Bones has a new story in every episode but always related to human bodies brought by FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, in which a forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance 'Bones' Brennan tends to solve the mystery.
If Bones holds up, it'll be because that old Sam-and-Diane, Maddie-and-David, Mulder-and-Scully opposites-attract stuff never feels standard when it's done right.
It's a weak TV-by-numbers show that makes no attempt to live up to the Brennan books, and it has a single scant hope of surviving the scheduler's cull.
Memo to network execs planning an all-forensics programming slate for fall: Watching attractive people poke at skull fragments is not inherently interesting.
