Fractured start to new Bones season

BONES is back. But before the first episode is done, the series will have lost one of its most loved characters in a shock death that will leave fans reeling.

Fractured start to new Bones season

BONES carved out its niche as a quirky crime-meets-comedy-meets-drama series that has served it well for nine seasons.

But as season ten dawns, there’s not much lightness to be found.

Emily Deschanel’s forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance ‘Bones’ Brennan is fighting to get her husband, David Boreanaz’s FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth out of jail.

Conspiracy theories abound. Nobody is sure who to trust.

And before the first episode is done, the long-running series will have lost one of its most loved characters in a shock death that will leave fans reeling.

It is a far more fractured Bones than the show we’re used to seeing, and a change of pace, Deschanel says, which was vital to avoid going over old ground in Bones’ and Booth’s relationship as the series entered it tenth year.

“We have a whole different dynamic when we come back to this season,” Deschanel told a recent Comic Con convention.

“I mean, granted we have a standard — there’s certain things that will always be in our show. Booth and Brennan have a specific kind of relationship, but they go through different things and different times.

“Here, we’re watching them go through a really hard time.

“Booth is in prison, she’s trying to clear his name, get him out, get to the bottom of this conspiracy that we’ve been uncovering and has landed him in jail.”

Fractured ... Emily Deschanel and David Boreanaz for season ten of Bones. Picture: Supplied by Channel Seven

As is standard for the duo’s relationship, the way the situation is handled brings the pair into conflict.

“He’s not always happy with the way Brennan is doing things to help him,” Deschanel says.

“It’s not necessarily flowers when he arrives coming back or whatever.

“So this is a whole new dynamic.”

Last season’s cliff-hanger ending saw the newlyweds’ house shot up, and Booth not only farmed, but almost killed before he was carted off to prison.

Season ten opens three months on, with Brennan and the rest of the Bones team frantically trying to get him out.

The early episodes are intense, but, Deschanel and Boreanaz agree, a perfect foil to the show’s lighter moments.

“One of my favourite things about this show is the way it balances the drama with the comedy, the heavy with the light,” Deschanel says.

“It can be even more challenging when it’s in the same scene sometimes … you have something very serious or dramatic or sad or poignant and then something light.

“And I think that’s life too — we approach everything the same way.

“You have to be careful, you don’t wanna switch tone and it seems callous or disrespectful or something like that, but I do believe there’s humour sometimes in the darkest times that we’re facing and there should be humour.

“If you can find humour in hard times, I think that’s important … because it reflects life in that way.”

Bones, Sunday, 8.30pm, Seven

Originally published as Fractured start to new Bones season