User Reviews

This was quite the episode as it featured my two least favorite characters, Hannah and Daisy. The Hannah storyline this week was all about how she's "not good with kids." I found this to be a lousy excuse for Hannah because Bones would argue that she isn't good with kids but she gets along with Parker, which we got to see at the end of the episode. I just found it to be a really weird character trait. I know that at the end of the episode, we see that Hannah and Parker get along just fine, but Hannah bothers me so much that I simply did not care for it.

Daisy was also featured in this episode and had a solid storyline throughout it. She was worried about the psych test that she was going to have to take in order to get clearance from the FBI. Obviously, she turns to Sweets, who, in the end, helps her cheat a little bit (come on Sweets, be better). On top of that, when Hodgins and Daisy were conducting an experiment, a bullet casing flew back and hit Hodgins in the arm. Instead of getting a first aid kit and helping him (like any good person would), Daisy stood there like a fool talking about Newton's third law. I think this should have been a major red flag to either the FBI or the Jeffersonian, but alas, she gets her clearance anyways at the end of the episode.

As for the case of the week, the science was pretty cool with the bones appearing "melted." However, this storyline is about a teacher sleeping with her high school student which was just gross. I am just happy that no one on the team defended the actions, thank goodness.

Best Part: watching Bones and Parker interact at the end of the episode in the diner

Worst Part: suffering through both Daisy and Hannah.

A man is fried in an explosion, when the back of his pickup, filled with magnesium scraps catches fire. The search is on because his bones appear to have been melted (an impossibility). So the lab rats have to find a possible explanation. As this is happening, the search for the perpetrator goes on. We have a teacher having an affair with a student. She is also the wife of the victim. We have the student who had an affair with his teacher. There's a guy who runs a motorcycle repair shop. We have a scene where Bones stands in front of a group of detention students and is clueless that they are making fun of her. The least interesting things are Hannah trying to make friends with Booth's kid, and Daisy trying to pass her psych exam for acceptance into the lab. It's too bad being sickening isn't a reason to throw her to the curb.

Hi bones booth!

Again, this might be a hot take but I love daisey!!!! Mainly because I think if I was in their world I would be a "daisey". But I love her interaction with hodgins I think they have really great chemistry on screen together even as Platonic characters. Love the king of the lab / your highness bit.

I also love her and sweets interaction regarding the exam questions... that whole scene is so funny to me every time.

I think sweets also does a great job in this episode interviewing the teacher. Their whole second scene together is really good. I like when he tells her she really is not a good teacher because I feel like it emphasizes how wrong that scenario is and does NOT glorify it. On the flip side of that I find it kind of cringy when bones makes a comment about wanting to appeal to the teenage boy - I feel that dialogue should have been cut and left on the floor. Ick! And normally bones doesn't give me the icks ever!

Ok 2 finally thoughts (sorry this is a long one) I find it interesting they make the killers character identify so deeply with the "broken home" thing like that's some eternal excuse for horrible behavior or life choices - i feel like younger me was definitely impressionable by that comment and what it meant.

Final thought - I think we can genuinely see Bones struggling a little bit with how she is navigating her feelings towards booth and what this new dynamic means. It's hard too see :(.

Ok all done & ready for one of the best / weirdest episodes of bones next week!!!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to hear what you guys think!