Thank you to the CW’s promo department for completely misrepresenting how things would play out in this week’s episode of Veronica Mars.  

If I’m not mistaken, the line from the promos with Veronica unsure if she could ever forgive someone wasn’t even in the episode!  Good job, guys!

That said, this week’s episode was a much stronger entry than last week’s though I’m still a bit worried about where the show is going.

I liked the mystery of the week plotline, finding it far more compelling and interesting than last week’s theft of a lab monkey.  I liked how the storyline kept evolving during each act.  I really liked how the storyline of Wendy being a hooker played out–from her making the mistake of falling for one of her clients, to her “agent” who didn’t want to let her go, to her escaping the life and then leaving Max when he couldn’t get beyond her past.  (It reminded me a lot of Kevin Smith’s “Chasing Amy” in a lot of ways.)   While the whole storyline didn’t break any new ground, it at least told the story in a way that felt authentic to the characters.  And deep down, I kind of kept hoping those two crazy kids might make it work out somehow, which meant the writers actually got me to have some kind of emotional investment in the show.  Unlike last week when I could have cared less about the “who took the monkey?” mystery.

The episode seemed to want to say that honesty is the best policy…but is it?  As everyone learns secrets about each other, it seems there is only more heart-ache inflicted.  Max certainly had his heart shattered, then broke Wendy’s heart.  And Veronica has, once again, had her trust in Logan fundamentally shaken. But then again, how did we not see this one coming?  I swear to you if Logan uses the over-used Ross from Friends line of “We were on a break” I may scream and throw things at my television set. 

 Of course, part of this is that Logan has brought this on himself.  He said he wanted to be completely honest with Veronica and yet he still omitted certain details.  I guess this will lead to yet another Logan/Veronica split.  Which that never ending dance is starting to get kind of old…but I’ve blathered on about that at great length far too often, so I won’t bore you with it here. (Well, except that last paragraph).

And Keith continues to look into Dean O’Dell’s murder.  I hate to say it, but this plotline just didn’t do anything for me this week.  Except the clues that the office was egged and the girls egged the dean’s Volvo,there wasn’t much there.  I think we all knew Lamb’s file on the case would have some huge gaps.  For an arc mystery, this one just hasn’t grabbed me yet.  And with only four or so more episodes to go in this one, it needs to jump-start soon.