{"id":8186,"date":"2014-03-21T10:43:50","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=8186"},"modified":"2014-03-21T10:43:50","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T14:43:50","slug":"all-noir-is-reunion-i-review-the-veronica-mars-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2014\/03\/all-noir-is-reunion-i-review-the-veronica-mars-movie.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;All Noir Is Reunion&#8221;: I review the &#8220;Veronica Mars&#8221; movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When we talk about the TV renaissance, we should talk about \u201cVeronica Mars.\u201d The 2004 \u201chigh school noir\u201d show\u2019s extraordinary first season mixed weekly casefiles with a season-long arc\u2013two arcs, actually. Veronica starts the show as a suddenly bereft and embittered California teen: Her best friend has been murdered, her father lost his sheriff\u2019s job when he fingered a local corporate bigwig for the crime, she lost all her friends in the aftermath, and when she tried to show defiance by going to a party where most of the people hated her, she was roofied and raped. Our tiny blonde sleuth spends the first season trying to solve her friend\u2019s murder and her own assault.<\/p>\n<p>Veronica (Kristen Bell) is half Philip Marlowe, half Buffy Summers. But she\u2019s Marlowe without the isolation\u2013her relationships, especially her warm and (mostly) trusting relationship with her father (Enrico Colantoni), are central to her character\u2013and Buffy without the self-pity. She\u2019s a wisecracker whose cynicism covers up a \u201cmarshmallow\u201d heart of empathy and longing. The show\u2019s first season explored the spiraling consequences of seemingly minor sins; the callousness and confusion which allow crimes to be committed right under everybody\u2019s noses; and the way kids cope, or fail to cope, with parental legacies of violence and despair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/all-noir-is-reunion-veronica-mars-the-movie\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at AmCon: When we talk about the TV renaissance, we should talk about \u201cVeronica Mars.\u201d The 2004 \u201chigh school noir\u201d show\u2019s extraordinary first season mixed weekly casefiles with a season-long arc\u2013two arcs, actually. 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