"Jessica Jones" has come to the end of her Netflix journey.
The series' third and final season, launched Friday, shows what happens when Jessica Jones (Krysten Ritter), a New York City private investigator with unbelievable strength, crosses paths with a highly intelligent psychopath. Jessica and her best friend, Trish (Rachael Taylor), must repair their relationship to be able to combine their skills to stop the deadly threat. The cast also features Carrie-Anne Moss, Eka Darville, Benjamin Walker, Jeremy Bobb, Sarita Choudhury and Rebecca De Mornay.
Executive producer Melissa Rosenberg looks at the three seasons as a full story arc.
"It felt like it would come to an end there, and we were able to find a very satisfying ending for each of the characters," she said.
"It really feels like the three seasons are three acts of the character. In some ways it feels like a 39-hour movie."
In Season 3, Jessica deals with residual effects of the first two seasons. Ritter pointed to a line from the end of the second season that she sees as one of the biggest triggers for the third season.
"We left the second season with this sound bite in Jessica's head from her mother, who told her, 'You are a hero. Hero means just [caring] and doing something about it.' That, I feel, is the conceit of the third season and what we move forward with," Ritter said.
The lofty situation is one reason Ritter has enjoyed playing Jessica. She said she has seen programs where there is no growth for the characters, but with "Jessica Jones," each episode has been like a TV version of a Rorschach test, where bits of the changing psychology of all the characters are revealed in the show's images.