Yesterday, we were treated to yet another great episode of Veronica Mars. This was fueled by the Logan-slept-with-Madison storyline. Oh, if only Madison had been lying in the lingerie shop last week, just to mess with Veronica's head. But no. She and Logan really did hook up in Aspen. Which is something Veronica is "never getting past."
Can't say I blame her. Of all the people to rebound with, Logan had to choose Madison Sinclair. As in Veronica's archenemy, her most loathed foe — not because she's a shallow, bubble-headed brat, but because, as our heroine reminded us in last night's pitch-perfect breakup scene, she's the scheming witch who roofied Veronica at a high school party, which led to her rape, and scrawled "slut" on her car the next day. "I wasn't trying to hurt you," Logan pathetically pleaded. "Really?" Veronica spat back, brimming with rage, betrayal, and heartbreak. "'Imagine if you'd tried."
So much for LoVe's "warts-and-all"' pillow talk, which seemed so romantic last week. Did Logan really think Veronica would never find out about his Aspen hookup? That he could only half confess to his mistake? Logan's transgression even hurt Dick, Madison's on-again, off-again boy toy, who until now seemed to have, as Veronica so brilliantly put it, a wadded-up Maxim magazine where his heart is supposed to be. "Not cool," a sullen Dick told Logan, after finding out about the hookup. "You don't do that to a buddy." Much as I'm pissed at Logan, I don't doubt that he's genuinely suffering now. And I'm glad he is. Each time he popped up on screen, he was either moping in bed or getting wasted and drunk-dialing his ex. Veronica, on the other hand, tortured herself by imagining the offending one-night stand. Then she started seeing Madison in every Hearst blonde with a bad shag haircut.
As always, our gal escaped her emotional turmoil by throwing herself into the sleuthing. This week's case was very interesting regarding a preacher's daughter whose unplanned pregnancy was unplannedly terminated when someone slipped her RU-486. It was a one-ep, open-and-shut investigation, but it put to rest the question of whether or not Veronica was pregnant (she isn't), reintroduced Tim the TA, and ushered in a whole religious theme. Logan left his ex a voice mail saying, "Everyone's a sinner. Judge not, Veronica." And toward the end of the episode, our heroine decided against letting Weevil cube Madison's new Mercedes thanks to the Preacher's speech on forgiveness.
No question, last night's episode, while great, was a downer. But I have to give props to Kristen Bell for her spot-on performance. She was at the top of her game. She was both wrenching in the breakup sequence and comically histrionic when she fake-cried her way into Tim's locked office. And in between the tears (both real and crocodile), she still managed to deliver her trademark zingers. To Dick, "reading" a nudie mag: "Wow, impressive! I've heard Modern Breast is a really hard class." Joking with daddy Keith Mars, as they thumbed through pro-life propaganda: "Harassing women in crisis since 1973!"
Enrico Colantoni also got to shine as her Dad, especially when he presented the father-and-daughter team to the right-to-life press as "Carson Drew and my assistant, Nancy." When he wasn't helping his kid, Keith was picking out eggshells from windshield wipers, determined to crack the Dean O'Dell case. Which, judging from next week's scenes, could get eclipsed by another murder investigation. And this time, Veronica goes and gets herself arrested.
The murder msytery intrigues me. What exactly is the story with the Volvo and the minivan? And is Richard Grieco now a suspect? It also seems Tim the TA has a "Dean O'Dell Murder" file of his own. I guess we'll see how this goes. My one gripe with the episode is the missing Piz, Wallace, Mac, and Parker.
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