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Veronica Mars: Lilly Kane
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Veronica Mars jumped the shark very early on in the first season. I was never able to see it on TV here in the UK so I bought the first series on DVD after hearing raves from pretty much every single magazine and person who had seen it. At first I really liked it - the first episode set up the aims of the season (solving Lilly's death and Veronica's rape, finding Veronica's Mum) but the weaknesses soon became abundantly clear:
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As the daughter of well-respected County Sheriff Keith Mars, Veronica's biggest problem was getting unceremoniously dumped by her boyfriend (and Lilly's brother), Duncan Kane. With Lilly's murder... Veronica's life falls apart. Her father accuses Lilly's father, the popular software billionaire Jake Kane, of being involved in the murder; this provokes Neptune's wrath and causes Keith to lose a recall election. Veronica's mother, Lianne, develops a drinking problem and leaves town. And Veronica's "09er" friends—wealthy students from the fictional 90909 ZIP code—force her to choose between them and her father. Veronica chooses her father.
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For the record, Lilly - Veronica's best friend - seems to have been more in the Marissa-ish vein, an over-indulged teen with limpid eyes and, unfortunately for her, access to a pool at the opulent family mansion. Lilly, late of Neptune, seems to have indulged an all too familiar weakness for bad boys, which might have had something to do with her undoing.
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