(Non-Spoiler Review) So, I FINALLY got to watching Jessica Jones Season 3 on Netflix, which is about as far behind on anything MCU related I've ever gotten. Nevertheless, I was finally able to binge through the season and actually really liked it. While it still didn't quite live up the the bar set by Season 1, I found it to be a vast improvement from the dip we saw in Season 2. The biggest improvement from Season 2 was through its much improved villains, albeit with still nobody quite to Kilgraves level. However, Kilgrave is one of my all-time favorite MCU villains across the board. I also found a uniqueness to the serial killer villain of the series which we haven't seen yet in the MCU, particularly with some of his vulnerabilities. Another major improvement over Season 2 was the development of Trish/Hellcat throughout the season. Throughout S2 and even the beginning of S3, I found Trish's story fell victim to some pretty poor writing, even to the point where she was just straight up an annoying character at times. However, past the first few episodes of this season, I finally think the writers started to get her right. There still remained some glaring inconsistencies, but past those, I was digging what they were doing. In general, I also thought the writers did a decent enough job of wrapping up not only the Jessica Jones Netflix era with this season, but also the much larger Marvel Netflix era as a whole. Granted, the very end of the last episode had a bit of wonkiness due to one particular choice the writers made, but it was insignificant enough for me to ignore and still feel satisfied.
Like stated above, this series at least brought a level of closure to me on all these Marvel Netflix properties that leaves me somewhat satisfied. I'd still love to see a few of them rebooted by Marvel Studios on a different platform some day, but if not, I'm still fairly happy enough. One thing I am really looking forward to in this next era of Marvel TV (run by Marvel Studios) is both the connectivity, but maybe even more so, the MUCH bigger budgets. Marvel head Ike Perlmutter was NOTORIOUSLY cheap when it came to all these Marvel TV projects, and it totally showed. Shoot, just look at this particular Jessica Jones season, most every show of actual powers was simply through flash away and flash back camera tricks. There was maybe only a couple CGI effects in the entire series. Granted, I know these TV series are drama heavy and aren't meant to be ones loaded with a ton of CGI action, but they all definitely could have used A LOT more than we actually got. The level to which they went out of their way to save money was super glaring. With all this said, look for me to update my MCU rankings as well as my Superhero TV rankings to include this season sometime soon. Next up...... Cobra Kai: Season 2 baby!!!!!