Bones treasured its lingering camera shots on insect-infested corpses and decaying body parts.
As network TV crime procedurals go, Bones was never the darkest or most intense.
That putrescence was usually some combination of gross and funny for viewers, and it seems the cast themselves had those same emotions while they were filming.
My grandmother never had to stop watching, for example, because it was affecting her sleep too much (true story, shoutout Criminal Minds), but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t often very disgusting in its own way.