I have never gone out and bought a season of a television series after catching just the pilot on free to air.
Now that show is Dexter. My new favourite show. Right up there with Heroes.
Dexter is a great guy. He's smart, funny, kind and charming.
He has a great job working as a blood splatter technician. He is well off and well, life should be grand for a guy like him.
Except it's all bullshit. Dexter feels nothing. He's a sociopath. A serial killer who has been hardcoded by his foster father to only target other killers. People who have also gotten away with murder.
It would be great to call him a crusader for justice. But that's crap. He kills these people because he has to. It is his calling.
Having no feelings , he only fits in by mime. He pretends to care. To laugh. To be normal.
On paper this all seems so thin.
But God, this is the best thing Ive watched in a long time.
And watching him finally get his victims. I feel dirty for cheering on a character so morally disjointed as he is.
But it is so much damned fun!






