If You're Not Watching Bones, You're Missing the Best Female Nerd On TV

The fall television season is full of new distractions and new potentially great female characters, be it Carrie-Anne Moss's crusading (and environmentalist) district attorney on CBS's period drama Vegas or Connie Britton's country star on ABC's upcoming Nashville. But I have to admit that the show I'm most excited to have back in my week is Fox's Bones, a workhorse drama about a brilliant forensic anthropologist now in its eighth season that rarely gets much critical attention but that features one of the best female characters on television, Emily Deschanel's Temperance Brennan....

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