While we wait for Hulu’s revival of Veronica Mars on July 26th, the fans at San Diego Comic-Con enjoyed a screening of the first installment in the upcoming 8-episode season. It’s been ten years since the teenage private investigator graced our TV screens, and five since she hit theaters, and now, not surprisingly, Hulu revived the cult classic. And boy, did they deliver.
Rob Thomas’s Veronica Mars debuted on UPN in 2004, and surprised us with its heavy content surrounded by teen-drama and rising stars. The original seasons followed The Good Place’s Kristen Bell as the high school daughter of a shunned private investigator as she uses her wit and expertise to investigate cases in her own way. Each episode brings a procedural full of mystery and teenage angst while unraveling a greater story. Although its run only lasted three years, it garners a powerful fanbase of “Marshmallows” that sparked a Kickstarter campaign resulting in a theatrical film in 2014. Now, the Veronica Mars fervor has ridden the wave of recent revivals all the way to Hulu.
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The fourth season of Mars was confirmed by the streaming service in 2018 after rampant speculation, and the release of the official trailer was a welcome surprise for fans of the teen detective. It reintroduced us to Neptune, California where the now-official private investigator, Veronica Mars, and her reunited partner, Logan (Jason Dohring), live peacefully. That is until a series of targeted bombings hit the very lucrative spring break celebration. It seems we can expect serial killers, scrambling investigations, relationship troubles, strip clubs, shifty JK Simmons (Whiplash) and quippy Patton Oswalt (A.P. Bio, Secret Life of Pets 2 in the upcoming season. Much of the original cast is set to reprise their roles in the matured and modern Veronica Mars.
Hulu is charging full force into the streaming wars against their competitors Netflix and WarnerMedia by loading the Veronica Mars panel with heavy hitters. Kristen Bell returns to star and executive produce after receiving success and accolades for her roles in Disney’s Frozen and NBC’s The Good Place. She and her fellow Producers Rob Thomas and Diane Ruggiero-Wright joined stars Enrico Colantoni, Jason Dohring, Ryan Hansen, Francis Capra, and Percy Daggs III in San Diego to discuss the upcoming season.
So, while Hulu’s controlling company, Disney, finished dominating Hall H with Marvel and the Russo’s (Avengers:Endgame), Veronica Mars brought the premier episode of season 4 to the fans. In September, Bell told Entertainment Weekly:
They delivered. Though after the daring “Beaver” Casablancas (Kyle Gallner) and Woody Goodman (Steve Guttenberg) storylines of the early seasons, the edgy, noir tone should come as no surprise.
“It’s gonna be a much darker world, it’s going to be a bigger world, it’s definitely not what we did on UPN or The CW, so I want to brace fans for that, that it’s going to be darker and bigger and more cinematic, a little bit different.”
Season 4 of Veronica Mars will premier on Hulu in its entirety on July 26th as the streaming service transitions into the changing landscape of television. Continue to follow us for all your SDCC coverage.
The interview with Kristen Bell was originally conducted by Entertainment Weekly
