Jo is one of the main characters of the Apple TV+ streaming series Mythic Quest. Hired as David Brittlesbee's personal assistant, she soon realizes where the true power in Mythic Quest Studios lies. Jo is portrayed by Jessie Ennis, first appearing in the episode "Pilot".
Jo is initially David Brittlesbee’s assistant and, at the time the Raven's Banquet expansion is published, Mythic Quest Studios' newest employee. She is naturally attracted to power, and upon realizing David has none, she gravitates to Ian. By the time of the new expansion's early pre-production, though, she has become Brad's assistant. Determined to be the perfect sidekick, she jumps full-bore into action like a valiant warrior.
Biography[]
Background[]
Jo grew up as a Midwestern conservative,[2] and the game that she remembers as being the first video game that she loved was Grand Theft Auto.[1] While in sixth grade in high school, Jo went to Shannon's house. Shannon wanted to play with Barbies but Jo told her it was for babies and then went to school next day and spread a lie about Shannon. Jo considered Shannon to be her bully, and sent her messages that told her to kill herself.[3]
Raven's Banquet launch[]
Jo is newly hired at Mythic Quest Studios as David Brittlesbee's personal assistant. However, it soon becomes clear that despite being the Executive Producer, David is often overwhelmed and ignored by others in the office, especially the Creative Director, Ian Grimm. After witnessing this firsthand, and after hearing that David was partial to Ms. Pac-Man, Jo begins to understand the power dynamic in the studio.[1]
Soon after, Jo begins gravitating towards Ian and assisting him when needed. She helps him in the motion capture suite as he attempts to split watermelons using a shovel; when Ian complains they do not explode like real heads, Jo mentions that she can get him real ones, but not human ones. She later gets him coffee and takes notes at a meeting organized by Carol, the head of Human Resources.[1]
When Pootie Shoe began to question Ian Grimm's assertion that the Masked Man would eventually be revealed, Jo sent him a meme telling him to kill himself. She proudly showed the work to Ian, who was rightly disturbed that she had sent that to a fourteen-year old boy. Promising to fix it, Jo then sent Pootie Shoe evidence that Ian had sued his own father, hoping that it would portray him as a badass. Ian explained he had to countersue his father after he attempted to steal his company from him.[3]
After a Nazi problem was found within playerbase of Mythic Quest, Jo was part of David's hastily assembled Ethics Committee to determine which players should be banned from the game. Jo represented the white Midwestern conservative perspective.[2] Jo was later present when David led a tour group from Girls Can Code around the Mythic Quest Studios office. Due to an earlier conversation where David had told Jo that she worked for him and was to serve his needs, not Ian's, Jo took on a subservient attitude that showed David to be misogynistic as he attempted to find woman who worked in the studio for the girls to talk to.[4]
After quarantine[]
Soon after the team returned to work following quarantine, Jo moved to Brad from David. Though a professional change, the three seemingly treat it as a kind of "romantic triangle", with David eventually devolving into a kind of rejected lover around them.
Brad's mentoring of Jo is along fairly brutal lines. He believes that, if he's trained her properly, she will "try to devour him". She gleefully accepts this as a truism and expresses relief at having escaped from David's mundanity and weakness.
Appearances[]
- Season 1
- "Pilot" (First appearance)
- "The Casino"
- "Dinner Party"
- "The Convention"
- "Non-Player Character"
- "Permadeath"
- "Brendan"
- "Blood Ocean"
- "Quarantine"
- "Everlight"
- Season 2
- "Titans' Rift"
- "Grouchy Goat"
- "#YumYum"
- "Breaking Brad"
- "Please Sign Here"
- "Juice Box"
- "TBD"
- Season 3
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Pilot"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dinner Party"
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The Casino"
- ↑ "The Convention"