I missed the Veronica Mars TV series when it was on a few years back. However I recently saw the Veronica Mars movie which was partly financed by fans, and made to give them another dose of the characters.
So, being the curious type, I went to my public library and checked out the 6-disk set of DVDs containing the first season.
This is the pilot episode, 41 minutes long (not having commercial breaks sure is nice) and it introduces us to the locale and the characters. Kristen Bell, who was already well into her 20s, is high schooler Veronica Mars. Her dad, Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars, formerly was the sheriff but was ousted in a recall after a notorious local murder he was blamed for NOT stopping. Now he is a private investigator, and Veronica is his receptionist. But she is a budding PI herself.
This episode also introduces us to Neptune High and the student body, and how it seems that Veronica has no friends. But one of her friends had been Amanda Seyfried as Lilly Kane, daughter of the wealthiest man in town. Even though it was her murder, we know that she appears in a number of additional episodes, likely in flashback.
This episode deals with Mr Kane's wife hiring the Mars agency to spy on her husband, she thinks he is having an affair. Veronica goes on an overnight stake-out and, even though she misses photos of the women, she gets a photo of the license plate. Her dad sees it and says they are going to "drop it", but then Veronica finds out it is in fact her estranged mother's car from out of state. And, she finds something that makes it appear like she is somehow tied into the case of Lilly's death.
To be continued...
So, being the curious type, I went to my public library and checked out the 6-disk set of DVDs containing the first season.
This is the pilot episode, 41 minutes long (not having commercial breaks sure is nice) and it introduces us to the locale and the characters. Kristen Bell, who was already well into her 20s, is high schooler Veronica Mars. Her dad, Enrico Colantoni as Keith Mars, formerly was the sheriff but was ousted in a recall after a notorious local murder he was blamed for NOT stopping. Now he is a private investigator, and Veronica is his receptionist. But she is a budding PI herself.
This episode also introduces us to Neptune High and the student body, and how it seems that Veronica has no friends. But one of her friends had been Amanda Seyfried as Lilly Kane, daughter of the wealthiest man in town. Even though it was her murder, we know that she appears in a number of additional episodes, likely in flashback.
This episode deals with Mr Kane's wife hiring the Mars agency to spy on her husband, she thinks he is having an affair. Veronica goes on an overnight stake-out and, even though she misses photos of the women, she gets a photo of the license plate. Her dad sees it and says they are going to "drop it", but then Veronica finds out it is in fact her estranged mother's car from out of state. And, she finds something that makes it appear like she is somehow tied into the case of Lilly's death.
To be continued...