Wonder Woman Comes to BonesEmily Deschanel tell us about donning the satin tights for a Halloween episode.by Eric GoldmanUS, October 29, 2007 – On the set of Bones, Wonder Woman and Catwoman are standing nearby Cher, the captain of the Titanic, a very geeky lab assistant and… half a cow. Is this some sort of bizarre crossover? No, it’s the first Bones Halloween episode, which was definitely a good thing for series star Emily Deschanel, who told me “Halloween is probably my favorite holiday.”Temperance Brennan (Deschanel) is dressed as Wonder Woman, Angela (Michaela Conlin) is Cher, Hodgins (T.J. Thyne) is the captain of the Titanic, Zack (Eric Millegan) is the lower half of a cow and as for Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), he’s decided to dress up as the highly nerdified version of one of the Jeffersonian “Squints.” But trouble is brewing and all six of the character have to drop their plans to gather in Angela’s office to discuss a case they’re involved in, no matter what they’re wearing.

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After hanging out at the FOX fall press junket in L.A. for a weekend, I came to one conclusion: Bones is awesome. It airs Tuesdays at 8pm on FOX, and though I’d never seen an episode of the show when I interviewed the stars, I’ve since become a fan. At the press junket, the Bones cast was the nicest, coolest group of people at the whole event. Leading that charge for me was Michaela Conlin. As Angela Montenegro on Bones, she is the facial reconstruction specialist who is engaged to Dr. Jack Hodgins (TJ Thyne), though their wedding was stopped when it was discovered she’s technically still married to a man she can’t even remember.I spoke to Michaela a while back on the phone, and that interview can be found at the bottom of this article. More recently, I sat down with Michaela in L.A. and was pleased to discover she remembered me and the interview, so we got to catch up on how great her cast is and how the task of casting her husband is coming. Below you will find the mp3 audio file as well as the highlights of the interview.–When told how much I enjoyed meeting the Bones cast, she joked they were all liars. She then agreed that the cast gets along wonderfully on and off the set, an that going to work is like spending time with your dysfunctional family.-Though the show balances comedy with the drama, Michaela prefers the dramatic material, getting a chance to get inside the characters and understand how they relate to one another.-In an upcoming Halloween episode, the cast gets all dolled up, and men are in for a very special treat. Emily Deschanel will go as Wonder Woman, and Michaela gets to sex it up as Cher, which she enjoyed because the costume department did an amazing job.-Michaela is very excited to work with John Francis Daley, the Freaks and Geeks star who begins a recurring role this season. She’s very impressed that such a young actor can be so wise and hysterical, and she believes he’s a very interesting choice for the show.-In casting the role of Angela’s husband, producers originally wanted to go with an actor like Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond, Amistad), though that idea has been nixed, and Michaela says they’re now looking for a George Clooney-type, which is just fine with her.-In her down time on the set, Michaela had planned to learn how to knit, but the problem is that she describes herself as “a pro napper.” She’s also quick to point out that Bones runs so smoothly that the actors don’t have that much down time.-buddytv.com

Emily ChristiansonHollywood.com StaffRomantic tension continues this season on Bones, despite a cliff hanger that left Dr. Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan [Emily Deschanel] and her partner, Special Agent Seeley Booth [David Boreanaz], standing at the altar. The duo won’t be walking down the aisle any time soon, but Deschanel confesses the two will end up in therapy together, so there is “”no need to buy gifts just yet.”"With a new season underway and Season 2 now on DVD, Hollywood.com caught up with Deschanel to talk about life at the Institute.Hollywood.com: Do you think the characters will eventually give in to their urges, or is better for them to just flirt?Emily Deschanel: I think they should at some point. I think it gets really dangerous, though, to do it on the show. I think the writers and producers are very much aware of that and the dangers of putting characters together and what that can mean for the show. You know, it’s possible it could kill the thing that holds the show together: the chemistry, and sexual tension between the two characters … At the same time, I don’t think they want to leave the characters in the same holding pattern they’ve been in for awhile. I think that they’re all trying to put the characters in a different situation.HW: A lot of the other characters are getting into different situations, like Angela [Michaela Conlin] and Hodgins [T.J. Thyne] running off together and Zack [Eric Millegan] going to Iraq. Are there any changes coming for the Institute?ED: Angela and Hodgins go looking for the man that she married a few years ago, which is the whole reason why they had to leave their wedding. She got married to a man in Fiji and so they go looking for this guy. Zack comes back from Iraq, but we’re not sure for how long and he was discharged early and so that is an interesting thing that we’ll be exploring. Tamara [Taylor]‘s character, Cam, is no longer seeing Booth, but they kind of develop a friendship this season and she asks him a favor, to pretend to be her boyfriend for her dad’s birthday and there’s a little situation with Cam’s sister and Booth that you’ll see. And Booth and Brennan go to therapy, couples therapy, because the FBI is concerned that they’re not able to work together because of tension after Booth arrested Brennan’s father.HW: Do you think in a strange way that having Bones’ father arrested will somewhat help their relationship?ED: It certainly makes them address issues and it makes them say things head on, which I think is always a good thing. It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced to face issues and emotions, feelings, that they have.HW: Are you more of a science and data type person like Brennan, or a people person like Booth?ED: That’s a very good question. In school, math and science were my favorite subjects, but I probably–in my true self–am more of a people person. At the same time, I don’t think that’s how I recharge. I guess they say you can find out if you’re an extravert or an introvert by how you recharge yourself and I guess I’m more of an introvert in that way because I like to be by myself to recharge, but I’m definitely a people person. I love socializing and being around people and having good conversations. I like to read. I don’t have that much time outside of my job, but I have been fixing up my house.HW: How much input do you have in the writing and how much do you stray from the actual script?ED: We have input in the writing to a certain degree, but there is definitely an open dialogue between the writers and producers and the actors. David and I will always kind of try and find things to add to a scene, little lists or different things, but they’re usually kind of add-ons rather than content, you know, lines. But they definitely weigh our opinions when writing scenes. If we have issues with dialogue or plot, we’re always encouraged and welcome to voice those opinions and for the most part, they’re addressed.HW: You get several takes to do a scene on a film set. How long do you spend on scenes for the show?ED: Not that long. You know, there are days when we shoot eight, nine pages in a day and that’s a lot to get through. We get a couple of takes, I’d say. We can’t spend all day trying to get the performance exactly right and you just have to move on and accept the medium you’re working in and, you know, there’s a beauty in working under constraints and limitations. I think a lot of great things can come out of that.

Perfect SeriousnessFBI Special Agent Booth (David Boreanaz) is all self-righteousness and manly action. Working for the past two seasons with egghead forensic anthropologists at D.C.’s “Jefferson Institute,” he’s still trying to right the sins of his military special ops past, aided by Dr. Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel).Forget the fact that Bones was at first loosely based on the writings of real-life forensic anthropologist Dr. Kathy Reichs. Now, as Season Three begins, her connection to the ongoing narrative is scant. Instead, Bones has become a standard thwarted romance set against a backdrop of forensic anthropology, that is to say, really decomposed murdered body mysteries.The will-they-finally-get-together shtick between Booth and Bones is hardly engaging, despite the attempted cliffhanger end of Season Two that saw the pair all dolled up for the wedding of coworkers Angela Montenegro (Michaela Conlin) and Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne). When Angela and Jack fled the altar, Booth and Bones were left looking like the most extremely uncomfortable couple ever.Season Three opens on the aftermath of that moment. Both Booth and Bones have retreated into their respective spheres rather than face their anxious sexual attraction. He’s all bluster and let’s-get-going as they approach their next unsolved murder, never stopping to reflect on much of anything. She’s all mumbly and vague, refusing to see any “rational” reason she should be upset, seeking safety in her nearly hermetically sealed world lab. When Booth tries to get her back in the field, she digs in her heels. It’s a big bore.Some distractions are offered in subplots. Hodgins remains undone by the fact that Angela already has a husband (a black Australian sailor who appears “a Titan, half-man, half-god”). The fate of super-brain and total social misfit Zach (Eric Millegan), who left the Jefferson at the end of last season to enlist in the Army and fight in Iraq, is particularly fraught in the season premiere. Bones is not only not so secretly in love with Booth, but is also barely concealing her anger that Booth didn’t stop Zach from enlisting. He insists he couldn’t deny Zach the opportunity to experience something potentially self-affirming and something outside of his regular purview. Um, okay, but really, how self-affirming is war, and couldn’t he have advised a less lethal non-normative experience for Zach? But that’s the problem with Booth. Despite his vaunted “values,” and the fact that he resisted institutional skullduggery, he still admires militarized masculinity.As usual on Bones, the murder mystery is the most enjoyable aspect. The case here, set up to stretch out over the first few episodes, involves a dead 19-year-old violin prodigy, an abandoned bank vault lair, a serial killer who collects museum-quality artifacts (including a sterling silver skeleton he is replacing bone by bone with human specimens), and the killer’s possible connections to the Masons or other secret societies. As Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Julian (Patricia Belcher, providing much needed levity) sums it up, it’s a case of “a cannibalistic violin thief who eats faces.”It’s this kind of story, so spectacularly excessive, yet taken by Bones and Co. with such perfect seriousness, that impels Bones into the realm of camp. One might easily read the show as skewering the glut of much more self-important forensic procedurals that have clogged primetime in the past few years. Indeed, I’ll take a murderous, cannibalistic Masonic lodger over a Miniature Killer any day.

TV Review: ‘Bones’ Season Three PremiereAs intriguing as it is comfortableBy Hanh NguyenGetting left at the altar is no big deal if you’re not the one who expected to get married that day … right?The third season premiere of FOX’s “Bones”on Tuesday (Sept. 25) challenges this assumption throughout the episode as Dr. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) acts uncharacteristically illogically, thus raising the suspicions of Agent Booth (David Boreanaz), Angela (Michaela Conlin) and Dr. Saroyan (Tamara Taylor).But first, the show introduces its latest forensic mystery, one you can really sink your teeth into. After a human skull lands in the windshield of a moving vehicle, Bones determines that it’s been gnawed on by a human, perhaps a cannibal. As the team at the Jeffersonian Institute delve deeper into the investigation, they discover progressively stranger and sicker details that are illuminated by Dr. Jack Hodgins’ (T.J. Thyne) vast knowledge of cults and conspiracies.On the less grisly front, Bones has been acting strangely, even for Bones. Despite qualified candidates coming forward to fill the position held by Dr. Zack Addy (Eric Millegan) who went off to Iraq in last season’s finale, Bones continually refuses to hire one, opting to stay in the lab and do the work herself. Booth is miffed, wanting her in the field with him so they can use their “full symbiotic potential.”Angela, however, believes that when she and Hodgins abandoned their own wedding in the finale, that affected Bones, who was left at the altar with Booth by her side, creating strange associations in her mind and thus prompting her to avoid being alone with Booth. When Angela’s not doing the psychology thing, she’s working on her own conundrum, trying to track down a guy she married in Fiji in order to annul their marriage and then get hitched to Hodgins.Even though last season’s goofy, cliffhanger finale felt too stagey, it provided some interesting consequences for this round that highlights the various characters’ quirks, such as Angela’s free-spirited nature as it relates to her impromptu island nuptials. Also, a big thumbs up for Thyne’s close-cropped haircut and partial shave, which lets us see more of Hodgins the man and less Hodgins the crazed conspiracy theorist and bug/dirt guy.With Bones’ strange behavior, it looks like the writers have decided to ratchet up the leads’ chemistry a few notches, so it’ll be interesting to see how far they can push it without ruining the winning formula.As usual, the show delivers just enough forensic detail to ignite curiosity without creating a violent visceral reaction. The characters’ banter is still spot on, as are the comedic glances and handful of heartfelt moments. As for the show’s success at attempting an ongoing mystery, that remains to be seen, although this particular plot appears to have enduring potential given all the associations with the ancient world and a possible cult. Expect some mini-mysteries as well to give some sort of closure in upcoming episodes.Less thrilling is Angela and Hodgins’ search for her missing husband, which has the potential for going awry. A few possibilities come to mind: Angela and Hodgins might grow apart while waiting or perhaps the hubby, when found, won’t want to give her up. Regardless of the outcome, even if it is a happily ever after, the show is going to be very careful that this plot doesn’t descend into farcical territory.Overall though, this reentry into the world of the Jeffersonian Institute is as intriguing as it is comfortable. The solid characterization continues, thus making it easy for the creators to tinker around without creating massive upheaval.

When Bones returns for its third season next week, one of the most anticipated storylines for viewers to look forward to is the ongoing romance between Angela Montenegro, played by Michaela Conlin and Dr. Jack Hodgins, played by T.J. Thyne. When we last saw the lab couple, Angela was on the verge of exchanging ‘I Dos” with Hodgins until a blast from her past effectively halted the marital proceedings. Michaela Conlin recently spoke to the Boston Herald about the sparks between her and her onscreen love interest on Bones.“Our romance actually didn’t happen as quickly as I think everyone thinks it did,” the 29-year old Conlin remarked. “I think it was happening all throughout season one, if you really watched.”The Pennsylvania native who is of Chinese and Irish descent also hinted at what’s in store for the forensically gifted duo. “I think this season it’s going to be really interesting to see where it goes, because Angela is definitely not one to be pinned down. She’s definitely a free spirit who really fell in love. I think it’s going to be really interesting to see how all of that plays out when you have a relationship that you’ve set up and what happens in the aftermath or what happens when you do leave the altar. We’ve been working on a lot of that.”In other Bones news, production for the upcoming season was briefly disrupted when a fire broke out on the set during filming three weeks ago. Apparently, one of their electrical equipment accidentally set a piece of material ablaze. A production assistant immediately extinguished the flames, preventing any injury or major damage. Filming resumed that same afternoon as mainstays Emily Deschanel, David Boreanaz, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara Taylor and Eric Millegan reportedly all donned costumes for the new season’s Halloween episode. Bones returns on FOX Tuesday, September 25

Bones Season 2 DVD Review Posted by Ryan Byers on 09.26.2007 If you like dead people and romance, this is the show for you. FOX’s anthropology-oriented murder mystery series Bones is slated to begin its third season in just a few days. To coincide with season three, the fine folks at FOX have also released the second season of the series in a six-disc boxed set that includes all twenty-one hours of the season’s content as well as plenty of bonus features.The show focuses on the lives of forensic anthropologist Temperance “Bones” Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz), who are called in to investigate murders which usually involve not much of the victim being left aside from his/her skeletal system. Their efforts are supported by a team working out of the Jeffersonian Institute, a thinly-veiled clone of the Smithsonian. Among them are Dr. Jack Hodgins (T.J. Thyne), an expert in all things related to insects and dirt, Angela Montenagro (Michaela Conlin), who specializes in facial reconstruction, and Zach Addy (Eric Millegan), who begins the series as a doctoral candidate in anthropology working under Bones but quickly earns his degree and becomes a Jeffersonian employee in his own right. In an interesting twist on the traditional crime drama, the characters’ personal lives are explored just as much as their professional lives, as will be seen as we run down the twenty-one episodes that comprised season two.

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