My TV Shows

All of the TV shows I watch are actually the same show. Or at least, there could be three different story line within the same show. For example, a crime is committed.

Law enforcement (cue Stabler and Benson from Law and Order: SVU) get a call for a murder. They go to the crime scene and look at the body or interview the victim. CSI is called in (and we move from NYC to Vegas) and finds clues for the police.

If the body is too mangled or too decomposed for normal CSIs, its transported to the Jeffersonian (the flagship lab of Bones) and more analysis is done.

Then, Stabler and Benson, along with Special Agent Booth, come back to interrogate the perp and he or she gets arrested. Then, law (and possibly order) takes over again and someone goes to jail.

For those of you unfamiliar with these shows, Bones, Law and Order, and CSI are actually three different shows that feed (and maybe copy) off of one another. I watch them fairly regularly and generally I enjoy them. But I'm starting to notice a lot of overlap. The unrealistic nature of all these shows is also starting to wear thin with me. For example:

a. Each worker in the lab is ridiculously talented in multiple areas of investigation.

They can do fingerprints, bugs, DNA, handwriting analysis, shoe print identification, ballistics, tire track comparisons and anything else you want to throw in. Every person seems to know how to do all of these things though. Very unrealistic.

b. Everyone is ridiculously hot.

L and O may have some less-than-smokin' employees on deck (Munch, Ice-T), but the main characters are easy on the eyes. Most of the people on Bones are good looking (and subsequently, are all sleeping with each other). CSI also features mainly attractive people (except for Captain Brass, which is why he didn't make the cut for the above photo).

c. 95% of cases are solved in one episode.

In a matter of only days, each case is neatly bundled in a package that is handed to a lawyer, who tries the case immediately. Bad guys go to jail. The next cases rolls in just in time for the proceeding show. In the real justice system, some of these people may be in jail for years before they even go to trial. We have some very expedient justice on the TV shows.

I guess none of these points are really all that original, but if you've ever watched any of these shows, hopefully this will hit home. Just throw in some real-life crime shows here and you've got an excellent, crime-filled TV marathon.