Dexter

Some of my good friends have watched this show for years. I thought for quite sometime that the show was too dark for me and we do have many choices to watch. This weekend with some free time my wife had the first season on DVD so we decided to watch a few episodes.

The show is dark. Dexter played by Micheal C Hall is a blood splatter forensic specialist with the Miami police department. He also is a serial killer. When the show beings we see him taking his next victim. Dexter kills and then slices and dices.

The twist is that Dexter is not evil Persay. Dexter kills those that need to be killed. Those that have been not caught or convicted by our justice system. Those that get off. Those that are however guilty.

Hall does a great job with the role. In the first four episodes he has taken out a few bad guys while playing cat and mouse with a serial killer. He has a girlfriend and as much as he likes her he is not comfortable with sexuality and considers it a blessing she does not want sex either due to her past with an abusive husband. This changes in episode four when she kneels for a moment and surprises him.

In flashback we see Dexter as a young man with his adopted father, a police officer and his adoptive father's understanding of Dexter's unique habit leads to some of Dexter's methods.

I do not know what this show says about us, if it is supposed to mean anything. I know that we all like the idea of justice being served without the hinderences which sometimes seem to get in the way. Still one hopes that no one out there thinks that this is a viable way to deal with people they feel our guilty.

For guilty pleasure however one could do worse than this show.