I also was irritated that Jessica didn't just kill him on the spot.

That's what that was called! I couldn't remember. Yes, it is the same character.

But if you have to lay groundwork in an obvious way that distracts from the storyline you aren't really laying groundwork. You're inserting an ad.

This is the biggest problem with all these shows, yes.

I'm not talking about real-life women or men. I'm talking about a stereotypical tv / comic male character. The powerful lawyer entangled with a beautiful young assistant. Instead of rewriting the part to update it they just stuck a woman in the role.

Ugh. Will Simpson's character is taking on too large a role in this series for not enough organic reasons. All this pill stuff may be relevant and exciting for Marvel universe fans but it's so tangential to this story that it comes off as a really irritating plot device.

I don't think they intended her to come across as abusive or that much more mentally messed up than her brother. I thought they were codependent. Ruben was breaking out of it only because he was transferring his dependence onto Jessica, not because he was less twisted than his sister. But the way it was executed Robin…

I get what you're saying but I also think I get what the show is trying to do, although I think the execution is flawed. Killing Kilgrave and letting Hope get a life sentence for what Kilgrave made her do is letting the rapist/abuser win, in a way. It's playing by the rapists's terms. Thematically, this season has…

Yes, I'm avoiding reading comments where I can see "Captain America" out of the corner of my eye but I'm assuming this mysterious doctor of Simpson's wants them to capture Kilgrave or use him in some way.

Well, I think it's pretty obviously a man's part.

Or else it gets the hose again.

I think that's an act. He is too clever at playing an innocent person when he has to (like for the camera when Jessica was in the cage with him) not to understand that torture and murder are wrong. He also knew how to twist his childhood story to make himself seem sympathetic to Jessica. He has enough empathy to…

That confused me too! Pam is the lipstick lesbian. In a way I guess it's cool, but in another way I find it kind of irritating that Jeri's part is so obviously supposed to be a man's part. It feels a bit lazy.

I like Ritter a lot but I wish she would change up her voice tones a bit more. I get a bit tired of the impatient almost-yelling. But then I don't know if that's the only way to sell the lines she's being given.

Tennant played a psychopathic stalker killer on a BBC thing years ago that is worth checking out. I was prepared for him to play psychopath well.

He had been trying to get information about the accident ever since it happened, though. He didn't trust the official story and must have been planning on punishing someone.

I really like this show but I thought this episode was shaky. The dialogue seemed a little wooden and there was a bit of self-conscious cutesiness creeping in.

He's overplaying the "blue collar toughness" a bit, which is something Brits and Australians have a tendency to do when playing New Yorkers. I think he will ease into the role as it goes along.

He's using a standard English accent, not heard so much now as it used to be.

Yes, whenever they let you know, in detail, how the plan is supposed to go, you know it's going to fail.