Bones
FOX | Release Date: September 13, 2005
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
15
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
20
Kansas City StarAaron Barnhart
Season 1 Review: A flimsy little procedural that uses logical and technological leaps of faith to hide its central problem: lack of co-star chemistry. Read full review
20
PopMattersRoger Holland
Season 1 Review: Bones is a very poor cross between the X-Files and CSI with characters stolen from NCIS, plot devices from Veronica Mars, and topicality from Law & Order. Read full review
20
SlateDana Stevens
Season 1 Review: Memo to network execs planning an all-forensics programming slate for fall: Watching attractive people poke at skull fragments is not inherently interesting. Read full review
20
Washington PostTom Shales
Season 1 Review: The heroine, unlikely in every detail including her name, Temperance Brennan, goes about reassembling corpses and then divining how they got to be that way. It's precise, tedious work and so is watching this show. Read full review
10
NewsdayVerne Gay
Season 1 Review: It's as if we've all passed this way (many times) before and could write the dialogue, act the scenes, predict the outcome all in our sleep. Read full review
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