Murder mystery series, Bones, is unlike any other TV show on earth. While on the surface, it may look like a regular detective series but with its focus on science, anthropology and logic, it is one of the more impressive productions to have emerged in the last decade.
After 12 years, the beloved TV show goes off-air
Murder mystery series, Bones, is unlike any other TV show on earth. While on the surface, it may look like a regular detective series but with its focus on science, anthropology and logic, it is one of the more impressive productions to have emerged in the last decade.
Starring David Boreanaz as FBI special agent Seeley Booth and Emily Deschanel as the world’s foremost forensic anthropologist, the show is not just about solving a crime in the traditional manner but about the merger of heart with science, emotion with logic and most of all the ways in which science can determine events, both past and present.
With a cast made up of characters who are misfits but capable in their own ways, the show’s biggest strength is its remarkable stories that have not taken a hit despite the passage of time. It can’t be said about every long-running or even short running TV series. Think about the rebooted 24 or the abysmal deterioration of Homeland, the over-the-top Billions or the uninspired second season of True Detective and you get the drift.
Coming back to Bones, as the final episode of the hit TV show makes its way to us, the show’s cast is emotional about the end.
Deschanel, who stars in the show as the logical “Bones”, while talking about the 12-year experience’s end, told TVLine: “It comes in waves. It hit me for sure when I finished [shooting the finale]. What I miss now is the people I worked with, the actors and the crew. I’m mourning that I don’t get to see those people every day. It will never be the same. I’m in the process of mourning the show itself. I think that will take longer to mourn, to kind of know what the show was for me and how it fits into television history.”
Meanwhile, even as the show’s other lead star, actor David Boreanaz has moved on to his next project which will be a Navy Seal drama with CBS, don’t discount the possibility of a spin-off.
When asked about the reprising his role of Booth, Boreanaz told Hollywood Reporter: “Everything is possible in life, but I tend to like to go forward. I don’t like to go backwards. I don’t like reunions, and I don’t like to go back.”
Deschanel was more forthcoming. “I would like some time before I consider that. We’ve put 12 years into the show,” she said. “It’d be really weird to say goodbye, very emotional to say goodbye, and then next week, we’re coming back.”
– With information from Hollywood Reporter and TVLine.
