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Jessica Jones starts out very, very promising but sadly becomes a writing exercise in story padding so pedestrian Jessica Jones herself would be unable to sit through it without blasting it with snarky sarcastic comments.

Let's start with what's good about this series. The main cast members are really great in their roles, Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter, David Tennant, Rachael Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss and Eka Darville all deserve the chance to continue brining these characters to life for a second season… the rest of the cast we could do with out, literally, they only serve to slow things down and drag things out to fill up a 13 episodes order. Which, sadly only need to be about 8-9 episodes to get the important stuff.

The major issue with this series is that it could have been about 2 to 3 episodes shorter if all the arguing between characters was paired down. More screen time is wasted on characters arguing with Jessica about wanting to "help" than anything else. While this wouldn't be a problem if the cast of background and supporting characters was smaller OR if it was a weekly episodic, it's impossible to ignore watching back to back, becomes tedious and annoying very quickly. Many of the characters only seem to exist to prolong the story rather than working/moving it forward to resolve it.

The second major issue and it's a serious miss step many TV series fall into is lack of hook per episode. Mid way through the series the writing staff seems to have completely given up trying to "make" you want to watch the next episode and just assume you will. On Netflix that may work, but had this run on a network TV channel, I doubt Jessica Jones would have even finished it's first season before viewers abandon it like rats from a sinking ship forcing the network to pull the plug.

What the series does well, Jessica Jones and Luke Cage, the building of their complex relationship. Kilgrave and Jessica Jones, the main thing that's going on in the whole story and the amount of screen time these 2 share is even less than Jones and Luke. Sadly, what's good and what I wanted to actually see it's all too brief. The writers clearly choose to waste far to much time on everything except those to major story arcs. Yes, the whole story is about Jones tracking down Kilgrave, and while it is very much the backbone of the story, these two mostly go back and forth with phone calls, playing cat and mouse and text messages rather than actually being on screen, face to face. Nope, instead let's just chewing up screen time with things like Simpson and Trish Walker, victims of Kilgrave support groups and the lesbian divorce BS and anything not Jessica, Luke or Kilgrave. All the other nonsense only serve as monkey wrenches to the story being resolved, rather than actually develop the supporting characters… with the exception of Carrie-Anne Moss's character, Jeryn Hogarth and Malcolm played by Eka Darville. The character of Simpson literally only serves to slowing down scenes, episodes and the overall story, nothing else… also it's worth noting, however unclear, if Travel is just vastly out of his depth as an actor surrounded by far more talented people or if the character really is just so poorly written he comes off paper thin, lame and totally unbelievable.. either way, I must say, it's interesting to see a normal human character be the least believe character in a show about a super powered woman. Porn stars are 1000 time more convincing than Will Travel performance as an ex military guy now NYC Cop… easily one of the top 5, if not the single worst performance in Jessica Jones season one.

Not the worst first season I've watched lately nor the best. The series has promise and I'd like to see more of Krysten Ritter's Jessica Jones IF they can get better writers, stop wasting time developing character that ultimately don't matter and only serve to slow the story down… oh and it needs MORE ACTION! If Jessica Jones is any indication of what the upcoming Luke Cage and Misty Knight series will be like, this whole Netflix/Marvel thing might be in big trouble… well at least there's still Daredevil.

All and all , it's better than Supergirl, which really isn't saying much.

Basic and by the numbers. I had extremely low expectations because It looked like a kids movie. Don't get me wrong, I'm well aware not everything made is going to be something I will enjoy but this kind of watered down rubbish is completely devoid of any value on any level what's so ever.

It's a tired old plot, recycled and rehashed. Mailed in performances by the only two cast members with actual career (Kingley has been on a down slide since Iron Man 3, which I though he couldn't sink any lower) to the sci-fi channel level of CG, this film is a tragedy on so many levels and definitely not worth the time... clearly the people who made this didn't put any real thought or creativity into it. Robot designs were cheap, like Asylum Sharknado cheap, basically cubes, because cubes are easy to make in CG rather than designing complex, engaging robots that are visually interesting and worth showing off Instead we get cubes that are basically on screen very sparingly, either do to cost or embarrassment.

All the positive reviews posted are clearly by people who either A.) have some connection to the cast crew or producers, or B) are just idiots, which is why garbage like this continues to get made. What a waste... too bad all the time effort and money was spent on this wasn't put towards something people would actually enjoy, rather than cranking out this. Completely unnecessary, nothing we haven't seen elsewhere with better craftsmanship and purpose.

What a waste of a cool name and 90 minutes of my life, 90 minutes I will never get back.... do yourselves a favor, watch Red Dawn or any number of better films with the same plot, you know, the old "kids vs oppressors" troupe.

SyFy and Asylum, that's a crap fest and we're all well aware of it going in. No hiding it. When Harold Perrineau shows up I'm like OK cool maybe this won't be so bad, he's a really good actor. Maybe they are going to spend some money on this thing.

WRONG! Cheap junk, a half ass'd attempt to cash in on the Walking Dead. Which is sad considering a zombie apocalypse show it's relatively inexpensive to make compared to hard sci-fi or superheroes, you know, the stuff that should be on a channel called SyFy.

The over all premise is good and the people who created it probably had the best intentions till SyFy and the Asylum cheeped out on it as only they collective could. The story, special effects and acting is what sucks and that's too bad because with a little effort in any or all of these area it could have been fun.

I gave this 3 stars because Harold Perrineau was in it, and that does count for something. DJ Qualls is in it also and his character could be fun long term... but that really is about all this has going for it and I'm really being generous. With the exception of the these 2 actors, everyone else involved with this mess should be ashamed. This is bad, even by SyFy/Asylum standards, or lack there of.

So unless your standards are low and desperation for something Zombie to fill the next few weeks till The Walking Dead returns, avoid at all costs.