TV GUIDE: Monday in Review: Bones, a Literary American Masters and More
Apr 2, 2012
by Matt Roush
... Once again testing the audience's willingness to follow Bones all over prime time, Fox follows up its non-surprise eighth-season renewal by moving the enjoyable romantic/forensic procedural to yet another night: Mondays at 8/7c, in front of the soon-to-depart House. Resuming after a nearly three-month hiatus, Bones' return is a big deal for fans and a blessed event for Bones and Booth, who welcome their baby daughter amid the sort of preposterous only-on-TV circumstances that might prompt Lucy Ricardo to declare the whole thing a little bit wacky.
We pick up with the expectant couple debating whether to deliver the baby in a hospital (Booth's rational choice) or at home "where I can control things" (Bones' stubborn preference, as she takes great and comical pains to point out the lurking germ residue in your modern medical establishment). But first, there's a case to solve, and the ick factor is considerable as the way this week's victim surfaces is the stuff of any child's toilet-training nightmare. The grisly trail leads to a prison — a salve for those missing Alcatraz? — where the mystery lies not only in whodunit but how in the world did they dispose of it.
As is often the case, resolving the case is secondary to the dynamics between Bones (Emily Deschanel), who's about to pop, and Booth (David Boreanaz), who's apoplectic over her insistence to put herself in the center of the action, even if it means wading into the middle of gen pop and inciting a prison riot. "You're not Superwoman," he tells her. She begs to differ. And while the birth sequence is, to put it mildly, labored, it provides a sweet and silly showcase to welcome the show back...
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