Veronica Mars, a show about a father and daughter who work together as private investigators. The family lives in Neptune California, where Veronica goes to school, and works with her dad. After the death of her best friend Lilly, Veronica’s life went downhill. Veronicas friends disowned her, her father lost her job, and her mother ran left them behind.
Veronica Mars differentiates itself from similar investigation shows but instead of focusing on just the cases it focuses on Veronicas life. Through flashbacks of her past life and the difficult situations she is still dealing with. The show allows you to get involved with Veronica and have a better understanding of where she comes from.
The series is shot using single camera, this doesn’t allow for much of any unique style because most similar shows are also shot using a single camera. Also other investigation shows like CSI feature flashbacks. This show may differentiate from similar shows because it focuses on the life of a young girl who solves her own problems and the problems of her friends, while at the same time trying to solve bigger cases from the family business, and the overall case the murder of her best friend Lilly Kane.
The central protagonist Veronica is motivated by the loss of her best friend, her mom running out on her and her dad, these and many other things in the past have shaped her into who she is a strong willed, courageous young girl. She’s not afraid to put herself in dangers way, getting involved with the school biker gang, putting herself in a cult, talking to the killer of her best friend, going to college parties. Veronica seems to be the girl every one is intimidated by because she isn’t afraid to “get a little dirty”.
The narrative problematic is leaving Neptune. A few smaller problematic include Veronica and the potential relationship with Wallace, and Veronica getting back together with Duncan.
The setting of Neptune is a rich town where there is no middle class. Veronica and her dad are middle class, they don't really fit in Neptune. Neptune is a place worth revisiting, not for the rich people but for the Veronica and her dad, possibly to see if they are surviving because Neptune is out of their league.
The series relies on episodic because there is a new case every episode in which Veronica has to solve. The serial has created a deeper story of the lives of Veronica and her dad working to solve the murder of Veronicas best friend Lilly, which brings viewers back the next week to find out more.
In every episode a single crime or case is solved. For example in the pilot the tensions between Wallace and the biker gang are resolved through Veronica, also past tensions between her and the main Sheriff have been semi-resolved by her showing a tape of one of his deputies picking up a prostitute. The one big case that carries on to the next episode is the investigation of the murder of Lilly Kane.
The strategies that produce repetition within the series is Case solving, in each episode there is a new case but each individual case is different, in the pilot she has many small cases that are personal such as helping Wallace, her new friend, make amends with the Weevil from the biker gang at Logan's expense. Another case she helps "solve" is the inappropriate conduct at the Sheriff's department/the two biker kids who stole from the Sack and Pack. In the second episode the big case she solves is helping get Weevil and his grandma out of trouble with the sheriff. These cases are all different from episode to episode, but Veronicas forms of solving the cases tends to be the same, she uses similar sources to get information that she needs.
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