Product Description

Set in Neptune California VERONICA MARS is a popular TV drama that follows the fortunes of a 17-year-old trainee private investigator. Neptune is full of powerfully rich residents many of whom believe they are above the law. Fortunately Veronica who was propelled into a life of crime-fighting after her best friend Lilly was murdered is on hand to ensure that justice is served much to the annoyance of the Neptunians who find themselves frequently foiled in their devious plans. Veronica's father is the former sheriff of Neptune who found himself removed from office after alleging that Lilly's father was responsible for his daughter's death. Now together with Veronica he runs a local private investigation business while also ensuring that his daughter doesn't neglect her high school duties. A long-standing subplot that runs through the show is Veronica's attempts to clear her father's name which only leads to further evidence of enormous corruption and deceit in a neighborhood that seems littered with criminal activity. The entire first second and third seasons of the show are collected here.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 085391143116 Manufacturer No: 114311

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9941 in DVD
• Brand: Warner Brothers
• Released on: 2007-10-23
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 18
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 2706 minutes

Customer Reviews

One hell of a series
One of my all time favorites.
Veronica Mars is surely one of the best female characters ever created: great attitude, quick witted, smart, plain beatiful. One couldn't wish for more.
Intriguing plot (which doesn't revolve around some adolescent love affairs in case you were wondering), great variety of characters and situations. Plus some nice psychological insight.
You've got it all.

Really weird price at amazon. Check the used&new ones. You'll find much better offers there (personal experience).

great
The DVDs came quickly, and were brand new. Only qualm: one of the discs was warped, so I couldn't watch it. Good thing there's a Blockbuster down the street!

I would definitely buy from this vendor again.

This was my first amazon purchase, and it has been a great one.

Can't Help But Love It
For my three-hundredth review, I am pleased to give "Veronica Mars" five glowing stars. I will try my best to keep this review short, because I tend to gush when I talk about this show at length; so keeping things simple seems to be the best way to go about this.

THE PLOT: Veronica Mars is an intelligent young girl (Junior in High School when the series beings, Freshman in college when it ends) with a Private Detective father, a bad reputation, and a whole mess of ambition. She often takes on her own PI duties, sometimes looking into small things like petty theft for classmates, but she also gets serious when a bigger case hits close to home. The majority of VM episodes are standalone, but both of the first two seasons also form bigger stories, in that you can watch an episode by itself, but watching a whole season forms a bigger, coherent story line. The third season, instead, is divided into three sections, the first two being shorter mystery arcs, and the final five episodes being completely standalone. The plotting of "Veronica Mars," especially in the first two seasons, is ideal for television because the story is kept fresh with each episode offering side mysteries, but the pay-off of the "big mystery" at the end of a season is heart attack inducingly climatic.

THE WRITING: Here is where I start gushing. The writing simply couldn't be better. Much like Joss Whedon of Buffy fame, the writers of this show--headed by creator Rob Thomas--find a perfect balance between drama and comedy, driving it all forward by snappy dialogue and some of the best characters you'll see on television. Also, the consistency of this show's writing is literally unrivaled. Even the most quality of television shows (such as Angel, Six Feet Under, Firefly, Wonderfalls, and the aforementioned Buffy) tend to have weaker and stronger episodes, but "Veronica Mars" goes on for stretches of virtually flawless episode after flawless episode. The weakest writing you'll find is in late Season Three, when the network demanded that each episode be self-contained, but it's also astonishing to see how the writers worked with these restrictions and still made television better than 99.9 etcetera percent of stuff out there.

THE CAST: Kristen Bell stars as Veronica, and it's pretty much pointless to talk about how great she is, because then I KNOW I'll start with the gushing... but I'll say this: Her performances are laced with subtext and deep understanding of the character, and her chemistry with her nearly equally brilliant cast mates is a physical force. She can make you split your sides laughing one moment and cry the next. The rest of the cast--particularly Jason Dohring, Enrico Colantoni, and Ryan Hansen--are all phenomenal at playing their characters.

EVERYTHING ELSE: The special effects in this show are actually rather good. There are many dream/flashback sequences, and the lighting and coloring of those scenes highly contribute to the mood of the show. The extras are great (there are a few in the first two seasons and an entire disc for the third).

Critics (everyone from Joss Whedon, to Kevin Smith, to Stephen King, to pretty much anyone with taste) love it, fans still mourn its wrongful cancellation, and I can pretty much guarantee that you will fall in love with this show. It's one of the best I've seen, if not the best. That's it.

10/10 Classic.