"Veronica Mars" vs "The Gilmore Girls"

Kristen Bell as Veronica Mars

This morning, The Gilmore Girls Netflix reboot was playing on our TV. (I wasn't working the remote at the time.) I've watched a couple episodes. It struck me that the show is a mirror image of Veronica Mars the mid 2000's cult girl detective show.

Veronica Mars depicts a film noir version of Nancy Drew where bigshot movie stars are actually psychopathic murderers and rapists, big time businessmen are pedophiles and secret societies of compromised thugs run the world and are in fact no different, only less honorable than the ethnic biker gangs in the divided town of Neptune California. (See The Sea People)

In fairness, I've not watched many Gilmore Girls episodes, but from what I've gathered it celebrates a single mom (from a wealthy but estranged family) keep her daughter on track to obtain East Coast Success, i.e. an ivy league degree and a job in the mainstream (rapidly dying) print media.

The Veronica Mars character is a creature of the underworld, the dark side. In fact, she ultimately rejects East Coast Success and ends up fighting in the underworld on behalf of her people.