'Veronica Mars' proves why Kristen Bell is one of TV's best actors
"Veronica Mars" is back, again, courtesy of Hulu's long-coming fourth season of a series born in 2004 on a network - UPN - that no longer exists.
In a sense, Veronica herself has been there all along, as a potentiality and sometimes more: canonically revived in a 2014 Kickstarter-funded feature film and two subsequent novels co-authored by series creator Rob Thomas, and in the unofficial shared dream that is fan fiction. And, most important, in the person of actress Kristen Bell, whose shape and sound and carriage are Veronica's as well. It is easier to imagine anyone playing Batman than it is to picture anyone but Bell playing Veronica Mars.
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