“[It] seems determined to staff what would otherwise be a run-of-the-mill police procedural series with as many wacky funsters as possible.” Read on for the full verdict on last night’s TV.

Bones, Sky 1
“Being a procedural in the CSI mould, Bones contains plenty of technical babble delivered by actors who talk very quickly, lots of expensive-looking gadgets that are basically magic, and some obligatory moralising over, in this case, the corrosive nihilism of the death metal scene, which is clearly a huge problem in the DC Metro area.”
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

Bones, Sky 1
“[It] seems determined to staff what would otherwise be a run-of-the-mill police procedural series with as many wacky funsters as possible. It’s as if they’re worried that the premise of the show - solving old crimes through forensic anthropology - is too dark, so they’ve got to cram in a lot of graveyard humour.”
Andrea Mullaney, The Scotsman

The Mentalist, Five
“If you occasionally find Sherlock Holmes’s powers of deduction a bit far-fetched, wait until you see what the Mentalist gets up to.
Tim Dowling, The Guardian

My Life as an Animal, BBC3
“It was, quite possibly, the weirdest television programme I’ve ever come across. In fact, I can’t decide if it’s so absurd as to be brilliant - the sort of thing George Orwell’s characters might have indulged in had they had reality TV in Nineteen Eighty-Four - or whether it’s just the barrel-scraping sediment at the bottom of the cheap thrills trough. The latter, probably.”
Alice-Azania Jarvis, The Independent

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