Jessica Jones: Netflix series wins buzz as a female-led success

With its perpetually scowling, bourbon-drinking, psychologically damaged lead, the thoroughly modern tale Jessica Jones is pulling in audiences as part of a new movement highlighting more diverse heroes and winning kudos as a female-led production. Starring Krysten Ritter, the Netflix series is based on a Marvel comic character: a superpowered woman who tries to build a new life as an investigator after undergoing major trauma. Read More…