Girl, I don’t even know where to start with you. Can we all just assume that Kristen Bell has been Stockholm Syndromed into towing the company noir line by Rob Thomas? Because if she truly believes this, I am speechless. Season 4 Veronica is anathema to Kristen Bell’s whole life and brand. Kristen is a strong, funny, independent woman who has a successful career, and children, and a seemingly great marriage to a husband who has fought his own demons. She’s very much like Veronica and she’s got millions of followers who think her life is interesting. To hear her say that there’s nothing funny or interesting about the same qualities in Veronica, is just mind boggling. I truly would have expected her to be theperson to stand up for Veronica and say, “This is not my Veronica. This is not the kind of person I want my kids watching.” She’s said that she wants her girls to grow up in a world with Veronica in it, but is this the version she wants to show them? This hard, bitter, broken Mean Girl without a shred of empathy? Someone who has little regard for anyone beyond what they can do for her? Someone who is toxic and emotionally abusive to the man who loves her? Who degrades and sabotages the years of work he’s put in to making himself a better person? No one is a bigger cheerleader for Dax Shepard’s sobriety than Kristen and that scene with Veronica and Logan in the kitchen should have been a wake-up call to her that this version of Veronica is not someone to be looked up to or emulated in any way. I could forgive it if they’d let Logan live, let him guide her on a redemption arc toward making her an emotionally stable adult. But, no, Rob wants to tear her down, heaping trauma on her until she is a shell of what she could have been. (Does anyone really believe she’ll talk to Jane the Therapist for any meaningful reason other than they need content for the voiceover??) Do you know what you get when you do that? You get Cersei Lannister and SPOILER ALERT: she was the villain, not the hero. I’m sure Veronica will be drinking and drugging and banging randos every week too… because it’s noir, baby! That’s really the legacy of a “strong woman” you want to leave for your kids and ours, Kristen?