Bones - The Complete First Season

This is a fantastic show! Highly recommended. The cast is outstanding. If you watch, you will get addicted. I have Season 2 also, and it's even better than Season One (if that's possible!).

I don't get to watch TV shows that often, so had never seen or even heard anything about this show. Then while walking through Blockbuster last sping (2006), I saw the first seasons DVD there, and thought I would check it out. It did not take long till I was totally hooked. I have seen bits and pieces of the many CSI type shows out there, and some of the real life educational programs, but they were never enough to keep me coming back.

In my free time at work, I eventually watched through the entire first season. This show was VERY witty, very funny, yet very intelligent and educational in the way they connected the dots and solved crimes. Of course, having such an attractive star doesn't hurt AT ALL!

Shortly after finishing eason one, the season two discs came out (perfect timing). Around the same time I decided to start setting my DVR box to record the new season episodes, and at this time got my wife to sit down long enough to watch an episode with me. After one episode, she too was hooked, so we started watching the season two discs together.

Now, once the younger kids are down for the night, my wife and I brew up a pot of something hot (coffee or dandelion brew), and along with our 16 year old son, sit for a most entertaining and captivating episode either on DVD or DVR of a recorded episode. Now, with the writers strike haulting season 3 episode, my family gets to enjoy reruns from seasons 1 & 2 also.

The characters all have their own witty, intelligent and qirky characteristics, and it is so entertaining to watch them interact off each other. Of course the highligh of every episode (for us) centers around the back and forth dialog between the two main characters usually in the car driving to a crime scene most every episode (season 3 has changed the pace some by putting that highlight in their sesions with the therapist...my gosh, hilarious to say the least).

I am just impressed that there can be such highly educational forensics happening amidst this motley crew of squints that merge and clash to cuse such humor.

Great series...heck it out for sure.

Since "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" debuted in October 2000, forensic shows have flooded the airwaves, each with a slightly different take on the idea of scientists solving crimes. So what makes "Bones" one of television's most under-rated dramas?

Like most forensics shows, "Bones" operates on the premise that science can be used to solve crimes. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) is world-renowned for her work at identifying victims through their skeletal remains, and she is one of the Jeffersonian (Smithsonian)'s best scientists. Brennan, however, is not good with the living, and despite her intelligence and success as a mystery novelist, she struggles to connect with people. After working in collaboration with the FBI on a few cases, she is assigned to work with Special Agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), a former Army sniper who is convinced that cops - not scientists - solve crimes. Booth is as smooth as he is smart, and his ability to connect with people aids him in solving crimes.

It's no surprise that Booth and Brennan (whom he has sarcastically nicknamed "Bones" - hence the show's title) clash over just about everything, from religion to families to who is going to drive to the crime scenes. Despite their near-constant bickering, the duo manage to complement each other, and with Brennan's colleagues, the lovable "squints", they are succesful at their work.

Along with Boreanaz and Deschanel, the series features several unforgettable characters, including conspiracy buff bug-and-slime guy Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne), whimsy yet grounded forensic artist Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin), and Brennan's grad student, super-logical genius Zack Addy (Eric Millegan). However, it is the two series leads that allow the show to sparkle.

So what makes "Bones" different from all the other forensics shows on television? It could be the witty banter between the characters, or the portrayal of Booth as the "straight man" in the world of scientists. It might even be the crimes that the show features. But most of all, it's the humor on the series. For once, this is a forensic drama that doesn't take itself too seriously. Under-rated, indeed.

I just recently got into watching this TV series. Thus, I started from season 3, and Season 1 is just as funny and interesting. The dialog between Booth and the squints is hilarious. The bonus material isn't much though.

I bought this knowing i was going to love it because i saw a few episodes here and there. WAYYYY better than criminal minds, CSI, Law and Order, etc... this is a must buy!!!