Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire
Season 1 Episode 3: “Never Saw It Coming”
By Lauren Beukes, Vita Ayala, Sam Beckbessinger, Zoe Quinn, and Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by Fryda Wolff

Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire is about the reluctant superhero Jessica Jones. But it’s also an examination of what it means to be human. And to be human is to learn to live with pain, sorrow, and loss.

“There is no right demographic for depression and suffering; there is no archetype for the need to self-medicate. She, of all people, knows that despair can sometimes run so deep it hits bone, regardless of what’s happening on the surface.”

Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire
Season 1 Episode 2: “The Boy Under the Bridge”
By Lauren Beukes, Vita Ayala, Sam Beckbessinger, Zoe Quinn, and Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by Fryda Wolff

“Her psych might say she takes on other people’s pain to avoid dealing with her own. But who else is going to?” That passage from Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire Season 1 Episode 2: “The Boy Under the Bridge” really sums up Jessica Jones for me.

Jessica never asked for superpowers. She doesn’t want to be a superhero. And yet every time she has a chance to walk away instead of helping someone, she chooses to get involved. Because someone has to.

Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire
Season 1 Episode 1: “The Big Easy”
By Lauren Beukes, Vita Ayala, Sam Beckbessinger, Zoe Quinn, and Elsa Sjunneson
Narrated by Fryda Wolff

Jessica Jones isn’t your usual superhero. In fact, she doesn’t want to be a superhero at all. Even if you’ve never read the comic books or seen the Netflix series, the Serial Box exclusive Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire does a great job right off the bat with establishing this.

Season 1 Episode 1 of Marvel’s Jessica Jones: Playing with Fire is called “The Big Easy”. But as with most things involving Jessica, nothing is ever really easy.