Back in 2013, Marvel TV and Netflix famously announced plans for a huge partnership that would see some of the best street-level superheroes from the Marvel Universe coming to the streaming service, creating their own superteam called The Defenders. This was fresh off the success of the first ‘Avengers’ film and was seen as a huge opportunity for both Netflix and the upstart Marvel TV. Now, six years later, the deal is in shambles and we are less than a month away from the Marvel/Netflix partnership limping to the finish with “Jessica Jones” Season 3.
As seen in the new teaser for the third and final season of “Jessica Jones,” the titular hero is once again confronted by a psychopath and will likely have to overcome her own mental illness and other issues to defeat him. Ultimately, the teaser is less important than what it signifies, which is the aforementioned end of the Marvel/Netflix deal.
After a huge, highly successful start to the Marvel TV series, with the first two seasons of “Daredevil,” and the first seasons of “Jessica Jones” and “Luke Cage,” the streaming service saw lesser results in subsequent seasons, and fans noticed a steep decline in quality. This led to the domino effect of series like “Iron Fist” being canceled, leading to the eventual demise of all the series in the deal.
Now, “Jessica Jones,” which was once hailed as the greatest of them all, ends in June with Netflix already announcing that the series will not be coming back. It’s a sad way to see one of the best iterations of superhero television come to an end, but at least fans will get some sort of closure.
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The cast includes Krysten Ritter, Rachael Taylor, Carrie-Anne Moss, Eka Darville, Benjamin Walker, Jeremy Bobb, Sarita Choudhury, Tiffany Mack, Jessica Frances Dukes, Aneesh Sheth, and Rebecca DeMornay.
The third and final season of “Jessica Jones” hits Netflix on June 14. And with it, the end of a Marvel era.
Here’s the synopsis:
When Jessica (Krysten Ritter) crosses paths with a highly intelligent psychopath, she and Trish (Rachael Taylor) must repair their fractured relationship and team up to take him down. But a devastating loss reveals their conflicting ideas of heroism and sets them on a collision course that will forever change them both.
