Bones: Season 1 | 
 enlarge | Actors: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  44 reviews
Format: Box Set, Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 946 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.9
EAN: 5039036027441
ASIN: B000F7NQ5E
Release Date: October 30, 2006
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 Bones Rocks! July 21, 2006
ACT (uk)
64 out of 68 found this review helpful
Bones really is very good, I must admit I watched it for the first time, quite simply because there was nothing better on, and I was very sceptical thinking it would be a cheap CSI rip-off.
However, I was pleasantly suprised, like many say, it can be difficult to sum up, but I think it breaks down like this;
- The character background and development of Lost
- The science of CSI
- The sexual tension of The X Files (back in the day when it was Mulder and Scully, will they/wont they?)
- The emotion and dramatic twists of 24 (not always, but the last episode has it all) and;
- The bickering comedy of something like Scrubs
Ok a comparison to Scrubs may be a little out there but there are a number of witty jokes and the humerous (pun intended) rivalry between the characters is good for a regular chuckle, particularly Bones' attempts to get her partner, Booth, to let her have a gun of her own, despite her trigger happy ways.
All in all, I would really recommend it, as I describe above, it takes the best parts of some brilliant shows and turns them into something very special.
"Don't call me Bones" :) July 6, 2006
M. Alcat (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
42 out of 47 found this review helpful
"Bones" is one of my favourite tv series. It is difficult to define it, due to the fact that it has crime, drama, mistery, and even some elements of comedy and romance. Strange, I know, but it works.
The two main characters in this series are Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and Special Agent Seely Booth (David Boreanaz). Temperance Brennan is a forensic anthropologist that works at the Jeffersonian Institution, and that also happens to write whodunnits in her free time. Seely Booth works at the FBI, and used to be an Army sniper. Of course, both characters are very different, and that is probably the reason why they clash from the very first time Temperance is asked to help out in one of Booth's cases. How can an anthropologist help the FBI solve a crime? Well, the answer is in "Bones", and it is more than interesting :)
All in all, I must say that this show is extremely engaging, and that I think it is getting better with time. I believe that you are highly likely to love "Bones", if you like a good thriller that has lots of action, but that also pays attention to the interaction between the characters. I must confess that I am one of those fans of "Bones" that cannot wait for the beginning of its second season, and I am pretty sure you will eagerly wait for the same thing if you watch this dvd. Recommended!
Belen Alcat
PS1: I forgot to tell you that I don't recommend this show for children, as some crimes scenes are more than unsettling.
PS2: If any of the scriptwriters of "Bones" is reading this, I have two things to say. First, THANKS!. And secondly, wouldn't Temperance and Booth make a great couple?
 Not like the books - but still very good December 4, 2006
Iain S. Palin (Northern Ireland)
29 out of 31 found this review helpful
Readers of Kathy Reichs' novels about forensic anthropologist Tempe Brennan should not watch this expecting it to be the same as the books, because it's very different. Not worse, just different.
The venue has been moved from the book Brennan's Charlotte, North Carolina and Monreal, Quebec, to Washington DC, where Brennan has been given a new personality and back-story, a glitzy lab worthy of "CSI Miami", a set of brilliant, wise-cracking, and personally dysfunctional side-kicks, and a partner-in-investigation in the form of smouldering-but-humorous David Boreanaz, who after his long TV life as a vampire ("Buffy", "Angel") has been reborn as an FBI man.
The series has clearly been designed with the viewership of "CSI" and "NCIS" in mind, and I don't object to that because I enjoy them too. The stories are well-crafted, the scripting is generally excellent, and so what if the plots get a bit contrived on occasion, and some of the team's equipment seems to owe more to "Star Trek" than Planet Earth (forensic lab directors would probably kill for Miss Montenegro's holographic device), after all, it is fiction and entertainment.
Watch the series - it's very good - but read Kathy Reichs' books too, they're very good in a whole different way.
Absolutely Amazing!!!!!! June 15, 2006
Victoria Noble (Maidstone, Kent, UK)
28 out of 30 found this review helpful
I have watched the series from when it first came out - it is brilliant, fantastic, sensational!!!
- this is a crime series in which Temperance Brennan and her 'team', with the FBI- Booth, investigate into murders by looking at their Bones- hence the title!!
- the characters develop SO well as the series goes on and you find yourself getting so attached!
-the chemistry between Booth(david boreanaz) and Brennan (Emily deschannel) builds up and you find yourself on the edge of your seat sometimes wondering what will happen.
- the stories are very well written, although there are some graphic scenes, they are done in a tasteful way. the personal stories develop as the series goes giving you glimpses at thier inner selves as most of the time thier minds have to be on the job.
- There is a FANTASTIC mix of drama and humour. there is a subtle humour that goes through every episode and wont fail to make you grin! :o)
- i have become so attached to the characters and i have cried on many occasions whilst watching it as it is so well acted.
- i have never really liked David Boreanaz before but during this series i have realised that he is SERIOUSLY HOT!!! and he plays his gharacter well.
- there is a great balance of characters that also balance out the stories and bring a huge human element to this show which is what i think makes it so appealing.
anyway i will stop rambling - basically it is FANTASTIC and if you don't buy it you will be missing out!!! well worth the money!!
:o)
Vix
I must say I ended preferring "Bones" to CSI September 10, 2007
Maciej K. (Belgium)
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
If you are a fan of CSI (and who is not?), you will probably look sceptically at this show, which seems to following in the tracks of this major franchise. Well, you would be wrong. "Bones" does much better than just following - from the first episode it actually switches to its own ways and, if put in parallel with the venerable CSI, it could very well take the lead. And here is why.
First, there is Bones herself. She is incredibly inteligent, succesful, pretty, liberated, courageous woman, fully in control of her life and perfectly able to kick a bad guy's a.. without any problem if needed. In one word, she is a genius (like Grissom), but she also has a serious case of social autism, which makes many of her interactions with the regular society histerically funny. As a forensic anthropologist she clearly is very comfortable around the skeletons - but her relations with living are not half that succesful. And when the recent deceased are concerned, just wait for the scene when Booth takes her for an autopsy....
Then, there is agent Booth. I always liked very much David Boreanaz ("Buffy", "Angel") but I was a little concerned if he still can play without turning into a vampire every two minutes or so... well, he can!! His caracter is great - he is clearly a macho, good cop but clearly not genius (unlike people he works with), in principle just a honest, simple guy - but with some secrets in his past, very much in control of his life and having some really funny habits. Quite smart, handsome and with sense of humour - Booth is surprisingly likeable.
Then there is the relation between Bones and Booth - I must say that I enjoy watching it almost as much as the one that existed between Mulder an Scully. They are soooo different that they simply can not stop bickering and both being smart and having humour (although for Bones it is a little.... skeletic) they exchanges are a delight. Just wait to see the episode in which Bones is charged with murder !!
There is more. Other members of the team working in the criminal anthropology lab are as irresistible as the main characters - there is Zack, the genius young anthropologist, who is even less adapted to life in society than Bones. There is Dr Jack Hodgins, "slime and bugs guy", who actually is almost normal - the stress is on word "almost". Finally there is Angela, an adorable Eurasian girl, who actually is an artist as much as a scientist - she designed software for graphic projects and adapted it for the reconstruction of faces and bodies from remains. She is the merriest and most normal person in the lab - although the way she gets the attention of clercs in crowded offices will probably surprise you....
Stories are good, some of them very hard. The atmosphere is less gloomy that in CSI and there is definitely much more humour. After watching Grissom and his team for years I really was ready for something new, as smart as CSI, but freshier, funnier, less macabre and - surprise - even more original. I bought the first season and swallowed it in a couple of evenings. I can't wait to buy the second.
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