'Bones' Star Emily Deschanel Says Rewatch Podcast Has Given Her 'New Appreciation for the Show'

Emily Deschanel is looking back at her time on Bones.

The 46-year-old actress recently announced her plans to launch a Bones re-watch podcast, which she will host with her former co-star Carla Gallo.

In a new interview with TV Insider, Emily discussed what it was like going back to watch episodes of the show.

Keep reading to find out what she said…

“Everyone’s doing rewatch podcasts these days, so that was kind of in the zeitgeist,” she said of her decision to start a podcast. “Carla and I have been friends almost from when she started on the show. I’m friends with everybody on the cast, I keep in touch with everyone, but she and I are especially close because also two of our best friends are best friends as well. As we say in the pilot, our best friends are best friends, so we all hang out a good amount. And Carla’s just so fun and funny and witty and clever and smart and we get along great and we both love talking. We’re just chit-chatters. So it was a natural choice to work with Carla.”

Emily added, “I loved the idea of her being an insider but also an outsider. She didn’t come in until almost Season 4, so she hasn’t watched all these episodes before and wasn’t on set until later on. So she can kind of be an outsider saying, ‘What were you doing? What were you thinking? Why were you doing this?’”

She went on to say that she felt Bones was a particularly good candidate for a re-watch podcast.

“Carla and I remark so many people that we encounter in our lives who are fans of the show, who come up to us, say they’ve rewatched the show multiple times,” she said. “I think that Bones is just a really great show to have a rewatch podcast for because so many people watch it multiple times over, and you get new things. Having done several episodes now, I get something different every time I watch an episode, so I understand why fans rewatch it over and over again. I’d never really done that before until the podcast. Sometimes you need to rewatch it because you miss certain things. It’s so plot-heavy, you miss certain things, and so it’s helpful to watch them again.”

Emily explained that each episode of the podcast will find both hosts discussing a specific episode of the show, as well as sharing some behind-the-scenes stories.

” It almost always sparks some kind of tangent that we go on. Carla and I just can talk for hours, and so almost always there’s some kind of tangent or multiple tangents that we go on discussing an idea that’s sparked by a theme on the show or something that just comes up in our conversation. We’ll have thoughts, criticisms, and laugh about things that happened on the show — mostly laughing; there’s lots of laughing about things that we did on the show,” she said.

She also noted that the podcast had given her a different appreciation for the show.

“What I love is that I can watch it, and before when I’d watch an episode, it would be just so hard to watch, and I’d be so critical. And now I just have an affection for the show and for myself at the time. So I guess it’s more my perspective that I immediately experience. I just have a new appreciation for the show. I have a real affection for it. Obviously, it took up a lot of my life, so I hope I enjoy watching them, but I really have. I’ve enjoyed watching them more than I did before, so it’s kind of been a little bit of self-growth for myself to look at it,” Emily shared.

However, she added that there were some elements of the show she felt hadn’t aged particularly well.

“I also am seeing some difficult episodes that have some things that I don’t love in them. When episodes would deal with terrorism in a way and in a way that, looking back, I don’t love, and I’m not sure how I felt about at the time,” she explained. “It might have been uncomfortable. So we’re looking back in every way, with affection and also a bit of criticism. I think as a show as a whole, I don’t have a full perspective on it yet because we’ve just started rewatching them, but I would say, in general, I just have more of an affection for the show and I appreciate it even more now.”

Boneheads with Emily Deschanel and Carla Gallo (A Bones Rewatch Podcast) will be available starting July 17.

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