My roommate subscribes to Netflix, so between that and Hulu, that's all the television I watch as there's no need to pay for cable (except for Food Network. How I miss that channel). Usually, I'll start watching a show, and then my roommate will start watching the same show at a quicker rate because it's easier for her to watch tv and do homework. I have no issues with her copying me, the only downside is that it means I get sick of the show before I ever get very far into the series. Our latest show has been Bones, which has a nice mix between crime solving and humor. I kind of hesitantly liken it to House, but without all the drama involved in the later House seasons. Of course, there's still going to be drama in later seasons of Bones, but I'm hoping it won't annoy me as much as the drama in House did. Bones is a show where the watcher can either sit back and allow the characters to explain everything, or they can try and figure out if the jargon the characters are spouting makes actual sense. Most of the time, I'm content to try and figure out who the murderer is by basic cues, like one person seeming excessively defiant. One thing detective stories always fall back on is that it's always the guilty party who requests a lawyer. It makes sense, but I wish they'd find a way to circumvent the trope. Much like many other crime-solving shows, Bones is not something I find very entertaining to watch all day. I can watch two or three episodes, and then they all seem to be the exact same- find a body, figure out identity of body, figure out murderer. It's a basic formula, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing sometimes. As is to be expected, the longer I watch the show, the less I notice basic things that would have bothered me at the beginning of the show. For example, Emily Deschanel's enormous jawline has been bothering me a lot less.
One critique I have is that they tried to throw Brennan and Booth together from episode one. Some jokes about sexual tension are perhaps normal, but I feel the writers overdid it so much that I almost don't want Brennan and Booth to get together. If they did get together, it would feel like they were getting together because everyone expected them to. The movie,
When Harry Met Sally suggests that men and women can't be friends or crime-solving partners without it leading to sexual relations, but I feel that's all over-dramatized and not true, and it irritates me when shows have to throw in the inevitability of their main characters getting together.
