Relationship Dysfunctions in Crime Shows: CSI:LV

I recently posted Culture Comes From Individuals. To sum up: 

Shows, genres, movies, franchises attract particular and specific writers and directors, crew members and cast members. Together, they create a work with a certain aura/theme/look.

What the above means here is that particular shows will promote certain types of relationship problems.

Crime shows rely on all kinds of reasons for murder--the genre calls for it--but different shows emphasize different reasons. CSI:LV, for instance, tended to emphasize relationship problems rooted in jealousy: the husband who was jealous of the wife's ability at hiking; the wife who killed her ex-boyfriend's current girlfriend years earlier out of jealous possessiveness (then married the oblivious boyfriend); the boyfriend who died in a bus crash while chasing after his girlfriend because he was jealous of her time and attention. 

Jealousy not of an affair but of a man's second family results in a bomb; a wife's jealousy incites her to kill the wrong woman; an onlooker's jealousy of a relationship ends in a terrible rollercoaster accident; a husband kills his wife, not because she cheated on him but because he is sure that eventually she must.

It isn't that CSI didn't use other plot lines--or that spouses are only killed over jealousy. It is that the writers showed a penchant for plots where jealousy, as an overriding emotion, worked as a motive.

Jealousy may seem an obvious theme in relationship murder mysteries but surprisingly enough not all mystery shows use it to the same degree as CSI:LV. To follow, Law & Order: Criminal Intent...