The highly-anticipated first teaser for Marvel’s Jessica Jones reveals a fall release date for the Netflix series.
All 13 episodes of Jessica Jones will hit the streaming service on Nov. 20 of this year. The series stars Krysten Ritter as the titular character and Doctor Who‘s David Tennant as her nemesis, Kilgrave — aka, the Purple Man.
The teaser released by Marvel plays in a similar spirit to the acclaimed credits sequence of Marvel’s Daredevil — dark, moody, and full of shifting visual metaphors. Though the teaser offers virtually no footage from Jessica Jones, it presents the eerie psychological tone of the story exceptionally well.
It’s probably impossible to unpack all of the imagery from the Jessica Jones teaser, but one clue is the glimpse of Alias Investigations, the private detective agency Jones runs in the series. And across the music, muffled dialogue echoes like a memory — a cry of pain, and a man’s voice (possibly Kilgrave) lend a truly unnerving edge to the shattering visuals.
The trailer seems perfectly calibrated to establish the tone of Jessica Jones, which has been described as a “psychological thriller.” The story, based on Brian Michael Bendis’s comic book Alias, features Jones as a former superhero who, struggling with crippling post-traumatic stress, attempts to rebuild her life as a more-or-less mundane private eye.
But as the teaser artfully suggests, the future will be no easier for Jones than the past.
In addition to Ritter and Tennant, Marvel’s Jessica Jones will also star Daredevil‘s Rosario Dawson and introduce Mike Colter as Luke Cage. The series is run by Dexter‘s Melissa Rosenberg, who described her protagonist to Entertainment Weekly as an “incredibly flawed, damaged and interesting character regardless of gender.”
Rosenberg also notes that her series is “a very, very different show than Daredevil.” While “the mythology of the universe is connected… they look very different, tonally they’re very different.”