Jessica Jones Season 2 Review: 10 Spoiler-Free Reactions To First Five Episodes

4. The Villain's Promising, But No Kilgrave

It's difficult to say too much about the villain at this stage, as Netflix and Marvel have been keeping things under wraps with regards to his/her identity. The baddie in question has the rather unenviable task of living up to David Tennant's Kilgrave, and rather than attempting to do that directly they've changed the game a little.

As the trailers teased there's a murderer on the loose, and it presents us with a force that's as physically dangerous to Jessica as Kilgrave was mentally and emotionally. It's a brand new challenge for her to face, which pushes Krysten Ritter into doing different things with the character while still being an intense story.

Does the villain top Kilgrave? No, at least not in these early goings, but admittedly that's a massive bar to try and clear. There's not as clear a connection between hero and villain, although they are somewhat a darker, more twisted version of Jessica herself, and that does in fairness look like it'll be more defined in episodes to come.

It's not as captivating as Kilgrave, which in turn means the story doesn't quite have the same thrills or terror, but the seeds they've planted are interesting and towards the end of this first bunch of episodes things are picking up in that regard, so there's promise ahead, but nothing that looks like topping the antagonist of the Season 1 villain. Indeed, how they handle Tennant's character going forward - to say nothing of how is confirmed return might go down - could be key to Season 2.