40/49
Narrative
He’s smart
He’s adorable. He’s Dexter Morgan, America’s favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them. During season 8, Angel Batista was not always played by David Zayas. His son David Zayas Jr. fills in for his father in some scenes, as the two look remarkably similar.
Presented at the 64th Golden Globe Awards (2007)
Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later in season 2, the scar has moved to his right side, leaving his left side unmarked. Dexter Morgan: I’ve lived in darkness for a long time. Over the years, my eyes have adjusted, until the darkness became my world and I could see. Main ThemeWritten by Rolfe KentActor: Rolfe Kent.
Greenberg, and the cast includes Buffy/Angel star Julie Benz)
After four episodes, I am ready to proclaim that this is the best television show currently on the air, one that may one day rank with the likes of _The Sopranos_ and the first season of _Twin Peaks_ as a contender for the second-best television 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 has the great grace of having been the adopted son of a police officer, who (as we see in the fantastic flashbacks) successfully instilled in him a thorough moral code, to which he adheres on a strictly intellectual level. This is an absolutely brilliant concept (which I assume comes 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 way, an alien). Another thing the show is doing brilliantly is moving at different speeds in parallel.
The cast and production are fantastic
There’s a season-long primary story arc (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 include a very strong full-length story arc about one of Dexter’s fellow cops and a local crime boss, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a stand-alone story sandwiched between (and separate from) the ongoing story. stories. I’ve seen the future of TV season structuring, and this is it. While the writing isn’t quite up to the best of _House_, it’s still excellent.
If you can handle it, tune in for a fascinating look at what makes us human or inhuman
The only reason you wouldn’t want to watch this absolutely brilliant show is the frequent use of extremely graphic images: there were probably more severed body parts shown in these first four episodes than in the first four episodes of every other television show on the planet. .air combined.
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