Jessica Jones season 2: How the show handled Trish
Jessica Jones season two introduced a big change to Trish Walker. Did they handle her character properly, though?
Marvel Comics introduced Patsy Walker way back in Miss America Magazine #2 in November 1944. This was before the company was actually called Marvel, but they then introduced her as Hellcat in The Avengers #144 in February 1976. In the comics, she starred in a teen romantic-comedy series and in Jessica Jones she starred in It’s Patsy. The show takes an interesting, but often frustrating path to having Trish become Hellcat.
As a child star, Trish suffered from many of the same issues that we see actual child stars suffer from. She went to rehab numerous times and this season reveals just how jealous she is of Jessica despite already having fame herself. Her jealousy doesn’t stem from the fame, though, and instead she’s jealous that Jessica has powers and she doesn’t.
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Trish’s jealousy drives her off a cliff in season two. After an encounter with Will Simpson, who she thought was dead, she ends up taking the inhaler he has without knowing what’s actually in it. She’s back to her addict ways and makes some poor decisions along the way. She pushes Jessica away when she tries to help and sleeps with Malcolm even though that’s not good for either of them in her current state.
Was her character handled properly?
Trish’s storyline was one that felt like it was going to happen one way or another once she was introduced in season one. How they would get there, though, was less certain. She took self-defense to the next level in season one and in season two, she frankly lost her mind a bit.
Just because they get to the end goal we all expect, though, doesn’t mean it was the “proper” way to get there. There were other ways that they could have had Trish become Hellcat, but using jealousy as the motivator makes sense. However, Trish throws everyone and everything away just to get powers. It’s hard to think that there wasn’t a more refined way to come to the same conclusion.
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Trish wanting powers isn’t what pushes Jessica away from her, though. That happens when Trish shoots Alisa. Despite her mother being a killer, Jessica doesn’t know how to forgive Trish for what she did yet. Why Trish did it makes perfect sense, but Jessica was the one person she needed to hang on to.
She has a history of addiction, so throwing that in is reasonable. Doing a story on IGH was the only way she’d be able to look into them without anyone suspecting that what she was actually after. Overall, I wouldn’t say they handled the character properly, but they handled her in a way that is understandable. Personally, I would’ve loved to have her be a bit less frustrating. She’s spent so much time talking some sense into Jessica that you’d think she’d listen when the others try talking some sense into her. It led to her character being hypocritical at times and it wasn’t a great look for her.
Jessica Jones Season 2 is now streaming on Netflix.