Bones, Season One: A Good Show About Partners in Crime

This show made me curious for a loooong time. It didn’t appeal to my mother because of its name but something about it kept me reading up on it. It wasn’t until I read one reviewers (you know who you are!) thoughts that I really became intrigued by it. Recently I was in the video store and randomly decided I’d rent just the first disc. Here are my thoughts on, Bones season one, a FOX series.

Bones, Season One (2005) TV Show Review

Relationships are not Dr. Temperance Brennan’s strong suits. She doesn’t get pop culture references, and would rather be distant emotionally than do a poor job at work. As one of the best forensic anthropologists in the country, Brennan (Emily Deschanel) has formed a working partnership of sorts with the FBI. She assists in solving unsolvable cases. Her FBI partner is special agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz). The tenuous relationship the pair of them has is complicated. Brennan relies solely on facts and Booth is more of an educated guess type of guy. Reluctantly, Booth again works with Brennan, and the two of them set about finding out how a young woman’s body ended up in a body of water.

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During the course of the investigation Booth and “Bones” (Booth’s appropriate nickname for Brennan but one which she detests) work the case, but always return to a political connection. Together with their team of “squints,” Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne), and Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin), they slowly piece together the clues. On the outside is Bones’ new assistant Zach Addy (Eric Millegan), a new hire who’s eager to please as they begin this new case. bones season one

Personally, there were a number of things keeping this series at arms length. Partially, it was from a somewhat mistaken assumption (an assumption that is a part of the show in later seasons) and another reason was because I didn’t think I needed to add yet another show to my already long list of favorites. Turns out, I was right to resist it as long as it did because all it took was those first six episodes on that first disc rental for me to know that I’d be buying the show. And, ironically, my mother now likes the show probably better than even I do.

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If you are a medical person or come from a family of medical professionals, this likely won’t bother you. But it’s more likely to make everyone a bit queasy. Bodies are found in varying stages of rot and some are even ripped apart by goodness knows what – that is likely a picture you don’t even want to think about, so moving on. Aside from that, this is a really intriguing if not slightly abrasive show. Airing on Fox for seven years now, it has a following (and has even given wings to a spin-off series). It’s also worth mentioning that Bones’ characters not only disbelieves in God but she doesn’t even believe in His existence. As a viewer who can separate fiction from reality, I do enjoy Bones

Bones is TV14 for bodies in varying states of decay – translation: they are gross. Numerous sexual terms and innuendos begin to be an easy part of dialogue. Characters talk freely about sexual relations in their proper medical terms being all scientists. Profanity is little compared to other content concerns, but there are uses of sh*t and others