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  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series apparently found an audience in Cuba, to the point it got a review on Granma (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba) that was overall pretty positive of the show.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • In the Marvel Comics comic books, there was a story that featured Jessica Jones providing her PI services to Maria Hill, and Cobie Smulders, who plays Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, once promoted it on her Instagram. Now, Smulders is portraying Dex Parios, who shares some uncanny similarities to Jessica, to the point several reviews of the show have compared Dex to an non-superpowered Jessica Jones.
    • In "The Dex Factor", Dex ends up having a fling with Violet, a woman she met in a vet support group (only to discover later that Violet is a hitwoman, and that "Violet" isn't even her real name). Given that one of the most famous roles of Dex's actress Cobie Smulders is as stern authority figure Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this becomes ironic since Violet's actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson also played a stern authority figure in a comic book property (in her case DC Comics), having played Amanda Waller in Arrow.
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • Given that Dex's actress Cobie Smulders is known for playing Maria Hill in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, several fans of the MCU joked that Dex is Maria Hill, having moved to Portland, changed her name and joined the US military in Afghanistan before she settled to becoming a private detective.
    • Continuing the connection with Marvel, some fans jokingly noted that Dex is basically Jessica Jones without superpowers; both being women with previous combat experience (Jessica having previously been a superheroine, Dex an Afghanistan vet), have PTSD, don't pass on the booze and became snarky private detectives.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Janeane Garofalo as the PI proctor who is incredibly cynical about the job and desperately tries to steer Dex away from it.

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