‘Veronica Mars’ Season 4 Released A Week Early on Hulu

Great news, marshmallows! Veronica Mars is back — and earlier than expected.

Veronica Mars was expected to make its return for its eight episode fourth season next week on Hulu. But at the show’s Comic-Con panel today in San Diego, star Kristen Bell dropped a major surprise. All eight episodes were streaming on Hulu right now. Like, now now. As you are reading this post. (You have to read to the end to find the direct link, sorry.)

Here’s the new season’s official synopsis:

Spring breakers are getting murdered in Neptune, thereby decimating the seaside town’s lifeblood tourist industry. After Mars Investigations is hired by the family of one of the victims to find their son’s killer, Veronica is drawn into an epic eight-episode mystery that pits the enclave’s wealthy elites, who would rather put an end to the month-long bacchanalia, against a working class that relies on the cash influx that comes with being the West Coast’s answer to Daytona Beach.

These are the first new Veronica Mars episodes since 2007, although the Veronica Mars movie did appear in 2014. You can watch the new season of Veronica Mars — as well as all three previous seasons — right now on Hulu. So there are your weekend plans figured out.

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