Bones is terrible. The plots are far too simplistic and contrived, and the premise that the titular character is frighteningly intelligent yet incapable of figuring out social niceties is unrealistic, especially since they haven’t stipulated that she’s borderline autistic/Asperger’s (which would be a nice twist if they could explore it seriously and not play it for laughs).
IMHO, go with Babylon 5, which is well thought-out since it was intended as a multi-year story. It’s a bit slow at the start, but really gets going in seasons 2 and 3, and has some very conservative (and relevant) political themes.
In your humble opinion, you say?
The only problem with 'Bones' for me is that the original premise has now been worked fully. The show needs to step up, which I think is the plan. And I am not sure that intelligence is mapped correlatively with social intuition. The premise always was that Dr. Brennan had been put into the foster system as a teenager and withdrew emotionally for the next 15 years. Only when she partnered up with Booth, an exceptionally skilled and personable man with a tremendous sense of charity, that she started learning the nuances we all take so much for granted.