A really good, heart-warming Bones 8.22 tonight, where, unlike in the real world, the crimes don't hurt that much and often admit to neat, cool endings. But as is almost always the case on Bones, it's the personal relationships not the crimes and solutions that really make the show.
Joanna Cassidy appears as Booth's long-absent mother. Now, if she looks familiar, that's because the same Joanna Cassidy also plays Dr. Megan Hunt's mother on another crime show steeped in biology, Body of Proof, which, come to think of it, does owe a lot to Bones. But there's something else here worth mentioning - Ralph Waite, who plays Booth's grandfather, also plays Gibbs' father on NCIS. There's something about Bones that seems to encourage musical-chair parents and grandparents across series.
But the best thing about Booth's mother - well, actually there are two best things, I'll tell you the other in a minute - is the way Bones works to get Booth and his mother back together after their first series of meetings goes badly. What's especially gratifying here is how Bones, who's supposed to be the one who has problems with human relationships, is able to talk Booth into taking a step to repairing his relationship with mother. Bones is able to do this because her relationship to Booth and their daughter Christine is making her more fully human. She's still the same charmingly brilliant Bones in all matters intellectual - including how she convinces Booth to forgive his mother by repeatedly citing the "myth" of Jesus - but now she has increasing emotional power as well.
Which leads to the second best thing about Booth's mother: After Booth walks her down the aisle for her marriage, she throws the wedding bouquet and it's caught by ... Bones! Now, I make it a point never to look ahead at any descriptions of future episodes, but this catching of the bouquet can only mean that Bones and Booth will be getting married at the end of this season.
Which makes complete sense now, in view of Bones' emotional growth. Why didn't they get married in the first place after they found out about Christine? I think Booth was ready but Bones was not. But now that she is, marriage should be in the cards. Which will make, to borrow an apt word from Angela tonight, for a lot of gruntled viewers, including me.
See also Bones 8.1: Walk Like an Egyptian ... Bones 8.2 of Contention ... Bones 8.3: Not Rotting Behind a Desk ... Bones 8.4: Slashing Tiger and Donald Trump ... Bones 8.5: Applesauce on Election Eve ... Bones 8.6: Election Day ... Bones 8.7: Dollops in the Sky with Diamonds ...Bones 8.8: The Talking Remains ... Bones 8.9: I Am A Camera ... Bones 8.10-11: Double Bones ...Bones 8.12: Face of Enigmatic Evil ... Bones 8.13: Two for the Price of One ... Bones 8.14: Real Life ... Bones 8.15: The Magic Bullet and the Be-Spontaneous Paradox ... Bones 8.16: Bitter-Sweet Sweets and Honest Finn ... Bones 8.17: "Not Time Share, Time Travel" ... Bones 8.18: Couples ... Bones 8.19: The Head in the Toilet ... Bones 8.20: On Camera ... Bones 8.21: Christine, Hot Sauce, and the Judge
And see also Bones 7.1: Almost Home Sweet Home ... Bones 7.2: The New Kid and the Fluke ...Bones 7.3: Lance Bond and Prince Charmington ... Bones 7.4: The Tush on the Xerox ... Bones 7.5: Sexy Vehicle ... Bones 7.6: The Reassembler ... Bones 7.7: Baby! ... Bones 7.8: Parents ...Bones 7.9: Tabitha's Salon ... Bones 7.10: Mobile ... Bones 7.11: Truffles and Max ... Bones 7.12: The Corpse is Hanson ... Bones Season 7 Finale: Suspect Bones
And see also Bones 6.1: The Linchpin ... Bones 6.2: Hannah and her Prospects ... Bones 6.3 at the Jersey Shore, Yo, and Plymouth Rock ... Bones 6.4 Sans Hannah ... Bones 6.5: Shot and Pretty ... Bones 6.6: Accidental Relations ... Bones 6.7: Newman and "Death by Chocolate" ...Bones 6.8: Melted Bones ... Bones 6.9: Adelbert Ames, Jr. ... Bones 6.10: Reflections ... Bones 6.11: The End and the Beginning of a Mystery ... Bones 6.12 Meets Big Love ... Bones 6.13: The Marrying Kind ... Bones 6.14: Bones' Acting Ability ... Bones 6.15: "Lunch for the Palin Family" ...Bones 6.16: Stuck in an Elevator, Stuck in Times ... Bones 6.17: The 8th Pair of Feet ... Bones 6.18: The Wile E. Chupacabra ... Bones 6.19 Test Runs The Finder ... Bones 6.20: This Very Statement is a Lie ... Bones 6.21: Sensitive Bones ... Bones 6.22: Phoenix Love ... Bones Season 6 Finale: Beautiful
And see also Bones: Hilarity and Crime and Bones is Back For Season 5: What Is Love? and 5.2: Anonymous Donors and Pipes and 5.3: Bones in Amish Country and 5.4: Bones Meets Peyton Place and Desperate Housewives and Ancient Bones 5.5 and Bones 5.6: A Chicken in Every Viewer's Pot and Psychological Bones 5.7 and Bones 5.8: Booth's "Pops" and Bones 5.9 Meets Avatar and Videogamers ... Bad Santa, Heart-Warming Bones 5.10 ... Bones 5.11: Of UFOs, Bloggers, and Triangles ... Bones 5.12: A Famous Skeleton and Angela's Baby ... Love with Teeth on Bones 5.13 ... Faith vs. Science vs. Psychology in Bones 5.14 ... Page 187 in Bones 5.15 ...Bones 100: Two Deep Kisses and One Wild Relationship ... Bones 5.17: The Deadly Stars ...Bones Under Water in 5.18 ... Bones 5.19: Ergo Together ... Bones 5.20: Ergo Together ... Bones 5.21: The Rarity of Happy Endings ... Bones Season 5 Finale: Eye and Evolution
Joanna Cassidy appears as Booth's long-absent mother. Now, if she looks familiar, that's because the same Joanna Cassidy also plays Dr. Megan Hunt's mother on another crime show steeped in biology, Body of Proof, which, come to think of it, does owe a lot to Bones. But there's something else here worth mentioning - Ralph Waite, who plays Booth's grandfather, also plays Gibbs' father on NCIS. There's something about Bones that seems to encourage musical-chair parents and grandparents across series.
But the best thing about Booth's mother - well, actually there are two best things, I'll tell you the other in a minute - is the way Bones works to get Booth and his mother back together after their first series of meetings goes badly. What's especially gratifying here is how Bones, who's supposed to be the one who has problems with human relationships, is able to talk Booth into taking a step to repairing his relationship with mother. Bones is able to do this because her relationship to Booth and their daughter Christine is making her more fully human. She's still the same charmingly brilliant Bones in all matters intellectual - including how she convinces Booth to forgive his mother by repeatedly citing the "myth" of Jesus - but now she has increasing emotional power as well.
Which leads to the second best thing about Booth's mother: After Booth walks her down the aisle for her marriage, she throws the wedding bouquet and it's caught by ... Bones! Now, I make it a point never to look ahead at any descriptions of future episodes, but this catching of the bouquet can only mean that Bones and Booth will be getting married at the end of this season.
Which makes complete sense now, in view of Bones' emotional growth. Why didn't they get married in the first place after they found out about Christine? I think Booth was ready but Bones was not. But now that she is, marriage should be in the cards. Which will make, to borrow an apt word from Angela tonight, for a lot of gruntled viewers, including me.
See also Bones 8.1: Walk Like an Egyptian ... Bones 8.2 of Contention ... Bones 8.3: Not Rotting Behind a Desk ... Bones 8.4: Slashing Tiger and Donald Trump ... Bones 8.5: Applesauce on Election Eve ... Bones 8.6: Election Day ... Bones 8.7: Dollops in the Sky with Diamonds ...Bones 8.8: The Talking Remains ... Bones 8.9: I Am A Camera ... Bones 8.10-11: Double Bones ...Bones 8.12: Face of Enigmatic Evil ... Bones 8.13: Two for the Price of One ... Bones 8.14: Real Life ... Bones 8.15: The Magic Bullet and the Be-Spontaneous Paradox ... Bones 8.16: Bitter-Sweet Sweets and Honest Finn ... Bones 8.17: "Not Time Share, Time Travel" ... Bones 8.18: Couples ... Bones 8.19: The Head in the Toilet ... Bones 8.20: On Camera ... Bones 8.21: Christine, Hot Sauce, and the Judge
And see also Bones 7.1: Almost Home Sweet Home ... Bones 7.2: The New Kid and the Fluke ...Bones 7.3: Lance Bond and Prince Charmington ... Bones 7.4: The Tush on the Xerox ... Bones 7.5: Sexy Vehicle ... Bones 7.6: The Reassembler ... Bones 7.7: Baby! ... Bones 7.8: Parents ...Bones 7.9: Tabitha's Salon ... Bones 7.10: Mobile ... Bones 7.11: Truffles and Max ... Bones 7.12: The Corpse is Hanson ... Bones Season 7 Finale: Suspect Bones
And see also Bones 6.1: The Linchpin ... Bones 6.2: Hannah and her Prospects ... Bones 6.3 at the Jersey Shore, Yo, and Plymouth Rock ... Bones 6.4 Sans Hannah ... Bones 6.5: Shot and Pretty ... Bones 6.6: Accidental Relations ... Bones 6.7: Newman and "Death by Chocolate" ...Bones 6.8: Melted Bones ... Bones 6.9: Adelbert Ames, Jr. ... Bones 6.10: Reflections ... Bones 6.11: The End and the Beginning of a Mystery ... Bones 6.12 Meets Big Love ... Bones 6.13: The Marrying Kind ... Bones 6.14: Bones' Acting Ability ... Bones 6.15: "Lunch for the Palin Family" ...Bones 6.16: Stuck in an Elevator, Stuck in Times ... Bones 6.17: The 8th Pair of Feet ... Bones 6.18: The Wile E. Chupacabra ... Bones 6.19 Test Runs The Finder ... Bones 6.20: This Very Statement is a Lie ... Bones 6.21: Sensitive Bones ... Bones 6.22: Phoenix Love ... Bones Season 6 Finale: Beautiful
And see also Bones: Hilarity and Crime and Bones is Back For Season 5: What Is Love? and 5.2: Anonymous Donors and Pipes and 5.3: Bones in Amish Country and 5.4: Bones Meets Peyton Place and Desperate Housewives and Ancient Bones 5.5 and Bones 5.6: A Chicken in Every Viewer's Pot and Psychological Bones 5.7 and Bones 5.8: Booth's "Pops" and Bones 5.9 Meets Avatar and Videogamers ... Bad Santa, Heart-Warming Bones 5.10 ... Bones 5.11: Of UFOs, Bloggers, and Triangles ... Bones 5.12: A Famous Skeleton and Angela's Baby ... Love with Teeth on Bones 5.13 ... Faith vs. Science vs. Psychology in Bones 5.14 ... Page 187 in Bones 5.15 ...Bones 100: Two Deep Kisses and One Wild Relationship ... Bones 5.17: The Deadly Stars ...Bones Under Water in 5.18 ... Bones 5.19: Ergo Together ... Bones 5.20: Ergo Together ... Bones 5.21: The Rarity of Happy Endings ... Bones Season 5 Finale: Eye and Evolution
