Re: Krysten Ritter Joins "Daredevil: Born Again" Season 2, Reprising "Jessica Jones"

On May 16, 2025 at 5:48:23 AM PDT, "EGK" <memyself@null.net> wrote:

On Thu, 15 May 2025 04:32:47 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
 

On May 14, 2025 at 6:42:55 PM PDT, ""Ian J. Ball"" <ijball@mac.invalid>
wrote:
 

 On 5/14/25 9:50 AM, BTR1701 wrote:
 

  On May 14, 2025 at 8:20:34 AM PDT, "Alan Smithee" <alms@last.inc> wrote:
 

 
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/daredevil-born-again-season-2-krysten-ritter-jessica-jones-1236215530/
 

 

  Krysten Ritter is reprising her role of the superhero-turned-private
  eye, entering the Marvel Cinematic Universe by being cast in season two
  of Marvel Television's Daredevil: Born Again.
 
  Ritter starred as Jones in the eponymous Netflix series in the
  mid-2010s. The series and actress generated considerable acclaim and
  awards at the time and is considered a highlight during the Netflix era
  of Marvel television.

 
  Yay! I love me some Jessica Jones.

 
 The series itself was incredibly disappointing. Season #1 was just OK.
 Season #2 was, I thought, awful. I don't think I even bothered with
 season #3.
 
 I like Ritter. But that role/show was mostly a misfire.

 
Agree to disagree. I liked the whole run. Thought it was great. Wished there
was more.
 
FYI - I read that when they were casting the Netflix series, it eventually
came down to a choice between Ritter and Alex Daddario for the role.
Duckshoot
would also have been a good choice if she'd still been acting.
 

 Maybe Disney+ can do a better job with it than Netflix (it's hard not to
 be better at shows than Netflix!). But I am skeptical that they can turn
 this one around...

 
I've only watched three episodes so far, but I think it's one of their better
offerings.
 

The problem with a lot of the Disney Marvel shows for me is they think
they're doing Shakespeare.  Daredevil and Jessica Jones and especially The
Punisher have always been darker but they like to spend a lot of time
standing around talking to let you know how dark and important they are.
That's often pretentious. 
I thought one of the best of the Disney shows was Hawkeye because it was a
lot more fun and Hawkeye was probably my least favorite character going into
it.  Hailee Steinfeld was great and Jeremy Renner got to do way more with
the character than in any of the movies.

I agree. Both on the pretentious brooding point and Hawkeye being one of the
best Marvel Disney shows so far.

However, I will point out that the Punisher, Jessica Jones, and Daredevil were
all originally Netflix shows, not Disney shows, so we can't blame Disney for
the talky self-importance in them.