The CBS drama SEAL Team is ending this year after seven seasons. The show’s star, David Boreanaz, is probably best known around these parts as Buffy Summer’s ill-fated vampire lover, Angel. Introduced on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a series that premiered 27 years ago, Boreanaz led a spinoff dedicated to Angel that premiered two years later and lasted for five seasons. The dark, brooding vampire made an excellent dark, brooding L.A. gumshoe investigating supernatural mysteries with the help of Sunnydale’s bitchy prom queen Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), second-best Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof), and newcomers to the Buffyverse Charles Gunn (J. August Richards) and Fred Burkle (Amy Acker).
Angel had its flaws (#JusticeForCordelia), but they saved the world a lot before the series ended in 2004. A year later, David Boreanaz returned to our TVs with 60% less brooding and a more colorful wardrobe as FBI Agent Sealy Booth, foil and eventual love interest of Temperance Brennan, on Bones.
Bones was on the air for 12 seasons. Some might say that was two or three seasons too many. I might be one of those people. But it was a groundbreaking procedural that centered the science and relationships between the characters more than it did the copaganda of crime fighting. It lost some of its spark when they resolved the will-they-wont-they between Booth and Brennan by telling us about it instead of showing us. And then everyone had babies, and they started killing characters off (RIP forever Dr. Lance Sweets!)
Regardless, it was a strong cast, and audiences have been asking for more Bones since it went off the air in 2017. Especially during the pandemic when it seemed like almost every other show got a revival or a reunion.
Well, good news kids. Now that he’s done being a SEAL, Boreanaz is talking about getting the Squint Team back together!
In an interview with Variety, the star talked about how he can see a reunion that picks up with current-day Booth and Brennan.
I think Booth is not really active and retired, and has to be drawn back into a case, to solve something that happened on the grounds of the FBI. I think Brennan just keeps writing books and getting accolades. She’d be on the New York Times bestsellers lists, probably finishing another book tour, and she’s in the middle of the book tour and has to get to the FBI in light of this award that I’m getting. And then shit hits the fan. I can see it, man!
I can see it too! So can his co-star Emily Deschanel and the author of the Temperance Brennan books, Kathy Reichs. Earlier this year Deschanel implied she’s open to the idea of a revival if Boreanaz is willing. And Reichs is still writing Bones books, so it’s a win-win for her.
Plus, not for nothing, but the rest of the cast hasn’t been up to much since the show ended. Props to Tamara Taylor for trying to make October Faction work though.
With the recently launched re-watch podcast hosted by Deschaanel and co-star Carla Gallo (Intern Daisy) a limited series revival should be a slam dunk.
The first order of business of the revival is making sure Booth knows that he and Brennan have two kids. Boreanaz seems to have forgotten about Hank Booth II in that Variety interview.