Bones opens this week on a real estate agent giving a tour to a couple. Due to the formula for procedural dramas we know that we will be finding a dead body within the next couple of moments. The title of the episode, in all its alliterated glory, hints it will be some sort of appendage; we are not disappointed on either account.

Uh oh! Seeley Booth’s brain lapse from last season is back with shooting ability snatching vengeance. The teaser opens with Booth at a shooting range unable to hit any thing on the target. He goes to see Sweets about it but is miffed when the psychologist treats him as a patient and not as a [...]

This week’s bizarre romp through anthropology, FBI murder investigations, unrequited love and drawn-out sexual tension begins with a gaggle of Woodchucks, a girl scout-type group. They have landed, and expertly preserved as evidence, a floating dead body. This bizarre inclusion of prepubescent girls in awkward uniforms doesn’t appear to have any further effect on the [...]

2008 can be said to be a year plagued by tragedy, disappointment and shame. Just like at the movies, the small screen in general didn’t exactly shine this year. Very few movies could even be considered watchable and many shows with an established following, like the hit NBC show Heroes, saw nearly a 50% drop [...]