Veronica Mars Survives Senior Year
- Title: Veronica Mars – The Complete Second Season
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With Nancy Drew opening on Friday I thought it would be a good time to look back at the coolest teen private eye of the new millennium…
After solving Lily’s (Amanda Seyfried) murder, Veronica (Kristen Bell) tries her hand at a more normal life, but her reputation, skills, the needs of her friends, and a bus she should have been on going over a cliff compel her to return to the P.I. game.
The first season hinged on slowly giving us glimpses at the old Vernoica through Lily’s eyes as Vernoica fought to discover who killed her best friend. With this case solved there is something missing from the framework of the story, though the fallout from the first season will be dealt with over the course of season two.
My other complaint with the second season is the abscence of Wallace (Percy Diggs III) for a handful of episodes. What makes the series work are the relationships between the characters, and Veronica without her Watson is a real bummer. Once Wallace returns, with new baggage for Veronica to help him through, the season picks right back up through the revelations of the final episode.
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Last year I started noticing reviews with phrases like “smartest teen-oriented drama since Freaks and Geeks” (Variety),. “has all the sass, strength, resolve and ingenuity of any of literature’s classic detectives” (Hollywood Reporter), “teen noir with a moody blend of adolescent angst, family drama and mystery” (TV Guide), and “imagine one of those hard-boiled detective movies with Lauren Bacall doing the sleuthing instead of Humphrey Bogart” (USA Today). They were describing a new show on the UPN network that centered around a 21st Century Nancy Drew named Veronica Mars. So I decided to check it out and got hooked. What I discovered, and what somehow still remains the best kept secret on television – Veronica Mars rocks! The first season is finally out on DVD so I decided to check it out and watch the entire first season from the beginning.
