38/37
He's lovable
Plot
He's smart. 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 wasn't always played by David Zayas. His son David Zayas Jr.
Featured in The 64th Annual Golden Globe Awards (2007)
stands in for his father in some shots, as the two look remarkably alike.. Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later, in season two, the scar has moved to his right side, leaving his left side unmarked. Over the years my eyes adjusted, until the darkness became my world and I could see..
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 someday rank with the likes of _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_ is one of the show’s producers and writers, and the cast includes Buffy / Angel mainstay Julie Benz). compass, and he has an unquenchable blood lust that drives him to kill. But he had the great grace of having been the adopted child of a police officer, who (as we see in terrific flashbacks) successfully instilled in him a complete moral code, which he adheres to on a strictly intellectual level.
I’ve seen the future of TV season structuring, and this is it
This is an utterly brilliant concept (which I assume derives from the novels it’s based on), one that allows the writers to explore the nature of moral behavior and of what it means to be human (Dexter is, in a sense , an alien); .Another thing the show is doing brilliantly is moving at different speeds in parallel. There’s a primary apparent season-long story arc (concerning a cat-and-mouse game between Dexter and a serial killer), and a secondary arc involving Dexter’s sister’s police career. The first handful of episodes include a very powerful completed arc concerning one of Dexter’s police colleagues and a local crime lord, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a self-contained story spliced among (and playing off) the ongoing ones. While the writing isn’t quite up to the brilliance of the best of _House_, it’s been excellent.
The cast and production are terrific
The only reason you wouldn’t want to watch this utterly brilliant show is the frequent use of extremely graphic images: 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 combined air. If you can stomach that, tune in for a mesmerizing look at what makes us human — or inhuman.
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