Unlike Daredevil, which was so murkily shot it was almost impossible to see the action half the time, Jessica Jones is lit crisply and clearly, capturing a sort of New York City grit that still exists in Manhattan even in this age of a Disneyfied Times Square.
It's a spunky sort of grit.
It's shot almost entirely from Heathcliff's point of view, giving it a sort of cinema-verité grit, and the strangest, most unaccountable parts of the story are set aside.
Along with that came an appreciation for the sort of grit and gaudy charm that used to define the Bowery before going the way of the flophouse and the cheap saloon.
"We sort of grit our teeth and get what we have to get," he said.
There was more, much more, because the young woman reporter they sent out to the house had been so sympathetic — a cat person herself — but there were space limitations, and the story, while novel, didn't have the sort of grit and horror that the paper's readers had come to expect.
"They sit in stalled subways without claustrophobia, they extricate themselves from panic situations by some lucky wisecrack, they meet confusion and congestion with patience and grit -- a sort of perpetual muddling through".
It turned out to be a sort of Southern tapas, a single roasted clam surrounded by concentric circles of lemon grits and a bacon-tomato butter.
A few highlights from the article and interview are below: The prime minister enjoys a sort of "street cred" among academics, authors Pallava Bagla and Richard Stone write, and his "soft-spoken demeanor" belies his "grit" on issues important to scientists.
