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

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).