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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. replaces his father in some shots, as the two look remarkably similar.
Featured at The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007)
Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later, in the second season, the scar has moved to his right side, leaving his left side unmarked. Dexter Morgan: I’ve lived in the dark for a long time. Over the years, my eyes adjusted, until the darkness became my world and I could see. Main Theme Written by Rolfe Kent Performed by Rolfe Kent.
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After four episodes, I’m ready to proclaim this to be the best show on television today, one that may one day stand up to The Sopranos and the first season of Twin Peaks as a contender for 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 with no human feelings and therefore no 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 police officer, who (as we see in fantastic flashbacks) successfully instilled in him an entire moral code, which he adheres to on a strictly intellectual level. This is an absolutely brilliant concept (which I assume derives 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 sense, an alien). Another thing the series is doing brilliantly is moving at different speeds in parallel.
The cast and production are fantastic
There’s one 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 the police career of Dexter’s sister. The first handful of episodes include a very powerful full-length story arc about one of Dexter’s police colleagues and a local crime lord, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a standalone story sandwiched between (and playing off of) the ongoing ones. I’ve seen the future of structuring TV seasons, and this is it. While the writing doesn’t quite live 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 imagery: there have probably been 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.
If you can stomach that, tune in for a mesmerizing look at what makes us human
or inhuman.