Terrible Tuesday it is and be it nearly 6am in the morning I just finished watching the newest episode of the critically acclaimed “Dexter” which airs on Showtime and is already in its fourth season. First let me get this out of the way before I even explain what this show means to me personally. The acting in this movie is solid, but the main characters acting is great, let me repeat, Michael C. Hall (Dexter) is the first actor that has ever taken me on a journey that almost makes me care more about his life circumstances than my own, or better yet, when watching this show I become Dexter Morgan.On top of having superb actors, “Dexter” has a storyline to kill for. Dexter Morgan is your everyday serial killer except he kills with a code in mind instilled at an early age from his father. Simply put, the code is a boundary that tells Dexter to make sure that he only kills the guilty, the murderers who have yet to be caught or put away. If you may have somehow knew already that Dexter is in fact a killing bounty hunter, well this show deals with much more than just that, it deals with Dexter as he often questions his fathers code, childhood, job, friends, family, his own victims, and even his own secret. In fact, much of the commentary you hear happens to be his thoughts as a moment is happening. “Dexter” finds a way to balance dark comedy and seriousness it seems at all times, and hardly ever skips a beat in each episode where at the end you will find yourself yearning to know what is going to happen now, or asking “how does he get out of this one?”
Dexter calls himself “The Dark Passenger” because his need to kill is actually his inner self that he’s not sure sure he can stop. The psychological aspect of this show between right and wrong, good and evil, habits, urges, and even family life actually easily relates to ones own life. If Dexter could stop his need to kill, he would…Dexter wonders why he is so different than everyone else…Deb, Dexter’s sister has deep emotional problems she fights…these issues actually relate to us on an emotional level because we can understand them, well except for the need to kill but you know what I mean.
“Dexter certainly isn’t a show for the weak of heart, or anyone that has trouble dismissing multiple ”F bombs” thrown out by Deb at all times but it is a show that has the ability to make the audience feel personally involved as they follow Dexter Morgans life and begin to feel empathy towards him and agree with his code. Luckily for anyone that hasn’t seen Dexter, there are three (awesome) seasons out on DVD where you can non-stop watch Dexter without having to wait week by week to see what happens next, unless you get to season 4 of course.
