The series takes place in New York where Jessica is employed by a divorce attorney as a private investigator to dig up dirt that can be used as leverage against the opposition in divorce proceedings. Jessica is supposed to be so good at her job that when her employer is going through her own messy divorce, she employs Jessica to get dirt on her future ex as well. This is what I can’t get past – New York is a no-fault divorce state. It no longer matters why people want to get divorced. If someone wants out of the marriage, they’re out. Reasons such as infidelity, drugs, gambling, are all irrelevant in a no-fault state. This makes Jessica’s job utterly pointless. How does her employer, a divorce lawyer not know this. I could understand if there were custody issues involved, but not once in the first season that I watched did anyone ever mention children or custody issues, and especially not in the divorce attorney’s own case. So what is the point of Jessica’s job, and how can she be employed by an attorney who doesn’t know that she’s employing someone for a totally useless purpose?
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Evidence of illegal/immoral activity might still factor into questions of alimony, division of property, custody of children, etc., either in the courtroom or via judicious blackmail.
Jessica and the front door.
Why is a woman who is terrified for her safety and her sanity willing to spend days living in an apartment that has a broken door? Doesn't that seem inconsistent with her (justifiable) paranoia and hyper-sensitivity to her environment? I could accept it in episode 1, which set the plot, and because the door-breaking incident had apparently just happened. But to let untold days go by? Hell, she comes in and out of the apartment without locking the door behind her, and apparently drinks herself into a drunken stupor on a regular basis, and doesn't seem worried that the source of her trauma might decide to move the cardboard and climb inside? It just doesn't make sense to me.
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Jessica's Job
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