Marvel Studios is known for their action-packed films that most people have seen. However, Marvel has recently been creating television shows such as Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter on primetime and Daredevil on Netflix. Recently, Marvel released their newest show, Jessica Jones, onto Netflix.

The show follows Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), a private investigator that has a bit of a drinking problem. She, unlike a normal P.I., has special abilities that give her super strength and the ability to jump as high as she desires (whereas, in the comics, she’s able to fly rather than just jump).

The main villain of the show, Kilgrave (David Tennant) is a man that is able to control minds and doesn’t use his powers for the greater good. He has used his powers to force people to kill themselves, to love him and to do whatever he feels will ultimately satisfy him. He often makes the excuse that it isn’t him that’s killing people: it’s themselves.

The show starts out with a girl’s parents coming to Jessica, asking her to find their daughter, Hope Sholttman (Erin Moriarty). After some investigating, Jessica finds that Hope is being controlled by Kilgrave, similar to the way Jessica was controlled by him. At the end of the first episode, however, it is revealed that Kilgrave is still controlling Hope when we think he wasn’t, and forces her to kill her parents. Along with this case, the show follows Jessica’s relationship with Luke Cage (Mike Colter), a local bartender who is the lover of a married woman, and the relationship between Hope’s lawyer, Jeri Hogarth (Carrie-Ann Moss) and her wife and secretary.

For the most part, the show revolves around Jessica looking for Kilgrave so she can prove that Hope is innocent. Jessica knows firsthand what it’s like to kill someone because of Kilgrave, as she was forced to kill someone herself, Luke Cage’s wife Reva.

The last episode ends with Jessica killing her tormentor, after over a year of dealing with the aftermath of his control over her and the PTSD she had developed because of it. She doesn’t need to keep him alive for Hope any longer: she’s finally been released.

The show, similar to Daredevil, shows more of the darker side of the Marvel Universe, dealing with many problems that aren’t explored in regular shows like PTSD and abuse. The dialogue is quick and it doesn’t feel like someone wrote all of those lines beforehand, it feels like these people are saying the first things that comes to their minds rather than thinking about it.

The show is excellently produced and the acting and character development is phenomenal, making the show hard to stop watching. Marvel announced that season 2 of Jessica Jones will possibly come out in 2016, although an official release date has not been officially announced.