PopCorn Corner: Bones - Season 3

Bones - Season 3 (2007 - 2008)
Created by Hart Hanson
Episodes: 15
Runtime: 43 min.
Rating: US TV-14
Genre: Crime Drama

Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, and cocky FBI special agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders - and quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones.

Wow, guys, just wow, we can officially say that I'm hooked, the third season was the best so far like be leagues of the other two and I watched it in like three days (okay, it has less episodes than the other two, but still), I reached the state of "Only one more episode..." until Netflix would warm me to take a bathroom break.

The main reason for this is my investment in these characters, especially Temperance. She is my favorite character of the series and in this season this just got consolidated, with the prison of her father made by Booth she needs to deal with her feelings towards it, to her deal with her relationship with her father which is pretty strained to say the least, she also has to choose to will follow her heart and feelings instead of brain in a few situations and it was good to see this character growth arc on her.

I finally started to see the ship happening, we have quite a few cute scenes between them, like in the Halloween episodes (thought I still which it was a Clark Kent costume, just saying) and the episode with the baby, that he said "our baby" it was just afjvidjfav. I like that it's a slow burn and they definitely aren't rushing into things, but we can see the chemistry and their feelings building, it's gonna be pretty epic when they finally admit their feelings to each other.

A plot that really is dragging for me is the one between Hodges and Angela, they start with their search for Angela's husband but them things kind of... stop, and we never touch in the subject again, it was odd and right now I'm kind of wondering why the hell they are taking so long to resolve this plot, just let them get married already ugh.

Zack comes back from Iraq on the first episode but he is pretty fucked up, he's even more closed of and focused on the logic of things, instead of his feelings and dealing with whatever happened there - overall I really didn't liked his arc on this season, the actor got out of the show in the end of this season and they seemed to only realized this right at the last episode and had to create a half asset excuse so that his character would have an ending and it was bad, they tried to do some logical reasoning but didn't worked, I'm pretty disappointed.

We also have Sweets, a FBI psychologist that at first attends Booth and Temperance, I actually think he got introduced to him at the second season but whatever, he them get sort of into the team by doing criminal profiles, he is different a bit from the genius from the lab, I mean he's a genius with a ton of degrees with like 20 years but he's more human and quite funny.

As always I talk more about the characters and their relationships and the cases are just a back drop in my thoughts, well they are more interesting this season and kept me engaged definitely, we had two cases from the previous season - Temperance's father prison and consequential judgement which was quite emotional for me, it was definitely a difficult episode because I didn't knew which way I wanted things to go, but I was really happy with the results, there were a few tears; and Gormogon which was pretty disappointing, we had all this build up and the resolution ended up being super anti climatic - but yeah, what makes this show for me it's these characters.

Verdict: 7.93 out 10 stars

PopCorn Corner: Bones - Season 2

Bones - Season 2 (2006 - 2007)
Created by Hart Hanson
Episodes: 21
Runtime: 43 min.
Rating: US TV-14
Genre: Crime Drama

Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, and cocky FBI special agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders - and quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones.

The second season of Bones was better than the first for me and it was the one that started to get me addicted to watching this show, I started to get excited to see new episodes and when I was thinking what to watch next/what I wanted to watch in my free time it was this show that would pick up my interest more often than not.

A good part of this is because of my growing affection with its characters. My favorite is Temperance, she wins my heart with her personality, this season we start to have a growth on her because of discoveries from her family and her connection with her brother, also she gets a little romance around the middle of the season, and while it lasted very little it was good for us to see her involved romantically with someone, it showed that she does manage to get attached to other people and not just her long years colleges.

Booth was a bit better this season, mostly because I noticed people calling him on his shit more times, and his scenes with his son were always a "awn" factor. What I didn't liked was the little romance he has this season, you see we have a new chief for the Jeffersonian lab, Cam, she starts out coming pretty strong but it turns out is more of a facade to establish herself as the boss anyway so she and Booth had a previous involvement, and when they start working together again things heat up and they get back together, that was fine and I was excited to see what they would do with this relationship but that is the thing, they did... Nothing out of it, they have very little scenes together, as a romantic couple, and when we see then getting more closer in the lab and searching for each other little touches and talks things kind of ended and I was left puzzled. I guess the producers just wanted to both, Booth and Temperance to have romantic involvements before getting together maybe.

What I did shipped was Hodgins and Angela, I still don't totally understand Angela because she is the kind of artistic free spirited that I just don't get but I do like Hodgins and the flirtatious banter on their talks had me laughing and cheering for them. Zack being utterly clueless of what was happening right in front of him was funny as well, I kind of wish he would get a romantic interest too, you know, another super genius that would make him totally in love with her brain and intelligence (not that he would know at first that he was falling in love, but that would just turn things more interesting).

In term of the cases, we have a two, I think, sort of open cases yet that will continue to the third season which I like because it gives more complexity to these cases and story lines, it also creates a more emotional involvement making it more appealing to continue to watching the series to know what is going to happen.

Verdict: 6.88 out 10 stars

Popcorn Corner: Bones - Season 1

Bones - Season 1 (2005-2006)
Created by Hart Hanson
Episodes: 22
Runtime: 43 min.
Rating: US TV-14
Genre: Crime Drama

Forensic anthropologist, Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan, and cocky FBI special agent Seeley Booth build a team to investigate murders - and quite often, there isn't more to examine than rotten flesh or mere bones.

It's been a while that I want to review some series on the Popcorn Corner here in the blog, since I watch much more TV shows than movies so since I've been binge watching Bones since July I thought it was a good series to start with. I started watching Bones after I finished the 8 seasons of Castle, the number of seasons and episodes of this series did scare me at first but well, screw that.

I didn't know what to expect of this series, despite being super popular I had never looked into it before and I really enjoyed finding some things. For one, this has neurodiversity for the win, Temperance/Bones, one of the main characters is a forensic anthropologist who is a super genius on her field, with a intellect above the average she manages to find stuff from a piece of bone that helps solve murders but with that mind comes also a social inability, she isn't very sensitive and also can't connect with people that easily but that doesn't mean she doesn't have friends and lovers, because she does. I loved the little family that everybody at the Jeffersonian Institute forms + Booth.

Now Booth, our other main character, is a bit more difficult for me to like, he is a FBI agent that works with "Bones" and they definitely complement each other, him being a more sensitive part of their time and following his gut on the cases but I'm not totally okay with, well his personality. He does a lot of "jokes" about the "nerds" of the laboratory, Temperance showed at the first episodes that she didn't wanted for him to call her "Bones" but he still kept doing it, also Zack, Temperance assistant and also a sort of genius in this field, tries to talk to him and be his friend and he just ignores him and tell is some sort of bro code - I guess this is supposed to pass as funny, but I'm like ??? this is just mean really.

Having finished the first season I'm still not completely sold on this series, it's interesting with some very different cases and the characters are pretty unique, but some more deeper connection is still missing, I'll still continue to watch this series but idk, also I'm very much not on board with the ship yet, which is bad, because I really wanted to (but Booth doesn't help).

Verdict: 6.66 out 10 stars