Jessica Jones Season 3 Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

4. The Generic, Convoluted Storytelling

Another fatal flaw that most of the Netflix Marvel shows have struggled to avoid is convoluted storytelling.

Because there are thirteen episodes to be filled, this season is engorged with needlessly complex and contrived plots over-reliant on convenience and often insulting the audience's intelligence in the process.

The season's main thematic - debating the true nature of heroism - has been handled better by countless prior superhero movies, and it's not even filtered through any of the obvious, value-filled contexts available here (namely feminism).

Elsewhere, the usual glut of soul-sapping subplots re-emerge in abundance.

Poor Carrie-Anne Moss' Jeri Hogarth suffers the brunt of it with an aggressively dull plot involving her progressing terminal illness, which takes up an inordinate amount of screen time while detracting from the drama that's actually interesting.