Hot Bodies of Evidence

The skinny: An FBI agent and a bone anthropologist team up to solve freakish murder cases Mulder and Scully style.

Review: A hot guy and hot girl crime solving team is a reliable tv formula, but with the pairing derivative criminal procedural drama, you get absolute television…well you get Bones.

David Boreanez plays a cocky FBI agent who partners with a cynical world class anthropoligist and social android to solve murders. They also have a team of other hyper-idiosyncrasied (idiosyncrazy?) geeks that handle all of the CSI magic.  The twist to this show that sets it apart is that studying the bones of the victim in addition to all of the other evidence is key into breaking the case, usually.

For the most part I find Bones relaxing mindless fun that I can follow while piddling around my home.  The acting and writing is hammy, and it gets almost unwatchable when it tries too hard to be dramatic or serious. They do a great job drumming up the Moonlighting “we’re just friends even though no one else buys it and every week we manage to have 4 extended face to face close ups and bizarre situations where we basically make love to each other fully clothed.” The sexual tension is as subtle as getting hit by a van.

Wrap up: The characters, the murders, the dialogue, the circumstances that the show is built around is all pretty much unbelievable. But Bones is fairly entertaining when it sticks to what it’s best at- campy popcorn CSI-lite fun.

Entertainment rating: 3