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| Bones - Season 2 [2006] | ![Bones - Season 2 [2006]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cUWYvR0wL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Directors: David Duchovny, Jesus Trevino, Kate Woods
Actors: Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Tamara Taylor, Ernie Hudson, Stephen Fry
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (16 reviews)
Sales Rank: 5004
Format: Pal
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Running Time: 908 minutes
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.2 x 1.2
EAN: 5039036035347
ASIN: B000TQLJK0
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Beginning with the death of a senator and ending with a marriage, the second season of Bones builds on the momentum created during the first season. The second season centres on the collaborations between FBI special agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz, Angel, Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and forensic anthropologist Dr. Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel), whom Booth has nicknamed "Bones." While Booth doesn't completely believe in Bones' method, he can't argue with her success rate at solving crimes. As for Bones, she is meticulous at what she does and is a borderline genius, but she has issues. Seemingly oblivious to her own good looks, she is all but socially inept. Booth may be blunt, but he's comfortable dealing with the public. Bones, on the other hand, would rather be sequestered away with the dead, trying to figure out what happened before their uncertain deaths. Of course, while viewers can see that Bones and Booth would be a perfect couple, the characters aren't quite there yet. Their friendship becomes a little more complicated this season when it turns out that Bones' new demanding boss, Dr. Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor), is a former girlfriend of Booth's. And the two women aren't getting along. Still, everyone is able to work together to solve a series of crimes, such as identifying the remains of an all but unidentifiable teenage boy and dealing with a serial killer who is emulating the crimes depicted in Bones' latest mystery novel. (Yes, she's not only a brilliant scientist but also an ace author.) Like many television dramas where forensic evidence is a driving force in the plots, Bones offers up the gross-out autopsies. But it also serves up a lot of humanity in the way the characters interact with one another. It is giving nothing away to reveal that Bones and Booth are not the couple getting married in the season finale. But the episode does reveal that beneath their tough exteriors, marriage and all that it implies is something they wouldn't mind... perhaps even with each other. --Jae-Ha Kim
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 even better than season 1 August 28, 2008
continuing on from the climatic ending to season 1 with bones adjusting to the news that her family is not what it is and repairing her relationship with her brother. a new face arrives at the jeffersonian to ruffle some feathers and 2 of the gang find love over the bones!!!! left at the end of the season with a great cliffhanger, will they or wont they???? lots of great guest stars, stephen fry for us brits!!
Season 3 July 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
HI I KNOW THIS IS PROBABLY A LITTLE FORWARD BUT DOES ANYONE KNOW WHEN SEASON 3 IS OUT ON DVD AS WASNT ABLE TO WATCH IT ON TV AS I DONT HAVE SKY AND IM DYING TO WATCH IT.
It just keeps getting better May 9, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
My only gripe (and we're talking minor here) with Season 1 of Bones was Tempe's insistence on saying `I don't understand' at least once every episode. Thank the Lords the script-writers listened and that annoyance seems to have disappeared from Season 2. What we're left with is a brilliant continuation from a fantastic first season.
The general gist is the same as season 1 - Bones (aka Temperance Brennan) and her team help the FBI (aka Special Agent Seeley Booth) solve crimes using their genius IQ's and ability to piece together a story from human remains. In season 1 we were given a taster of the sparks between Bones and Booth and the sparks continue to form in season 2.....this particular storyline is made all the more interesting when both Booth and Bones acquire love interests in season 2. But theirs isn't the only relationship formed in this season!
I love the interaction between the characters in Bones. Each has their own weird flaws and foibles and pieced together they make a good series great. When you throw in a new ingredient in the form of a new boss (as they do in this season) it makes it even more interesting. Roll on season 3.
 More of the same April 10, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
The adventures of the square-jawed forensic anthropologist and her square-shouldered FBI partner continue in much the same crowd-pleasing vein as series one, with just a few minor alterations.
The most obvious change is the new boss. Goodman was a good character but they were running out of ideas for him. In coroner Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor) they introduce someone who has a good excuse for constantly being around the lab, can contribute usefully to investigations, is an excuse for having ickier corpses with lots of lovely rotting flesh (Bones doesn't do flesh), ups the eye-candy quotient and disturbs both the balance of power in the lab and the will-they-won't-they relationship between Brennan and Booth. However, her line "I am a diuretic seagull, people: everything goes through me" might just be the worst in television history.
The producers have picked up one annoying habit from somewhere - throwing in flashbacks to the events the scientists are reconstructing. It's enough to be told that a stiletto heel went through someone's spine, there's really no need for us to see it. This is part of a slight but definite trend towards increasing the gross-out factor of the show (confronted with a bath-full of chemicals and liquified human, Brennan says 'this is disgusting, even for me'). Whether or not you consider this trend an improvement depends on your personal preference - it doesn't bother me especially but I do think it's unnecessary.
A little more of the running time is given over to continuing stories - the mystery of Brennan's parents, relationships between Angela and Hodgins and Booth and Saroyan - but thankfully they don't dominate. They can't resist the urge to increase the number of credibility-stretching 'main character in peril' plots (every regular is placed in a life-or-death situation at least once), but again it's within reasonable limits.
Other than that, it's really more of the same, which is a good thing. What really makes the show stand out is the humour, and that's present and correct. An episode with an obnoxious vertically-challenged agent of the state department is particular priceless: Brennan to Booth - "Normally if someone spoke to you like that you'd be threatening to throw him through a window, but just because with him it's an actual physical possibility..."
More Well Written, Gripping Crime Drama! April 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I said on my review of season 1 that "tv" Temperance Brennan is different from "book" Temperance in a number of ways - but fans of the books will find much to love in this incarnation of our girl as she and FBI partner Booth continue to solve cases in which bones are the only clue available.
The start of the season sees a new boss, Cam, arrive at the Institute. Not only is she very hands on, she is a former love of Booth, and Tempe and Cam do not hit it off in the early episodes. The new character is well written and softens as the season progresses until it is hard to imagine the team without her input. Meantime Zac undergoes a make-over in order to secure a permanent place on the staff once he gains his doctorate, and Hodkins and Angela begin a tentative office romance.
Booth and Brennan continue to spar verbally with each other and some of their exchanges will have you laughing out loud. When a fellow agent, Sully, begins a relationship with Tempe, Booth's feelings are confused - but as is observed, Tempe "is rubbish at being a girl" and her own complicated life does not bode well for a permanent relationship. Tempe continues to put her foot in it socially, particularly when a case involves Booth's Catholic religion.
Among the classy episodes are 'The Girl with the Curl' about child beauty Queens, (with a wonderful scene of Tempe trying to talk to a group of 8 year olds at a dance class!), 'Aliens in a Spaceship' which has Tempe and Hodgkins buried alive by a serial killer, and 'The Headless Witch in the Woods' which has more than a nod to The Blair Witch Project.
Guest stars this season include Stephen Fry as a laid back, insightful Psychiatrist whom Booth must see after he shoots an ice cream van, and Ryan O'Neal as Tempe's estranged and mysterious father whose elusive character comes into his own when Booth is targetted by the Mob. And, once again, Angela's instantly recognisable father - from ZZ Top - pops up!
21 episodes, some with commentary, outtakes and 2 featurettes, this series is a must for fans of CSI style drama and taughtly written crime shows. Witty, warm and laced with edge of seat action, Bones Season 2 is a brilliant second season of a hit series.
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