After three seasons on broadcast television in the mid-aughts, followed by a fan-funded feature film, “Veronica Mars” is heading to Hulu with an eight-episode standalone season and, mos…
“I don’t want it to be a nostalgia show,” creator. “Kristen [Bell] says she would do it until it’s ‘Murder, She Wrote,’ and my feeling is for us to survive in that way, more and more episodes have to be about the mystery — about Veronica as a detective — and less of the soap opera personal life.”
Although Veronica has always expressed disdain for her hometown, she now finds herself living and working there by choice. But although she is successful in her investigative work and still in a long-term relationship with Logan , things are far from perfect. Now back in Neptune as an adult, Veronica is faced with more of the push and pull of the town, in addition to the push and pull of what is deemed to be the usual steps adults take in their lives.
“I continue to be interested in Veronica as a wounded creature,” Thomas continues. “There is so much to admire about the character, but what I tell the writers is to write her like a porcupine: She can lash out — and she can lash out in a big way. She breaks rules that are fun on TV but in real life teeter on vigilantism. I never want to leave the fact that we’re noir behind. That’s always in my head.
When he and Bell, who is also an executive producer on the project, went in to pitch, the deal was that the network would get a show from them with the “hope that we can get everyone [else] we want,” he continues.
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