Women are from 'Mars'

At my sister's urging, I have been periodically TiVoing Veronica Mars on Wednesdays. It's opposite Law and Order, but they've been entirely too preachy for me, especially the last one with that crazy Jewish Anti-war defense lawyer. It basically said that this guy was justified in killing this defense contractor because the defense contractor was responsible for his brother's death in Iraq. WHATever. I'm sorry, but there's no way you can justify killing a guy just becuase of something that happened in wartime.

So this week, I switched over to UPN for Veronica Mars. I've seen one or two episodes before, but this one kind of irked me. Veronica is on a campus visit to Hearst College, which by the way looks a lot like West Beverly high from 90210. She goes to a college party where she meets a girl, Alia Shawkat from RIP Arrested Development. The girl is raped and Veronica has to help her ex-boyfriend clear his name. The show also featured Michael Cera as the campus visit tour guide. It was a decent show, but the acting was kind of flat. There's some subplot with a guy and a cheerleader back at Veronica's high school, and Veronica's dad has to help some lawyer guy track down the hooker who stole his briefcase.

I liked the show, but I found it kind of like the bastard child of Murder, She Wrote and the afforementioned Beverly Hills: 90210. It was a believeable enough premise, but the ancillary characters and plots just seemed extraneous.

I think I need to refrain from watching any more episodes until I can borrow the DVD of the first season from my sister.