After 6 solid episodes, Jessica Jones seems to dip in quality in AKA Top Shelf Perverts.
Here are our viewing notes on episode 7… Later, when Jessica returns she and Malcolm find Reuben in her bed with his throat cut.
Jessica tries to intimidate Hogarths wife into signing divorce papers but almost kills her.
Jessica plans to get thrown in Supermax jail so that Kilgrave will come and find her.
Malcolm dumps Reubens body in the river.
Jessica fishes it out and takes the head into a police station so that she can go to jail.
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Hmm.
Well, after six pretty solid episodes, I thought this one dropped off a quality cliff.
Its not even as if this is some kind of deeply-nuanced Don Draper-esque self-destructive cycle.
Its just counter to all logic and reason, internal or external.
Like the plot wheels are essentially spinning to fill time.
It doesnt help that poor dead Reuben is being treated like hes in a remake ofWeekend At Bernies.
His corpse gets dragged all over town without anyone doing anything remotely sensible with it.
And furthermore, he wants to do it without his powers.
Thats one change that I do like.
She didnt find it funny and she remembered everything.
Still, Ill be keeping an eye on future scenes to check whether that theory gets punctured or not.
(As an aside, that boyfriend was Scott Lang, aka Ant-Man.
Unfortunately, we probably wont see Paul Rudd in this series.)
Finally, we get to actually meet Tricias mother in this episode.
I think I mentioned before, but Dorothy Walker is from the comics.
Its fair to say that as bad as she comes across here, she doesnt come over THAT bad.
No prizes for guessing his plans.
Read Jamesviewing notes on the previous episode, AKA Youre A Winner, here.
