CBS’s SEAL Team is coming to an end this year after seven seasons. The show’s star, David Boreanaz, is perhaps best known around these parts as Buffy Summer’s ill-fated vampire lover, Angel. Introduced in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, a series that debuted 27 years ago, Boreanaz headlined a spinoff dedicated to Angel that debuted two years later and ran for five seasons.
The dark, brooding vampire makes for a wonderfully dark, brooding L.A. cop as he investigates supernatural mysteries with the help of Sunnydale’s tough prom queen Cordelia Chase (Charisma Carpenter), second-best Watcher Wesley Wyndam-Pryce (Alexis Denisof), and Buffyverse newcomers Charles Gunn (J. August Richards) and Fred Burkle (Amy Acker).
Angel had its flaws (#JusticeForCordelia), but it saved the world a lot before the series ended in 2004. A year later, David Boreanaz returned to TV with 60% less darkness and a more colorful wardrobe as FBI Agent Sealy Booth, the villain and eventual love interest of Temperance Brennan, on Bones.
Bones ran for 12 seasons. Some might say that’s two or three seasons too many. I might be one of those people. But it was a groundbreaking procedural that focused on science and character relationships rather than the copaganism of crime fighting.
It lost some of its appeal when they resolved the Booth-Brennan problem by telling us about it instead of showing us. And then everyone had kids, and they started killing off characters (RIP Dr. Lance Sweets forever!)
Regardless, it’s a strong cast, and audiences have been clamoring for more Bones since it went off the air in 2017. Especially during the pandemic when it seems like almost every other show is getting 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 could see a follow-up reunion with Booth and Brennan in the present day.
I think Booth’s not really active and retired, and has to come back on a case, to solve something that happened on an FBI property. I think Brennan just keeps writing books and getting rave reviews. She’s on the New York Times bestseller list, she’s probably done another book tour, and she’s in the middle of a book tour and has to go to the FBI to pick up an award that I’m getting.
And then things go wrong. I can see it, as can his co-star Emily Deschanel and Temperance Brennan author Kathy Reichs. Deschanel hinted earlier this year that she’d be open to the idea of a reboot if Boreanaz agreed. And Reichs is still writing the Bones books, so it’s a win-win for both parties.
Plus, it’s not without reason that the rest of the cast hasn’t done much since the show ended. Still, kudos to Tamara Taylor for trying to make October Faction work.
With the new rewatch podcast that Deschanel and co-star Carla Gallo (Daisy the Intern) host, the limited series reboot would be a smash hit.
The first order of business for the remake was to make sure Booth knew that he and Brennan had two children. Boreanaz seemed to forget about Hank Booth II in her interview with Variety.
