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Bare and Naked
by ehbee Sat May 31, 2008 4:15 am
Bare and Naked
Kenneth Lobo
What’s in it? Set in Washington DC, Bones is a new investigative drama inspired by a real-life forensic anthropologist. Dr Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is an in-demand forensic anthropologist who moonlights as a novelist. When investigators fail to identify the badly decomposed body of a murder victim, they enlist the help of Dr Brennan who is able to read clues left behind in the victim's bones. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth (Angel’s David Boreanaz). Unlike Brennan, Booth believes in good, old-fashioned investigative work: Digging up the truth by questioning witnesses and suspects.
The story so far? The opening episode establishes both, the contrasting styles of the “detectives” and the chemistry between two opposing sets of teams and ideologies—forensics versus officers subservient to bureaucracy. A senator’s fling has been murdered in DC and the tracking down of the murder forms the backdrop for all their interactions and conflicts.
What’s hot? Bones effectively uses DC as a character in its drama. Besides shots of monuments that have become part of collective memories over the years, the director takes viewers through the fabulous interiors as well. Though the dialogue is sometimes full of jargon, Brennan's team possesses a machine, which projects holographic images of individuals through random remnants of bone structure. If that machine exists, I want to have it.
What’s not? The chemistry between the chief protagonists is that of a pin with a drawing board. Besides push-up bra cleavage (early-on in the episode), the wooden Deschanel has little going for her. And Boreanaz isn't too far behind. Even when the duo shares intimate details of their traumatic pasts, it comes across as little more than scrïpted cliché. At one point in the first episode, Boreanaz entices the bone expert into a partnership, saying, “Let’s spit on it and we’re like Scully and Mulder”. They wish.
Should you be watching it? Bones is touch and go. Unfortunately for it, the many avatars of CSI have set high standards in semi-serious popcorn television viewing. Compared to them, Bones is many notches below. Maybe sticking with the characters will reveal details (and hopefully, improved performances) that this reviewer found sorely lacking.
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Kenneth Lobo
What’s in it? Set in Washington DC, Bones is a new investigative drama inspired by a real-life forensic anthropologist. Dr Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is an in-demand forensic anthropologist who moonlights as a novelist. When investigators fail to identify the badly decomposed body of a murder victim, they enlist the help of Dr Brennan who is able to read clues left behind in the victim's bones. Brennan often finds herself teamed with Special Agent Seeley Booth (Angel’s David Boreanaz). Unlike Brennan, Booth believes in good, old-fashioned investigative work: Digging up the truth by questioning witnesses and suspects.
The story so far? The opening episode establishes both, the contrasting styles of the “detectives” and the chemistry between two opposing sets of teams and ideologies—forensics versus officers subservient to bureaucracy. A senator’s fling has been murdered in DC and the tracking down of the murder forms the backdrop for all their interactions and conflicts.
What’s hot? Bones effectively uses DC as a character in its drama. Besides shots of monuments that have become part of collective memories over the years, the director takes viewers through the fabulous interiors as well. Though the dialogue is sometimes full of jargon, Brennan's team possesses a machine, which projects holographic images of individuals through random remnants of bone structure. If that machine exists, I want to have it.
What’s not? The chemistry between the chief protagonists is that of a pin with a drawing board. Besides push-up bra cleavage (early-on in the episode), the wooden Deschanel has little going for her. And Boreanaz isn't too far behind. Even when the duo shares intimate details of their traumatic pasts, it comes across as little more than scrïpted cliché. At one point in the first episode, Boreanaz entices the bone expert into a partnership, saying, “Let’s spit on it and we’re like Scully and Mulder”. They wish.
Should you be watching it? Bones is touch and go. Unfortunately for it, the many avatars of CSI have set high standards in semi-serious popcorn television viewing. Compared to them, Bones is many notches below. Maybe sticking with the characters will reveal details (and hopefully, improved performances) that this reviewer found sorely lacking.
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