marvelsdefenders:

One of Kilgrave’s most innocuous yet insidious orders is “smile.” It’s repeated throughout the first season, and the name of the finale. Any woman knows the loaded meaning of smile. It’s a seemingly simple, even friendly request uttered by so many men in public spaces, that its essentially demanding like Kilgrave is. While this instance was for a forged document and something small, it gives Jessica a chance to open up both physically and in the narrative.