Murder shows

Finally, a new post!! Wow! 
This post will cover the subject of murder shows. "Murder shows" is my affectionate name for a series of crime dramas/procedurals that involve, well, murder, usually. However, these shows are not of the Dexter/Hannibal type, where the murderer is in a way, the protagonist. Sort of. I guess. I've never watched Dexter and only have watched a little of Hannibal which was not too recently. But regardless. You probably get the point. These shows depict some variety of law enforcement trying to solve the murder(s) and obtain justice (in the case of the Law and Order shows) for whoever has gotten murdered/is the victim of some other type of crime during the course of an episode. 

Over the summer, which is defined as the time period between late May (sorry for not having a specific, exact date) to August 28, 2016, I watched, to the best of my calculations/knowledge, 118 episodes of various murder shows. The shows I watched include Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order original flavor and Criminal Minds. I did probably watch a very few episodes here and there of other crime shows, but those are insignificant. Over the course of about 90 days (three months), I managed to watch 118 episodes. This ends up being a little over one episode per day. Some days I didn't watch any episodes and other days I watched many episodes, so the actual watching was not spread out nice and equally as one episode and some per day. 

I think it was sort of interesting to have kept track of the episodes that I watched since it isn't really a thing that a person would think to keep track of, unlike, perhaps, how many calories they eat in a day or something like that. I sort of wish that upon starting to watch these shows from the beginning that I had kept up a count of however many deaths occurred in each episode, but alas, that did not come to my mind months ago when I started watching Law and Order. It would be interesting though, to have a list of how many deaths/murders per episode and perhaps the method of each murder so after having the data for all the episodes, I could analyze what the most common method of murder overall is in the show and also perhaps if some seasons ended up being more homicidal than others. I did once read an article that compared the fictional murder rates in a few shows set in New York City to the actual murder rate that year, and that was interesting. The fictional murder rate was much higher than the actual murder rate. 

An aside is that I feel that I may sometime in the not too distant future grow bored of the show Criminal Minds. It doesn't have the depth of the Law and Order shows and is rather poorly written in some places/episodes compared to Law and Order. The characters in Criminal Minds seem to somehow lack a quality that the characters in Law and Order have. I can't quite put my finger on it exactly, but I think it's something having to do with the occupational chemistry of the characters in their respective groups of people they work with. I can't really say exactly. I wonder if other people who have watched these shows as well have also noticed such a thing. I've gotten to the middle of season 6 of Criminal Minds and I'm not sure that I'll be able to finish it and watch all the way through the... 11? 12? seasons it has in total. We'll just have to wait and see.