Not a very interesting episode. Not so much happened, and even the long coming admission of having killed Luke's wife was poorly handled. Though I guess there was small chance they would play it out differently.
The house that Kilgrave bought, it was pretty obvious, maybe they didn't have to rub it in so much... I hope that will end the reciting of street names that always felt so out of place that it could have been put there just for that moment.
It's nice that he wants to buy it fairly though, without using his powers. It's an interesting development of the character (and also a potential excuse for him not putting Jessica under his control immediately when they'll finally clash). That was short but definitely the most interesting part of the episode.
Woof. This was pretty awful. Basically every scene where Jessica and Luke talked to each other in this episode made me want to put my face in my hands. It was painfully overwrought, with soap opera level dialogue and acting through most of their quieter moments. The close ups of their hands, whether it's passing along money, or a handshake, or wrapped around his waist on a motorcycle ride, were cheesy as hell. Everything was just laid on way too thick.
Plus the whole Antoine thing felt like it was a leftover plot from Burn Notice, replete with the generic loan shark guy who gets outsmarted and beat up. I just can't take the guy they have playing Luke Cage. Maybe it's the writing, but he's just so milquetoast and bland. He comes alive a little bit at the end of the episode, but his lines are just so cornball ("Out of time." "I was wrong, you are a piece of shit") that I can't take it seriously. The Jessica-Luke stuff was the meat of the episode, and it was really really rough sledding, both in terms of the writing and the performances.
The only thing keeping the thing from being a complete dud were the two minor sidestories in the episode. Hope being pregnant and wanting to get rid of anything Kilgrave left her is a really interesting angle. The fact that Hogarth is trying to study Kilgrave and figure out if his power can be replicated is another interesting twist to the story, which they foreshadowed a bit earlier. At the same time, Kilgrave wanting to get something without commanding it (bolstered by his poker game) is a very interesting avenue to take the character. I can't help remembering Lisa's admonition to Homer in the Stonecutter episode of The Simpsons that getting everything you want all the time would leave you joyless, and I think that's a cool tack to take with a character who, in a short time, has already become one of Marvel's most intriguing villains.
But yeah, this is easily the worst episode of the season by a significant margin. While I still like the plotting, and the concept of Jessica admitting it was her who killed Luke's wife when she thinks the bus driver is going to be killed over it, the execution is so ripped from a bad action movie that what should be a huge moment in the series had next to no impact. This episode should have gone to a different writer and director. Again, woof.
(Edit: Holy crap! I just looked up the director on IMDb, and he directed a bunch of episodes of Burn Notice! No wonder!)
Good episode, but there are some holes in the plot, writing is somehow meh. However, the show started to gain momentum now.
Jessica, that moment has arrived, we are in 1x06, she still can not win
i liked Jessica admitting it gave new kind of story.i enjoyed it little bit i just wish it has more and that Kilgrave is wow obsessed or idk. weird for a psycho . and now i know why JESS mumble those words
KILGRAVE WTFFFF??? Eternal love, really???
Shout by Angela MensVIP 10BlockedParent2016-08-15T17:42:37Z
Oh David Tennant you even make bad look good, i so love him as Kilgrave, my fav villain for sure!