I had heard a lot of good things about Veronica Mars, so I decided to check it out, and recently finished watching the first season and really enjoyed it. It is another smartly written TV series that encompasses two genres, the gumshoe detective with high school intrigue-aptly described by The Village Voice as Heathers meets Chinatown. I was intrigued to see that the creator, Rob Thomas, is a former Washington state resident and a former writer for Dawson's Creek. Kirsten Bell is great as the former popular girl turned outsider, Veronica Mars, as is Enrico Colontoni (who I remember best as a former cast member of Just Shoot Me) as her detective father and former sheriff, Keith Mars. The first season had a season long mystery as to who killed Lilly Kane, daughter of the resident computer millionaire and Veronica's former best friend and boyfriend Duncan's sister. Lily was living a sort of Laura Palmer secret life. Along the way various another opportunities for detective work surface and are dealt with along the way, as well as the mystery of why her mother abandoned the family in their moment of crisis. The plot arcs are well-thought out and provide cliff hangers throughout the season. The theme song, "We Used To Be Friends" is by the Portland based band, The Dandy Warhols. They had a minor hit with "Bohemian Like You" a few years back, On the excellent 13 Tales of urban Bohemia (which I was inspired to pick up after hearing the theme song), which was also a minor hit in a commercial for Vodafone in Japan and the UK.
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