David Kronke was appointed Mayor of Television after a bloodless coup in 2000. Since then, he has improved infrastructure, championed greater educational opportunities and fought for reforms that have utterly erased corruption and incompetence from the television industry. Since Mr. Kronke has ascended to power, Television is a far better place. "Bones:" Out of its skull
“Bones” has been, for the past two years, an agreeable enough crime procedural with a droll sense of humor and nice chemistry between its two leads, Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz).
And then this season begins. With a skull tumbling into a car windshield hurtling down a highway, which isn’t all that odd for this show, but what follows goes kind of crazy – and threatens to take up a sizable chunk of the season with it.
Said skull belonged to a young violin prodigy (his little finger was insured for $10 million) who was having an affair with the wife of the deputy director of the Secret Service, whose husband not only knew of their trysts but was filming them for his own jollies. And that’s just a little red herring of a subplot that’s quickly dispatched for the weirdness to come.
Brennan [SPOILERS TO COME, LIKE, IMMEDIATELY] discovers markings on the skull suggesting it had been cannibalized. She and Booth locate an abandoned vault with a bizarre shrine including, amongst other things, a silver skeleton.
And so this spirals into a conspiracy of some sort involving the Illuminati, a serial-killing team of cannibals (one of which graciously informs us, “Babies taste a little like fish” before he sacrifices himself) and goodness knows what else before this thing is done.
Let’s see how they keep it light and frothy while all this is going on.
- “Bones:” 8 tonight; Fox Channel 11.