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. Breaking "Bones"
A good rule of thumb for TV showrunners is, if you actually have a sizable portion of viewers who are genuine adults watching your show, don’t for God’s sake waste your capital on a stupid Halloween episode. Said material is aimed at kids, fer chrissakes, and that kind of material will just register as condescending to actual adults.
The latest show to ignore me? Fox’s “Bones.” Don’t worry; there’ll doubtlessly be a couple more tomorrow.
Now, “Bones” is usually agreeable enough. Temperance’s (Emily Deschanel) and Booth’s (David Boreanaz) chemistry and the show’s lack of pretension can be quite winning. But a TV series has to be about something more than endless meet-cutes without much else except crime-procedural lite.
Tonight’s Halloween episode involves the mummification of the corpses of teen girls. “Bones” plays virtually everything for laughs, and generally agreeably so, but tonight’s plotline involves teen girls dragged into sordid threesomes and thereafter murdered, “literally scared to death,” as a character puts it. Ha-ha!
Ah, well, after all, it’s Fox. And it’s amazing how well the show underplays, even glosses over, its sadistic plotline. And Deschanel is awfully fetching in her Wonder Woman costume.
- “Bones:” 8 tonight, Fox Channel 11.
Comments
Who told you Halloween was for kids? (can't wait for mine to go to bed to REALLY start partying!)
Bones is a show where it's Halloween a natural. Its fans have been frustrated for two seasons by the baseball season taking Halloween away from us. Finally - we get our wish (which we made clear to the show's creators) and you gripe that Halloween is for kids? I am also delighted that besides it being for my favorite holiday, it also happens to be one of the best episode this show ever had. Go figure!
Posted by: Edgeoforever | October 30, 2007 8:55 PM