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[This story contains spoilers from Season 3 of Marvel's Jessica Jones.]

When Jessica Jones dropped on Netflix dorsum in 2015, the series was unique for a few reasons. For starters, it focused on a female person grapheme in the Marvel Universe (joining the gone-likewise-shortlyAgent Carter, which premiered that aforementioned year on ABC), and it portrayed her equally gritty, apathetic, and angry as she slowly came around to accepting her role every bit a hero. This was rare, and it'south still rare today, equally no other Marvel grapheme -- of whatsoever gender -- has been able to lucifer Jessica'southward (Krysten Ritter) detached-yet-caring front end.

And the show did something else differently: Instead of giving Jessica a romantic lead to hunt after, it gave her a best friend to confide in and lean on. Though Jessica and Patsy "Trish" Walker (Rachael Taylor), her foster sister, were estranged at the beginning of the serial, they managed to put the past backside them and work together toward the common goal of stopping evil throughout Hell's Kitchen.

The first season of Jessica Jones is a superhero show, only it's too very much a story almost female person friendship. Men -- similar Luke Cage (Mike Colter), Kilgrave (David Tennant), and Will Simpson (Wil Traval) -- come and go in both of their lives, but the i constant is the fact that Jessica and Trish have each other. Season i ends with Jessica declaring her love for Trish moments before she kills the bad guy. At the beginning of Flavor 2 it felt like they could have on the world together.

Just then Jessica Jones fractured Jessica and Trish's relationship in irreparable ways. Certain, we've all been through rough times with friends, but the rift betwixt these two in Season 2 was unlike. Trish became jealous of Jessica'southward superpowers (a feeling that has been lingering all along) and lashed out at her, even going so far as to kill Jessica's long-lost female parent because she felt she was a threat. By Jessica Jones' 3rd season, which was also its last, the show had disregarded everything near the strong (if complicated) female friendship at its cadre, reducing these two women to niggling catfights (literally!) and mean-daughter behavior that came out of nowhere. In the first, Jessica Jones showed u.s.a. that women are stronger when they work together; Season 3 of the series completely forgets this thought.

Jessica Jones on Netflix — Krysten Ritter and Rachael Taylor in *Marvel's Jessica Jones*
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Trish is, substantially, the villain of Jessica Jones Season 3, which is an odd narrative selection. She's so consumed by her desire to become a superhero and fight for justice that she loses herself in her new persona as her comic counterpart, Hellcat. She starts off every bit just another vigilante running through Hell'southward Kitchen, just afterward her mother is brutally murdered by the season'southward bad guy, Gregory Salinger (Jeremy Bobb), Trish completely goes off the track, becoming a cliché of an aroused woman. Dissimilar plenty of other angry women in Curiosity catechism -- similar Scarlet Witch, who channels her energy toward defeating Thanos, or Black Widow, who has learned to alive with ongoing troubles -- Trish suddenly has no other personality trait outside her anger.

Jessica, meanwhile, keeps trying to be Trish'due south friend. Though information technology's never really discussed at length, Jessica somewhen comes around to forgiving Trish for killing her mom because information technology'south articulate Trish needs someone in her life, and that person is Jessica. Trish supported her through some dark days, and in the third season, Jessica is returning the favor. Simply after a while, it's difficult not to wonder why. Trish is downright awful in Flavour 3. She'south hellbent on seeking revenge for the murder of her female parent; the anger and grief is all-consuming. This is exactly why Trish needs a back up system -- only she keeps pushing away the i person trying to help.

This, obviously, pits Jessica and Trish against one another. This, obviously, means that one of these women is going to win and the other is going to lose. It's not hard to figure out which 1 will win. In the end, Jessica and Trish actually fight information technology out after Trish kills Salinger, and Trish is set to kill Jessica to escape. She goes and then far as to stab her foster sis and best friend, though Jessica stops her with her blank hands, which take most of the damage.

Jessica lets Trish get taken abroad to pay for her crimes, and the last time the ii see each other, probably forever, Trish is beingness loaded onto a helicopter for the Raft. At the beginning of this journey, Trish was the sensible i with her head on direct; she was the level-headed, grounding force Jessica needed to become the hero she is now. In the finish, she'southward tied up in chains surrounded past armed guards, having finally hit the ground later her fall from grace.

Flavour iii of Jessica Jones sacrificed what was once one of Television receiver'south almost interesting and real female friendships. Sometimes friendships can't be mended, yes, but information technology was frustrating to watch the evidence turn Trish into a villain with a vendetta confronting everyone, including her foster sister, for seemingly no reason but to move the plot frontward. The first season of Jessica Jones showed y'all can't go through life all alone without someone there, which Jessica had to acquire herself -- thanks to Trish. On a show that started out defended to taking down male abusers, it mattered that a female person friendship was key to Jessica's growth.

Instead, the serial concludes with Jessica all solitary, without the person who helped her realize she couldn't practice everything alone. It's enough to make us wonder why we ever rooted for Jessica and Trish to take on the globe together in the kickoff identify.