Veronica Mars - The Complete Second Season | 
| Actor: Kristen Bell
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  172 reviews
Sales Rank: 1489
Format: Box Set, Color, Subtitled
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 929 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.2
MPN: D76917D
UPC: 012569769175
EAN: 0012569769175
ASIN: B000FL7CAK
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 2004
Release Date: August 22, 2006
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The second season of Veronica Mars showcases the series' crackling-sharp writing and topnotch acting of star Kristen Bell and the rest of the cast. Veronica still struggles with the class wars in sunny Neptune, Calif., trying to find a balance between high school, love, helping her dad as a private eye, and doing the right thing. The ongoing thread of season 2 is the aftermath of a horrifying tragedy, and as Veronica and dad Keith try to find out what caused it, mysteries only compound. Shifty Sheriff Lamb, town powerbrokers, and various high-school cliques seem to undermine Veronica at every turn. Thankfully, Veronica has more chutzpah than Phillip Marlowe, and the side-of-the-mouth one-liners to match: "Well, actually," Veronica says dryly to a bad guy, "despite popular opinion, you really can't beat the truth out of someone." Some of the show's broad strokes echo the stellar Buffy the Vampire Slayer, yet Bell's Veronica doesn't need the supernatural to tackle a challenge. She's a real girl, conflicted, prickly, lovesick, yearning, sometimes even scared. As Veronica tries to solve the mystery, she must also handle her own heartbreaks, and the moral stumbles of those closest to her. Happily, she's got a great best pal, Wallace (the effervescent Percy Daggs III), and possibly the coolest, most understanding TV dad ever (Enrico Colantoni). The boxed set includes 22 episodes (many with deleted scenes), a behind-the-scenes mini-doc, a cute gag reel, and a short profile film, Veronica Mars: Not Your Average Teen Detective. You can say that again. --A.T. Hurley
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 Almost rivals the first. July 2, 2009
E. Dixon (KY, USA)
I consider the first season of Veronica Mars to be nearly perfect, and the second season does very little to disappoint. It is another season-long mystery slowly solved over the 20 something episodes, with smaller mysteries and reveals strewn throughout the season. This recipe worked great for the first season, and works just as good here. While the ending seemed just a tad overdramatic (not much more than the first, though, come to think of it), there is very little to dislike about it. If you enjoyed the first season in any way, you can't go wrong with watching the second as well.
Darker and less satisfying than Season One. May 9, 2009
Genevieve Hayes (Australia)
Darker than the first season and less satisfying in its resolution, the second season of "Veronica Mars" is, nevertheless, still likely to please fans of the series. The over-arching mystery of this season centres around a bus accident that results in the deaths of a number of Neptune High students, but other mysteries that Veronica must solve include the murder of one of Weavil's friends, possibly by Logan, and the molestation of a group of young men when they were boys. We also get to see the outcome of the events of Season one, including the trial of Aaron Echolls.
Child abuse and molestation are the main themes in this season of "Veronica Mars", and the makers of the show deal with them reasonably well, although they didn't quite manage to make the ultimate consequences of the molestation/abuse believable to me. Whereas in Season One, it seemed believable that Aaron Echolls could be a murderer, I just didn't believe in the ultimate reveal of this season. It's not to say that the makers of the series didn't try. As in the first season, by the final episode it is clear that clues to the killer had been laid right from the beginning, and I appreciate that, but it just didn't quite work.
Having said that, I still enjoyed Season Two of "Veronica Mars" very much. It is still one of the smartest teen shows ever made and I thoroughly enjoyed every episode. Hopefully other fans of the series will feel the same.
Not as good as season 1 but worth watching February 7, 2009
Liz Watson (PA)
My husband and I enjoyed season I and had great expectations for the second season as well. The characters are a bit more trashy in the second season to the point where it can distract from the plot. On the positive side, there are plenty of laughs and witty come-backs that keep things light. Overall, I would purchase this set again.
 The brilliant Veronica Mars series February 4, 2009
Keith Grant (London, UK)
Veronica Mars is no longer made, but even so it still has to be one of the best series to come out of the USA. The second series is as brilliant as series one & three - (equally must haves for your DVD collection). It's concept is a mix between a female Sherlock Holmes meeting Beverly Hills, 90210. Veronica Mars is played by Kristen Bell who gives a blow away performance supported by an equally talented supporting cast. The writing is also in a league of its own and the quality of production is far above the norm. The one-liners coupled with the strong characters guarantees a great viewing experience. The series finished due to not having enough viewers. This was mainly due to very little publicity and having its US schedule changed weekly. It lasted for one more series, and considering the crap that is commissioned by the same US television network, it should have gone on for many more years. I have loaned my three box sets to friends who cannot believe they had never heard or seen this brilliant series in the UK. I guarantee once you start watching this show you will be hooked and very disappointed it is no longer in production.
Much like the first season, but better. December 24, 2008
Woo Kim (Centralia, WA USA)
*Please note, if you have not seen Season Two and don't want me spoiling anything for you the viewer. I suggest you rent Veronica Mars Season Two on Amazon.com on Demand, Netflix, or The Playstation Network. If you don't care keep reading.
The season picks up three months after the ending of season one when it is discovered Aaron Echolls murdered Lily Kane. Much like the pilot episode there are a lot of flashbacks to went on during the three months after the solving of Lily's murder. We find out Logan Echolls was the mystery person behind Veronica's door at the season one finale. We also find out that Weevel's cousin Felix was stabbed by someone and throughout the season Logan is the assumed killer. Another thing that season one and season two share is the big event. Like the murder of Lily Kane which dominated season one as Veronica's huge case to crack (which actually gets wrapped up in a big way at the end of the season.) Season Two's big event involves a school bus crash which takes the lives of seven people including Veronica's close friend Meg Manning who plays a bigger role than ever thought possible when we met her in season one.
Veronica's love life gets into a Triangle ... like we didn't see that coming at the end of season one. The two men fighting over her friends Logan Echolls and Duncan Kane. This not being a pivitol arc I won't spend too much time with this for this reason. It seems like filler, Veronica Mars has never been a series like Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Collector's Set (40 discs) where the title characters' love life is so important to the seasonal arc.
What is important to Season Two's arc is the addition of new characters and or characters we met back at the tail end of season one. Dick Casablancas (the name fits his character) who doesn't go through that many changes but has a small part to the bigger picture of Season Two. Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas (Dick's younger brother) who goes through a huge character growth in Season Two and actually becomes a huge player in the end of the season. The new mayor Woody Goodman played by Steve Guttenberg of Police Academy (20th Anniversary Special Edition) plays a character so different than the man most people knew from the 1980's. Then there is Jackie Cook daughter of Neptune Shark's icon Terrence Cook who eventually becomes Wallace's on again off again girlfriend. Her role in Season Two is very minor, who only role really was to be a love interest for Wallace.
The biggest guest star of the season is probably Charisma Carpenter better know to audiences as Cordelia Chase on Angel - Seasons 1-5 30-Disc DVD Set . In the second season she plays Dick and Cassidy's gold digging yet very fine young stepmother Kendall Casablancas a character that Charisma says is like a sexier, more evil Cordelia think of Cordelia from Angel - Season One (Slim Set) is a little more selfish and more evil.
All and all Veronica Mars Season Two left me speechless. But unlike Season One's finale Season Two's finale almost told the audience there will be a season three. If you were a fan of season one, you will be a fan of season two.
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