26/18
Plot
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 the eighth season, Angel Batista was not always played by David Zayas. His son David Zayas Jr.
Dexter Morgan: I have lived in darkness for a long time
fills in for his father in some scenes, as the two look remarkably alike.. Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later in the second season, the scar has moved to the right side, leaving the left side unmarked.. Over the years my eyes have adjusted, until the darkness became my world and I could see..
Appeared at the 64th Golden Globe Awards (2007)
Main ThemeWritten by Rolfe KentPerformed by Rolfe Kent. After four episodes, I’m ready to proclaim this the best show currently on TV, one that may one day rank with series like _The Sopranos_ and the first season of _Twin Peaks_ as a contender for the second-best TV show ever (after the incomparable _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_; one of the show’s producers and writers is former Buffy writer Drew Z. Greenberg, and the cast includes Buffy/Angel mainstay Julie Benz). Dexter is a sociopath, someone without human feelings and therefore no natural internal moral compass, and he has an insatiable bloodlust that drives him to kill.
Another thing the show is doing brilliantly is moving at different speeds in parallel
But he has had the great grace of being the adopted son of a police officer, who (as we see in fantastic flashbacks) has 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 on which it’s based), allowing the writers to explore the nature of moral behavior and what it means to be human (Dexter is, in a way, an alien). There’s a season-long apparent primary story arc (involving a game of cat-and-mouse between Dexter and a serial killer) and a secondary story arc involving Dexter’s sister’s career as a cop. The first handful of episodes include a very powerful full-length story arc involving one of Dexter’s police colleagues and a local crime boss, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a standalone story sandwiched between (and tying into) the ongoing ones.
The cast and production are fantastic
I’ve seen the future of TV season structuring, and this is it. While the writing isn’t quite up to the brilliance of 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 images: there’s probably more amputated body parts shown in these first four episodes than in the first four episodes of every other television show on the air combined. If you can stomach it, tune in for a mesmerizing look at what makes us human, or inhuman.