And the Buffy Goes to…
I didn’t watch The Emmys last night (the NY Times as a half-decent summary) but did come across Salon’s announcement of The Buffy, the award for most underappreciated TV Show. This is the second year of The Buffy. “The Wire”, HBO’s Baltimore crime drama which is sitting in wait in my Netflix queue, won last year.
This year, the award went to “Veronica Mars” which I couldn’t be happier about. I don’t know if I’ve done it here yet but you Must Watch Veronica Mars, easily the best new show on television. VM is a noir Encyclopedia Brown, set in a plastic Southern California town. Veronica, a former quen of her high school’s whose best friend, Lilly Kane was murdered. Her father, the sherrif accused Lily’s powerful parents of involvement which led to the’s Mars’s being ostrcized from the town.
Season #1 is Veronica’s attempt to solve her friend’s murder. Season #2, which begins next week, is something else entirely.
This is consistently great television, funny, smart, dark, creepy. I can’t wait for this next season to start.
Season #2 begins Wednesday, Sept. 28 on UPN. See it, see it, see it. You will not be sorry.