Veronica Mars

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

i just finished the new season

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Yeah, with Veg here on all her posts, except on the new theme music (which sounds to me like she got all the money up front).

One thing I'd add is that this season does a great job on handling the who of the whodunnit (considering that I had the culprit in season 2 pegged from the first episode).

i'm on episode 6. i already know the big spoiler (heartbroken lol) but i've been really enjoying this despite... many awkward moments (did this season need two drinking/partying montages?)

regardless it's more consistent than both seasons 2 and 3 and the overarching mystery is weirdly... fun? jk simmons helps in this department

ryan hansen is wonderful as always though i have trouble squaring new harmless idiot dick with the former actively harmful guy who indirectly roofied veronica

i also love the hitmen, a delightful performance by clifton collins jr. especially

I didn't recognize Dick at first and thought he was Bradley Cooper!

In the beach volleyball scene, were the two ringers meant to be Misty May + Kerri Walsh but the show wasn't actually able to get them?

And this needs to happen:

“They would all be eight-episode mysteries,” Thomas said about his vision for future seasons. “For Season 5 the ideas I have been noodling with have all been kind of Agatha Christie in that Murder In the Manor House sort of idea.

ryan hansen is wonderful as always though i have trouble squaring new harmless idiot dick with the former actively harmful guy who indirectly roofied veronica

― american bradass (BradNelson), Monday, July 29, 2019 1:45 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

man go back and remind yourself what shithead logan is at the beginning of the show

i thought this was fine. we had started rewatching the original run but didn't get that far before new season started, so i was pretty lost about who most of the fan-service cameos were. meanwhile, the couple of characters i do remember (mac, piz) didn't show up.

i had a visceral hatred reaction to the new theme song when i first came up. so tuneless. but it grew on me a little.

I absolutely died at "is Piz back there?"

BIG SPOILER BELOW

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did the ultimate bad guy really have to end up being the most famous (non-original-run) actor in the show? is this columbo?

well somebody had to do it

he is not more famous than JK Simmons!

he did it too though!

also that's arguable

JK has 4x the google hits, an Oscar and a big MCU part! not close.

man go back and remind yourself what shithead logan is at the beginning of the show

― na (NA), Monday, July 29, 2019 12:52 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

lmao listen, I KNOW

i rewatched the show last year and spent the first half of season one tabulating every racist joke logan makes at weevil's expense, but as soon as logan and veronica kissed the goddamn memory wipe happened all over again

Season 5 should be Maddie and Veronica Cagney and Laceying it up in Chicago or something.

I would watch roughly 10,000 more seasons of this length/quality regardless of setting tbh

yeah I just want to see her zinging people, solving mysteries, and sometimes getting blindsided by one of her close friends or family members telling her she's CROSSED THE LINE this time.

getting gradually more disappointed in people and institutions / gradually disappointing more people and institutions

with the caveat that if/when Colantoni quits acting or croaks there should be no more show

Season 5 should be Maddie and Veronica Cagney and Laceying it up in Chicago or something.

i would watch so many more seasons if they are anything like the calibre of this one

SO good

but plz Rob Thomas no more braek heart

can we get cybill in season 5? make it happen!

DUNCAN KANE IS BACK AND HE'S STILL EXPRESSIONLESS

I got taken in by this and kept expecting him to pop up, so well played.

so happy there was no Piz

i unfortunately love piz but i'm fine with him not being here, feel like that relationship is pretty expired by the movie

anyway i enjoyed this very much despite some loose moments as i mentioned earlier. feel like they could get into a real groove with another season pls

logan was doomed, rip :((((((((

^^^ sorry ENORMOUS SPOILER i forgot everyone was being coy

can’t believe Piz gunned him down, really a left turn in the plot

lol

Maddie was very good, I though. Well inserted.

Matty is also on iZombie, playing a very similar character.

Finally watched this and:

i just finished the new season

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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great season but gahh heartbroken. Goddamn this show.