Jessica Jones Season 2 Has Strong Ties To #MeToo — By Pure Coincidence

the initial season of Jessica Jones didn't shy away from formerly taboo topics like sexual assault, rape, and PTSD, and the second season takes the good fight one step further, and right into the middle of the #MeToo movement — nevertheless, according to star Krysten Ritter, by the time the second season wrapped, the movement hadn't nevertheless touched the general awareness through its viral use.


"We finished shooting before the #MeToo movement, and we were all sort of like, 'Wow.' It's a totally crazy coincidence. Any time all of that began coming out, we were all texting each other: 'Holy shit. We're doing this on our show!' The #MeToo movement began in October, I believe, and we finished shooting on Oct. 1," Ritter told The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview.


The coincidence is basically also wonderful to believe. According to THR, an early storyline of the new season centers on a filmmaker, whose history of abusing girls enters the Marvel heroine's realm of awareness, and she reacts by doing what she does best.


naturally, the fictional events closely mirror the real-life allegations made against now-disgraced industry titan Harvey Weinstein, which were first revealed in a New York Times article published on October 5, mere days soon after filming ended for the Netflix series. From there on, the #MeToo movement — which actually began in 2006 — rapidly gained momentum as more victims started speaking up. The Time's Up movement was place on Earth soon after.


"It's pretty intense and uncanny, however also it's cool and exhilarating to have a show that can express the anger that a lot of folks are feeling," Ritter mentioned. "I love Jessica Jones due to the work I get to do and the material as an actress. Nevertheless needless to say, the fact that we participate in an enormous social conversation? It's astonishing. It doesn't happen daily that you're on a show you love doing and acting in that also inspires a lot of social conversations."


And the fact that this storyline — conceived in the minds of writers months before realities were revealed and executed so poignantly by female directors — so closely parallels our current social conversations serves as even more proof of how needed these conversations are.