Jessica Jones Season 1, Episode 4 "AKA 99 Friends" (USE SPOILER TAGS!)

[Pwoper Nereguar]

A Reminder That This Thread Is Only To Discuss Episode 4: AKA 99 Friends

ANY SPOILERS FOR EPISODES BEYOND THIS ONE MUST BE TAGGED.

A new case demands attention as Jessica tries to find out who's spying on her for Kilgrave. Trish's radio show yields unexpected consequences.

 

[flickchick85]

Jessica going off on that couple was awesome. "I want a divorce."

 

[Leo Zelinsky]

Just finished that part.


The young girl I thought was funny. Kilgrave is really hurt over Jessica

 

[Web-Head]

That was a pretty good display of Jessica's powers. I had a feeling

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about Malcolm

 

[Keyser Soze]

Watching episode 4 now. I'm hoping it's resolved by the end, but right now it's pretty annoying that on one hand we have a wrongly imprisoned woman whose freedom depends on other people who've been mind-controlled by Kilgrave coming forward, and on the other hand we have a cop who's been mind-controlled by Kilgrave torn up by guilt and wishing he could do something to fix the wrong he's done. If these two stories don't feed into each other soon it's gonna feel like a pretty big plot hole.

 

[Keyser Soze]

In fact, the family of 3 all controlled by Kilgrave and left alive to tell the tale, plus the weird stalker room he'd set up for Jessica, along with Tricia's experiences.... it all together seems to put together a pretty compelling case for the guy's existence, you'd think.

 

[sabetoonth]

I've got about 11 minutes left in this episode. Im diggin it.

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Jess losing her temper...oh damn

 

[Antman2015]

I've got about 11 minutes left in this episode. Im diggin it.

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Jess losing her temper...oh damn

Yes now that's how you throw a b#tch fit! And her referring to cap as The Flag waver was lol. Never heard him called that before loving the show!

 

[Keyser Soze]

EPISODE 4: AKA 99 FRIENDS
After the pure class that was episode 3, this one felt pretty weak in comparison. I was bugged by the glaring plot hole of an episode hinging around Jessica Jones striving to gather people who have encountered Kilgrave to prove his existence, while ignoring the fact that she fought like 4 of them in the previous episode. And then when one of them specifically approaches her haunted by his experiences and looking to somehow help to atone, she's all like, "Go home" rather than putting the dots together. Add all that into Trish Walker's own experiences and there's surely enough there for them to make a pretty compelling case that Kilgrave exists, and none of it being addressed feels like pretty ropey plotting to me. On top of that, the lack of Luke Cage and Kilgrave left the energy here feeling pretty flat, and I didn't like Trish going from the bad ass of episode 3 to being all timid and reclusive here. Jessica herself still had some good moments, and I liked the theme of surveillance, but even her case this episode felt a bit lacking. Meanwhile, Carrie-Anne Moss and Robin Weigert are both giving very good performances in a storyline from a domestic drama which seems to have ended up in this show by accident, so I'm hoping this starts tying into the rest of the series soon. So yeah, weakest episode yet, but still compelling enough on its own merits to want me to keep watching.

 

[Harry_Lime02]

I'm happy to say I didn't see the Audrey twist or the spy twist coming, so the show is doing a good job of staying unpredictable, at least for me.

 

[Marvel Spider]

I'm a little confused by

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The Audrey twist. Maybe it's something super obvious that I missed. Can someone enlighten me as to why she wanted to kill Jessica?

 

[Snow Queen]

I'm a little confused by

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The Audrey twist. Maybe it's something super obvious that I missed. Can someone enlighten me as to why she wanted to kill Jessica?

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She said she watched her mother die during the New York incident from the end of Avengers, by a building that one of the heroes knocked down and she was taking preventative measures.

 

[Marvel Spider]

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She said she watched her mother die during the New York incident from the end of Avengers, by a building that one of the heroes knocked down and she was taking preventative measures.

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Rewatched the scenes before reading this. My confusion came from how she knew she had powers. Briefly forgot she had connections to the guy whose car Jessica lifted. Thanks for the answer though!

 

[Mike Murdock]

Any spoilers beyond this one, right? I'm going to start making my reviews without tags (which I think is better, overall).

If you're having a superhero problem, I feel bad for you, son, because I got 99 friends, but a ***** ain't one.

I've switched to a drink called a Gin Cassis. In theory it's because it's a purple drink in honor of Killgrave. It's also possibly because I can't take any more Miller High Lifes (Lives?).

The episode is a breath of fresh air with the woman who wants to investigate her husband. Given Killgrave, it's hard to know if they can trust her. It's pretty cool because that was a feature of the comics - Jessica almost always investigated her clients more than the target after a paranoid moment with the government. I like the parallel between Jessica photographing people and Killgrave photographing her. I like the officer helping. I like the "support group." I like that the ultimate issue with the woman who hired Jessica wasn't at all related but was, instead, related to the superhero stuff.

This one didn't have the edge the last one had. That being said, I've been complaining about how over the top tense things are. This one appropriately dialed things back before I had a heart attack. Can't fault it for that. Five Stars.

 

[Heretic]

Watching episode 4 now. I'm hoping it's resolved by the end, but right now it's pretty annoying that on one hand we have a wrongly imprisoned woman whose freedom depends on other people who've been mind-controlled by Kilgrave coming forward, and on the other hand we have a cop who's been mind-controlled by Kilgrave torn up by guilt and wishing he could do something to fix the wrong he's done. If these two stories don't feed into each other soon it's gonna feel like a pretty big plot hole.

Yeah, that's really the only thing so far that has bothered me. He's a cop...and knows from experience that Killgrave is real...yet instead of talking to his superiors about a plan to get the bad guy, or helping to build the defense case, he keeps going to talk to the woman he tried to kill and the woman he assaulted. Dude...we get it...you're sorry. Now, instead of pressing charges, lets cooperate to get some freaking results. At the moment it's an issue for me.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Hmm... I think this is the first episode that was less about the overarching plot as much as it was a dip into the "procedural" pool, though even then it was offbeat. A day in the life of a meta human P.I.

I enjoyed the moment when JJ confronted the Eastmans, the dialog was great. That said, as much as I liked it, I think I would have like it better if this was staying on track with the big plot. It's four episodes now and they hit the ground running with the fight against Killgrave from the first episode. Anything that veers too far away, even when its good feels a bit like filler, such as Moss' character's marital difficulties, though again, the dialog in that scene was great.

I have to say I figured out who the spy was early on. The question now is... The specifics.

 

[PacificBoy]

A more contemplative episode. Dug the mini relationship arc between the police sergeant and Trish. Of the two red herrings shown, the first with the sarge singlemindedly trying to force his way into Trish's home had the bigger emotional punch. What we thought was the sarge still compelled by Kilgrave to finish Trish off turned out to be him being driven by another compulsion: the desperate need for redemption. With him finally having a face-to-face conversation with a still traumatized Trish and her finger on the trigger of a pointed gun.

The second red herring seemed like a straightforward play on Jessica's personal paranoia, but it proved to be a setup for a much wider one, a bubbling resentment and fear of people with abilities, a street-level buildup to Civil War.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

See I liked the scene but... That seemed to be a little bit of a hamfisted way to say, "See, we are a MARVEL product folks."

 

[PacificBoy]

It does come across a little setup-ish for a red herring most could see a mile away.

 

[Lencho01]

What's up with not saying the names of superheroes?

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

I think with the Netflix shows so far, there really seems to be an attempt to brand these shows as something VERY different from the Marvel theatrical product so being very oblique in the references seems a way to get some distance, though really, everyone knows it's in the same world. Don't beat us over the head with it but don't be SO cutesy with acknowledging it either, I say.

 

[Raiden]

It seems like Jess' attempt to find Kilgrave's victims is a way for her to find the spy more than anything to do with gathering anything substantial about Kilgrave. It's really not a mystery about who he is, but more about how he was able to track Jessica, which may lead to his whereabouts. However, the lack of Kilgrave and Luke made this episode a bit...bored, for some reason. I also think they made Trish too weak all of a sudden. Whatever happened to that woman in the beginning of the series who was training hard and telling Jessica to stand and fight against Kilgrave? I know her experiences traumatized her, but she became too weak all of a sudden.

 

[Docker2.0]

Does the cop look like Cap America to any of you guys? He even has the same haircut as Chris Evans. I was wondering if that's his stunt double.

 

[Mjölnir]

Does the cop look like Cap America to any of you guys? He even has the same haircut as Chris Evans. I was wondering if that's his stunt double.

Yes, he certainly has plenty of similarities to Chris Evans.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

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She hanged her shirt in this episode.
I thought she wouldn't change any article of clothing for the entire season.

Does the cop look like Cap America to any of you guys? He even has the same haircut as Chris Evans. I was wondering if that's his stunt double.

Haircut, clothes, stance, height.
Yeah, I couldn't help but think of Evan's Steve looking at Simpson.