Clue In Donut!
“You wanna know how I lost my virginity? So do I,” says Veronica Mars candidly in the pilot episode. And, so does everyone else. Not to mention, we’d also like to know the answer to that other little problem: who killed her best friend. What? You don’t find yourself asking these same questions? Where the heck have you been?
Veronica Mars is the story about a young high school girl who has gone through a heck of a lot more than most people go through in their entire lives. Set in the seemingly peaceful California town of Neptune, we follow Veronica every week solving mysteries and trying to figure out those two big hanging questions previously mentioned.
It must be mentioned (again), the show is relatable to “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” We have our heroine, mysteries to solve, people to help, and crisp dialogue to fire off. On the other hand, Veronica is not fighting the forces of evil, like vampires, but rather the evil forces of her peers and sometimes authority figures.
Kristen Bell plays Veronica perfectly. Enough said. Let’s move on.
The rest of the above-par cast is also worth a mention. While some don’t seem to shine quite as bright as the lead, they do well enough to keep the atmosphere right where it should be. In other words, they don’t stick out like a sore thumb. Highlights of the cast include Enrico Colantoni, as Veronica’s single father Keith, and Jason Dohring playing Logan Echolls.
Besides the cast, the show is very well written. I wrote a previous review but had to update it upon watching this summer’s repeats. In the previous review, I had vented about not always being able to follow the plot lines. Sometimes I felt like the writers had far too much going on. Upon watching several episodes a second time, I realized that they really knew exactly what they were doing. They knew who the characters were and what was going on. I just wish that there might be a little less variety of secondary characters. Want to know what I’m talking about? Just go to MarsInvestigations.net and click the characters link; I’m sure you’ll understand my frustration.
What I wish I understood was why people don’t give the series a shot. I did my part and found at least two or three potential viewers this summer. Hopefully, I wasn’t the only one to succeed.
Veronica Mars is an excellent show and by far my current favorite on television. Start watching it now. Then you can ask people, where the heck have you been?
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