Season 1, Episode 2
Date of airing: September 28, 2004 (UPN)
Nielsen ratings information: 2.21 million viewers, 1.7 rating/3 share in Households, 1.0 rating/2 share with Adults 18-49
Written by: Rob Thomas
Directed by: Mark Piznarski
”He spent all that money, thousands of dollars, taking out a spoiled rich white girl. Logan Echolls' girlfriend. You must have met her, Caitlyn Ford.”
“No, not her. She doesn't like her ice cubes made with tap water.”
It's kind of weird that a despicable character like Caitlyn was played by someone who could be considered despicable back then. The Hiltons were the Kardashians before the Kardashians were the Kardashians, and the Hiltons were pretty much everywhere, including on television, which did lead to a fun TV show with THE SIMPLE LIFE. This premise could be resurrected if there were only more interesting and likable rich white girls out there these days. Paris Hilton was definitely one of the people back then I would have loved seeing less of on my TV, but besides her own show on FOX, she also got ample opportunities to prove herself as an actress (and failed to make a career out of it). More than a decade later, Hilton revealed her terrible childhood, and suddenly I felt weirded out about disliking her presence in the early to mid-2000s. Funny how her character here was equally as alienating and unlikable as she was back then.
This episode does establish a good friendship between Veronica and Weevil. They may have accepted each other's presence at the end of the previous episode (she did him a huge favor, he returned it), but here, she actually kept him out of jail. If that doesn't cause a deep and everlasting friendship, then I don't know what will. Veronica Mars, private eye, and buddies with the leader of the local biker gang that probably commits some crime here and there. That is also a premise worthy of a TV show, with VERONICA MARS deciding to take on that premise and proving itself to be versatile with genres. Small-dollar crimes that need to be solved; rich people doing rich-people things; a corrupt sheriff's department doing corrupt things; a murder mystery; a biker gang; half of the characters in a high school setting... It's a dream come true for me.
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| Weevil declines to witness the beating of his family. |
