Bones, Season Two
  
Our Rating: 3 out of 5
Rated: TV14
 
Reviewer: Elle G.
  
You can tell a good series by the time you are midway through second seasons: if the cast has chemistry, the plots thicken, and the murders and mysteries get more intriguing, that is the sign of a true success. Bones has all of this and more.

Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) and Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) still have a wonderful albeit a bit dysfunctional, partnership, being there for one another as past secrets are unearthed. Bones has found out the truth about her parents and is slowly building a relationship with her long lost brother. Booth is also beginning to put his demons regarding his sniper life behind him, and the truth has come out about him having a son, Parker. They still have their vast differences (and Booth still won’t let Bones carry a gun) but there is a friendship being built. Little do they know that the serious events of the next year will strengthen it even more...

Of course, field work and catching the criminal always comes first, so it is no surprise that we find Bones and Booth on their way to a violent crime scene involving a former basketball star turned business mogul and a US Senator. However, there is more than just a decomposed corpse awaiting them—there is also Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor). Immediately, the two women’s personalities clash and that isn’t a good thing; Dr. Saroyan is the new Chief of Forensics at the Jeffersonian Institute…and Bones’s new boss. While Dr. Zach Addy (Eric Millegan), Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin), and Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne) don’t have an issue with their new superior, there are changes in the wind… and they still have bones to analyze, skeletons to draw, and bugs to dissect on top of it all.

The addition of Dr. Saroyan adds just one of many new storyline twists to this season. We have the conclusion of the serial killer (which, just a heads up, you might want to watch during the daylight hours!), the introduction of someone called simply the "Grave Digger," Bone’s father (played by Ryan O’Neil) makes an appearance, and what is a show without romance? While you might think it is our favorite forensic anthropologist and FBI agent, you’re wrong. Love is in the air for Angela and Hodgins, all of it culminating in a season finale with yet more twists. Sadly, it seems as if the writers felt the need to add more sexual elements to the show. Dr. Saroyan and Booth have a history together and decide to pick up where they last left off (in “The Truth in the Lye,” they are shown in bed together). For a four episode story arc, Bones is given a boyfriend—in “The Man in the Mansion” there is a lot of sexual innuendo and in “Bodies in the Book” and “The Boneless Bride in the River,” they are shown in bed. The worst episodes sexual element wise are “The Girl in Suite 2103” (a girl trying to get pregnant to blackmail her boyfriend) and “The Girl in the Gator” (which could border on a girl being involved in a porn like atmosphere). Most episodes, however, seem to have at least some innuendo; it is just assumed that people are in physical relationships and the details are not kept private. It’s handled in such a blasé manner, it really bothers me.

Language is still a slight issues with uses of God’s name in vain, SOB, a**, d***, etc.. Since Dr. Saroyan’s specialty is flesh, organs, and tissue, bodies aren’t always just bones; we are shown them in less decomposed states than previously. That definitely makes for a few squeamish moments. Hot button issues like the foster system and pedophilia (“The Boy in the Shroud”), kids in beauty pageants (“The Girl with the Curl,”) and death of an unborn child (“Mother and Child in the Bay”) are just a few of the episodes. Despite the fallacies, I find Bones to be a very addicting show. The bad guy always gets caught, the good guys grow closer, you find yourself riveted for forty-five minutes an episode… it all adds up to enjoyment, at least for me.