veronica mars the thousand dollar tan line

With all that, it’s impossible to think about revisiting Neptune without Bell’s presence.

Perhaps to make up for that loss, her long-absent mother returns in a major way, plot-wise. The plot, wading through a pond stocked with red herrings and tromping on an assortment of noir and mystery tropes, manages to involve an assortment of Veronica’s friends, though her beloved Logan Echols, now on duty in the Navy, appears only via cell phone and Skype. With Keith on the mend, that task falls to Veronica, cementing her decision to exchange her law degree and job offer at a top Manhattan firm for a full-time version of her old after-school gig. Concerned about the potential tourist fallout, the town council, showing no confidence in their lazy and corrupt Sheriff Dan Lamb, hire the Mars Agency to locate the girls. (There are a few inconsequential spoilers in the audio but nothing to interfere with anyone’s enjoyment of the flick or the previous three TV seasons.) It’s spring break time in Neptune, California, and with the beaches packed and the town teeming with drunken and stoned kids, two visiting coeds go missing. It takes place two months after the recent, famously crowd-financed film, with Veronica’s dad, Keith, undergoing physical and mental therapy as a result of damages incurred in the course of the movie. Not that the plot isn’t solidly constructed and satisfactorily concluded. In other words, this audio, read by Bell with all of the spunky heroine’s familiar upbeat snark, determination and wisegal attitude, is preferred in a major way to the print edition. To paraphrase Micawber’s famous line about income and expenses, a Veronica Mars project without Kristen Bell: misery.

Veronica mars the thousand dollar tan line