15/45
It’s clever
It’s adorable. It’s about Dexter Morgan, America’s favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them. During Season 8, Angel Batista wasn’t always played by David Zayas. His son David Zayas Jr. replaces his father in some shots, as the two look remarkably similar.
Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later in the second season, the scar moved to his right side, leaving his left side intact. Dexter Morgan: I lived in darkness for a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted, until darkness became my world and I could see. Main Theme Written by Rolfe Kent Performed by Rolfe Kent.
After four episodes, I’m ready to proclaim this the best show on television today, a show that could one day rank with The Sopranos and the first season of Twin Peaks as a contender for the title of second-best TV show of all time (after the incomparable Buffy the Vampire Slayer; one of the show’s producers and writers is former Buffy writer Drew Z. Dexter is a sociopath, someone without human feelings and therefore without a natural internal moral compass, and he has an insatiable bloodlust that drives him to kill. But he had the great grace of having been the adopted son of a cop who (as we see in fantastic flashbacks) managed to instill in him a complete moral code, to which he adheres on a strictly intellectual level. It’s an absolutely brilliant concept (which I suspect derives from the novels it’s based on), allowing the writers to explore the nature of moral behavior and what it means to be human (Dexter is, in a sense, an alien). Another thing the show does brilliantly is move at different speeds in parallel.
There’s a main story arc that seems to last the entire season (about a cat-and-mouse game between Dexter and a serial killer) and a secondary arc involving Dexter’s sister’s police career. The first handful of episodes feature a very powerful full-length story about one of Dexter’s fellow cops and a local crime lord, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a standalone story sandwiched between (and playing with) the ongoing ones. I’ve seen the future of how TV seasons are structured, and this is it. While the writing isn’t quite up to the best of House , it’s been excellent. The only reason you wouldn’t want to watch this absolutely brilliant show is the frequent use of extremely graphic imagery – there were probably more severed body parts shown in these first four episodes than in the first four episodes of every other TV show on the air combined.
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