Jessica Jones Recap: Episodes 1-2

Season 1/ Episodes 1-2/ Netflix [Note: If you haven’t watched Jessica Jones yes, go do it now because it’s worth it and this post will liberally spoil everything.] Now that it’s been a couple weeks, pretty much everyone’s gotten a chance to check out Jessica Jones on Netflix. You’ve got those like myself that watched the entire season in one day. Then you’ve got everyone else that decided to be “responsible” and had to space out their viewing of the latest Marvel product. So it’s about time that we here at BNP start cranking out our recaps. Now, because all of the episodes went up at once, we’re not going to bore you by covering all of them. Instead, we’ll tackle the first two episodes. This’ll serve as a jumping on point for those that still aren’t sure if they should invest in Jessica Jones as well as our cosign that this is a show you can bet the house on.

Episode 1: AKA Ladies Night Within the first two minutes of Jessica Jones, it’s blatantly clear that it’s not what many would consider family friendly programming. Before even meeting out titular character, we see two lovers getting hot and heavy in a New York City alley. We later find out that this was an affair Jessica was hired to expose between a woman and her husband’s brother. Of course, the husband got upset and didn’t know his place until Jessica threw him out of her door.

After that, we get to meet the woman of the hour – Jessica Jones. A New York City private eye that uses her super strength as an added asse…