Dexter

[soul]

Love this show, I temporarily have Showtime, but I'm loving every minute of this show.

[satellite]

I don't have any premium channels right now as I'm trying to save money, but I saw the Dexter pilot and really liked it. I'm definitely Netflixing the DVDs when they come out. I'm all about serial killer stuff, especially the intelligent Hannibal Lecter types.

If anyone has Cablevision, there's a Showtime Sampler page in the Free On Demand section. It has the premiere episodes of Showtime's shows but edited for nudity and language, plus the teaser stuff.

I'm curious about Dexter and the girlfriend. Does he really enjoy her companionship (as much as he can, anyway) or is she more like a beard so he doesn't come off as a creepy loner? He doesn't really care about sex or emotional intimacy, and it seems that at some point the relationship is going to progress beyond his capacities.

[Ripley]

satellite said:

I'm curious about Dexter and the girlfriend. Does he really enjoy her companionship (as much as he can, anyway) or is she more like a beard so he doesn't come off as a creepy loner? He doesn't really care about sex or emotional intimacy, and it seems that at some point the relationship is going to progress beyond his capacities.

As I said earlier, I only read the books, but my memory is that it is so he doesn't come off as a creepy loner. Dexter's father (is he an adoptive father in the TV series too?) teaches him all about the mistakes that serial killers make, so Dexter can avoid getting caught.

Another issue that comes up at the end of the second book is the following (skip the rest of this if you don't want any chances of spoilers): The girlfriend in the book has two kids, and towards the end, Dexter discovers the same tendencies in them that his father discovered in him. It looks like Dexter will be able to properly train some pupils himself. Therefore, Dexter may end up staying with the girlfriend to help with the children.

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What Ripley said.

I get that Dexter's smart enough to realize that at the moment it's a win-win situation, and he genuinely likes his girlfriend and her kids, but now that she's pushing, however tenuously and with great personal difficulty, the physicality thing, he's going to run into his own physical-intimacy problems. But I don't think that he's using her in a selfish, craven way, just that, hey, win-win.

It was so great in the last episode when Dexter's dad coaches him in the subtle tricks he can use to fool people into believing he's fitting in. You can see a concerned dad doing that to help his son, socially, and also a creepy dad who's doing that to help his on-the-edge son escape detection.

[jilly]

I'm really enjoying the show too. It's good to see that they have stayed so true to the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter. I'll have to read the follow-up one. I hope this show stays around for awhile, though it might not be everyone's cup of tea. I'm like satellite, finding serial killers fascinating.

I'm glad to see James Remar as the father. He's still hot.

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Is anyone still watching this? Because they, like, should be. It's getting better and more twisted every week. This week's episode was not just directed by the talented and ubersexy Tony Goldwyn, but he made a delightfully sick-fuck shrink who manipulated his powerful-women clients to shoot themselves in the head. "You're a mean one, Mister Shrink."

And Dexter and his girlfriend finally have sex -- and it's good! And Dex's sister has found love... in the (still-attached) arms of the Ice Truck Killer. So nightmarishly weird and sick. I love it. And I really love how Miami has never looked more stormy, more turbulent and hallucinatory.

Is it just me, or has there been a bit of a mini-revolution in television, starting with HBO, of course, and now permeating other cable networks and even broadcast TV: programming for... {gasp} adults?

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This is definitely one of the best new shows of the season. Each episode is better than the last. Sunday's episode was incredible.

I figured that the guy that they arrested as the Ice Truck Killer was a poseur, but I hadn't yet figured out who it really was. After the reveal it made perfect sense.

[Britty]

I figured that the guy that they arrested as the Ice Truck Killer was a poseur, but I hadn't yet figured out who it really was. After the reveal it made perfect sense.

I was pretty sure that it was the Dr. I was a little surprised that they revealed it to us this week. I cannot stand Deb. I keep hoping that she'll get the Ice Truck treatment now that she's bangin' him.

Michael C. Hall is fantastic as Dexter. He just gets better and better every week.

[marleigh]

britty said:

I figured that the guy that they arrested as the Ice Truck Killer was a poseur, but I hadn't yet figured out who it really was. After the reveal it made perfect sense.

I was pretty sure that it was the Dr. I was a little surprised that they revealed it to us this week. I cannot stand Deb. I keep hoping that she'll get the Ice Truck treatment now that she's bangin' him.

Michael C. Hall is fantastic as Dexter. He just gets better and better every week.

I am so enjoying this show. I too figured that the ice truck killer was the doctor. I'm surprised that he can fake passion and caring as well as he does with Debra. I mean, for someone to hang a person upside down, drain them of all their blood and then cut them into pieces, well they have to be a little different. He fakes "normal" much better than even Dexter does. Very Ted Bundy-ish.

I find myself rooting for Dexter to find that normal life with his girlfriend, yet at the same time I want him to knock off her creepy husband.

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The writing in this show is so good that I've found myself sympathetic and somewhat liking the two serial killers while I find Paul, a run of the mill asshole, repugnant.