Jessica Jones Season 2 Release Date, Cast, Director Details, and More

Marvel and Netflix confirmed Jessica Jones Season 2 a few months back, so that's great. Details are still pretty scarce, but here's what we've got.

“Marvel is thrilled to be working with Netflix for a second season of Marvel’s Jessica Jones,” said Executive Producer and Marvel’s Head of Television, Jeph Loeb in a statement when season 2 was first announced. “The positive response to Jessica’s story from fans all over the world has been overwhelming and we look forward to diving even deeper into these characters and this world."

Raelle Tucker (The Returned) will serve as writer and executive producer.

“We’ve had such an incredible response to our first season on which I’ve been so fortunate to have an extraordinary team all the way down the line from the fellow writers, executive producers, cast and crew,” said Jessica Jones showrunner Melissa Rosenberg (via Deadline). “I’m thrilled to have someone as talented as Raelle join our team as writer and executive producer as we delve into Jessica’s continued story.”

At the Transforming Hollywood symposium on diversity back in the summer, showrunner Melissa Rosenberg spoke about increasing representation behind the camera on Jessica Jones Season 2. All 13 episodes of Jessica Jones Season 2 will be directed by women, according to reports from numerous attendees.

This is pretty great news, and it will be interesting to see the names that are revealed as we get closer to production.

Jessica Jones Season 2 Release Date

Word came out of the TCA Winter Tour in 2016 (wow, that was a long time ago) that we won't see additional seasons of Jessica Jones or Daredevil until after Luke Cage, Iron Fist, and The Defenders have run their course. Maybe we'll see Jessica show up on Luke Cage, which premieres on September 30th. But I wouldn't expect Jessica Jones Season 2 until late 2018 at this rate.

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Jessica Jones Season 2 Story

Ms. Rosenberg told Deadline back in November about what shape things might take. 

"I think one of the things I would be able to do now, that’s harder to do in the first season, is to really expand on the ensemble...I would hope to further expand on the ensemble, and on Jessica’s world. She ends in a very different place than she started off. She’s still going to be Jessica Jones — that is not going to change. She will continue to drink and make mistakes, and accidentally drop people onto train tracks, but something has changed for her by the end of this season, and I’d just love to explore that in the second season."

Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg has been speaking in vague enough terms about what to expect from Jessica Jones season 2.

"I learned from working on Dexter that you can advance the character, but you never want to cure the character," Rosenberg said in an interview with Esquire. "With Dexter, the moment he felt guilt or accepted that he was 'bad,' the show's over. He's no longer a sociopath. The equivalent for us would be if Jessica somehow recovered from the damage that had been done to her. People don't just heal, you don't go through that just to say, 'Oh, he got arrested, he's in jail, I'm OK now.'...That trauma is a huge part of who she is now."

We wrote about the shape the season might take and what stories it might explore right here.

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Jessica Jones Season 2 Villain

But trying to find another villain with the same impact as David Tennant's Kilgrave may prove difficult. The first season of the show opened with Jessica's greatest challenge, which was something that wasn't actually introduced until relatively late in her comic book run. It made sense, as her conflict with the Purple Man was by far her most emotional and interesting. But where does Jessica Jones season 2 take that?

Well, one possibility would seem to be adding multiple villains to the show instead of one big bad. When Entertainment Weekly asked Jessica Jones Season 2 showrunner Melissa Rosenberg how they top Kilgrave she responded, "Or antagonists, plural. No one is ever going to beat David Tennant as Kilgrave, so you don’t do that. The biggest mistake would be to try to repeat that. You just go, “OK, we’re not doing that, so we have this open to us.”

Something to consider is that the early Alias comics (which Jessica Jones is based on) were focused on relatively shorter cases, and the first attempt to bring Jessica Jones to the small screen (on the ABC network, which we have more details on right here) would have seen the show take a more traditional detective show/procedural approach. Perhaps the Netflix series could play with and subvert that formula a little bit this time around.

Jessica Jones Season 2 Cast

Speaking with Nerdist, Melissa Rosenberg wouldn't commit to the idea of getting Trish Walker into her Hellcat alter ego just yet. “You have to earn secondary character stories," she said. "You have to flesh them out enough so that they can eventually carry stories of their own, which is very much what season one was about.”

We have all the details on the Iron Fist series right here.

If you're looking for details about the Luke Cage Netflix series, click here.

Everything we know about Daredevilseason 2 is here.

A version of this article originally ran in November 2015. It has been updated as new information becomes available.