Bones, a darkly amusing procedural currently in its eighth season, is inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs.Download Video Bones The Party in the Pants Episode On ABC Family Tv Online Tv Live Streaming Video. Online Watch Bones Full Episode Watch Stream HD Video on Internet TV.Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is a highly skilled forensic anthropologist who works at the Jeffersonian Institute in Washington, D.C., and writes novels on the side. When the standard methods of identifying a body are useless (when the remains are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed), law enforcement calls on Brennan for her uncanny ability to read clues left behind in the victim's bones. While most people can't handle Brennan's intelligence, her drive for the truth or the way she flings herself headlong into every investigation, Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) of the FBI's Homicide Investigations Unit is an exception.
A former Army sniper, Booth mistrusts science and scientists - the "squints", as he calls them - who pore over the physical evidence of a crime. But even he cannot deny that the combination of his people-smarts and Brennan's scientific acumen makes them a formidable duo.
So how does one sell the idea of an über-rational, atheistic scientist encountering a long-lost relative when her heart stops beating during surgery? For this show it begins by returning Brennan to her childhood home where her mother awaits, softly chuckling about her daughter’s stubborn streak when the scientist tries to leave.
The second time Brennan returns to the dream she’s reminiscing about the furniture from her her childhood, but still maintains her trademark clinical detachment, attempting to rationalize what’s happening physically to cause the hallucination.
The turning point comes over tea and the remembrance of the last time Brennan spoke with her mother. Much like her final interaction with Booth before getting shot, her last memory of her mother is an argument; one she seems exceptionally reluctant to re-live, even in a dream.
Apparently the younger Brennan had a crush on a boy – Scott Morrison – and as teenaged girls are wont to do, she’d begun to change who she was to please him. Concerned for her daughter, Christine confronted young Tempe, advising her to stop thinking with her emotions and use her brain. Brennan had swatted her mother’s tender touch away, but she never forgot the advice.
Discovering that it was this final fight with her mother that caused her internal shields to be raised explains a good deal of how Brennan came to be so distant from her feelings; why it’s taken so long for her to let her guard down. At the same time, it offers hope for the future.
Brennan’s coldness isn’t a result of her genius brain or some form of Aspergers but rather is a young girl’s best attempt to please her mother, assuage her own guilt, and protect her battered heart.
David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel start well with better than two-dimensional characters in a fresh look at a CSI type show. Based on the real-life work of forensic anthropologist and novelist Kathy Reichs, it's fun, kicky, and only occasionally too gruesome to look at.
Not quite like one of Ms. Reichs' novels, it is still a pleasure for a fan (me!) to watch. Boreanaz' past work on Buffy and Angel stands in good stead here as he delivers lines that stand up to a strong female role without diminishing it. Also like Buffy, humor lends grace to embarrassing social situations that highlight common human vulnerabilities.
Surrounding the 2 major players are other characters who add to the thrust of a character driven show. The writers do good work giving each character unique attributes that have nothing to do with hair color or body measurements. The entire cast does a good job presenting real, quirky individuals who don't have to rely on looks to sell the worth of their character to the viewers.
That alone is something new for any CSI show. Still some rough edges in writing and delivery (Tempe's "I wish this was the worst I have seen" was painful for all the wrong reasons),"Bones" has great potential.