Postgame Mortem

The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars as she deals with life as a college student while moonlighting as a private detective.

Meanwhile, Logan (Jason Dohring), heartbroken from his breakup with Veronica in "There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill", ends up babysitting the eleven-year-old sister (Juliette Goglia) of one of his friend Dick's (Ryan Hansen) paramours, and they begin to emotionally connect with each other.

Club referred to Heather as a non-sexualized Manic Pixie Dream Girl,[1] while Alan Sepinwall believed that it worked well comedically and dramatically.

Weevil (Francis Capra) organizes a meeting between Veronica and the PCHers, and the new leader says that they would not kill someone over a bad car like the Coach's vehicle.

Mason (Robert Ri'chard), one of the team's former star basketball players, testifies to Sheriff Lamb (Michael Muhney) that Josh is responsible for his father's death.

Hank Landry (Patrick Fabian) tells Veronica that she has successfully applied for the first part of an FBI internship with the help of a recommendation from the Dean.

He explained that Lamb had to frequently turn all the way around to speak to Veronica and Deputy Sacks (Brandon Hillock), a fact which he thought made the scene awkward.

In writing this subplot, Thomas and the crew started with this scene and "wrote backwards" in order to make it fit in with the rest of the episode's story.

[6] Immediately prior to this episode, Thomas received a call from Jason Dohring, the actor of Logan, who was confused about the character's continual state of grief following his breakup with Veronica.

[7] This was a slight decrease from the figures of the previous week's episode, "There's Got to Be a Morning After Pill", which earned 2.40 million viewers.

[8] BuddyTV lauded the episode, writing that it was one of the best Veronica Mars episodes in months, mainly due to the reappearances of Wallace, Weevil, and Cliff, leading to what the reviewer called "an old school Veronica Mars feel".Logan and Heather's subplot also garnered praise: "It's a nice departure from the oft repeated scenario of Logan exercising indiscretion.

Club gave a positive review, praising the case of-the-week and the episode's development of the Dean O'Dell mystery.

He was also complimentary towards the Logan–Heather plotline, lauding Goglia's performance; he also stated that the episode gave him renewed interest in the Dean O'Dell case.