Veronica Mars has been one of television's underrated gems for the past two seasons. No show - ever, as far as I'm concerned - manages to pack so much plot and character development into one episode. The show continues the grand tradition of Buffy the Vampire Slayer of using heightened drama and mystery to express the angst and confusion of high school. True to their roots, this season has featured guest appearances from Buffy alums Charisma Carpenter and Alyson Hannigan and even creator Joss Whedon. While Desperate Housewives steadily decreased in quality once the season one mystery was solved, the Mars writers have effectively introduced new mysteries while showing the consequences of last year's. With a diverse cast, this season delved deeper into the issues of class struggle, and with all that has happened this season, revelations as well as hold-your-breath cliffhangers should be expected. If you have never watched either show, do yourself a favor and watch the DVD's. You will get hooked like a maniac.
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it feels like all last year's best shows suck this year except for Veronica Mars; Lost, the OC, Desperate Housewives, Battlestar Galactica (which is still pretty good though).
It feels like all these shows are using really low concepts ideas by having really closed off communities, and quickly running out of ideas. My theory is that most of these shows are made really low concept because it's assumed most shows won't last very long and are trying to be shortlived and make their money on DVD sales after their quick cancellation
Putting TV shows on DVD is a great way to cash in while the iron is still hot.
I don't watch much TV anymore, since the quality of shows isn't so great. Grey's Anatomy has been pretty good though.
oh, it's definitely a good way to make money. look at all the Star Trek boxsets which are at least $100 per season. More recently the new BBC version of Doctor Who which was only 12 episodes and is $100 too (Canadian at least).
True, Prozak and Phoenix ... Those HBO box sets are especially expensive. You would think, though, that you would want a quality show (or at least a popular one) to help DVD sales. It seems the canceled shows that do best on DVD (like Firefly) were good, just failed to catch on.
I agree that this season has pretty much sucked. Maybe the writers of Desperate Housewives and The OC had great first season concepts, but just didn't know where to go from there. Lost has been a bit better than those two shows but it still seems to be dragging its feet a bit.
Sonic Youth did bring the rock, albeit acousticly ... it was pure bliss to see Kim Gordon bouncing around like that with daughter Coco in Stars Hollow!
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