Bones: Season Four
by David Boreanaz, Allan Kroeker, Allison Liddi-Brown, Brad Turner, Chad Lowe
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Actor: David Boreanaz, Emily Deschanel, Michaela Conlin, T.J. Thyne, Tamara TaylorDirector: Allan Kroeker, Allison Liddi-Brown, Brad Turner, Chad Lowe, David Boreanaz
Brand: Bones
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 964 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-10-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Subtitled; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Bones: Season Four
Movie Review: always digging BONES...
Summary: 5 Stars
It's that vaunted chemistry and the rich emotional content, and it's those terrific touches of humor. In "The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond" there's a great throwaway moment brought about by a publisher's crediting part of Temperance Brennan's success as a mystery author to her looks. Brennan decides to quit writing, and here's Booth talking fast to change her mind:
- Brennan: "I don't want to be a sexy scientist!"
- Booth: "Well, that's like me saying I don't want to be a sexy FBI Agent. We can't change who we are!" And then Booth starts quoting a published review of one of her mysteries. One of those perfect throwaway moments.
World-renowned forensic anthropologist Temperance "Bones" Brennan is as brusque and tactless as ever, as confounded by the subtleties of social decorum as ever (or as Sweets exclaims: "She is wicked literal!"). Bones is still very much that intimidating icy intellect, still a wounded soul, and still solving murders. FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth is still the one with the people skills and that well-developed bump of intuition. More onions are peeled in this season as we learn even more about the underpinnings of our core characters. The absolute big draw of this show is that sizzle between David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel, their fabulous interplay tantalizing and frustrating the viewers. Could this be the season that they get together? Well, kind of, sort of. Taking what the show is giving, I wallow in their ever evolving relationship.
Staying on the personal, Hodgins and Angela are trying to move past their break-up. "The Skull in the Sculpture" demonstrates that Angela is more ready to move on than Hodgins, and if you thought Angela was a free spirit before, well, now... This episode also has Sweets demonstrating the best way ever to fire someone. Young FBI psychologist Lance Sweets, by the way, becomes a regular cast member in this season, and I like him more and more as each episode progresses, even if Booth and Bones continually treat him like a pesky little brother. Even Dr. Saroyan's past is delved into.
Zack Addy, apprentice to the Gormagon Killer, has been institutionalized, which doesn't keep him from strolling out to help the squints on a baffling case. Still, this gives rise to a running theme, that of the rotating roster of interns as Saroyan and Bones attempt to fill Zack's spot, and the fun thing is that each of these interns comes with baggage. There's the morbid one, the excessively chirpy one, the one constantly dispensing trivia, etc. The most martyred one may well be that repressed intern who insists on keeping things professional at all times - except that, the squints being a tight bunch, he keeps getting exposed to a deluge of innuendo and gossip in the workplace.
***Possible plot SPOILERS begin***
There isn't really a running mystery arc to tie these episodes together - no one like the Gormagon Killer running around, for example. But that doesn't mean that the cases aren't gripping; some of them are really interesting. The season opens with "Yanks in the U.K." (or, as I like to call it, "Booth Vs. England"), which plants Brennan and Booth in jolly old England, investigating a murder and running into a British version of themselves. In "The Passenger in the Oven" Bones and Booth are on a flight bound to China and have only four hours to solve a murder before the plane lands and Booth loses jurisdiction. "Double Trouble in the Panhandle" has Booth and Bones infiltrating the Big Top as "Buck & Wanda and their Knives of Death," and their circus act is actually fraught with more suspense than in just about any other scene in this season.
Some other favorites? In "The Double Death of the Dearly Departed," Bones and Booth steal a corpse due for cremation from a funeral home, Bones believing that the body had been "translated," which is Booth's made-up code for murder. "Mayhem on a Cross" unveils some dark stuff about Sweets' past, this episode also featuring the return of the awesome Stephen Fry as FBI shrink Gordon Gordon Wyatt. It also had me cracking up whenever Bones insisted on correctly pronouncing "skalle" (the Norwegian word for "skull"). "The Hero in the Hold" features the return of the Grave Digger serial killer. "The Princess and the Pear" plonks Bones and Booth's temp replacement in the world of comic book conventions, and Bones finally gets another chance to flash her martial arts mojo.
In "The Critic in the Cabernet" Bones drops a bomb on Booth and Booth gets advice from a cartoon character, a frivolous conceit which goes on to have a terrifying payoff. Finally Season 4 closes with a quirky fantasy episode featuring a re-shuffling of roles. In this reality, Dr. Saroyan and Booth's brother are homicide detectives and Booth and Bones are a married couple who run a nightclub and who end up as suspects in a murder case. It's neat that just about everyone is in this one.
***Possible plot SPOILERS end now***
BONES - SEASON FOUR comes in six discs and includes 22 of the 26 episodes. The bonus features are: extended scenes for three episodes: "The Perfect Pieces in the Purple Pond," "The Doctor in the Den," & "The Girl in the Mask"; 2 deleted scenes (one in "The Skull in the Sculpture," the other in "The Passenger in the Oven," both featuring Angela and Hodgins having a conversation about Roxie); 5 and a half minutes of bloopers ("Skalle!"); "Androgeny: Playing Haru Tanaka" - guest actress Ally Maki delves into her dubiously gendered character ("Dr. Haru Tanaka") in "The Girl in the Mask"; and "Squints in Training" - this segment, which includes cast interviews, goes into this season's cast of recurring lab interns. Again no episode commentaries or cast interviews. Also, note that Season Four's first four episodes ("The Yanks in the UK, Parts 1 & 2," "The Man in the Outhouse," & "The Finger in the Nest") are absent here, having instead been inserted in Bones: The Complete Third Season as that set's featured bonus features.
By the way, in the Grossest Corpse of the Season department, it's a tie between "The Cinderella in the Cardboard" and "The Science in the Physicist." Icky!
Summary of Bones: Season Four
No description available for this title.Item Type: DVD Movie
Item Rating: NR
Street Date: 10/06/09
Wide Screen: yes
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Language: ENGLISH
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Packaging: Sleeve
If the fourth season of Bones on DVD gets off to a slightly jumpy start, it's because the first four episodes are missing. They were actually included as a bonus feature on the third season's boxed set, in an effort to pad that truncated season. (However, the Blu-ray version of the fourth season does include all 26 episodes, which originally aired during the 2008-2009 television season.) That said, there's little else to gripe about with this collection. Like many shows revolving around murder, Bones is strewn with body parts--a displaced finger here, a falling leg there. But the gross-out factor often is balanced with humor as Dr. Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and FBI special agent Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) try to figure out whodunit. Though some of the vignettes are on the weak side (a character deciding to become celibate, while another wants to start a family), the overall tone of the show is dead on. This season includes the addition of several new interns, who are vying to fill the spot left by Zack Addy (Eric Millegan). (It was revealed last season that Addy had been working as the apprentice for the serial killer known as Gormogon.) Well developed and also a little eccentric, the interns can give as good as they get as they compete for the job and fit in well with the already established cast.
The cases this season are diverse. One episode delves into the investigation of a pregnant teenage athlete's death that seems to be part of a high school "pregnancy pact," while another finds Brennan and Booth as passengers on a plane where a crisp, burnt body is discovered. And in another, Booth finds himself as the main suspect when a longtime rival is found dead. The simmering chemistry between Brennan and Booth is never lost in the intrigue. Though many TV dramas use the "will they" or "won't they" device to pique viewers' interests, that scenario usually loses momentum by the second or third season. Thanks to some smart writing and sharp acting, this conceit hasn't worn itself out yet on Bones. While the show hints that the two are destined to be together, that plot line isn't exploited this season. --Jae-Ha Kim
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