Did Veronica & Logan End Up Together on ‘Veronica Mars’? A Refresher on Their Epic Romance
[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Veronica Mars.]
Veronica Mars. Logan Echolls. All roads lead back to LoVe.
When Veronica Mars premiered in 2004, it was the gritty, neo-noir teen drama we all needed. As Veronica (Kristen Bell) solved crimes (including murder) by dinnertime, she also dealt with the normal teenage highs and lows, including first love and heartbreak. In the beginning, it seemed like Veronica and Duncan (Teddy Dunn) were going to be the show’s endgame. But then everyone witnessed the all-consuming chemistry between Veronica and Logan (Jason Dohring).
They had the best enemies-to-lovers arc and blessed us with an incredible love story that spanned years, one continent, and, yes, there was some bloodshed. But did these two end up together when all was said and done?
The first three seasons are now on Netflix, and you can still watch all four seasons on Hulu and Disney+. (Veronica Mars: The Movie is on HBO Max.) If you’ve never watched, lock in. If you’re ready to rewatch, lock in. Let’s look back at LoVe’s romance journey across four seasons and a movie.
Do Veronica and Logan end up together on Veronica Mars?
Yes, Veronica and Logan did end up together, but technically not at the end of the show’s original run. Veronica Mars ran for three seasons from 2004 to 2007 before it was canceled. At the end of Season 3, their relationship status was left open-ended. They had an on-again, off-again relationship before Veronica ended things after she found out Logan had slept with Madison (Amanda Noret) during their brief breakup. Veronica explored a new romance with Piz (Chris Lowell), but Logan wasn’t completely out of sight or out of mind. In the Season 3 finale, Logan and Veronica shared looks that suggested their feelings were alive and well.
When Veronica Mars: The Movie picked up nine years later, Veronica and Logan were dating other people. But when Logan called, Veronica didn’t hesitate to help him. Following her breakup with Piz, Veronica and Logan reunited.
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In Season 4, which premiered in 2019 on Hulu, Logan and Veronica were still together. When he initially proposed, Veronica rejected him. By the end of the season, she’d changed her mind, and they wed. However, their happiness was short-lived (more on that below).
When did Veronica and Logan get together on Veronica Mars?
Veronica and Logan started off as enemies following the death of Lilly Kane (Amanda Seyfried), Veronica’s best friend and Logan’s girlfriend. When Logan needed help finding his mother, he asked for Veronica’s help. Over the course of the search, the animosity between them started to fade. Logan broke down in Veronica’s arms when he found out his mother was dead.
The characters shared their first kiss in Episode 18 of Season 1, “Weapons of Class Destruction,” which aired on April 11, 2005. (Truly one of the best TV kisses ever.) That was the moment that truly shifted the entire trajectory of Veronica’s love life.
When did Veronica and Logan get married?
Veronica and Logan got married in the show’s (seemingly) series finale, Season 4’s “Years, Continents, Bloodshed.” There was a brief moment when Veronica thought Logan wasn’t going to show up because she only got a text from him that read, “Sorry.” He was actually only four minutes late, and his voice-to-text didn’t complete his message. They said “I do,” with Keith (Enrico Colantoni) and Wallace (Percy Daggs III) as witnesses.
What happened to Duncan?
Duncan Kane was Veronica’s first love in the show’s original run. They were together before Lilly was murdered. Veronica and Duncan split before the events of Veronica Mars Season 1, but reunited in Season 2.
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However, when his ex-girlfriend, Meg (Alona Tal), gave birth to their daughter and then died from a blood clot following a bus crash, Veronica and Duncan were pretty much over. Veronica helped Duncan leave Neptune with baby Lilly, fulfilling Meg’s dying wish for her abusive parents not get custody.
Duncan disappeared with his daughter until the end of Season 2, when we learned he was living in Australia. Duncan ordered the hit on Aaron Echolls (Harry Hamlin), the man who killed his sister.
What happened to Piz?
Stoash “Piz” Piznarski was introduced in Season 3 of Veronica Mars. He was Wallace’s roommate at Hearst College. Piz was the total opposite of Logan, and he became a new love interest for Veronica in her first year at college.
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Piz and Veronica started dating in Season 3, but their relationship was left unclear in what was initially the series finale. In the Veronica Mars movie, which was released in 2014, Piz and Veronica were together and living in New York.
However, their happiness was cut short by Logan. When Veronica’s ex called after being accused of murdering his girlfriend, Veronica returned to Neptune. Piz joined Veronica for the Neptune High School class reunion, but she didn’t go with him back to New York. Piz ultimately broke up with Veronica via phone call when she didn’t get on the plane back to the Big Apple to meet his parents.
Is Logan really dead?
Doom was lurking over Veronica and Logan on their wedding day. Upon returning home from city hall, Logan went out to his car to move it for street cleaning. Penn Epner (Patton Oswalt), The Spring Break Bomber, had planted a bomb in the car. Veronica realized this a second too late. The bomb detonated and killed Logan.
There are many Logan Is Alive truthers out there (sorry, I’m guilty of this) who think there’s a chance that Logan could still be alive. However, creator Rob Thomas has always maintained that Logan is truly gone. “He is dead. He is,” Thomas told TV Insider in 2019. “I thought it was clear [but] TV has conditioned us to think that if you haven’t seen the body [then the character isn’t dead].”
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