With That Gorgeous Finale, Veronica Mars Lastly Grows Up

This publish accommodates spoilers about all the fourth season of Veronica Mars which dropped on Hulu right now. This might be your final warning so get out now earlier than it’s too late. I imply it. Actually.

Nonetheless right here? You certain? Okay right here we go. Veronica Mars took an enormous threat within the remaining minutes of its fourth season finale “Years, Continents, Bloodshed” by actually murdering certainly one of its darlings. Logan Echolls—performed with chiseled, simmering attraction by Jason Dohring—turned the final sufferer of Patton Oswalt’s Penn Epner who spent all the season terrorizing Neptune’s spring breakers. Logan dies after he and his longtime love Veronica (Kristen Bell) lastly tie the knot and it marks an enormous, mature rebound for a narrative that’s been stumbling ever since Veronica graduated highschool on the finish of Season 2.

When Veronica Mars first debuted in 2004 it gained the hearts of critics and followers alike for its irresistible mix of potboiler noir tropes, highschool drama, and razor sharp wit. The present hummed together with Veronica shortly ditching her uninteresting wealthy boy love curiosity Duncan Kane (Teddy Dunn) for the surprising and dangerously darkish attract of his finest good friend Logan. What’s a highschool story, in any case, and not using a good will they/gained’t they? The primary two seasons of Veronica Mars grew from power to power with ingenious mysteries, mature explorations of sexual assault, teen friendships, class battle, and the enviable father/daughter sleuthing group of Veronica and Keith Mars (Enrico Colantoni). All of the whereas, that Logan and Veronica dynamic was cooking away within the background like a pure black-tar heroin model of a basic forbidden teen soapy romance. We have been all hooked. However as with all habit, the thrill inevitably provides method to a crash.

In Season three, the worst potential factor occurred: Veronica and Logan lastly and really acquired collectively. Already struggling to search out its means in a school setting and the fireplace of that romance fading, Veronica Mars misplaced its mojo. The present, in desperation, broke them up once more. However the messiness of that season’s multi-stage thriller apart, nobody might probably imagine that Veronica would select to be with anybody apart from Logan. When poor Piz (Chris Lowell) tried to step in, the fandom rioted. And that’s at all times been the issue with Veronica and Logan. They’re finest once they’re preventing. A little bit boring once they’re collectively. And, at a sure level, downright unbelievable once they’re aside. That rocky third season can be the final of the unique Veronica Mars run.