Dexter

[abracanabra]

Dexter is a new Showtime series about a serial killer that preys exclusively on other serial killers. The premise is that he was adopted by a cop who caught him at the killing-small-animals stage and molded him into a "good" serial killer. Now he works for the police as a blood splatter expert and moonlights as a serial killer that preys on his own kind. The first two episodes can be seen for free on the Showtime website.

I love it!

I have a certain weakness for serial killer fiction and movies, I'll confess, and Dexter, in his struggles to imitate humanity and to follow the code his adopted father taught him, is an extremely likeable serial killer.

I don't know if Showtime will continue to put up episodes on their website, but I rather doubt it.... So I'm asking, does anybody get Showtime who would be willing to allow me to use it to watch Dexter in some fashion???

Comments

This is sick...

[chadvalentine.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't seen the show, but let's be honest--

Anything that tries to humanize these kinds of animals or put them in a sympathetic light is WRONG. I don't care if this sick concept called Dexter is out there hunting other killers and donating their organs to orphans, it's still a human killing other humans without judge or jury.

It's wrong. Anything to glorify it is wrong.

Re: This is sick...

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

Bah. It's actually a really good show (judging from the 2 episodes that I just watched anyway). Discrediting it because it's about a serial killer is like discrediting Lolita because it's about a pedophile. I mean, it's no Nabokov but it's got a beat and you can dance to it. Or something to that effect.

Re: This is sick...

[chadvalentine.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but Lolita didn't try to justify the protagonist's actions...also, may I point out that what he was doing was criminal and he knew it, he becomes a murderer, and dies in prison at the end.

I suppose I should at least watch the show before I damn it like this. I'm turning into an old man. I just can't believe that it has any artistic value, besides shock value anyway.

Re: This is sick...

[brent-woodfill.livejournal.com]

I disagree--Nabokov does "get inside" Humbert's head and justify his pedophilia to a large degree--he's the "good" pedophile who is set up against an "evil" one, whom he ends up killing in the end, which is what gets him in jail--not his penchant for young girls.

But back to Dexter--you should watch it 'cause it's entertaining. And on right now, incidentally, although I don't have Showtime.

Re: This is sick...

[chadvalentine.livejournal.com]

which is what gets him in jail--not his penchant for young girls.

True, of course, I hadn't made that clear enough.

I don't have Showtime either--gave it up after they cancelled Dead Like Me (which started to go south toward the end anyway).

Re: This is sick...

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

Huh...I wouldn't have thought you were the type to have problems with the Evil, Depraved Entertainment Industry.... There's so much stuff worse than this out there.

Also, I did not see it as glorifying.

Re: This is sick...

[chadvalentine.livejournal.com]

I've got nothing against the entertainment industry. Over my lifetime, for example, I've spent lots of money for Warner Brothers and Marvel Entertainment.

I think you do see it as glorifying a little bit--i.e. the term "good serial killer". I wonder if the show was about a "good" rapist (i.e. a someone who revenge rapes) or a "good" child molester ('only' molests child molester's siblings or children) if anyone would say differrent.