The seventy-first TV show: #669 Veronica Mars
We've just watched the first season of this show and it's been a revelation - we expected we'd enjoy the show, but not to the extent that we did.
There's this stereotype of the CW show - good looking teens dealing with their teen problems, a bit formulaic and not usually high quality. It's meant to pander to the (smaller) audiences that watch it. Regularly, though, it comes through with good series - the Arrowverse shows and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend are two of those examples now, while shows like Supernatural and Vampire Diaries are in the past. This is another one of those.
While there's some teen drama in here, Kristen Bell and the cast around her are good at elevating their roles and adding more nuances to it. The central mysteries of the first season slowly get expanded on, with a lot of pay offs in the final two episodes - the penultimate one through a lot of recurring guest characters and the final one through a more serious, straightforward resolution that is incredibly satisfying.
We're taking the next two seasons on our own. There is so much here, we have to keep watching.