David Boreanaz

...David Boreanaz is amazing in the Fox series’ second season, says Ken Tucker. Plus: EW’s editor at large gives other reasons to live this week. Watching the Bones costar radiate seemingly effortless cool in the series’ new season gives Tucker a Reason To Live this week

David Boreanaz in Bones

Fox, Wednesdays, 8-9 p.m.

The focus of the show remains, of course, on Emily Deschanel’s beautifully odd, perpetually quizzical features - she’s one of the few TV-series actors who can convey pensive thought without looking as though she’s trying to remember her Whole Foods shopping list. But in the series’ second season, premiering Aug. 30, Boreanaz achieves a whole new level of serene insouciance: He seems so relaxed, so confident in his ability to charm you, that he’s morphed into a glorious cross between Dean Martin and George Clooney. Few actors are as much fun to watch delivering even the most commonplace crime-show dialogue.