Last night was the premiere of Bones on Fox. The show hasn’t gotten the best reviews from the critics, so I was sceptical. However, it turned out to be pretty good. The show deals with a forensic expert who works for the “Jeffersonian Institute” (a fictional version of the Smithsonian) who gets “loaned out” by her boss to work with the FBI on cases. She gets teamed up with an FBI agent, and they form a partnership, of sorts.

The show mixes what’s become traditional “procedural” plot lines (think CSI, the father of them all) with more character-based story lines. I think the network execs are going for something more appealing to “female audiences”. They’ve given the forensic expert a “back story” that includes both of her parents disappearing when she was a teenager.

The “mood scenes” get tedious after a while, but there’s a good vein of humor running through the show. I think it could become a winner for Fox if they can tone down the maudlin stuff. I’ll certainly watch more episodes.

As a side note, Supernatural also premiered last night, but I missed the start, so I skipped it in favor of the Roberts hearings on C-Span (mmm! good stuff!). I’ll watch a Replay this weekend and post my thoughts about Supernatural then.

9/14/2005 9:36:07 AM (Pacific Daylight Time, UTC-07:00)      Comments [0]  TV
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