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Bones on Fox

The third season of Fox’s anthropological crime drama Bones premiered September 25^th with a gruesome storyline about cannibalism. Fox elected to fill its 8:00 p.m. time slot with frightening imagery of skeletons, dead bodies, and bloody wounds.  This content at such an early hour on broadcast television makes Bones our pick for Worst of the Week.

The episode opens with a group of young adults driving down the road while under the influence of drugs.  Suddenly a human skull falls from an overpass and smashes through the windshield of their car.  As if in a horror movie, the face of the skull comes through the glass, facing the driver.  Bones and her staff discover that the skull belonged to a man whose face was eaten by a cannibal, and the fact that the face had been eaten is repeated several times.  A clue in the skull leads them to one of the cannibals who, when questioned, gives a disturbing account of the different flavors of human flesh, including babies.  Later in the episode the killer is found stabbed to death in his jail cell, where his body hangs lifeless from the bars.  A bloody dagger is shown protruding from his chest.

A noteworthy subplot involves Angela, who wants to marry her co-worker Hodges but cannot, because she met and married a strange man and consummated the marriage one night while heavily intoxicated. 

While Bones does promote interest in science and academia, those positives are overshadowed by the constant onslaught of disturbing imagery and frightening content unsuitable for family viewing.  This week’s episode is a prime example of the inappropriateness of airing Bones in the 8:00 hour, and is therefore our pick for Worst of the Week.