A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 

• Veronica has choices to make! NYC or Neptune? Lawyering or detectiving? Piz or Logan? Try to guess, go on, guess.
• Armed with her favourite tools, a bug, a long lens and a taser, Veronica closes in on Carrie’s murderer...
• ...And it’s not any of the candidates you thought it might be in the first half of the movie - it’s the guy you barely saw at all, Cobb! Who? Cobb! You remember Cobb.
• Cobb!
• The death toll rises - Deputy Sacks, Gia, possibly a cat - and our beloved Keith ends up in ICU.
• Sheriff Dan Lamb is happy to frame Logan, doesn’t want to catch the real killer, and plants a gun in Weevil’s hand to make it look like Celeste shot him in self-defence. Veronica can’t resist getting her teeth into all that Neptune corruption.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate the second half of Veronica Mars: the 2014 movie, and delve into such mysteries as how long Pizvonica have been a thing, why Sweaty Luke is just there for some kind of gross 1950s-style plot, and whether these kids ever needed to cover up Susan's death at all, but especially after the statute of limitations has elapsed.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, violence, addiction and car crashes.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site http://VMIpod.com/movie2.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs. Lo Dodds brings us the LoDown.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - over on our Twitter, Mars Madness 2021 is in full swing, so cast your votes for the ultimate in the Marsverse!

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 

• 91,585 fans missed the show so much that they kickstarted a movie! The third-highest funded Kickstarter project at that time! 
• So off we all go back to Neptune to see some old pals, like Wallace! Principal Clemmons! Gia Goodman! Sweaty Luke! Corny! Aaaand Logan being suspected of murder.
• Plus some new pals, like Mac’s hot new hair! Piz’s boss Ira Glass! a new Sheriff Lamb who is just as shitty as the old Sheriff Lamb! And an intense Logan fan in a wig.
• We’re not so pleased to see the Pizvonica sex tape again, and it causes a big punchup at the high school reunion!
• We also reluctantly reunite with Celeste Kane, as she shoots the now upstanding husband and dad Weevil.
• And even though Veronica’s supposedly happy living in New York City, in a relationship with Piz, about to become a big shot lawyer, you know she can’t resist a Logan in distress.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate the first half of Veronica Mars: the 2014 movie, and delve into such mysteries as: how Keith has such a spacious lovely home these days, Dax Shepard's van, why Mac and Wallace force the heinous reunion on Veronica and poor poor Piz, and leg erotica. 

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this movie includes storylines concerning murder, violence and sex tapes.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site http://VMIpod.com/movie1.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs. Lo Dodds brings us the LoDown.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS: 

• Rob Thomas wrote a mini-pilot for a season 4 that involved Veronica becoming an FBI agent, and guess what! It’s full of awful white guys who don’t seem to do anything and leave all the work to Veronica and her new colleague Nish-In-A-Wig - we mean Callie. Callie! Totally new character!
• Nish goes off to infiltrate a strip club, while Veronica is sent back to high school in a tiny vest, to arrest a pervy principal…
• ...then she goes to question someone about a bomber but he turns out to BE the bomber! 
• He’s holding Nish-In-A-Wig at knifepoint, argh what’s going to happen???
• The show’s cancelled, that’s what happens. BUT we've got all your incredible pitches for what could have been in the years between the end of Veronica Mars season 3 and the movie!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 4 pitches, real and imagined, for romantic entanglements, shock reveals, redemption arcs, lucrative careers for Mac and Wallace, contentment for Logan, a detective daughter for Weevil, and hot hot Mindy for Jenny.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning sexual assault and violence.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site http://VMIpod.com/veronicainthefbi.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - soon on Twitter we will commence Mars Madness 2021, so get ready to cast some completely inconsequential votes.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS SEASON 3:

Murders! Rapes! Frats! The Dreaded Feminists! Jenny's beautiful wife Mindy! Eggs! Wigs! Bland white boys! Obnoxious white boys! Bland obnoxious white boys! Loganica together! Loganica asunder! Aaaaand... Weevil’s big red toolbox!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and returning Special Agent LaToya Ferguson, to reopen the cold case files and try to crack some of Veronica Mars season 3's unsolved mysteries, such as: where's Wallace? Why is Lucky-in-a-wig? Is Professor Landry actually hot? Ah screw it, let's all just escape to Jenny's island where she cavorts with her beautiful wife Mindy and Wallace happily flies his little planes the next beach over.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode discusses storylines concerning rape.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/investigations3.

Hear more LaToya Ferguson on the podcasts Angel on Top and The AMPire Diaries, and follow her on Twitter and Instagram @lafergs.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - and mark 27 February in your calendar, we'll be livetweeting the Veronica Mars MOVIE! We start 10pm UK time, 5pm ET, 2pm PT; Sunday morning on 28th Feb, Australian friends.

AND next we'll be recapping the season 4 mini-episode that they snuck onto the end of season 3, with Veronica in the FBI - but we want to know YOUR pitches for the season 4 that didn't happen then because the show went into hibernation for seven years. What do you think happened/should have happened to Veronica and team between season 3 and the movie? Let us know in the comments at vmipod.com/season4pitch.

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If you’d like to sponsor this show, contact Amanda via multitude.productions/contact. This episode is sponsored by Encyclopedia Womannica, bitesized podcasts about groundbreaking women from history. Find the show wherever you get your podcasts.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• As we know, sex people never prosper in this show, and Piz is bruised from Logan’s attack and Veronica is humiliated - and ready for revenge.

• Veronica’s search for the sex tape culprit takes her from Piz to Logan to Dick to Chip to some other asshole Dominick to some other other asshole Gory to the secret society The Castle to JAKE KANE!?!?!

• Of course, to cap a season that began with the Stanford Prison Experiment, we get the Milgram Experiment; and, unfortunately, it is performed on Wallace as he helps Veronica investigate the Castle.

• Veronica breaks into what turns out to be Jake Kane’s new lonely bachelor mansion, steals his hard drive, but leaves a shred of her sweater snagged on the doggy door she shimmied in through, and is caught on the neighbour’s security tapes.

• Keith destroys the security footage of Veronica - and maybe also his chances of winning the sheriff election. Did he win?? Find out next epi- oh but then the show was dormant for seven years.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episode 20: The Bitch Is Back, and consider such mysteries as how this show, even in its last moments pre-cancellation, finds ways to introduce new awful white boys, each more revolting than the last; how many supercomputers this college contains; whether we can ship Keith and Clarence Wiedman; and whether Jake Kane painted the big terrifying portraits of his children himself.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning violence and sex tapes.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-20.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown. If you’d like to sponsor this show, contact Amanda via multitude.productions/contact.

Find the show @VMIpod on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook - and mark 27 February in your calendar, we'll be livetweeting the Veronica Mars MOVIE! We start 10pm UK time, 5pm ET, 2pm PT. Sunday morning on 28th Feb, Australian friends.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• Rock star Paul Rudd is here to play a show at Hearst College, to fundraise for Piz’s awful radio station - but oh no! His backing tapes are missing! Presumed stolen! They’re not. A crime-free mystery!
• New campus celebrity Apollo has written a hit memoir about being a child soldier in Uganda - but WAS he? - and Veronica is hired by someone claiming to be his dad - but IS he? Yes to both. Another crime-free mystery! How relaxing.
• Until! Remember when Weevil was falsely accused of stealing Veronica’s necklace, and falsely accused of stealing the fairground cash box, and… anyway, in today’s edition of “Let’s fuck up Weevil for no good reason,” he’s accused of making fake IDs.
• Someone has leaked a sex tape of Pizvonica! Nobody wants to see that! Especially not Logan, who beats up Piz.
• Acting Sheriff Mars is investigating a string of Fitzpatricky burglaries, that threaten his sheriff campaign AND his friendship with Cliff.Vinnie is also running for Sheriff, and might be involved in the burglaries too?
• And Big Dick Richard Casablancas is back to spend some time with Little Dick before going to prison for all his crimes in the first two seasons. And at long last, Dick Casablancas shows some human emotions.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episodes 17, 18 and 19: I Know Weevil's Wobble Tapes, and consider such mysteries as what Wallace has been up to in all the time he has not been on screen, what a Weevil-based Law & Order spinoff would be like, and whether that's Rob Thomas in a wig? After all the wigs he has inflicted on others!

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning violence, alcoholism, sex tapes and suicide.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-171819.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• Veronica’s in jail for helping Josh escape jail - though later she seems to get away with helping Josh get away with kidnapping, obtaining his inheritance early, and fleeing the country.
• Even though Josh didn’t actually kill his dad - turns out his dad killed his dad, for life insurance purposes.
• And, it turns out the Dean was killed by Lucky In A Wig, for framing Professor Landry purposes!
• And, Professor Landry kills Mindy O’Dell! For writing both of them off the show purposes?
• And, Sheriff Lamb is killed by Steve Batando! So Deputy Sacks kills Steve! And that’s the season finale of Veronica Mars - wait, there are still several episodes to go?
• Keith is sheriff again, anyway.
• At least some people are having fun: Mac, Bronson, Parker and Logan do a Valentine’s Day scavenger hunt, and find a little romance on the way.
• And Veronica and Piz get together! Pizvonica! A pairing as sizzling as lukewarm oatmeal.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episodes 14, 15 and 16: Papa's Un-American Mars Bars, and delve into such mysteries as which Gilmore Girl Wallace is, why both Marses are worse when Keith is officially doing sheriff duties, and how this show's compulsion to make cultural references even infiltrates the last words of a dying man.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, suicide, violence, racism and Islamophobia.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-141516.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• Remember Max, that guy who you can pay to cheat on tests? Well he’s fallen in love with a sex worker and wants Veronica to track her down! But it’ll cost him, financially and emotionally.

• Remember Bonnie, the sexperson who had been dealing with Dick and other frats outside of her relationship with Luckyinawig? Well, she was pregnant, until someone slipped her a pill that caused her to miscarry.

• Remember the Dean’s wife’s ex-husband Steve? He’s back, because now the Dean’s dead, Mindy can’t afford to pay him the bone marrow hush money any more.

• Remember eggs, specifically the ones that the Dreaded Feminists threw at the Dean’s car and the Dean’s office? Keith is putting on his old sheriff uniform to investigate.

• Remember Wallace’s sportsball coach? No? Never mind: he shows up dead, and the Marses have to prove that his son Josh isn’t the murderer.

• Remember Madison Sinclair? Logan had sex with her! And so Loganica break up. Again.

• Hence Logan is wallowing in heartbreak, until Dick runs off to Vegas and leaves him in charge of an 11-year-old girl - who is a better friend to him than anyone else has been on this show.

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episodes 11, 12 and 13: There’s Gotta Be a Poughkeepsie Mortem, and delve into such mysteries as why this show gives us 40 minutes of awful Max and one minute of our angel Wallace, what ‘interesting lingerie’ could mean, and why are truck nuts.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning murder, suicide, sex work, rape, miscarriage, abortion and anti-abortion movements.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-111213.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• Real life Patty Hearst plays a fake Hearst; and real life kidnapped person Patty Hearst plays a fake kidnapped person. It’s all something to do with share prices and a rich-people divorce settlement and she AND her husband have both been having affairs with the dog walker?

• Update on Frats vs Dreaded Feminists: head fratter Chip is found unconscious, with his head shaved and a plastic egg shoved up his bum with a cryptic message inside.

• And the Dreaded Feminists make Veronica wonder whether all the rapes were fake, but NO, they were real, and the rapist has got Veronica cornered and drugged again.

• The Dean hires Keith to investigate whether his wife Mindy is cheating on him with her colleague. She isn’t - but she is, of course, cheating on him with the Dean’s colleague Professor Landry.

• And having confronted them in bed together, the Dean is found dead with a gunshot wound to the head. It’s ruled a suicide, but... is it actually murder?

• And after all that, w'e’re actually relieved to sit through another stolen animals plot, wherein Veronica and Mac infiltrate an animal rights group to get back a lab monkey and twenty rats.

• There’s even another culturally insensitive hat party!

• But it’s all worth it, because Mac meets a cute guy!

• And they get the monkey back!

• (And the rats, but nobody cares about them. (Except Jenny.))

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episodes 8, 9 and 10: Lord of the Spit Monkeys, and ponder such mysteries as how Dick is not banned from everywhere already, how this show made us feel bad for awful Chip, and why they don’t just keep Piz dancing instead of talking.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning rape, assault, murder, suicide, drugs and violence.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-080910.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS:

• The Dean’s wife’s son is dying and they need Keith to track down her ex-husband and extract his bone marrow, by force if need be.

• The college casino is robbed! Veronica thinks it was Weevil…

• Turns out, Claire faked her rape. But the rapist is still real, still out there, and drugs and shaves Veronica.

• Professor Landry’s new teacher’s pet is Veronica, so his old teacher’s pet, Tim, makes it look like she cheated on a paper.

• Other people ARE cheating, though: Wallace and Logan, on tests, and the Dean’s wife, on the Dean…with Professor Landry!

• Someone we don’t know, Meryl, comes to Hearst College to visit her boyfriend whom we also don’t know, so we don’t care that he’s missing, nor that he turns up - but we definitely don’t like having to stop in on the Fitzpatricks along the way.

• And Keith and Harmony are spending time together again. There’s a not a lot of plot but there’s a lot of HOT!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to investigate Veronica Mars season 3 episodes 5, 6 and 7: President Infidelity of Vice and Men, and probe such mysteries as how many crimes you’re committing by kidnapping someone and extracting their bone marrow, where is our app with Cliff just shouting words three times, and WTF Veronica and Logan are dressed as for Halloween.

Content note: Veronica Mars contains heavy themes, and this episode includes storylines concerning rape, drugs and violence.

For more about this episode, and to read the transcript, visit the podcast’s official site VMIpod.com/3-050607.

This episode was edited and mixed by Helen Zaltzman; the music is by Martin Austwick and Jenny Owen Youngs; Lo Dodds gives us the LoDown.

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