Trust the B---- in 'Jessica Jones'

It took a while for the world to embrace a bomb thrower like Krysten Ritter. The actress began her career in the early 2000s, and for nearly a decade she played the funnier, smarter best-friend-with-no-last-name opposite more classically palatable heroines—she was Lucy on TV’s Gilmore Girls (2006), Suze in the film Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009) and Patty in She’s Out of My League (2010). She’d deliver profane lines (“Are you a plane doctor? No? So shut the fuck up!”), give the leading lady some tough love and steal every scene.

That began to change in 2009, with. As recovering addict Jane Margolis, Ritter—a Goth Juliet to Jesse Pinkman’s drug-dealing Romeo—revealed a range well beyond a killer riposte. That was followed by the titular role in the sitcom , which lasted one underappreciated season.