Amy Kraft - Week 2: A distraction from reality

        With not much to do during these difficult times, TV can be an entertaining way to keep your mind distracted. TV is perfect because, well for some shows, you become engrossed in the plot and invested in the characters, which allows you to forget all of your own troubles. That is unless the show causes you emotional distress like Grey’s Anatomy.

When I start a show that is really really good, it becomes addictive. Once I’m hooked, I start to become invested in the characters and their relationships, mainly their love lives. This has happened to me in many shows including Grey’s Anatomy, Bones, Brooklyn 99, Blindspot, NCIS: LA, and many more. Over the course of quarantine I have watched all of these, and many more, except for Grey’s Anatomy, and I would highly recommend them. Also with the exception of Grey’s Anatomy, all of these shows are crime shows. Yes, crime shows always keep me on my toes and the adrenaline rushing through my body, but that’s not why they are my favorite genre of shows. I love crime shows because it portrays the false narrative that there will always be a happy ending. Additionally, with the exception of Criminal Minds, none of these crime shows are scary. They are interesting and exhilarating and sometimes funny. In my experience, there is usually a funny character in each show. For example, Deeks in NCIS: LA, Rich.com in Blindspot, Jake in Brooklyn 99. 

        Over quarantine, I found my new favorite show: Bones. It had everything I love in a show all in one. It has the drama and love triangles of Grey’s Anatomy. It has the crime aspect from shows like Blindspot. It has various types of science, including my favorite, chemistry. And it even has humor. Bones is about a forensic anthropologist, Temperance Brennan, also known as Bone, and an FBI agent, Seeley Booth. Together they solve murders of people who’s bodies are beyond the point of recognition. Bones is not the only scientist who works on the cases. She has her suinterns (interns who squint like scientists), Dr. Hodgins who is the bug and slime guy, Angela who uses the skeleton to draw and identify the body and also helps generate scenarios of the murder, and Cam who does the autopsies. Then working for the FBI there is Booth, Dr. Sweets, the physiological profiler, and agent James Aubry who comes later in the series. This show kept me entertained and busy during a few weeks of quarantine, and I would definitely recommend it.