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October 3rd 2006 10:17
Now here’s an oxymoron for you- a serial killing forensic scientist. Think Gil Grissom on the rampage (ha, now wouldn’t that make must-watch TV?)
That’s basically the premise of the extremely original new US show Dexter, based on a novel called “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”. You gotta love American cable.
“My name is Dexter. Dexter Morgan. I don’t know what made me the way I am, but whatever it was, it left a hollow place inside. People fake human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well. And that’s my burden I guess. I don’t blame my foster parents for that… They did a great job raising me… But they’re both dead now.
“I didn’t kill them. Honest.”
Dexter lives in the somewhat appropriate setting of Miami, which we've seen as both eerie and sexy on Nip Tuck and CSI: Miami. He works as a blood splatter analyst and secretly describes himself as ‘empty inside.’ By day, he is a charismatic guy who gets along with all of his co-workers and his foster sibling Debra. By night, he stalks his victims, and plans out their murders in intricate detail. In case you were wondering what could possibly be his motivation, his victims are sadistic criminals themselves who have managed to escape the law, and he’s enacting vigilante-style revenge. Ever since he was a child, Dexter has been overcome with the urge to kill, and a series of flashbacks reveal that it was his foster father who taught him to channel his urges on those who ‘deserve it.’
It’s definitively an interesting twist on the boring old forensic show formula, which seems to have been done ad nauseum these days. The fact that the show is from a psychotic killer’s point of view makes it oh-so creepy and compelling at the same time, and it certainly doesn’t shy away from the gruesome- which I’m expecting to get much worse than it has been so far.
The main actor (Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under) does a terrific job. His detached narration makes him very sociopathic, but there’s also something strangely vulnerable about him that should be interesting to unravel. Plus there is the mystery of his true origins, and the things his birth parents must have done to him to make him the way he is.
Julie Benz (from Buffy and Angel fame) as his shy girlfriend Rita, and Jennifer Carpenter as his ambitious but low-on-self-esteem foster sister, are perhaps his only real ties to humanity, and it will be interesting to see if they manage to expose some caring underbelly, or if he really is just as empty as he says he is.
*image taken from tv.com
That’s basically the premise of the extremely original new US show Dexter, based on a novel called “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”. You gotta love American cable.
“My name is Dexter. Dexter Morgan. I don’t know what made me the way I am, but whatever it was, it left a hollow place inside. People fake human interactions, but I feel like I fake them all. And I fake them very well. And that’s my burden I guess. I don’t blame my foster parents for that… They did a great job raising me… But they’re both dead now.
“I didn’t kill them. Honest.”
Dexter lives in the somewhat appropriate setting of Miami, which we've seen as both eerie and sexy on Nip Tuck and CSI: Miami. He works as a blood splatter analyst and secretly describes himself as ‘empty inside.’ By day, he is a charismatic guy who gets along with all of his co-workers and his foster sibling Debra. By night, he stalks his victims, and plans out their murders in intricate detail. In case you were wondering what could possibly be his motivation, his victims are sadistic criminals themselves who have managed to escape the law, and he’s enacting vigilante-style revenge. Ever since he was a child, Dexter has been overcome with the urge to kill, and a series of flashbacks reveal that it was his foster father who taught him to channel his urges on those who ‘deserve it.’
It’s definitively an interesting twist on the boring old forensic show formula, which seems to have been done ad nauseum these days. The fact that the show is from a psychotic killer’s point of view makes it oh-so creepy and compelling at the same time, and it certainly doesn’t shy away from the gruesome- which I’m expecting to get much worse than it has been so far.
The main actor (Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under) does a terrific job. His detached narration makes him very sociopathic, but there’s also something strangely vulnerable about him that should be interesting to unravel. Plus there is the mystery of his true origins, and the things his birth parents must have done to him to make him the way he is.
Julie Benz (from Buffy and Angel fame) as his shy girlfriend Rita, and Jennifer Carpenter as his ambitious but low-on-self-esteem foster sister, are perhaps his only real ties to humanity, and it will be interesting to see if they manage to expose some caring underbelly, or if he really is just as empty as he says he is.
*image taken from tv.com
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