Jessica Jones - Freak Accident

This second episode compacts a hell of a lot in its fifty minutes of running time. Trish wanting to uncover what happened to her friend, Simpson following her closely to keep a watchful eye out for her safety, the awful mother who refused to stay away more out of desire to get a rub from her success than actual care for the daughter she pimped out to a movie director for a gig as a teenager of sixteen, needing Malcolm's help in recording said director on the set in Brooklyn to secure secret hospital documents if he won't do as she asks, and a new lover who could very well be a romantic future for her. That's just Trish.

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Simpson bids the show adieu, protecting Trish, or so he thinks, until whatever the new season's monster is leaves him a crumpled mess of twisted bone and flesh. Koslov's death continues to provoke more questions, as Jessica and Trish learn nothing from Simpson who is unsure of the murderer responsible.

So what the second season produces is love interest to Trish, Griffin, often quite concerned about the woman he has feelings for, more than patient with her Jessica Jones drama and drive to help her no matter what or danger. There is the apartment proprietor, Oscar, who will lie to detectives investigating the death of Robert ‘Whizzer’ Coleman when asked if he saw anything, particularly Jessica not being involved because he is currently in a child custody situation. While Jeri Hogarth succumbs to the blues due to a stifling diagnosis, agreeing to hang out with some ladies who love their drugs and decadence, a client, Pryce Cheng, plans to sue Jessica for attacking him. Pile on Dorothy’s nonsense, looking to sneak her way back into Trish’s life, the reintroduction to statutory rapist director Maximilian (James McCaffrey) when Trish needs info about Jessica, and Simpson emerging in the hopes of protecting her from those behind IGH who want her pursuit of a story about them quelled; Jessica not only deals with her own baggage but worries about Trish’s wellbeing as well. Jessica having to scuffle with a soldier friend of Koslov’s confined to a wheelchair with no legs is perhaps the most uncomfortable scene along with Trish confronting the director who took advantage of her as a child (and Dorothy all too willing to allow it in order to secure fame). Trish always in harm’s way and putting aside her own personal life in order to help Jessica is certain to put a strain on her relationship with Griffin…how couldn’t it? And the tension between Jessica and Dorothy remains quite volatile.
3/5