TV Guide's TV Show Blog (Man in the Mud) by marymageli

Posted 15/04/2008 02:27:46 AM


Guys, I am posting about something I haven't even been able to watch! Sad, isn't it? Enjoy!! I think there will be more to come.

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Bones
by Sandra Kofler

Read Episode Recap: "The Man in the Mud"
Man, was that writers' strike ever long. Since we'd been deprived of new episodes for a while, I took solace in the Bones repeats that TBS started showing, but it just wasn't the same. Having the show return tonight was like going back home to see family you've been missing, if only your family was a crew of brilliant crime-solving geeks. I missed the pokes and prods, Booth's unintentional ignorances, Brennan's clueless Edith Bunker-isms ("You want to come with us? To the bowling rink?). Sometimes I just want to pinch her cheeks and tell her it's going to be okay, and then I have to remember her IQ is probably still a number equal to the sum of all the IQ's of all the people I know. Squared.

Tonight we greeted the melty remains of Tripp Goddard, murdered motorcycle racer supreme, as they were hauled out of a sulfuric hot spring in a secluded foresty area.

Suspect #1: Garth Jodrey, wheelchair-bound journalist/former moto-racer hurt after his bike was clipped by Tripp in a race. Now making nice with Tripp's racing team family. Motive? Revenge.

Suspect #2: Danny Fitz, motorcycle racer and son of Lenny Fitz, owner of Tripp's former racing team. Lost to Tripp often. Motive? Always a bridesmaid but never a bride, he may have been jealous that Tripp's success made his father favor Tripp over himself. Was ruled out after his tampered-with bike lost control on the track, killing him. Ouch.

Suspect #3: Lenny Fitz. DNA evidence seemed to link him to the crime scene, but was ruled out once he disclosed he was making Tripp a business partner, thereby shifting blame to children, including...

Suspect #4: Phillipa Fitz (say that three times fast), twin sister of Danny, ex-girlfriend of both Tripp and Garth, whose lies tumbled in on themselves once she admitted knowing of the existence of the secret hot spring where the body was found. Motive: Keep the family company in the family and away from Tripp. Accidentally killed Danny as a side effect of her initial plan to sabotage Tripp on the racetrack.

There was way more awesome science involved in this episode regarding the victim's remains, the mechanics of the victims' vehicles and possible murder weapons than Bones usually focuses on, and I adored it. Don't you feel like you learn a lot from this show? I love hearing Zack spit things out like "there are fractures of the pelvis, compression fractures of the thoracic and lumbar vertebrae, multiple metacarpal and metatarsal fractures..." It's dirty geek talk. Sexy beast, that Zack Addy.

And something tells me that if I was ever murdered, no one would be out on a hunt quite like this for my killer. Grumble, grumble.

We somehow still had time to see psychologist Dr. Sweets work an experiment on B&B — on a double date with him and his girlfriend, which I think kind of crosses the doctor-patient line. When I spoke to John Francis Daley last week, he mentioned that the whole affair would bomb, but I didn't quite expect to have the joy of seeing Sweets with a real GF only to lose her right away. By "her," I do mean of course the fabulous and now grown-up Senta Moses, who you might know from My So-Called Life and about a thousand other productions. Also regarding Daley, he's looking pretty eye-candyish in his new five seconds in the show's opener. Who else caught that? I missed his face.

Booth was also way crankier than usual this episode, not having much patience with his colleagues and cracking smarmy, evil jokes. Here are a few:

Re: The double-date: "Wednesday is fine, do you want me to get you a corsage?"
Re: Hearing new evidence new from Hodge: "Let’s just cut to the chase there, Mr. Wizard," and "You know what? You can suck it up, buttercup." Why all the angst, Boothy? And what's with you not wearing a suit?

One last thought. I know many of you are rooting for B&B to get together romantically on the show, and I have to confess... I'm not. Take the scene tonight in Sweets' office where they discussed lying. The two of them found a way to communicate subliminally, ganging up on parent-y Sweets together almost subconsciously. It was uncanny. Scenes like that make me look at B&B much more as siblings than as anything else. When I saw their interaction tonight, I realized what kind of perfect chemistry they've got as partners in crime-solving rather than as partners in baby-making.

Not that I wouldn't mind more kisses like last Christmas's.

Until next week!

--Last edited by marymageli on 2008-04-26 06:18:46 --

Posted 15/04/2008 08:18:19 AM


and this week there was even more "baby-making"-chemistry.
tztz...

Posted 21/04/2008 05:18:46 AM


I have just found this EXCELLENT review on Man in the Mud. I know, I know I should focus on the forthcoming eppies, but this review praises (!) BONES, and I just couldn't help but share it with you. It is from Matt Roush, another TV gossiper, and it's awesome to know there are some people at TV Guide who actually favour our show.

In the article other shows are also reviewed but I only bring here the parts which interests us the most. So enjoy!
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"Why not start off a glorious spring week — a week that continues the welcome rollout of shows returning from long strike hiatus — with some positive thoughts? Starting with the return of Bones to Fox’s schedule. For those keeping track in this confusing midseason, Mondays are now the new Tuesdays for Fox. And once House kicks back in with new episodes starting April 28 (a House repeat airs next Monday), Mondays will almost feel like the new Thursdays with so many choices on the suddenly overstuffed night, as Fox’s first-rate drama combo faces ABC’s blazing-hot Dancing with the Stars, CBS’ terrific comedy lineup and the ever-popular CSI: Miami, as well as a cult fave in the CW’s returning Gossip Girl and NBC’s ubiquitous Deal or No Deal. Whew.

But back to Bones, one of TV’s most purely enjoyable procedural crime dramas. Yes, there are icky remains to deal with (a body boiled in a sulfurous mud pit), but the fun of Bones is in the playful interplay between the characters as they crack these messy cases. You’ll hear a lot of “No Changees” and “No take-backs” in tonight’s clever episode, as “squints” Hudgins and Zack joust for “king of the lab” title while FBI guy Booth and Bones herself (the terrific twosome of David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel) indulge their creative side by going to a ceramics therapy session with their baby-faced shrink (John Francis Daley, who’ll always be associated with Freaks and Geeks to me) and his girlfriend. I smiled more during this hour than I normally do through most comedy series, and you can chalk that up to affection more than to the one-liners (although there is one reference to the Three Stooges that made me laugh aloud). Welcome back, Bones. Good luck in your challenging new time period. At least it’s not (as has often been threatened) Fridays."

Here are my favourites:
- BONES and HOUSE as being Fox's "first-rate [my comment:hurray] drama combo"
- BONES as "one of TV’s most purely enjoyable procedural crime dramas"
- MITM as a "clever episode"
- "terrific twosome of David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel" (
- Roush admitting he laughed more than he usually does when watching comedy series


All in all, Roush's words are like manna from heaven! Keep it coming boy!

Concerning the tough schedule, hope we'll manage. We can do it, can't we! I mean you over the pond girls.

Posted 21/04/2008 04:51:59 PM


..."Partners in baby-making?"

I don't know anybody who doesn't want that...