Yanks in the UK-REVIEWS

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From the Globe and Mail:

Bones (Fox, Global, 8 p.m.) is back with a two-hour season premiere. Unfortunately it is one of those let's-go-to-jolly-old-England episodes. Dr. Brennan and Agent Booth (Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz) are in London. Giving speeches at Oxford and stuff. Soon, they're investigating an American heiress's death. Shenanigans ensue as Brennan and Booth do their usual bickering-with-love routine. A further cuteness factor is injected when they work alongside a British crime-solving duo who are both their equivalent and opposites. That is, they work with a Scotland Yard inspector (Indira Varma) who is like Bones in attitude and an academic forensics expert (Andrew Buchan) who is more like Agent Booth.



Fans of the show will savour this playfulness, but, like most U.S. network shows that attempt an in-England episode, this episode of Bones is bloated with clichés. Everyone in England talks like members of the Royal Family, there are jokes about small cars and driving on the other side of the road. Me, I can watch Emily Deschanel forever, but even I was tired of this episode after 20 minutes. It was kinda irritating.

Orlando Sentinel:

Locale change buries 'Bones' in mediocrity
Hal Boedeker | Sentinel Television Critic
September 3, 2008
Bones is back, and sad to say, the Fox drama is not at its best.

I've grown fond of this frisky mystery for the charming teamwork of Emily Deschanel as forensic anthropologist "Bones" Brennan and David Boreanaz as FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth.

To start the fourth season at 8 tonight, Bones and Booth go to London for a twisty, two-hour installment. They're there for speaking engagements, but they pitch in to help solve the murder of a secretive heiress.

The London locales look inviting, and Indira Varma (Rome) has an ingratiating style as Inspector Cate Pritchard. "Bones" enchants her British counterpart, womanizing Dr. Ian Wexler (Andrew Buchan of Cranford).



"They're like the English version of me and you," Booth tells Brennan.

If you're expecting Brennan to recognize Booth is Mr. Right, forget it. The show strings us along some more. Boreanaz so overdoes the goofy shtick that you might question whether he is Mr. Right.

Back in the United States, the supporting characters are off their game. The love story of Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Hodgins (TJ Thyne) turns frustrating when her husband arrives and stalls on giving a divorce. The innuendo piles up, and the forensic folk act sophomoric. The offer of driving someone to the airport takes on a new meaning.

I look forward to the Bones team being together on U.S. soil. In going out of the country, the show didn't pack its best stuff.

Definate spoilers in this one:

Calgary Herald:

Nothing remarkable about Bones premiere
Alex Strachan, Canwest News Service
Published: Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Bones isn't creaking exactly but it's showing its age. Four months after a season finale that divided critics and infuriated fans - the show's resident dweeb, fan favourite Zack Addy (Eric Millegan), was revealed to be in league with a cannibalistic serial murderer called the Gormogon killer - Bones returns with a two-hour season opener, Yanks in the U.K., filmed in London.

Season-opening road trips aren't a sign of desperation necessarily but they're tricky to pull off, as tonight's Bones proves. The episode finds Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) at Oxford ona lecture tour, with a bad-tempered Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) in tow. A glamorous heiress - aren't they all?

- has been found dead, the victim of foul play, and a bickering Brennan and Booth are pressed into service as guest sleuths with Scotland Yard, as personified by Det. Insp. Cate Pritchard (Indira Varma, last seen as Lucius Vorenus's consort in the HBO miniseries Rome).


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Font:****No cliché is left unturned. Booth drives on the wrong side of the road, fumes at British driving habits, confuses bobbies with boobies, whines about the weak coffee, stirs up class divisions at a lord's manor and plays the role of the Ugly American to the hilt. It's supposed to be funny - the cutie-pie background music is just one clue - but it all seems laboured and forced.

Bones has always been one of TV's more mediocre thrillers, and tonight's season opener is no different. It's distinctly ordinary, as the English might say. (Fox, Global - 9 p.m.)

This one is nicer:

NJ.com:

'Bones' goes for the funnybone
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
As a murder mystery series, "Bones" is average at best. As a light comedy, though -- one that exploits the quirks of its characters and the chemistry between stars Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz -- it's one of the more dependable entertainments in primetime.

The two-hour fourth season premiere (8 p.m., Ch. 5) loads up on the comedy, with logical-to-a-fault scientist Temperance Brennan (Deschanel) and bruising FBI partner Seeley Booth (Boreanaz) getting caught up in a homicide investigation while in London for a speaking engagement. At times, the comedy tries too hard -- Booth keeps driving on the wrong side of the road and doesn't seem to know what tea is -- but then there comes a moment where the writers get the characters dialed in just right, and then the show is irresistible.

For example, a character tries to reach Brennan on her cell phone, and instead hears her stilted outgoing voicemail message: "Technically, you have not reached Temperance Brennan. But if you leave a message, it will reach her... me... Temperance Brennan."

Here is TV Squad's review.

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Bones: Yanks in the UK (seson premiere)

Posted Sep 3rd 2008 10:08PM by Richard Keller
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Hullo Guv! Welcome to the fourth series premiere of Bones. It has been a summer of anger and anticipation for most fans of the show. Anger, as many felt creator Hart Hanson bollixed the whole thing up by making Zack Addy a bit potty. Anticipation, because those same fans are curious to see how Hanson and his writers will fill the gap and how the rest of the blokes at the Jeffersonian will adjust. And, of course, there's also the unanswered question as to the state of Bones and Booth's relationship: will they shag or not this season?

None of those questions were answered in this two-hour series premiere, althouth Zack's fate was briefly mentioned. What we did get was a trip to Londontown by Temperance and Seeley (hence, the British slang), and some significant relationship changes amongst the Squints. So, grab a pint, some fish n' chips, and your favorite duck, and let's begin.

Premiering a new season with a two-hour episode is always a gamble in television. It either runs the risk of filling the episode with too much information for the viewer to take in, too little information to keep the viewer interested, or is uneven in its presentation. The season premiere of Bones fell under the title of uneven, at least with the London story line. While the second hour of the premiere felt more like a regular episode, the first hour felt a tad uncomfortable.

That could be due to Booth's portrayal during those first 60 minutes. We know that Seeley is a pretty bright person (that's why he's a Special FBI Agent and not just a FBI Agent), but in the the first segment of the show he looked pretty dim. Understandably it could have been the adjustment of being away from his home base and feeling both unwelcomed by some and unwanted by others. Without a gun, the resources of his agency behind him, and no good coffee, Booth probably felt a bit impotent...in the figurative sense.

It doesn't mean that his awkwardness didn't give the viewer some interesting moments. His tiny breakdown in the middle of a London traffic roundabout was one good example of how his uneasiness worked to the viewers' favor. Sure, stereotypical American driving on the wrong side of the road is always amusing. It was just the way that Booth handled it that made it funnier. That big, strapping guy (at least that's what the women say about him) in that tiny little car, screaming at the top of his lungs about the deficiencies of England. It's probably something that everyone who has been to another country has thought of doing one time or another.

Stepping away from the episode review and into the nuts and bolts of filming this episode, here's an interesting tidbit about the traffic roundabout scene. According to both Hart Hanson and David Boreanaz, London officials only gave them 16 seconds to film. During that time, city police officers would hold back normal traffic. David got the scene in one take, including the rant (minus what you hear over the phone when Cam is talking with Bones) and just made it back onto the street before the normal flow of traffic resumed. From what Boreanaz mentioned in some the interview clips provided in the preview DVD, the only person who got upset was one angry cab driver who happened to get too close to David's car.

Back to the review. Perhaps the other reason that the first hour of the premiere felt off was the case Bones and Booth were involved with. Frankly, it wasn't that interesting. So it involved an American who was a huge entrepreneur in England. We've seen that all before. That, and the oh-so-regal royal family that tries to hide their dirty laundry behind their titles. The only good thing about it was Booth's no-nonsense approach to interviewing the family and getting them to spill the beans. Blue blood or not, Seeley doesn't stop at anything to get the truth out.

The second hour of the premiere was much better as Bones and Booth became more involved with the case. Perhaps the interest was there because of the death of a character we were just introduced to an hour before. Dr. Ian Wexler was a charming, intelligent professor of anthropology. He was also a horndog. Throughout the first hour he continually tried to add Temperance as another notch on his belt which, if he really knew Brennan, he wouldn't have tried in the first place. He was also a tad bit pompous and looked down on Booth as just another American "cowboy". This probably placed him down a step on the likable chart.

When he was found dead it wasn't a total loss (although, it would have been interesting to see him in a British version of Bones). Still, it did add additional drama to the case. It also gave a more human face to Inspector Cate Pritchard -- Booth's counterpart in England. During the first hour, Pritchard showed a good deal of cooperation with their American partners in trying to solve the murder of the expatriate daughter of a real estate mogul. Once Wexler was killed that all changed. Being close to Ian, and I mean close, she doled out her help in smaller portions.As the investigation progressed she realized that holding information back would not solve the case any quicker. By the end of the episode there was a new found respect on both sides.

One more item on the London scenes before we move on. One of the other reasons this episode of Bones felt uneven was the filming style. We are all used to the look of the show, and it becomes a comforting blanket when we tune in each week. The way that the scenes in London were filmed reminded me of exterior shots that we see in shows like Torchwood and Doctor Who. It's hard to put a finger on what is different, but it seemed a bit lighter everywhere. Perhaps it's the style of film or editing format they use across the pond, but it took some time getting used to.

(An update on the filming style: it seems that the different look only appeared on the preview DVD I received. When I saw the episode again over the air the style looked the same as it did any other week. Just goes to show you that the 'Rough Draft' warning they give on these preview DVDs should be taken seriously.)

Enough of London. Time to turn our attention back to the Squints of the Jeffersonian and, perhaps, the more interesting storyline of the episode. First, Clark Edison was back in Zack's position. Unfortunately, it was only for a short time. Hart Hanson has mentioned that Bones and the team would have a series of assistants this season in Addy's slot. That's too bad, since Clark was interesting and presented a stable front in the soap opera that is the Squints.

Which is something that wasn't realized until this week's episode. For the most part the lives of Hodgins, Angela and Cam have that soap opera element to them. Well, more Angela and Hodgins as we saw in this installment. No, really, think about it. A longing love that would not be reciprocated; a marriage that never was; the mysterious "other man"; the loss of trust between the two. Take all of those plot points out and they could have been part of the new 90210 except, well, they would be better acted on Bones.

Despite the disappointment from many fans, the breakup of Angela and Hodgins was a good thing. Workplace romance on television is always a risk because it can go stale at a moment's notice. Angela and Hodgins looked to be heading down that path anyway. Now, instead of having a multi-episode arc where there relationship breaks down into constant snipping between each other, new storyline avenues can be opened up for both of these characters.

This episode was also a big one for the young Dr. Sweets. After being on the periphery of the Squints for most of last season, Lance really became fully intertwined with the group. Thing is, the fit is off. Where Booth actually fits pretty snugly with the team now, there doesn't seem to be a place for Sweets amidst this group. Oh, helping Bones and Booth profile a potential killer...absolutely. Sitting there while one of Bones' assistants of the week talks about stress fractures in the fourth and fifth thoracic vertebrae is another story.

Whew! That was a lot to talk about concerning the season premiere of Bones. Next week, we get back into the swing of things with an episode that involves a trashy talk show host and an outhouse. No, there's no joke there.

Below is what Zap2It has got to say about the premiere:

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Premierewatch: 'Bones' in Old Blighty

By Sarah Jersild

September 03, 09:17 PM

We get a double dose of gory crime tonight on Bones, plus plenty of Brit mocking, Sweetsian counseling, Brennan oversharing, squints behaving badly, Booth posturing, relationship angst and more. And it was... ok, I guess. I'm thrilled Bones is back, but these back-to-back episodes really didn't float my boat (or butter my crumpet, as it were.)

What's Cockney rhyming slang for "spoiler"?

Booth and Brennan just happen to be in Britain when a British socialite turns up dead. Because she's got a pushy American dad, the Yanks are on the case. They team up with a curiously familiar duo -- a hard-driving detective who values real policework, and a brainy scientist who makes brilliant leaps based on minute evidence. But check it out -- the British Booth is a woman, while the UK version of Bones is a man. Wacky!

Somehow, Roger Frampton (the rich, rich father of the deceased) manages to work it so all the evidence is shipped to The Jeffersonian (apparently there are no labs in London, and Scotland Yard is happy to send body bits across the pond despite it being their case) so the rest of the crew can join in the fun. The team finds out that (1) Portia, the dead girl, was pregnant, and (2) she had a hereditary disease -- a disease her father doesn't share.

Portia's boyfriend, Harry (a minor nobleman) swears he didn't kill her, and insists that she just broke up with him for no reason. Harry's parents, the Duke and Duchess of BritishCentralCastingtonshire, stiff-upper-lip their way through the interview with brash Booth and typically earnest Brennan, but deny that Portia had ever been to the house. Lies! The team figures out that Portia had a letter from her dead mother when she died, and deduce that the letter told her that the Duke was her real father (same hereditary disease). Please -- there's so much inbreeding in the various branches of nobility I hardly think anyone would notice. ANYway, Brennan finds the murder weapon, but the butler steps up and confesses to the crime in the duke's place. No, really, The butler did it. Yeah, right. No one buys it, but forget it, Booth, it's Londontown.

Before Booth and Brennan can return to the US, Pritchard, the British Booth analog, calls with disturbing news. Her partner in crime-solving, Wexler, was killed in a suspicious fire. First thing to address: Wexler was a man-whore who boinked his way through the willing ladies of London. (In fact, Brennan may be the only woman who ever turned him down.) Those partners include Pritchard. Was it a jealousy thing, a woman-spurned thing, or a man-looking-out-for-his-despoiled-woman thing? Nope.

It may have been a money thing. Wexler was forensic-anthropologizing a building site where Roger Frampton wanted to build condos. Right before he died, he signed a writ attesting that the site was of no historical interest -- no spiffy bones here! Thing is, he also cashed a bunch of checks from Frampton. Eventually, Brennan discovers that the murder weapon was an ossified bone, and that there were lots of Bronze-age bones at the site. Booth and Brennan figure out that one of Wexler's grad students was peevish that Wexler wanted to return the bribe and protect the site, thus destroying his career -- and hers, too.

Booth and Brennan
The reason Brennan didn't succumb to Wexler's (alleged) charms? It would upset Booth. You don't piss off your partner. When Booth and Brennan discuss this in the car, Booth tells Brennan that every straight man in England wanted to sleep with her. "Was that nice about me or awful about British men?" Brennan asks. "Wexler is not special," Booth replies. "You are." Aww[Only admins are allowed to see this link]

The rest of the team
Angela's missing hottie husband, Grayson, refuses to grant her a divorce because he still loves her. Cue the posturing from Hodgins, and Angela eventually figuring out she needs to tell Hodgins that her heart is hers to give, not someone else's to take, and she gives it to Hodgins. Grayson bows to her wishes. The wedding's on!

Or not... because Cam falls into bed with Grayson on the way to the airport (that's a hell of a detour). That makes Angela wiggy, which makes Hodgins jealous, which makes Angela and Hodgins break up. OK, it was more involved than that, but that's what it boils down to. This whole plotline alternately pissed me off (of COURSE Angela would be weirded out by Cam sleeping with her ex -- it's in the girlfriend code!) and bored me to tears, so the less said about it, the better.

Apparently Clark, who took Zack's position in the lab, agrees with me. He gets so pissed off at the interpersonal drama that he quits. Of course, he does offer to drive Grayson to the airport, which at that point was code for "Let's do it!", so he may have had an ulterior motive.

The joy of Sweets
While the Angela/Hodgins plot didn't do it for me, at least it gave Sweets plenty to do. Some of my favorite Sweets moments:

* Sweets and Angela see Hodgins take a swing at the Grayson. Sweets takes off his jacket and hands it to Angela, preparing to join the fight. Then he trips over his own feet in a perfect pratfall.
* The turtle party wagon story! Sweets tried to get Angela to understand what was going on by telling a long story that involved a ninja-turtle toy, a neighbor kid, a rotten tree, a broken arm and a concussion. In the end, the neighbor kid said he'd have given the toy to him if he'd asked. See what this means? Sweets asks Angela. "He had a little gay crush on you," Angela says. "He did? Oh, man, that explains a lot!" Sweets replies. Then he gets back on course and tries to explain the metaphor: "You are the gay neighbor boy. Your love is the party wagon. Grayson is the tree. I'm Hodgins." See? It makes perfect sense!
* Cam calls him in to confess she slept with Grayson, then ask what to do. She's autopsying a brain at the time. Sweets gives his advice, staring at the gray matter the whole time. "Can I touch the brain, just once, as a reward?" he asks. He does. "It's squishy!"

Highlights, thoughts and odds and ends

* Did anyone else think Booth was just too cartoonish in the first half? We get it, he's a red-blooded American, but he's hardly an idiot. He'd be able to recognize tea, and he'd have to be blind not to find a decent coffee bar in London. Second-half Booth, who was able to read and deal with Pritchard's distress, made a lot more sense to me.
* I love David Boreanaz, I really do, but I couldn't help but giggle when he pulled out the British accent -- and not for the reason I was supposed to. I just kept flashing back to him on Angel, and thinking "At least this time he's SUPPOSED to be bad at the accent..."
* Yes, I know Booth was probably putting on the Ugly American schtick to a certain extent, best exemplified by this exchange: Wexler: "Does your cowboy want to tag along?" Brennan: "Ugh -- please don't call him that." Wexler: "He'll find it insulting?" Brennan: "No -- he'll love it."
* And about Wexler -- sorry, just too much. I assume he was supposed to be charming, but it takes more than an accent to pull that off. As written, he came of as more sleazy than sweet.
* And didn't anyone tell Wexler that British men tend to be self-depreciating, especially when they're trying to get into your pants? Um... or so I've heard.
* I did like Booth and Brennan discussing the vagaries of the Brits. Booth was surprised that Pritchard "requested" that the Duke come in with her. "They request?" Booth asks. "It's a polite country," Brennan replies.
* The squints had a few good British-related quotes. My favorites: Cam telling the team "the Brits used dental records -- no jokes please -- to identify the body," and Hodgins enthusing "Check it out! British slime. So much more proper than American slime."
* I loved Booth getting into the idea of being a knight -- and that he was still wearing his "Official Junior Knight" ribbon when they left.
* Does Booth have a steel plate (equipped with shock absorbers) in his forehead? That's the only way I can figure he'd remain stock-still in the face (so to speak) of a head-butt. Still, I laughed.

i'm very sorry to agree, but booth really was portrayed kind of like an idiot in these two episodes... as much as i love david boreanaz, but he better cut back on the goofiness a little.

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TV Review: BONES - SEASON 4 - 'YANKS IN THE UK'

Two hours isn't always better than one, but who's counting?
Grade: B
Stars: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor, Eric Millegan
Rating: NR

By CARLOS DELGADO, Contributing Writer
Published 9/4/2008


It’s a rough week here at iFmagazine. There are season premieres as far as the eye can see. Some painful, some extremely painful, and some tolerable (yes, yes, I know there are good premieres out there, I just haven’t seen any yet). And it’s our job to watch as many as we can and write about them. So on Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 8:00 PM, my duty was to watch the two hour season premier of FOX’s crime drama BONES.



I’ll be honest with you here: I wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. I wasn’t loathing it, either, but my DVR was started to get backed up with shows I have been meaning to watch when I get a chance (I never do, BTW) and BONES was cutting into my precious DVR pruning time.



As the hour approached I searched for distractions to delay the inevitable. Dinner: check. Laundry: already in the drier. Dishes: well, let’s not get crazy here. Out of excuses and a deadline to meet, I took the TV off pause.



Within the first minute I found myself laughing, and I mean that in a good way. Sure, the show was loaded with campTV devices. There’s your ever present odd couple with Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) as the brains and Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) as the brawn. And yeah, it was your typical fish out of water story as they travel to London to give a presentation and end up solving two separate murders. Of course, while in London, they team up with their British crime-solving counterparts.



But still, I laughed. Maybe it was that dry British wit, or maybe it was because Americans, when introduced to tiny cars on the wrong side of the road, look so damn funny when acting so utterly confused. Maybe it was every London driver, frustrated with Booth’s inability to adapt to life on the left side of the road and yelling out “wanker” as they passed (look it up kids) did it.



In any case, I found myself actually enjoying the show. Americans and Brits were stereotyped for all they were worth. Londoners were portrayed as prissy, tea drinking snobs. Americans were gun toting, sexually repressed, uncultured cowboys. Call it a case of taking an old gag and just running with it until your legs hurt. Then run with it some more for good measure. Then take a tea break to catch your breath, revel in the obvious pun of needing a gun to feel more like a man, and when you’re rested, run some more. You catch my drift?



In the middle of these old-world vs. new-world wars, there were two murders that needed solving. The special effects used to create the bodies were realistically gruesome. There was a water soaked skeleton with hair still attached. Later you get exposed to a charred body with his shoes still on. All in all, pretty disturbing images that were morbidly fun to look at.



The actual solving of the cases, however, was rather boring. It wasn’t that they weren’t enough twists or turns, they were just uninteresting. I thought that a lot of the clues were from sources that were ridiculously minute. Clues like determining a photograph was taken from the inside of a house, or that stress on a bone was caused from a specific sport like rowing were just too unbelievable to follow. You can argue that they’re experts and as such are trained to find this sort of evidence, but I won’t. I’d rather have better writing.



Speaking of writing, who on Earth decided that a love story back at the lab was a good subplot? Who cares? Angela Montenegro’s (Michaela Conlin) soon to be ex-husband returns and cause friction between her and her fiancé, Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne). Then Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor) sleeps with said ex-husband. Luckily, resident psychologist Dr. Lance Sweets (John Francis Daley) is there to help mend the mounting tension. I say “luckily” because hopefully Dr. Sweets is so effective, we won’t have to be exposed to this visual gag-reflex inducing love triangle (or square, if you count all parties involved) ever again.



I mean, seriously, edit out that garbage, let them focus on just solving crimes, and have a series premier that is now only an hour long but far more enjoyable than a two hour I-hear-bells-when-we-kiss crap that was aired tonight. Did the writers really feel this added to the story? Must they resort to cast inbreeding to generate ratings?



But enough of that bitter talk. Overall, the season premiere of BONES was entertaining and fun to watch. Old gimmicks are used, sure, but they’re still effective. Disturbing and graphic displaying of corpses never hurt anyone over the age of 13. Take out the unnecessary soap opera story lines that do NOTHING to advance the plot, and you’ve got yourself a pleasant little evening of murder to look forward to.

I really don't think this person likes Bones........although it's hard to say..........I can't believe what they said at the end............THE NERVE.........Killing Booth............well I never

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If you've had the good grace to steer clear of "Bones" for its previous three seasons, now would be the perfect time to have a momentary lapse in judgment. The two-hour premiere of season four, which aired Sept. 3, shows little mercy regarding explanations of the characters for new viewers of the show. However, after a quick Wikipedia session, you'll learn that it follows a forensic anthropologist named Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), and her partner, Special Agent Seely Booth (David Boreanaz) as they solve murder cases with all the mystery and suspense of an episode of "CSI."

The major element saving "Bones" from being dismissed as a knockoff of the already established "CSI" and "CSI: Miami" franchises is its irregular amount of comedy and intricate subplots involving the characters' personal lives.

The season premiere, titled "Yanks in the U.K.," manages to effectively keep your attention while intermittingly playing out a totally unrelated love triangle between two of the forensic members and her soon to be ex-husband. Although it might not sound like anything too exciting on paper, the episode's series of twists and turns are enough to keep most people from leaving the couch for more appealing endeavors (kitchen, bathroom trip, etc.).

Even though the show's story line isn't lacking in the attention-grabbing department, there is one real shortcoming, and it has to do with the characters themselves. There's really only one character, and that's Agent Booth. It seems that in the writers' attempts to disassociate themselves with the procedural seriousness (that could've been a made-up word) of the CSI shows, they made Agent Booth extremely sarcastic to, in a sense, be the permanent comic relief character. The only problem is that he completely overdoes it, and is so condescending to everyone on the show that by the end of the episode you're either still throwing up from having to listen to someone that obnoxious for two hours, or you're busy finding paper to write down the next episode's date on. That way, you don't inadvertently channel surf onto the next one and ruin your carpet even more.

Maybe if in one of the future episodes Agent Booth is killed and his own crime scene investigation team gets to figure out what happened to him (which they won't do because they all will hate him too much to even do that by then), the series will take a turn for the better.

Show: Bones
Network: FOX
Grade: B-