Hearst College-related stories
Posted May 8th 2007 11:20PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Veronica Mars, Episode Reviews
(S03E17) Y'know, these mini-mysteries (minsteries?) are growing on me. It's quite possible that not having to worry about a longer and larger storyline gives the writers more time to concentrate on some of the other aspects that make (or made) this show great. Hell, even the relationships are done pretty well -- from me, that's saying something.
Continue reading Veronica Mars: Debasement Tapes
Posted Nov 28th 2006 10:54PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Veronica Mars, The CW
(S03E09) This episode was just way too fast for a partial-season ender. While we got answers for the bulk of the episode, there are definitely some questions left hanging around unanswered. But I'll get into those later.
My first thought when Veronica was running away in the opening scene was that it was unlikely that her pursuer was a girl. I just couldn't see her fleeing away from one of the feminiazis, no matter how menacing she was nor the fact that I, for one, would run away from that she-bitch in a dark dorm hallway. Yiieee.
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Posted Nov 23rd 2006 1:24PM by Julia Ward
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Veronica Mars, The CW
In an odd bit of network news, The CW nixed a lesbian kiss planned between
Veronica Mars guest-star Patty Hearst and actress Keri Pratt. Hearst, playing a trustee to the fictional Hearst College on
Tuesday night's Mars episode, didn't get to lock lips with her lady love due to an intervention on the part of the suits. Reporting to the
New York Daily News, Hearst said, "I meet Keri and I'm like, 'Hello.' We didn't know until we were on the set we couldn't actually kiss. We were all set for that."
This is just weird. Didn't The CW get the memo that lesbians kissing in primetime are hot? It's gay men kissing that are supposed to get the patriarchy all nervous. I guess when they figured out that it was the 52 year-old, Symbionese Liberation Army kidnap victim Hearst getting down Sappho-style and not uber-hot Kristin Bell they freaked. It just doesn't have the same sweeps promo potential as "Veronica macks on Mac."
Posted Nov 21st 2006 10:55PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Veronica Mars, The CW
(S03E08) We've
known about this episode for quite some time now -- the
Patty Hearst episode. Thankfully she didn't really have a whole lot of air time, because she's not an actress and, well, it showed. I mean, she wasn't horrible, just not great.
Speaking of Patty Hearst (I mean, Selma Rose), there was one mini-mystery I didn't much care for other than two details from it:
Continue reading Veronica Mars: Lord of the Pi's
Posted Nov 7th 2006 10:45PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, Veronica Mars, The CW
(S03E06) Dean O'Dell backing up Veronica -- who would've thought? Did I miss something or does Veronica still somehow have a job with a different school paper, one that's not the Free Press? Did she somehow get out of working in the library, or is there some other on-campus paper I'm forgetting? Not the Lampoon, is it?
I have to admit that after last week's episode, some commenters had a good theory that Wallace didn't cheat and had instead written something like "so-and-so is selling answers to this test." Alas, that doesn't seem to be the case. Though I was surprised to see some leniency coming his way with the cheating. Isn't that, like, expulsion material? Not to mention he stays on the basketball team?
Continue reading Veronica Mars: Hi, Infidelity
Posted Aug 24th 2006 12:36PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Veronica Mars, Celebrities, The CW
The most famous kidnapping victim ever will appear on, and then disappear from,
Veronica Mars. Heiress Patty Hearst will play the granddaughter of the founder of Hearst College (the fictional university on the show). Patty's character, a member of the Board of Trustees, will mysteriously disappear the night before a big vote regarding the university's future. The episode airs during ratings, November 21. Hearst has made a number of guest appearances on shows such as
Frasier,
Boston Common, and
Son of the Beach.
Eh. I like
Veronica Mars, but if they're really
scrambling for ratings, I don't think the power of Patty Hearst is going to help them much. I'm more excited about
Ed Begley, Jr.
Posted Aug 13th 2006 9:58AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Veronica Mars, Celebrities, The CW
Alright, I stand corrected -- there now may be hope for me to find the dean of Hearst College more than mildly interesting. Fellow
Mars fanatic Michael Ausiello of TV Guide
has landed some juicy details about who's taken the role, now that Michael McKean has
had to turn it down -- none other than fellow improv-erific Ed Begley Jr.. Begley's appeared in
A Mighty Wind, just as McKean has, though you've no doubt known him for his roles in
Arrested Development,
St. Elsewhere, and too many more to mention. OK, I feel better now.
[Thanks Karen M. O'Shea for the tip!]
Posted Aug 9th 2006 8:06AM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Talent, Veronica Mars, Celebrities, The CW
Sometimes there are news stories and (*gasp*) even spoilers that, once I've read them, I wish I hadn't. Case in point, Rob Thomas
revealed to TV Guide's Michael Ausiello that within the span of 12 hours, Michael McKean had accepted and then passed on the role of the dean of Hearst College, the backdrop school for most of the next season of
Veronica Mars. I agree with Thomas -- that truly is the most depressing casting news in the world. How the heck am I going to like the person filling those shoes now?
Why, Michael?
Why?Posted May 2nd 2006 10:57PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, OpEd, UPN, Veronica Mars, The CW
(S02E21) Can you feel it? That tension in the air like we felt last season, right before the final episode? Everything's coming together, and still we doubt our assumptions. Do we really know who's behind the bus crash? Were we really right in our guesses about Woody and his pervy ways?
While I'm clearly excited to know how everything goes down next week, this is also when I'm sad to realize that everything's about to end, and we'll have another summer to wait through to see what happens next.
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