Things to Know About Marvel’s Jessica Jones Before Season Two starts…

M.P.Norman
Nov 1, 2016
4 min read

Insights into the production of the second season of Marvel’s hit Netflix series.

The second season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones will be one of the most anticipated shows coming to Netflix when it finally drops sometime in 2018.

When season one introduced the world to Jessica (Krysten Ritter) in November last year, viewers were so captivated that many binged the whole show before Thanksgiving (in America, folks) and then some and even more. Well, we’ll have to wait until after Netflix’s Defenders team-up in 2017 — which will also include Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist — to see Jessica again, but fortunate series showrunner Melissa Rosenberg is already hard at work on the second season.

Season 2 is Easier…

Season one is certainly a tough act to follow, no doubt about that. But a lot of the hard work (show runner-Rosenberg) did launching the show made it easier for her to continue telling and evolving the story.

“The second season’s easier than the first, because you’re not creating the world,” Rosenberg said recently. “I know who the cast is. I didn’t when I was creating it the first time around. I know what the world is (we know what the world is-dark!) I know what the tone is.”

The bar has been set incredibly high for the show, and I believe Rosenberg will continue the strength’s of the first season, and not let us all be wildly disappointed further down the line! (So there’s that added pressure).

It’s Going To Be Harder For (star) Krysten Ritter

The star of Jessica Jones is going to have her work cut out for her, and the show will get ample opportunities to display her range. It’s really about giving her (Ritter) more things to play and giving her more notes to play so she can have some fun and explore the character (and I loved how Rosenberg as achieved this).

“You never want to limit an actress of (Ritter’s) caliber. You want to just keep on peeling off the layers and giving her more and more.” Rosenberg exclaimed.

It Has To Be A Bad Enough Villain To Make Jessica Care

One thing we know about Jessica Jones is she won’t save the day for just anybody (not even a cat stuck up a tree). The villain has to be someone at least as bad as Kilgrave (David Tennant) to even get her out of bed, let alone make her, make a cup of tea.

There Could Be Multiple Villains this season!

Speaking of villains, (we crave villains at culturedemandsgeeks) who could possibly be a bigger threat than Kilgrave? His psychic power forced people to do things they didn’t want – to kill for him or worse – so he had to be stopped. It might take two or more villains to equal the threat of Kilgrave or an entire conveyor-belt full of baddies…

Jessica’s Friends Get More to Do

Jessica has an incredible supporting cast of allies from her closest friend, Trish (Rachael Taylor), to her main client, ace attorney Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Ann Moss).

The first season was much about Jessica Jones, establishing her as the lead, folks. So, the second season we will see more secondary character stories evolve and manifest.

There’s an amazingly, exciting story for Carrie-Anne Moss, and Rachael Taylor (who is the second lead). So there’s more exploring and reaching into their (characters) and their dynamic together or apart (Here’s hoping!).

No Replacing Luke Cage, Goddamnit, noooooooooo!!!

Luke Cage (Mike Colter) was a main character on Jessica Jones season one, but now he’s got his own show (and it’s brilliant). Rosenberg won’t try to replace Luke Cage in season two of Jessica Jones.

“We’ll never repeat Luke Cage,” Rosenberg said. “There will definitely be more additional characters. There’s a very, very small ensemble that we left the show with at the end of season one, so we really wanted to expand those stories and bring other characters and other relationships to Jessica and the others into the world.”

Rosenberg Wants More Comic Books To Adapt

Rosenberg was a huge fan of Brian Michael Bendis’s comic book Alias and made no secret of its influence on season one. Rosenberg hopes Bendis has time to write a lot more before season two begins filming, because she wants that inspiration.

Jessica Jones Hires Fanboys and Fangirls

Rosenberg is a fan of Alias but she’s also staffed her writers room with enough comic book fanboys and fangirls that they can suggest things from other comics.

“I have an incredibly talented staff and always very much a balance of geeks, comic book geeks, fanboys, fangirls,” Rosenberg said. “So I have a nice healthy percentage of my staff who know that stuff inside and out and they knew that stuff walking in the room. It’s just them doing a lot of research, so they’re always the ones who bring history of the different characters.” It’s always great to know that the show is in capable hands culturedemandsgeeks geeks.

Season Two Will Have Mostly New Writers

Because of the time in between seasons, many of the writers had to leave Jessica Jones to go work on other shows.

“I got the extraordinary good fortune of getting Raelle Tucker as my number two,” Rosenberg said. “She was on True Blood for seven years. She’s my number two and just an extraordinary partner in this. There are very few people who match me in terms of work ethic and intensity and drive.”

But two of the original writers were able to return in: “Hilly Hicks and Jamie King, who is our youngest writer and he’s now staff writer,” Rosenberg said. “I’m so grateful to have them because they really provide continuity. Everyone’s going, ‘Did we do that in season one? Oh no, we did that.’ And also my writer’s assistant Jesse Harris, so I have some continuity.”

And finally; Rosenberg Knows Where The Defenders Ends

To plan this far head, Rosenberg needs to know where The Defenders leaves Jessica and her merry band of friends. We have been assured that the team-up series leaves the characters back where they began, but even if they didn’t, Rosenberg could work with it.

So Jessica Jones will hit our TV screens hard when she returns, with adequate, pulsating adrenaline-fuelled episodes and hard-hitting stories. Can’t wait, then re-watch the show again, girls and boys. Go, do it. Watch it again.

Jessica Jones, season 1 screening on Netflix, season 2, next year, folks.