More Bones

I have railed about the "enlightened outsider" arcs in House, but they are running one now on Bones with Stephen Fry as an FBI shrink, and it is working brilliantly. I think there are two reasons for this, first, the Fry character doesn't have as much power over Booth as some of the outsiders have had over House on that show, and second, Stephen Fry is very funny, and very smart so there is an art to the info he's pulling out for the audience. This has been a really well done runner by the Bones folks, and they should be proud of being able to take a trite cliche and breathing life into it. Ironically, Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry starred in sketch show over in England together for several years. Too bad he was never the enlightened outsider on House.