Bones (TV Series) The Resurrection in the Remains (2015) User Reviews

Pachyderm in the room

[dagunicorn · 8/10 · 9 July 2023]

Can't believe none of these reviews have addressed the pachyderm in the room. Angela manages to create a - totally accurate - facial reconstruction off a 200 year old headless corpse? Based just on skeletal height and bone structure? And then comes up with a matching 18th century portrait of precisely who they are examining? There is no head. Couldn't easily slide past that one.

Still, this was otherwise an entertaining episode. Great Halloween fun! Loved Hodgins devilish contact lenses, nice early double-take. And utilising a plot taken straight from Flatliners was a very interesting reason for the murder.

Just a Halloween Episode for Me

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 19 March 2023]

I heard there was a show called Sleepy Hollow, based loosely on the Washington Irving story. I never saw it but I guess there's a connection with Bones. Maybe that's why I was confused through much of this. This is, of course, a Halloween episode with a fair amount of tongue in cheek stuff going on. I did like Brennan fooling Booth with the brain thing. By the way, he did "get" her in the end, even though she is incapable of admitting a human response. Sometimes her knowledge is over the top. How would a forensic anthropologist know the specific dates that an obscure type of ink was used? All in all, this was a fun episode.

dead men tell no tales

[wiebenikjadaseengoeie · 10/10 · 21 February 2016]

So if u wonder what are the remains for in the sleepy hollow series !let's mix it up and watch how general How is resurrected and is on a hunt for our beloved witnesses!

Follow up in in the season 3 episode 5 where general how is resurrected.

When Ichabod's old nemesis returns from the dead, Ichabod and Abbie turn to Temperance Brennan and Seeley Booth to unlock 18th century secrets using 21st century science. so set aside the science of the bones series and the weird stuff on sleepy hollow and watch this second half of that mystical Halloween story that started in bones and finished in sleepy hollow.

Have fun and keep watching bones both series are amazing!!!

Oddest of the Odd

[CloseViewer · 4/10 · 30 October 2015]

No spoilers, but no love, either.

Bones is a comedy drama mystery that stands alone in the over-the- air television marketplace. It is so well written that a few words, a look, or a small gesture can speak volumes. The plots are complex and cleverly conceal the one who-done-it in plain sight and use science and deductive reasoning to reveal motive. They get to the bottom of everything. One imagines that there must have been some behind the scenes eye-rolling as this episode was underway as science had to either ignore or validate the supernatural nonsense that seeped in from Sleepy Hollow.

The actors aren't the same as their characters, and while early network promotions suggested the actors enjoyed the merger, the characters in this episode worked so much against type that there should have been resistance when the Sleepy Hollow crew were invited onto the set. The scientific and procedural verisimilitude of Bones went out the window when the fluffy nonsense of time travel and the undead came for a Halloween visit to solve a mystery or two.

In a program that prides itself on laying the groundwork, there seems to have been some back story between the FBI agents Booth and Abby whats-her-name. Who is Corbyn? I don't watch Sleepy Hollow to know who they were talking about, and Bones gave us no clue as to those conversations - I thought perhaps they were discussing contemporary British politics.

In the future if you've viewed this Bones episode and wonder about the rest of the story, don't bother to hunt down the Sleepy Hollow episode find the few Bones and Booth scenes. They were punting - there is nothing to see there.

The viewers of Bones are loyal, so an occasional "odd" episode won't cause them to flee the enterprise. In hindsight fans will be able to watch this episode as a mystery regarding a dead woman and dismiss the Sleepy Hollow nonsense in the archives as Halloween static. The seasonal pranks were clever - I hope the writers visit Christine's school homeroom one day soon to show us just how those homemade treats from Dr. Brennan are received by the teacher and kids.

A most ridiculous crossover

[hunsbergerbev · 1/10 · 6 April 2024]

Bones being rooted in science and Sleepy Hollow rooted in fantasy, make for an awkward and close to unwatchable experience.

I could not stand watching Sleepy Hollow because of the over-acting of Tom Mison. His appearance here is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Dr. Brennan would never have put up with his nonsense. She is unusually tolerant of the supernatural and unscientific methods and ideas of the Sleepy Hollow characters.

This crossover betrayed everything that Bones is supposed to represent all because they were trying to boost a crappy show that shouldn't even have still been on the air.

One of the few episodes that I routinely skip on my rewatches.