Bones 9.11 Review: The Many Ways We Grieve

Anyone that has yet to watch Friday night’s episode of Bones, entitled ‘The Spark in the Park’, that is what I suggest you go and do now before proceeding ahead. For this is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.

I have to say that I really enjoyed Brennan in this episode. The amount of emotions she was able to demonstrate just based on her parallels with the victim’s father this week was wonderful. It’s been a while since we’ve been able to see her character really show an array of emotions, and I always enjoy it when that is really able to come through on screen. This kind of Brennan is more of what I really want to see of her character, not the Brennan that is almost completely pulled back from everyone or always happy. Getting to see the complete scale of emotions is what I like.

Booth, on the other hand, I felt was very much an ass in this episode. I understand that he is an FBI agent trying to find the murderer, but he was way too hard on the father when even I could see that the man was grieving. For someone that is able to figure out people, he wasn’t really able to use that skill when it came to the professor. Sure, it may have been partly because the man is similar to Brennan in that they grieve strangely compared to the average person, but I almost felt that his character did that so that Brennan would be the one to take an interest. In that case, it is okay, but still not natural to Booth’s character.

This week, Cam was able to confront the woman that stole her identity. For such an intricate problem to be given to this character, the whole reason behind why the woman had stolen Cam’s identity, the woman that had been her friend in college, was kind of ridiculous. I expected more from this story than what panned out. Also, Cam really needs to grow her hair an inch longer, or at the very least half an inch.

All in all, this was an enjoyable episode. This series is becoming a bit too ludicrous for my liking, but it does have its moments. There is a lot of humour to this series now, and almost too much happiness for these characters that it becomes a little plain. I really think that this series needs more depth going forward, if it wants to continue on one more season passed this one.

My rating: 7 out of 10.

Best Lines:

“Do you really think I care if she sits in there for a while?” – Booth asks Cam, regarding the woman that stole her identity.

“I’m more of a wrath and vengeance type.” – Cam relates to Arastoo.

“That’s a gross oversimplification.” – Brennan says.

“Yes! I’m never wrong about an identification.” – Brennan states.

Okay, so apologies for not getting this up yesterday, I would’ve had to choose between watching this, or Haven, if I did that, but I really wanted to watch both, so I picked watching yesterday, reviewing today. So here this is. Stay tuned for my review of Haven, coming up next. 

Bones 9.10 Review: Accidental Cannibalism

For all those that have yet to watch Friday night’s episode of Bones, entitled ‘The Mystery in the Meat’, now is your last chance to do so without spoilers before reading ahead. This is not a spoiler free blog. THIS REVIEW MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS! You’ve been warned.

While the dumping ground for where the body was found this week was intriguing, the boasted about bachelorette party “episode” was rather lackluster, despite the brawl between our series regulars and the biker women. The way this episode had been written about, I expected most of the episode would be about the bachelorette party, and not just five minutes spent in what was supposed to be a rodeo bar.

Elsewhere, I was happy to see two squinterns in the episode, even though the way they did this makes me feel like they’re trying to build up to Daisy and the new guy dating. A little too cliché if you ask me. Although, while the newbie is rather abrasive and tries to claim every idea, I do find his ability to get under most of the staffs skin funny to watch, so the guy is growing on me.

Also, they seemed to resolve the whole Angela-Booth situation this week. Was it just me, or does the acting in this series seem to be over-the-top now more than ever and not natural in the least? As I watched that scene, it didn’t appear as if the characters had known each other as long as they have, and it just didn’t seem to click. Maybe that’s one of my issues with this show; it’s lost its naturalness, ever since the end of season six. Before I used to be able to watch emotion, drama, and humour all nicely wrapped together, and now I’m not feeling most of that on a regular basis. It really is time to end it.

Okay, well overall this episode was alright. It was very surficial and light. There wasn’t much depth to it, except for in fleeting moments. It’s almost like this series is merely grasping at straws; not even the actors are putting their entire selves into it, and the writing has just gotten bleak. I love this series first six seasons a great deal, and then there were some great moments and brief story arcs after that, but for the most part it’s time to put this series to bed. The move to Friday marks that possibility; I just hope we’ll get some sense of finality when it does end.

My rating: 6.5 out of 10.

Best Lines:

“It’s fine with Cam.” – Angela tells Brennan. “It is?” – Cam asks.

“I can’t believe this! We’re homies!” – Daisy delights.

“I dislike almost everyone. I dislike you and I don’t even know you.” – Agatha Blume remarks.

“Don’t be nice to me, it’s weird.” – Daisy complains. “Just deal with it.” – Oliver replies.

Okay, more apologies for not posting this yesterday as I had hoped. Again, Friday and Saturday nights I always get home around 2:30, so I only get four hours to myself. I did watch this yesterday; I just didn’t have time to review it, so here it is. Both Once Upon A Time and Revenge are not airing new episodes this week, so check back in tomorrow night for my reviews of How I Met Your Mother, Almost Human, Sleepy Hollow, and The Blacklist. See you all then.