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VMI x Hot and Bothered: Pride and Prejudice (2005 movie)
VMI x Hot and Bothered: Pride and Prejudice (2005 movie)

A LONG TIME AGO, IN THE 2005 MOVIE ADAPTATION OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE:

  • You’ve got no sons to inherit your estate, only five daughters, so what the hell are you going to do to ensure your family’s housing and security?

  • Why, you send Jane, the oldest and prettiest to catch a cold in the rain so rich Mr Bingley will fall in love with her!

  • You let your boring cousin take his pick of the flock, Lizzy; but when she’s not into it, he goes off and marries her best friend so your plan is again RUINED!

  • You don’t take any of the rest of your daughters seriously, till the youngest one SCANDALOUSLY runs off with Mr Wickham.

  • Luckily there’s a Mr Darcy around to fix the situation with money and marriage, because is there a problem that money and marriage can’t fix?

  • In the end, neither pride nor prejudice can get in the way of Bennet sisters marrying for love plus, conveniently, carriage-loads of money.

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Q&A and LoDown Special
Q&A and LoDown Special

Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to answer your questions, and find out all about why you shouldn't represent yourself in court, what you have to do to get a jury trial or a marriage license, whether Veronica has sadness-clothes, and whether showrunners could stop mining the traumas of young female characters for drama.

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VMI second birthday celebrations!
VMI second birthday celebrations!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs, Helen Zaltzman and our resident legal expert Lo Dodds to celebrate the completion of the second year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes - about what happens to police dogs when they retire, how old is too old to join the FBI, gambling with pasta, and the very real dangers of huffing petrol (especially at any point in time since the Great Depression).

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Mars Madness 2021
Mars Madness 2021

For a bit of LOW-CONSEQUENCE ESCAPIST FUN, here's your bracket for Mars Madness 2021!

Competing for glory are Marsverse things that have cropped up in the year since Mars Madness 2020. Season 3's time to shine, we guess.

Voting has begun over on our Twitter account @vmipod, so head over to cast votes about things that barely matter at all, phew.

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There's still one part of season 3 we need to cover...
There's still one part of season 3 we need to cover...

….the DVD extra that was the 12-minute pitch for Veronica-in-the-FBI season 4 that never happened!

Spoiler: Jenny certainly doesn’t love it. Helen wonders if it’s a dream sequence. What we want to know is:

What’s YOUR pitch for what happened to Veronica Mars, the show and character, in the seven years after season 3?

Discounting what you know from the movie and the actual season 4, go to the comments and tell us your pitch for the 2007-era continuation of the show!

We’ll be recapping the FBI mini-pilot in an upcoming episode, and would love to include your alt versions.

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VMI first birthday celebrations!
VMI first birthday celebrations!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to celebrate the first year of Veronica Mars Investigations, with a parade of outtakes and outdated technologies. Hear about Chuck E Cheese and his arch rival in kids’ pizza joints, the Showbiz Pizza undead bear; Xena, Warrior Princess’s horse; why Jenny doesn’t trust birds; Westworld for kids; and the story of Jenny and Helen’s meet-cute over decidedly non-cute Tim Tam Slam wreckage.

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Special Investigation: Pride and Prejudice
Special Investigation: Pride and Prejudice

A LONG TIME AGO ON VERONICA MARS THE BBC 1995 MINISERIES OF PRIDE AND PREJUDICE:

  • Bonnets!

  • Balls!

  • Wet shirt!!!!

  • Cousin-marriage?!

  • Rude rich boy is into sassy girl with tiny jacket!

Join Jenny Owen Youngs and Helen Zaltzman to recap the BBC 1995 miniseries of Pride and Prejudice, which Jenny had never seen, nor indeed had she experienced Pride and Prejudice in any form. Until Helen made her. Because if Wallace, Jackie, Veronica and Duncan are congregating at the Neptune Grand to watch it in S2E03, then so shall we.

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