Jessica Jones, S01E09- AKA Sin Bin (Patreon)

Hello Patrons! I'm very interested to hear what you all thought about this episode, because Owen and I have a profound disagreement about how much Kilgrave's parents are to blame, and whether Kilgrave was actually lying to Jessica when he told her what his parents were doing to him. 

I mean, there's a lot of room for interpretation here, but I think the fact that Kilgrave was a child who didn't understand what was happening to him has a lot to do with him misinterpreting things like the experiments. Jessica finds out that his parents were actually trying to save him from a neurological disease, and accidentally triggered this ability in him, whereas Kilgrave told her that they had been performing experiments with the specific objective of triggering abilities. Do you think he's lying to her, or that he was just not completely understanding what was happening to him?

I don't get into this as much as I should have while on the podcast, but there's something to be said here for the parallels between Kilgrave and parents who don't teach their children the importance of consent. "I was kid, I didn't understand, you didn't explain, you just left" could be something that many men who were brought up in households that slut-shamed and took the "boys-will-be-boys" attitude regarding harassment and assault could say to their parents, once they started getting in trouble for bad behavior.

Anyway, I hope that you wonderful amazing Patrons enjoy the episode, and don't forget to join us on the Facebook group for Patrons at www.facebook.com/groups/unspoiledclub! Thank you all so much for your support, you're incredible and I love you!