Is Jessica Jones the perfect superheroine for the #MeToo era?

The Daily Beast

Jessica Jones is able to tap into the #MeToo and Time's Up zeitgeist in a way that even a female empowerment movie like Wonder Woman couldn't, says Ira Madison III. "The season wrapped shooting well before #MeToo had its moment, yet it fits within the ethos that helped create #MeToo," he says. "After the relative bliss of the Obama era and the idea that Hillary Clinton was on the horizon, a story like Jessica Jones may have resonated with only some part of the audience. But now, over a year later, women are fed up, angry, and well, over it. Jessica Jones feels like the culmination of that moment condensed into one television season." Jessica Jones creator Melissa Rosenberg hired only female directors for Season 2, and says of the timing: "This season, for me, is very personal. Borrowing from my own life or from the writers’ lives, it was really just coming from that. It wasn’t in any way trying to make any kind of statement."

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