‘Jessica Jones’ Season 2 Episode 10 Recap: Eat Your Protein

Oof, I do NOT want to write about this Jessica Jones episode (Season 2, Episode 10, “AKA Pork Chop” if you’re keeping score at home). It was absolute brutal episode, maybe even more so than anything else we saw last season. What can I say, prison guard brutality gets to me every time. I’m still mad that Red didn’t kill the crap out of Piscatella in the last season of Orange is the New Black. I straight-up cheered when Guard “eat that mouse, inmate!” Humphrey finally bit it in a piece of poetic justice after forcing Suzanne and Maureen Kukudio beat each other near-death.

So sorry if I didn’t shed any tears for Correctional Officer Dale got beat to death, in self-defensive, by a maced-in-the-face Jessica after he catches her doing recon in his home. Oh yeah, he was keeping souvenirs of all the prisoners who committed suicide on his watch. (And yo, at a certain point, maybe you DON’T let that guy work at a women’s prison?)

Yeah, so it turns out Dale was doing more than electrocuting her mom for not eating her protein (though for real? How does she stay that strong as a vegetarian?), and when Jessica is found in his home, Dale beats her half to death, screaming “YOU ATTACKED ME! YOU ATTACKED ME AT MY HOME! SELF-DEFENSE! SELF-DEFENSE!”

Which is funny when you think about it, because who is he…explaining this to? A judge? A jury of his peers? Does he think he can convince Jessica Jones that she attacked him in his own home? LOL.

Unfortunately, this just proves to Jessica that like mother, like daughter: once a killer, always a killer. In fairness, SUPER STRENGTH does lend itself to a lot of accidental murdering, but hey, what’s a superhero without an insane guilt complex? Superman? Probably.

Okay, backtracking (as I am wont to do): Alisa is in prison, and she’s NOT going to give up Karl’s location to save herself from RAFT. For once, Jessica…kinda gets it? Not because she’s experienced anything remotely resembling true love before, but because, oy, why not? She finds Karl, using her mom’s weird-ass clues about vacation rental rooms with different themes, and helps Karl make a fake passport (Oscar to the rescue, once again)! I think the idea is that she can also bust her mom out of prison and she and Karl can be happy together in…I dunno, let’s say…Canada. Sure.

Meanwhile, Trish is bombing her TV interview, because she’s coming down from being supes high. And her sleazy producer is like “Cool, use that! Everyone loves a good former child star falling off the horse!” Which makes Trish realizes that yeah, that’s basically who she is, and she needs to get her priorities straight. Which, in order, includes: fucking Malcolm, telling Jessica she will find that killer (aka Jessica’s mom), having…more sex with Malcolm?…going to visit Jess’ mom in jail, where Alisa straight-up threatens to KILL HER (but hey, I guess Dale was busy that day thinking of ways to mace chicks into eating veal), more Malcom sex, talking to Jess, getting back into this IGH scoop again.

Oh, and Jeri wasn’t cured by the magic guy with the healing powers. It was just a story Inez made up for…um…reasons? Jeri came back and her apartment was ransacked, and she let out this primal WAIL that broke my cold, blackened heart in twain. Poor Jeri. Now THAT’S a super-villain origin story if I ever saw one!

Drew Grant is an editor, writer and YA novelist living in Los Angeles. Formerly the Arts & Entertainment editor at The New York Observer, Drew also founded the brand’s television vertical, tvDownload. Currently, she is managing editor at RealClearLife.com. Her passions involve watching TV, writing about TV and interviewing people on TV. At Oberlin College, she once taught a class on Twin Peaks, and that’s pretty cool. Previous bylines: Salon.com, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, and Gotham Magazine. Twitter and Instagram: @Videodrew.

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