BONES!!!!
I love Bones! And not just because I love Anthropology.
Brennan is prolly one of the best role models for young ASD women and girls on TV right now. Finding TV depictions of women on spectrum is hard, Finding positive ones are harder, but finding ones that are also attractive? nearly impossible!
Yet on Bones we have a smart, Successful, attractive woman on spectrum, who gets to do a job she loves in her Special Interest Field.
We also get to see her social interactions in a way that shows both her weaknesses and her strengths, as well as her solutions for certain things. Her Best Friend is Angela, the Arty Social NT working as the facial reconstruction/data retrieval person who often points out Social stuff she doesn't get. And we get to see some of the romantic relationship issues, too.
It is a procedural, though, and has a lot of focus on the cases as well as the various folks in the lab. Booth, the FBI agent Partnered with her, Is a very "gut" based NT guy, who is kinda the odd man in the lab full of quirky folks. There was a line in a recent episode where Booth says something about how he learned that sometimes it's okay to go with your brain instead of your gut, and Brennan responded that "That's nice, but I prefer that you always go with your brain over your gut, because your gut cannot think."
There are some other good quotes at the wikiquotes bones page:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bones_(TV_series)
I like a lot of the ones in season 5 myself.
If you'd like to try watching bones, there are some episodes up on hulu:
I think the best ones are season two and after- they don't really embrace Brennan's Aspieness until then, and some of the episodes of this season and last season have really been flapping inducing from recognition!!!
More Bones links:
http://www.obsessedwithbones.com/
http://www.tv.com/bones/show/33332/summary.html
I'm a huge fan of Bones. My forensic anthropolgy lecturer got me reading the books after she learnt I was a fan of the Patricia Cornwell novels, but it took me a while to get into the TV series as the character of Temperance Brennan is nothing like she is in the books.
However, I have really grown to love it. It appeals to my long term obsession with forensic & medical science.
As for the character of Bones, whilst they have never officially said on the show that she has Aspergers, she is based on a friend of the creator's Hart Hanson who does have Asperger's.
There is an interesting article located at http://www.nj.com/entertainment/tv/index.ssf/2010/02/how_tv_shows_try_or... which looks at the portrayal of Aspergers on TV and it talks about Bones.
Would love to see a storyline with Bones getting diagnosed. To be honest, I have no idea why Sweets hasn't brought it up already.
I like watching Bones too. I always find the forensic/medical story-based shows really interesting. :)
I love Bones too, i've always thought her very aspie, totally. Interesting that she is based on an aspie! And that Kathy Reichs may or may not be on the spectrum...
My favourite line.. "Booth says i really suck at the non-verbal stuff". Uh-huh, honey, we've all been there!
I would like to see her 'come out' too as aspie, but maybe the program makers are afraid they will lose some of their audience?
I came across an interview from last year of Kathy Reichs, author of BONES over on blogtalk. She talks a bit about her work, and the history behind the television series, and how it all came about.
Blog Talk Radio interview on Talk Forensics.




Ditto on everything you shared Savnnah! I am a huge Bones fan! BonesOnTV.com