisa missing after Detective Costa pays them a visit. While it's natural for a kid to romanticize their formative years (especially after losing her whole family), it's clear that Jessica's been doing a degree of editing herself, repressing the memories that don't quite fit with her storybook narrative. Gabe Fonseca's script does an artful job of subtly underlining the similarities between Jess and Alisa - Mama Jones is every bit as blunt, stubborn and combative as her daughter, giving us a sense of what Jessica's childhood must've been like. Krysten Ritter is so skilled at expressing Jessica's inner conflict with the subtlest shifts in expression and stance, you can see the hopeful kid shining in her eyes, even when she's fighting her annoyance and fear. It's obvious that Jess is trying her best to keep her mother at a distance for fear of being hurt again, but whether it's instinct or just an understandable desire for connection, it's impossible for her to keep those walls up once they start reminiscing. ![]() I know we've got mysteries to solve, but I would quite happily watch a whole season of Jessica and her mom bickering across New York, yelling at cabbies and snarking their way towards rebuilding their interrupted bond.
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