"With great power comes great mental illness."

Jessica Jones

Review & Overview

[s02e02 AKA Freak Accident]

Here is how I would approach the review of the second season of Jessica Jones starting from this second episode, listing the main points and giving my overview on how they are used:

coping mechanism; meaningless intoxication and sex: Dr. Miklos Koslov; Isaiah & Simpson (performance enhancer, other doctor, guardian angel) : Maximilian Tatum : Jeri Hogarth's sexual escape from reality: Detective Sunday & Costa: Robert Coleman aka the Whizzer, Emil the mongoose: Griffin & Trish.

Feeling somewhat guilty of not helping a fellow powered individual by overlooking him and not offering help until it is far too late, even moreso someone that acquired said ability in the same way that she did, it is only appropriate of her trying to deal with such revelation and tragic incident by leaning onto her vices of meaningless intoxication and sex, that is until she is getting discriminated for her power. You can't fault Marvel and Netflix for not trying to adapt the more mature traits of the titled protagonist from the comics in Alias as well as AKA Jessica Jones. Post-Avengers world is sometimes worse for individuals such as her ... even if these characters would not make the jump onto silver screen, at least they are playing in the same world.

There are actually many sides behind the running of IGH, as she finds out in the funeral procession of Dr. Miklos Koslov, one of the doctors that treats army veterans such as Simpson and Isaiah for the better, although the former suffers a more negative outcome comparatively to the latter, seemingly raise from the dead after his tragic journey in the debut season. The aforementioned doctor understandably died under questionable circumstances, and the revelation of the return of hero-turned-villain Simpson is more than just a coincidence.

Getting involved again with the controlling and manipulative mother, Dorothy, Trish Walker decides to delve back into her dark past, trying to get back in touch with Maximilian Tatum, someone that the mother and Jessica could agree a bad influence in Trish's life, and that's saying something since both of them despise each other for good reasons, more for one side over another. It turns out that in order to capitalize on the popularity of her Patsy alter ego, Trish was, as she said, "was whored out" to a director in order to get her to star in his film. Despite his retrospective romantic justification of his past actions with her, Max is unperturbed by Trish's blackmail attempt unbeknownst to the whole conversation being recorded. This is surprisingly a timely topic that is naturally part of the backstory of the former child star. No wonder she doesn't want her adopted sister to find out about this secret, but Malcolm do stand up for her justice since he keeps getting away with this abuse of power.

Everyone deals with personal problems in their own ways but it's a different matter altogether if it is life-threatening. In Jeri Hogarth's instance, she is lost in thoughts of what this heartbreaking news of her health would spell for her future and in order to escape from the somber reality, she is also susceptible to delve into her vice of sexual skinship, especially since the last time she was in one resulted in a currently pending lawsuit. Detective Sunday and Costa come a'knocking on Alias Investigation's door since the owner is the vicinity when the unfortunate scaffolding 'accident' occurs the day before, but Jessica's plea for help from the new super is inexplicably overlooked but thankfully it doesn't cost her a day in jail. Oscar's insistence in not helping her is because he is in the middle of a custody battle against his ex wife for their boy and bringing police right in front of his doorstep would understandable be frowned upon by him. This is just a foreshadowing of his part in her life moving forward.

Speaking of familial values, Trish's relationship with Griffin is moving along surprisingly smoothly, and it is going swimmingly except for the fact of her going head first into this IGH matter for the sake of finding the truth of her sister's past. He is nothing but a good influence for her, but is he influencing her to play a little too close to the fire?

The one that is much more resistant to fire but now actively playing with it after trying to forget about it for so long is Jessica, now going through the Whizzer or Robert Coleman's place in search for clues. Aside from encountering his actual pet mongoose, Emil, she finds his video post on one of the Trish Talk videos, learning of his afflictions and his insistence to tell the truth on the show, which could be the one major motive behind his killing if they go by the same theory.

"Emil, give them hell."

Finding out the truth, Jones tries to retrace where Walker has gone as the radio personality finds out the identity of the guy in the hoodie to indeed be Simpson who keeps advancing towards her even with a shot through the leg. The investigator finds her sister to have him tie up and fortunately unhurt herself, as both of them interrogate him to find out the truth that he is actually trying to repent for his past actions by trying to protect Trish from this unstoppable force of a killer, using a performance enhancer off of an inhaler to help himself to do so. The other major insight is that there is another doctor that is possibly behind Jessica's and other's experimentation but this small redemptive arc for the side villain of the last season is about to come to an end as the lights are out suddenly indicating the killer is near. Simpson is released to have a heroic final stand but it is all for naught as they return to find him with his neck broken and his head turn back 160. The mysterious assailant do not actually go after Trish when she is with Jessica as she is running away from the scene which adds more layers to this mystery. That jump over both of them certainly showcases its superior prowess.

"It takes a monster to stop a monster. He's just not the right monster."

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P.S. It's unfortunate not being able to see Emil the mongoose in the flesh but the constraint of budget just makes that scene even more wonderful. I hope the cops are okay though ...