471: High School Is a Strange Time

The Incomparable Mothership

Jason Snell

Arts, Tv & Film, Leisure

4.8 • 694 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

A long time ago we used to be friends, but I haven’t thought of you lately at all—until you got that new series at Hulu, anyway. We’re discussing the UPN/CW classic series “Veronica Mars”, featuring Kristen Bell as a teenage noir detective trying to solve her best friend’s murder with the reluctant help of her disgraced private-investigator dad. If you’ve never seen it, it’s worth a watch! We discuss season one of the show in detail (including revealing who the murderer is at the end), but don’t discuss much at all about the next two seasons and don’t touch at all on the contents of the fourth season that just premiered.

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0:00.0	The Incomparable, number 471, July 2019.
0:07.0	Welcome back everybody to The Incomparable.
0:13.0	I'm your host, Jason Snell.
0:14.0	This episode is about Veronica Mars, a beloved TV show from the past. That is, it's timely, you see, because it's just
0:24.7	returned for a fourth season on Hulu. We're not going to talk about the fourth season.
0:29.7	That's another podcast for another time, and I haven't seen it. But we are going to talk about
0:35.5	the appeal of this show that premiered in 2004 and keeps coming back for more.
0:41.1	It did three seasons.
0:42.4	It was kickstarted into a movie, the high school reunion movie, and then an eight episode, fourth season on Hulu in 2019.
0:52.0	Lots of things to talk about about the appeal of Veronica Mars as a, as a program, as a concept,
1:00.0	whatever else we want to do with it.
1:01.4	Joining me to talk about the spunky girl detective from Neptune, California, are the
1:07.4	following people, Aline Sims.
1:09.6	Hello.
1:10.3	Hello.
1:13.2	Nathan Alderman. Howdy.
1:18.4	And Quinn Rose. Hello. Hello, Jason. I'm just here to annoy like the wind. You know, at one point I was going to attempt an intro that was sort of one of those world-weary Veronica
1:24.4	Mars voiceovers. But I didn't. I wasn't going to do that.
1:31.3	But what's great about this show is it's, you know, it's commitment to being a noir detective series,
1:39.2	except, you know, at the beach with a petite, blonde teenage detective, but still, you know, it's the, you know, at the beach with a petite, blonde teenage detective, but still, you know, it's,
1:47.0	it's the, you know, Nancy Drew Hardy Boys remix via film noir.
1:54.1	And I feel like, in watching it again, I was reminded that that was in many ways,
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