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Marvel’s team up with Netflix produced last winter’s Daredevil, easily the best television show about a superhero ever made, and now they’ve given us the remarkable Jessica Jones. Jessica (Krysten Ritter) is a private investigator living and working in the same New York neighborhood as Daredevil and his alter ego Matt Murdock. She was once a superhero, but after a disastrous run-in with a mind-controlling sadistic sociopath named Kilgrave (David Tennant), she became an uncostumed PI. Jessica is a near-perfect noir heroine, and Ritter plays her with wonderful snark and just enough vulnerability. While Marvel has a lot to make up for in regards to their treatment of female characters, Jessica Jones is a major step in the right direction.
