Jessica Jones (Marvel/Netflix)
Jessica Jones episode titles leak...
Love those titles. Seems they're using the "AKA" at the beginning of each episode title.
I imagine this also means an official announcement soon about its premiere date (probably a month or so before they're actually released).
Thinking we'll get an announcement in early to mid September and they'll premiere in mid October.
I think it's actually gratuitousness, not gratuity. But I know what you mean.
I would actually love if they could do it without showing nudity or explicit sexuality. Purpleman is horrifying. He uses mind control for the absolute worst purposes, and Jessica's story is pretty awful. I don't think most people want to see that kind of abuse portrayed - I know I don't. Leaving it to the imagination is much better, in my opinion. I think taking it too far will hurt the show, not help it. We don't need to see it to get the depth of Jessica's trauma.
Yup.
I don't think there'll be nudity... that's a bit over the top for Marvel, and it is still their property and they still retain a large amount of creative control over the Netflix shows. I expect this show to be more of a PG-13 approach to the comic, and I'm ok with that.
As has been said, the imagination always trumps reality... even a fictional reality portrayed onscreen.
Actually showing the abuse is kind of tasteless and absolutely unnecessary. It just becomes a form of torture ****, and is not at all required or inherently necessary to be shown to convey the fact it happened.
Plus, as said; it's still a Marvel show, so I wouldn't expect it to go into that territory anyway. Darker than the films, sure, but not David Fincher/Lars von Trier dark.
They can definitely touch on it and established it happened through quick flashbacks that don't portray the more extreme abuse outright. Establishing it happened (assuming that's the avenue they're taking with the show) is important... actually showing it happening isn't. Just depends on how the show runners choose to delve into it.
Something tells me they're not going to spend too much time on that, as it seems the show is more about her overcoming that and moving on with her life and investigation firm. They'll establish it happened, and through dialogue and scenes between Jessica and Killgrave in modern day (which can be utilized to offer glimpses of that past abide, without focusing on it... needs no more than a few seconds or a minute or two at most to establish how sick and twisted it was... and again, that assumes they'll follow that plot from the comics... they may not take it that far or take it in a different direction).