i hope you dont mean that 'more' to kilgrave was about his dark past? what i meant as a comment on his character before was for his current motivations, you know, like how kingpin has a business and a second in command and aspirations and a girlfriend. those are all current.
kilgrave is mostly about his obsession with jessica plus some desire to resolve his issues with his parents. kingpin had that too, with his dad and everything BUT he also has other stuff.
i think they were lucky they cast tennant as kilgrave to be honest. he really carried the show, for me.
im losing my fondness of trish and will simpson and everyone else in the cast except for maybe malcolm, at the moment. i like flawed characters but increasingly, the characters' choices felt a little less real to me and a little too much writerly. of course i know that all charcters' arcs are written by writers, they are fictional after all, but there is a line where i could feel a character has agency and his/her choices feel like it belongs to him/her and then there is the other side of the line where i feel as if their choices are a must-be-done action because the series/story must move that way.
jj started out promisingly, but yeah... im not very fond of it at the moment and i only have 3 episodes left to go