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Jessica Jones returned this weekend with a highly binge-worthy season. While season one felt straight and to the point this new chapter lacks focus and that ends up seriously bringing it down. Minor spoilers ahead!

Let’s get this out of the way first, Krysten Ritter is fantastic and Jessica and fills her performance with depth and sorrow and joy. But an actress is only as good as the material they are given. Sadly Ritter was faced with bringing to life a story with not much life to it.

When we first catch up with Jessica she is still the hard drinking, morally shady private investigator she was in the first season. Other than acknowledging the fact that there are other super powered people living in the city there’s almost no mention of the events of The Defenders (and we’re probably better off for it). The first half of the season plays it pretty straight as someone is killing off “super” people in the city and Jessica must find the killer.

While it’s a little by-the-book as a plot device it’s still a fascinating one and totally within the wheelhouse for a superhero noir. But rather than bask in that and give the audience a mystery to solve the show comes right out and shifts the focus of the story into a mother-daughter bonding show. It’s such a radical tonal shift that it almost gives the audience whiplash.

 

Because the show doesn’t know where to go with the plot it instead moves its focus to the contributing characters and flounders.  Between Malcolm (Eka Darville), Trish (Rachel Taylor) and Jeri (Carrie-Ann Moss) there should be a ton of B-story material to go around. Where season one gave each of them interesting arcs that tied together the second season ditches that in favor of diving deeper into their own lives. Yet that backfires and, somehow, makes them feel more one-note. There’s no reason for the audience to spend as much time as it does with Jeri and other than one creative scene she shares with Turk her arc feels like it could have been mostly cut.

The character that suffers the worst of the season is Trish. While she was interesting in the first season the writers have turned her into a needy addict this time around. Played out for a few episodes that can be fascinating and a good contrast to her squeaky clean persona but it makes her quite annoying after 13 episodes.

By the time the season ends we find all of our main characters in distinctly different places then where we met them and that’s satisfying, but the journey to get there was too tedious. The season could have cut at least three episodes and been just as powerful.  Hopefully season three course corrects and brings Jessica back to either the world of crime fighting or noir. The series has so much potential, it’s a shame to see it wasted.

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Paramount+ Reveals Official Main Title Sequence for the Upcoming Series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

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During the TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES panel earlier today at San Diego Comic Con, Paramount+ revealed the official main title sequence for the series. The sequence is composed by EMMY® nominee, Matt Mahaffey, known for his work on Sanjay and Craig, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie and much more. 

From the studios of the Mutant Mayhem film, the all-new Paramount+ original series TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES explores the adventures of everyone’s favorite pizza-loving heroes as they emerge from the sewers onto the streets of NYC. Leo, Raph, Donnie and Mikey are faced with new threats and team up with old allies to survive both teenage life and villains lurking in the shadows of the Big Apple. The series is produced by Nickelodeon Animation and Point Grey Pictures.

TALES OF THE TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES is executive produced by Chris Yost (The Mandalorian, Thor: Ragnarok) and Alan Wan (Blue Eye Samurai, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [2012 Series]). Production is overseen for Nickelodeon by Claudia Spinelli, Senior Vice President, TV Series Animation, Nickelodeon, and Nikki Price, Director of Development and Executive in Charge of Production.

In addition to the upcoming new series, stream all things Turtles on Paramount+.

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DISNEY+ CASTS DANIEL DIEMER AS FAN-FAVORITE ‘TYSON’IN SEASON TWO OF “PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS”

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 in Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con, Rick Riordan and Disney+ revealed that Daniel Diemer (“Under the Bridge”) will star as fan-favorite cyclops “Tyson” in the epic adventure series “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Diemer joins Walker Scobell (Percy Jackson), Leah Sava Jeffries (Annabeth Chase) and Aryan Simhadri (Grover Underwood) as a series regular. The Disney+ Original series from Disney Branded Television and 20th Television will start filming its second season next week in Vancouver.

Season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is based on the second installment of Disney Hyperion’s best-selling book series titled “The Sea of Monsters” by award-winning author Rick Riordan. In the new season, Percy Jackson returns to Camp Half-Blood one year later to find his world turned upside down. His friendship with Annabeth is changing, he learns he has a cyclops for a brother, Grover has gone missing, and camp is under siege from the forces of Kronos. Percy’s journey to set things right will take him off the map and into the deadly Sea of Monsters, where a secret fate awaits the son of Poseidon.

Diemer stars as Tyson – a young Cyclops who grew up all alone on the streets, and finds it difficult to survive in the human world.  Shy and awkward, with a heart almost as big as he is, Tyson soon discovers that Poseidon is his father, which means Percy Jackson is his half-brother… and that Tyson may have finally found a home. 

Diemer recently starred in the Hulu limited series “Under the Bridge” based off the critically acclaimed book of the same name and a tragic true story of a missing teen girl in Vancouver in 1997. He will next star in the indie “Thug” opposite Liam Neeson and Ron Perlman for director Hans Petter Moland. Daniel was recently seen as the lead in the indie “Supercell” opposite Alec Baldwin and Skeet Ulrich and the lead in the film “Little Brother” opposite Phil Ettinger and JK Simmons. Daniel can also be seen in the Netflix series “The Midnight Club” and recently starred as the male lead in the breakout hit Netflix feature “The Half Of It” from producer Anthony Bregman and director Alice Wu. He is a graduate of Victoria Academy of Dramatic Arts in Vancouver.

Created by Rick Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, season two of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is executive produced by Steinberg and Dan Shotz alongside Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Craig Silverstein, The Gotham Group’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Bert Salke, The Gotham Group’s Jeremy Bell and D.J. Goldberg, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Albert Kim, Jason Ensler and Sarah Watson.

The first season of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is available on Disney+

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