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How healthy did you see the relationship at this stage? He’s come very far from the bum-fight guy, while she seems stuck in old patterns and at times seems to be trying to sabotage things between them.We often see stories of men in their thirties, sometimes even forties, struggling with putting away childish things. It’s the story of men afraid of commitment, marriage, kids, mortgage, settling down. I thought it would be interesting to see Veronica struggling with an addiction for adventure, for the unknown. To not be settled down or confined by things. So the Logan marriage proposal in the first episode was meant to bring that to a head. Wallace is there to represent marriage, mortgage, kid, a life settled down. And this new friend she makes in Nicole was to represent being footloose and fancy free and your own boss. Leo was in there to tempt her in that direction. I was interested in putting Veronica at those crossroads. Logan, his behavior is mostly someone who has … [Read more...] about ‘I’m Terrified’: ‘Veronica Mars’ Creator Rob Thomas on That Shock Ending

“We did etiquette rehearsals – there are so many things that you don’t even think about – we had learn how to do curtsy, we had to learn how to bow, we had to learn how to nod our head,” she said. “For example, there is a thing called ‘the cut’ in etiquette terms. It’s where you are standing in a ballroom and you look across the room and catch the eye of somebody else. You might nod and the person across the room can look away without acknowledging you, that’s called ‘the cut’. I love that because that’s what happens now, there is nothing worse. Everything (on the show) was couched in terms of what the contemporary relevance was.” … [Read more...] about ‘Bridgerton’ Director Julie Anne Robinson On Filming Balls, Horses & Those Honeymoon Scenes; Talks Casting & Music For Netflix Hit

But the new eight-episode Hulu season is keenly aware that its heroine is stuck in neutral. It’s less surprising for her as an adult to be doing stakeouts and fending off gangsters at gunpoint. But it’s also sad and self-destructive — in a very film-noir kind of way — that she’s retreated to the role she had before she was old enough to vote. When her high school frenemy Weevil (Francis Capra) asks what’s wrong with her, she cracks, “You know, there are a range of opinions.” She spends as much of her narration beating herself up for mistakes and character flaws as she does helping us follow the complicated case that’s brought her back to television. And Bell is just as charismatic, vulnerable, and slick with the banter as she was when she could pass for an 11th-grader. … [Read more...] about ‘Veronica Mars’ Review: A Teen Heroine Grows Up