JUST FINISHED WATCHING: VERONICA MARS (2004–2019)

After her best friend is murdered, and her father is removed as county sheriff, Veronica Mars dedicates her life to cracking the toughest mysteries in the affluent town of Neptune.

TRIVIA: The sticker of the black circle with the bananas in the middle on Veronica's (Kristen Bell) locker is the album cover of The Dandy Warhols. The album features the theme song "We Used to Be Friends".
UPN, the network that aired this show, was concerned during early episodes that viewers would confuse Teddy Dunn and Jason Dohring, who play Duncan and Logan, respectively. A color code was created where Dunn wore blues, and Dohring wore earth tones (greens, browns, et cetera). The color code was maintained for the duration of the series.
The character of Meg was created specifically for Alona Tal. She auditioned for Veronica, and was Rob Thomas' second choice for the role. He liked her so much, he made a recurring role for her.
Alyson Hannigan and Charisma Carpenter appeared on Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997). "Buffy" Creator Joss Whedon, a declared fan of this show, also had a cameo in an episode.
The network told Rob Thomas in advance that season three was probably going to be the last of the show, so he could have the opportunity to wrap up the series. Thomas got so angry at them that he wrote the season finale as an anti-finale. In retrospect, he has said he doesn't regret it because they could not have made the movie if the show had had a proper ending.
On March 13, 2013, cast members Kristen Bell, Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, and Ryan Hansen, and show-runner Rob Thomas appeared in a video posted to the crowd-sourcing website Kickstarter that challenged fans of the television show (which had been cancelled in 2007) to pledge two million dollars to fund (or help fund) a feature film project based on the show. The project broke a Kickstarter record when it made more than one and a third million dollars in about six hours. The entire amount was raised and surpassed in under eleven hours, subsequently Veronica Mars (2014) was released.
Entertainment Weekly included Veronica Mars (2004) in its "25 Greatest Cult TV Shows Ever" list at position number thirteen in the September 29, 2009 issue.
Patton Oswalt's character in season 4 is an avid amateur investigator of cold case murders. In his real life, Patton Oswalt is the widower of Michelle McNamara, a true crime writer and a lay investigator who coined the epithet for the California serial burglar, rapist, and murderer known as the Golden State Killer. McNamara died in April 2016, but her research into the crimes helped draw new attention to the cases, and partly led to the June 2016 announcement of a new FBI reward and the April 2018 arrest of Joseph James DeAngelo. DeAngelo's identification was also partly made possible because of a match between DNA evidence from some of the crimes and genealogical information from a publicly accessible, commercial genomics website. When McNamara died, she had nearly finished writing a book about her Golden State Killer investigation titled I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer. The book was posthumously completed by several other true crime writers along with Oswalt, and was published in 2018.
The theme song is "We Used to be Friends" by the The Dandy Warhols. In the fourth season, it is sung by Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer of The Pretenders.
Francis Capra (Weevil) and Enrico Colantoni (Keith) appeared on Bones (2005), season six, episode nine, "The Doctor in the Photo".
Jason Dohring and wife, Lauren Kutner, named their daughter Lilly with the same spelling as character Lilly Kane.
Many participants on this show went on to help make Party Down (2009): Party Down Creator Rob Thomas was the creator of this show; Party Down creators John Enbom and Dan Etheridge were producers on this show; and Party Down Creator Paul Rudd was a guest star on this show. Party Down regulars Ken Marino and Ryan Hansen were also regulars on this show. Party Down regulars Jane Lynch and Adam Scott were guest stars on this show. Party Down guest stars Enrico Colantoni, Jason Dohring, Alona Tal, Ed Begley, Jr., Daran Norris, Ryan Devlin, and Kristen Bell (Veronica) were regulars on this show, and Party Down guest star Joey Lauren Adams was a guest star on this show.
In the season finale of season 2. Duncan receives a call from Clarence Weidman. Duncan refers to him by his initials, "C.W." This was a reference to the show's third season being picked up by the CW network.
In Season 4, the professional NBA player, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, is a writer (S4, E6)
Patrick Fabian (Hank Landry) & Ed Begley Jr. (Cyrus O'Dell) also worked together on five episodes of Better Call Saul (2015) as Howard Hamlin & Clifford Main respectively.

MY VERDICT: I love this show, this is the second time I’ve seen it but this time all the way through. The first season in my opinion is the best but it’s not the only great one, and you can notice a difference in tone in the last season, being more grown up in a lot of ways. But the first season doesn’t feel childish despite being about a teenage girl. The writing is fantastic and so many twists and turns, like a real modern noir you’ll never guess the ending to any of the seasons.

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