"Bones" was well-known for the firecracker relationship between Seeley Booth (David Boreanaz) and Temperance Brennan (Emily Deschanel) and some genuinely twisted murder cases. But even the best show in the world can't hit it out of the park every time. To wit: Deschanel had a big issue with one of the show's regular themes in particular — its reliance on plotlines involving terrorism.
While speaking to TV Insider about coping with burnout related to the series, which she eventually overcame while rewatching episodes for her "Bones" review podcast, "Boneheads." During the course of the interview, she confessed that, "When episodes would deal with terrorism in a way and in a way that, looking back, I don't love, and I'm not sure how I felt about at the time. It might have been uncomfortable