Veronica Mars (Season 3)
Last year, I blew through the first two seasons in a very short time. I never picked up the third season, partly due to lack of funds and partly because I'd heard the third season wasn't as good as the first two. However, Netflix posted all three seasons recently, so I thought I'd sit down and finally watch the third season.
Well, I just finished up the 16th episode and I can mostly agree with other people's sentiments. It's not bad by any means. The stories are still interesting. The characters are still engaging. The writing is still incredibly crisp and witty - most especially between Veronica and her father, the best relationship on the show. It's just missing...something and I don't know what. Maybe it's the lack of an season-wide overarching mystery like the last two had. Though I didn't particularly enjoy last season's overarching mystery, especially its anti-climactic pay off or one clumsy retcon re-reveal that had wrapped up in the first season. I digress.
What I find interesting is that this third and final season seems to have a couple of mini-overarching mysteries. The first third of the season involves a rapist on campus, but that's wrapped up early. Then there's a mystery to solve, which leads up to and concludes where I just finished up. And now there's four more episodes to the season (and series) and I feel like it's heading towards a really awkward, anti-climactic season/series finale. I can see why many fans were disappointed by this season.
Still, I'll finish it for the sake of finishing it. There really aren't any more threads to tie up after this last episode, so I'm curious to see how the show meanders to its conclusion.