Veronica Mars

yeah the movie was fun but this really needs to be a 12-15 episode season with a nice mystery arc and lots of casual exchanges with mac and wallace and her dad

hell yes im in

MY MAC/VERONICA SHIP LIVES I mean neato

yay!

S4 out today (a week early)

hell yeah

Does this mean I'm finally going to buy a Hulu subscription??

just do a free trial lol

exactly, free trial lasts a month, only need 24 hours

Wait, what? Had no idea they're rebooting this thing.

Movie wasn't that great though.

Kirby Howell-Baptiste! Patton Oswalt!

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-reviews/veronica-mars-hulu-review-859790/

^it's been getting good reviews, i'm excited! Hulu's not available in my country though, will need to search through some other er, means.

halfway through now, everyone's in top form. way better than the movie.

Movie just want a good for this, TV is in its DNA.

whew. that was incredibly satisfying.

I'm embarrassed that it took me this long to figure out who's singing the new theme; it's Chrissie Hynde!

New theme! I am scared to start this.

So is this US only atm?

(new version of old theme)

Wait what?! How do I get this?

(in the uk)

HELLO I AM WATCHING THIS

i like it :D

but i am only 1 ep in so will report back

i hate that Logan looks all paleo now, ripped yet gaunt :(

love the new theme song

it was better than season 3, probably season 2 as well

being better than s3 is a low bar

Just started, watching Veronica and Keith banter is so great.

ep 1 lots of “hey remember this” but still good
ep 2 was v enjoyable

I think the duck bar is the same set as the bar in the OC.

Very good, best since s1. The right length for the story. Unexpectedly moving and occasionally actual lol worthy content. MVP of the returning cast is obviously Cliff

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote one of the episodes!

whaaaat

Rob Thomas has a strange but nifty Rolodex.

he’s been on izombie this season too

i liked this season a lot. thought it tied together a lot of loose threads well.

Did Weevil and Veronica have a falling out at some point in S3 or the movie?

At the end of the movie, he goes back with the PCHers. My understanding is that all the stuff about Veronica and Keith being there for him but him taking a plea deal behind her back was in one of the books that came out between the movie and the new season. So short answer: No, they had a falling out in the time since.

outlet and/or reboot fatigue must really be setting in cause I feel like no one watched this or is talking about it

do we have to talk about everything the entertainment industry dumps on us the second they dump it on us

of course not! I was just struck by a lot of ppl here and elsewhere who had no idea this was even happening, I guess due to some combo of content saturation and insufficient marketing. the (not so hot) movie happening seemed like a bigger deal by contrast

i’m watching this sporadically only bc i am mired waist-deep in my yearly Tour De France obsession

but i LOVE IT

def the best it’s been since maybe s2
solid joeks, good tension, lots of good Leo moments & Logan moments - on board with all of it

to my shame i though the new theme song was Aimee Mann but mr Veg informed me that it was in fact Chrissy Hynde - excellent version either way

I guessed Aimee too!

also general observation

I fucking love VM’s character. She bridges the gap btw Buffy & Jessica Jones for me
Buffy is the self doubting prom queen & Jessica the straightup alcoholic fuckup. VM isn’t the echo of former perfection nor is she the horsewoman of the apocalypse. She’s smart but dumb at life in a relatable way. There’s something so endearing about how human she is, the mistakes she makes, visibly emotionally scarred & afraid to move on & shoving it all down to cope ... not doing great but not completely sucking wind ... idk. Been thinking about her a lot and I just really love the normcoreness of her, even though she is obv exceptional in unique ways too.

Yes! I really appreciated her casual drug use / ability to indulge without it being tied to Being Damaged or whatever. I thought they did a great job of making her complicated and a little difficult but by no means totally dysfunctional.

Similarly, while Logan has never been my favorite character nor Dohring my favorite actor, there was something immensely refreshing about depicting someone who earnestly left the worst of themselves behind thanks to hard work and time. Too much lazy, cynical and unthinking "people never change" antihero shit out there

Totally!

only character beat I didn't buy was Veronica's respect for the FBI

the original season 4 outline had her working for them.

http://youtu.be/6xV5p_BndJs

ep 3 joke spoiler: I had to pause and lose my shit at "Dom's(?) Sweet Release, that bakery at the edge of town that only employs ex-cons"

people may not be talking about it too because it's on Hulu. I am waiting a bit longer to search for it online.

yeah Hulu is only available through Crave in Canada so you have to pay for two services to get at it, which fuck that tbh