Jessica Jones: David Tennant's time on Doctor Who referenced in Easter egg

Don’t blink … or you’ll miss a sly Doctor Who reference hidden in Jessica Jones.

We’re not Kilgraving you: Marvel’s latest Netflix series really did take a second to acknowledge its villain’s past life as a time-traveling alien, though the show is so bingeworthy — and David Tennant’s Kilgrave so chillingly different from his upbeat Time Lord — that you’d be forgiven for missing it.

In Jessica Jones’ eighth episode, “AKA WWJD,” Krysten Ritter’s titular reluctant hero gives Tennant’s charming manipulator a wake-up call when he bemoans his childhood abandonment.

“You’re not ten anymore,” she tells him. 

It’s a reminder that works on two levels; Tennant’s Doctor was the tenth onscreen incarnation of the character. Kilgrave isn’t ten, but he’s also definitely not Ten — and given what Kilgrave is capable of, that’s for the best. See the sequence below.

 

 

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  By Kelly Connolly