My TV Musings

Leave it to Bones to make the traditional Christmas episode not so traditional.
First, since her father, portrayed by Ryan O’Neal, is in prison as is her brother, spending a traditional Christmas together seems to be an impossible task.  But Booth convinces Bones that it is the right thing for her to pull strings and make […]

It’s amazing how fast I can go through my dvr’d shows with the baseball championships going on. I noticed my DVR was recording something and it looked like it should have been Prison Break but, no, when I played it back it was baseball! So that’s an hour I was able to quickly […]

The vampire show on this season that I’ll be watching on Friday is NOT Moonlight, but Blood Ties, which comes back to finish off its first season. Lifetime probably will not pick this up for a second season but it is fun to watch and a great way to pass a Friday night.
It’s almost […]

Bones is a procedural drama with romantic undertones about a forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, in Washington, D.C. who works with the FBI, specifically Agent Seely Booth, to investigate crimes by researching the bones left behind at crime scenes. It sounds cold and scientific, but the banter between the characters more than makes up for […]

How cool is it that Ryan O’Neal is Brennan’s father? I mean, he’s looking great, at least compared to some photos we’ve seen of him in the recent past. And, since he’s supposed to be an intimidating character in the show, it helps that he has (allegedly) been one in real life.
This week we get […]

I’ve enjoyed watching vampires on television since the 60s when I watched Dark Shadows after school every day. I liked that show so much I watched the entire series in reruns when the SciFi Channel ran it in the early 90s. Funny how shoddy some of the scenes were, with microphones hanging from […]

Last week’s new episodes of Bones and Criminal Minds were pre-empted due to backlash from the Virginia Tech tragedy. The Bones episode was to be about a murder on a college campus and the Criminal Minds episode was about a serial killer targeting women on a college campus. I’m still investigating whether or […]

I first met Trevor Eve as the dashing criminal investigator in “Heat of the Sun”, a PBS Mystery mini-series, also starring the wonderful Susannah Harker (from the wonderful British mini-series Ultraviolet). It was set in 1930’s Nairobi and involved all sorts of criminals, from murder, arson, and drug-running, to blackmail, banditry, and slave trading. […]

I didn’t expect to like this show so I was happily surprised when it started out by portraying a girl who experienced a bad childhood and had to escape to her own Emerald City to cope and became a smart, tough, rebellious young woman who learned to get by no matter what. Think Bones (from […]

What about Temperance Brennan makes her unable to leave when Sully asks her to come sail with him for a year? Is it the fact that she feels alive only when working with dead things, finding meaning in helping the dead find justice? Clearly Bones had found something with Sully she had never found with […]