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Three more shows ended this week, two of which we cover here; the forensic drama Bones and reality TV juggernaut American Idol. But what do the past seasons suggest for each respective show's future?
Since the last season finale, Hart Hanson and the writers have been playing a coy game of cat and mouse with the seemingly inevitable resolution of Booth and Bones' denied attraction to each other. The disappointment of the 100th episode was somewhat confusingly perpetuated in the season finale where, in a moment of backtracking, Hanson & Co attempted to wipe the slate by sending Brennan off to Indonesia on a dig and by having Booth re-enlist in the army to train soldiers in Iraq, both set to meet back in a year. While promises have been made that season 6 won't start without an FBI/Jeffersonian partnership, it's hard to say what the future has in store, given that everything (for the most part) is back to square one.
Fortunately for the show which might have the worst case of unresolved tension since Moonlighting, the season did have its high points. The cases presented in each episode were quite excellent, if not increasingly gory, getting back to the technical style that made the procedural show a hit in the first place and the episodes in general were of a calibre that has been sorely missed in the previous two seasons. All in all, a solid season for fans of the overall show but a disappointment for those in it for the lovin'.
It’s been a rough season for Idol fans. It produced what have been widely considered the worst ever finalists and crowned its most inconsistent winner ever, Lee DeWyze (though, in his defence, he’s a nice guy with a solid set of pre-Idol music). A lot of regular bloggers gave up, ratings went down, and even voting figures plummeted to about half of what they were last year. Still, all is not as bad as it seems; it’s still the highest rated show on American television, and anyone using such extreme terms as ‘worst season ever’ obviously has a short term memory of some truly appalling finalists that took up the first 3 or so seasons. The Idol production team also deserve some credit for moving away from novelty contestants last year to a likeable (albeit a little dull) two dozen semifinalists, even though the public arguably voted through the wrong top 12 to the live finals.
So what good has come out of this season? Runner-up Crystal Bowersox, who has a chilled out Janis Joplin sound and a folk-rolk salt-of-the-earth feel, is perhaps the best Idol success this year. As for the show, they recently conducted a surprisingly frank internet survey for fans, asking pointed questions about preferences regarding judges, contestants, format and other things most Idol fans never expected to be asked by the producers about. With the departure of Simon Cowell, the show faces an uphill climb and a rebranding which, if done correctly with music and talented contestants at its focus, could still maintain its position at the top of many people’s TV schedules.
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