Veronica Mars Investigations

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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Our Veronica Mars journey is complete, but the pod lives on!

VMI 2.0 will take form sometime in 2022, but for the rest of this year, we will be releasing a new episode in the middle of each month. So that you can watch and join us for the recaps, here’s what we’ll be covering:

October: the Dick Casablancas spinoff Play It Again, Dick.

November: TBD - we thought we might do the Kristen’n’Kirby kouponing krime kaper Queenpins, but it doesn’t have a UK release yet.

December: Brigadoon. Our once-in-100-years recap of Logan’s fave film! There are a few versions, but we’ll be watching the 1954 musical with Gene Kelly and Cyd Charisse.

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