College Netflix viewers beware the next anticipated Marvel TV adaptation, Jessica Jones, during the weeks before finals.

Marvel’s Jessica Jones did not disappoint following Marvel’s Daredevil back in April.

Jessica Jones kept the octane pulsing and action pounding. After s successful first season of Daredevil that delivered a darker and grittier version of the superhero to life – and being instantly renewed for a second season – expectations were set high for the next Marvel adaptations: Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist – to ultimately lead up to a Defenders miniseries with the four heroes.

For being the lesser-known of the four heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jessica Jones kept the same dark tone as Daredevil, leaving a mature audience watching a badass and PTSD-riddled female lead played by Krysten Ritter to prove that she has what it takes to play the character.

Jessica Jones provides a powerful female lead in a superhero world filled with a dominance of male lead superheroes. But Jones is not your girly-girl superhero like the overly feminine Supergirl.

The series also provides Marvel fans with a first look at Luke Cage who will have his own series in 2016. He is played by Mike Colter, also known as the new Spartan Locke in Halo 5.

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Jones is not your girly-girl superhero like the overly feminine Supergirl.

— Connor DeBlieck

With a total of 13 episodes for the season, Jessica Jones is packed with dark and gritty topics along with TV-MA rated material intended for more grown-up Marvel viewers.

The series takes on a film-noir style or more precisely a neo-noir which fits with the French style for the detective crime series it is. But it explores darker themes, lighting, content, unusual camera placements all with characters usually being conflicted antiheroes who struggle with making decisions out of desperation or nihilistic moral systems.

The film style serves as a perfect platform for Ritter to bring a vigilante hero to life in a darker atmosphere.

The content explored in the show is nothing light, and young Marvel viewers under the age of 17 should be kept from watching show due to the show exploring topics such as suicide, rape and fairly graphic sex scenes – to say nothing of violence.

I intended to only watch an episode or two to do this review and proceed with my school work while over Fall Break, but quickly became addicted to show show’s atmosphere and content and plot.

I would recommend refraining from watching this show until after finals are done due to its addictive nature. If there are any Doctor Who fans, they could become just as addicted to the show with the 10th Doctor, David Tennant playing the lead villain role in the show.

Ritter brought to life a perfect character that is still haunted by her past and her Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and rape trauma from the man whom once controlled her life, Kilgrave (played by Tennant).

Working as a Private Investigator, Jones is approached by a couple looking for their missing daughter which only leads her into the rabbit hole to come face to face with the villainous Kilgrave, who has the power of mind-control and a twisted moral system to the point where he doesn’t care who he hurts with his powers or how he uses them to his advantage. Jones is stuck between a rock and a hard place to fight him through the law – or to take matters into her own hands.

Rating 4.8/5 Highly addictive and impossible not to binge-watch.