Bones: Season 1
To Unravel A Murder, You Have To Strip It To The Bone.
Dr. Temperance Brennan is a brilliant, but lonely, anthropologist whom is approached by an ambitious FBI agent, named Seely Booth, to help the bureau solve a series of unsolved crimes by identifying the long-dead bodies of missing persons by their bone structure. But both Agent Booth and Dr. Brennan and her team come up again a variety of interference from red tape, corruption, and local noncooperation.
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CSI Meets the FBI - Old_Video_Man
This series is meticulously crafted from the files and creativity of Kathy Reichs, providing difficult, unusual cases to be solved. Like Moonlighting, Remington Steele, and Castle,there's a romantic tension between the main characters.
The lab staff (squints) are recruited from the best and brightest into the Jeffersonian Institute, and they bounce their often weird concepts off the FBI's Seely Booth, with comedic and scientific success. The first season sets the stage for great plots and the development of fine, quirky characters. Bones is a winner.Solid procedural - eli_quincy
What essentially separates Bones from other similar procedurals is the charm and wit of its stars. The titular Bones, especially, is a pleasant surprise. She's funny, obsessive, uncompromising and unlike any other character on TV. Her interplay with David Boreanaz's FBI agent is fantastic and lifts this above more dreary TV crime fare.Different Take on a Procedural Drama - Gregg
Dr Temperance 'Bones' Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian (read Smithsonian) Institute in Washington DC. Along with an interesting team of scientists we also have Special Agent Seely Booth an FBI Agent who acts as the liason with Dr Brennan when her skills are necessary for an investigation, which is not suprisingly quite often.
Initially I expected this interesting series would run out of steam in trying to come up with situations where the FBI required the assistance of a forensic anthropologist. Surprisingly though some may find the realism stretched somewhat I think it works for the most part.
For those interested in the forensics the science comes across as interesting at least to a layman, much as it does in the original CSI series. The other strength of the show is relationship dynamics, the most important of which is between Dr Brennan and Agent Booth. The close relationship between the two characters is seemingly unlikely because of their differences but it works very well.
As is often the case over a 22 episode season some of the shows don't work as well as others. My choices as the strongest episodes of the season would be the 5th (A Boy in a Bush), 9th (The Man in the Fallout Shelter), 11th (The Woman in the Car) and the 20th (The Graft in the Girl).
The series is based on the life and the novels of Kathy Reichs who like her character is both a Forensic Anthropologist and a best selling author.
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CSI Meets the FBI - Old_Video_Man
This series is meticulously crafted from the files and creativity of Kathy Reichs, providing difficult, unusual cases to be solved. Like Moonlighting, Remington Steele, and Castle,there's a romantic tension between the main characters.
The lab staff (squints) ...Solid procedural - eli_quincy
What essentially separates Bones from other similar procedurals is the charm and wit of its stars. The titular Bones, especially, is a pleasant surprise. She's funny, obsessive, uncompromising and unlike any other character on TV. Her interplay with David ...Different Take on a Procedural Drama - Gregg
Dr Temperance 'Bones' Brennan is a forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian (read Smithsonian) Institute in Washington DC. Along with an interesting team of scientists we also have Special Agent Seely Booth an FBI Agent who acts as the liason ...