Jessica Jones Season 3 Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Downs...

6. Netflix Bloat Strikes One Last Time

Even the very best Netflix Marvel seasons have been plagued by narrative bloat, and sadly it's a problem that rears its head in spades in Jessica Jones' third effort.

Despite Netflix toying around with shorter episode orders previously - The Defenders had just eight episodes, while Iron Fist's second season sprung for a sensibly curtailed ten - this season touts the usual thirteen, and absolutely struggles to fill that volume with compelling content.

There's probably around eight episodes of intriguing(ish) material here, distended out to an additional five with brutally slow pacing, agonisingly overlong run-times often close to the hour mark, and an excess of flabby, also-ran subplots.

Netflix has stated in the past that this is outside of their control and a result of prior agreements made with the production companies behind the Marvel shows - namely Marvel Television and ABC Studios - but whatever the reasoning, the wheel-spinning is as obvious as it's ever been.