I liked it. Lots of good acting, and I liked the calm pacing. It's pretty far from SHIELD or any of the movie Marvels. Even further down the "everyday superhero" path than Daredevil.
I have a real soft spot for this kind of superhero stuff. It reminds me in some ways of the Spider-Man comics where between saving the city Peter Parker has problems such as pleasing his elderly aunt, making rent, spoiled milk in the refrigerator and his costume smelling like old socks.
I think it's safe to call JJ somewhat a niche series. It sticks to it's own formula and doesn't aim for mass appeal.
I think it would have benefitted from cutting the length of the whole thing by 2-3 episodes, but almost every series ever stretches out too long for my tastes.
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Yeah there were some dumb bits. I liked the anticlimactic killing in itself, even if the final faceoff was otherwise a bit meh.
I hate it when audiences are left off the hook by the villain almost always dying somehow accidentally, by his own fault or in a situation where the hero was somehow forced to do it right then and there "or else". If nothing else the killing is somewhat distanced, indirect. They're left to die, or at the very least pushed to a pit or drawn into hell or another dimension. Anything that will hide either the decision to kill or the actual moment of death, or both.
Jessica on the other hand literally kills Kilgrave with her own hands, with no spectacle or action to distract the audience from the fact that she did exactly that. The fight at that point is over, she had won and he was helpless. It was not (at least theoretetically speaking) the only option and that gives the decision some meaning. Which is nice. I like that kind of storytelling.
Jessica Jones is also just not the kind of hero that gets a moment of righteous and glorious victory. I don't think it would have really fit with the tone of the series.
David Tennant was great as Kilgrave btw, and the whole character was very well written and delivered to the audience. He's understandable enough to not feel ridiculous, and at times you might even feel sort of sorry for how things have gone for him. But the humanizing is not overdone. In the end he's still creepy, weird, unlikeable and clearly beyond redemption.