They both have very different ideas of what mothering is, and their daughters are affected permanently for it. Fully functional, fully capable of providing for her child, and alive, Dorothy makes bad choice after bad choice that drives Trish further and further away. Dorothy is the exact antithesis of Alisa. We saw her destructive influence on Trish’s life in season 1, and the full extent of her depravity, especially in Trish’s youth, is revealed. marrying Griffin, staying away from Jessica, pimping her out etc.), all for her ‘best interests’. In stark, stark, so stark, contrast, Dorothy Walker constantly speaks about wanting what’s best for Trish, and pressures her into doing many things that she didn’t and doesn’t want to do (e.g. She still tries to inspire hope in her kid, the only last legacy she can pass down after years of no contact. That to me, speaks volumes about the type of mother she is. She’s highly volatile, with dangerous powers accompanying the instability, and yet, even at her most angry, is able to yank herself out of a murderous haze to protect what she sees at Jessica’s best interests. Now Alisa Jones (Janet McTeer) may not exactly be mentally or emotionally stable. What’s interesting though is the direct parallel that was drawn between the Joneses and the Walkers. Never did I expect that Jessica’s mother might still be alive. I appreciate that they tried to depict varying aspects of the addiction and that they acknowledged that addiction can take many different forms, and any one thing, can be an addiction. Even Karl, was addicted to his pursuit of knowledge and the manipulation of the human body. We see a case of Malcolm making something out of himself out of it, we see Jessica living despite of it, and in the cases of Trish and Hogarth, succumbing to it and reliving it. In all cases of addiction, everybody copes differently, and not everybody conquers it. It’s a delicate and sensitive topic that I thought they treated really well. And while it might numb the pain for awhile, it never really pushes it away. Each of these things are vastly different, and yet, at the heart of it all, the same. Anyway, the idea that people can jump from one addiction to another to satisfy the gaping hole inside of themīesides Malcolm, almost all our main characters were depicted as having their own varying vices – Malcolm with his various random hookups, Jessica obviously has an alcohol addiction (for good reason), Trish revisits her drug addiction, and lastly, Hogarth is addicted to material wealth and power. Pretty sure somebody said something about a devil’s workshop or something. Over and over again, he tells Jessica that he needs something to do to distract himself from being idle. What’s great about how this show treated addiction was it depicting Malcolm as still struggling with the aftermath of getting clean. All female directors notwithstanding, Jessica Jones season 2 strives hard and falls a little short. It might seem like a little too much for 13 episodes and it was. We get a deeper insight into Jessica’s past and the formative influences of her youth, we get a look into Trish’s history with addiction and the deep seated need to feel in control of her life, we get links to the larger Netflix Marvel universe, we get familial relationships, new romantic interests, old ghosts haunting your steps and a possible new hero on the horizon. The show spun off into too many different threads and had a hard time tying all of them back together. Sadly, while still a good show, I was disappointed by the direction they had decided to go in for most of our familiar characters. Here are the 20 Weirdest Things About Jessica Jones's Body.No lie, I must say I expected a lot out of Jessica Jones this season, what with the hype on all the female directors they had pulled together for the season, as well as the stunning story arcs they’d created from Season 1. Superhuman endurance, extreme survival skills, and masterful combat are only the tip of the iceberg, and the portrayal of Jones's body skills as well as harmful effects of them in her Netflix TV series has garnered profuse praise. She's a struggling woman attempting to make a living in a dog eat dog world, often suffering from just as many problems as she solves due to her abilities and proclivities-in short, her body. This means she still has the chance to employ her incredible gifts on a daily basis and help people in her own unexpected way. She avoids heroics so adamantly, in fact, that she chooses to be a private eye instead of the clumsy superhero she once was. It's her unique body, which belongs to a woman who isn't typically heroic by any means. The most incredible thing about Jessica Jones, however, is not her swearing, the adult situations she finds herself in just to feel something, or the excessive drinking.
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