As mentioned in this MSNBC article the show Dexter is returning to Showtime on September 30th.
If someone had ever told me I would like a show, and root for, a man who is a serial killer, I would have said they are crazy. But Dexter defies most shows on television and, well, maybe you have to see it to believe it, but here is a show where you hope he never gets caught, but at the same time, you know that is wrong.
At any rate, very compelling television, and very much looking forward to seeing the new episodes!
I was totally not expecting to like this show but my husband convinced me to give it a try. It’s now one of my favorite shows and I’m really looking forward to the new season. Dexter is indeed the unlikeliest of heroes but that’s one of the things I like about this show the most. Other than the fact that it’s just really well done in general.
We in the UK are almost at the end of the 1st season - so I’m glad to hear another’s been made.
I’ve read both ‘Darkly Dreaming…’ and ‘Dearly Devoted…’ and I’m keen to see how the second series will be done - if in fact it is a version of ‘Dearly Devoted…’ They veered away from the 1st book considerably in some places, (Angel’s development; Paul being out of jail; the existence of a prosthetics expert) but foreshadowed the second book/series in others (that I won’t share) so well that a non book-based story could be possible.
The first season was pretty much a complete departure from the book seeing as how at the end of the first book LaGuerta was dead and the sister knew about Dexter. Elements from the second book also turned up in the first series, such as Doakes’ involvement with Special Ops. I really didn’t care for the ending of the second novel so I’m hoping that they veer very far away from it.
Book 3 DEXTER IN THE DARK was apparently released yesterday. I haven’t read any of them yet but I’ve wanted to ever since I read Entertainment Weekly’s review of the first.
I firmly agree with the second sentence, but you might want to get ready for a more focused view on their relationship. Dexter can’t just go undetected through the whole series. Every good protagonist needs a worthy antagonist. I’d rather it be a person like the “Ice man”, but I’ll take what they give me. Do you not get a kick out of the various clever ways that Dex manages to outwit Doakes?
I have high hopes for this season, and I don’t think that I’ll be let down.
I just finished watching the first season on DVD. I really liked it and watched it voraciously, but I had a few issues. In particular, I really dislike the idea of this cunning master criminal who constantly is able to do things like stalk Dexter during his actual killings, break into Dexter’s very-publically-visible-apartment, leave body parts in public, etc., without ever being seen or making a mistake or anything. It’s kind of like the generic slasher villain who always always ALWAYS gets the drop on the victim no matter what.
I also really disliked what they did with LaGuerta’s character, who spent the first 3 episodes being super-mean and super-dismissive to Deb for no apparent reason at all, and then suddenly was all sympathetic and right about everything. The show would have been better without all the office politics, imho.
Nonetheless, Dexter himself was a fascinating character… I loved him with his dad. And both the female leads (Rita and Deb) were quite interesting.
But then again, Dexter himself is a cunning master criminal who’s able to constantly stalk his victims, break into their homes and offices, etc. without being seen or caught (except of course by Rudy).
Except that what I’m objecting to is not the getting-drop-on-victims thing (after all, it wouldn’t be a very interesting series if Dexter tried to sneak up behind victim #7, but tripped and fell and got shot and died), but the extreme public-ness of Rudy’s stunts. Dexter goes way out of his way to do everything in total secrecy and his method for keeping the cops off of him is to never leave a body behind at all; and even so it’s odd that there’s never a mention of the disappearances of sometimes-fairly-prominent people. Rudy, on the other hand, takes the time to go into public places in a city that must be in some level of ice-truck-killer-awareness-hysteria and stack body parts in neat little piles. I realize there’s a fine distinction here, and of course the security guard at the ice rink got involved, but isn’t it pushing things a bit that not only is Rudy a master at limb-removal-and-blood-drainage, but he also knows how to flawlessly break into multi-million-dollar sports arenas and disable their security systems, and is so confident in his ability to get in and out of motel swimming pools undetected that he risks his life and freedom just to add an extra dramatic flourish to his murders?
(On the flip side, one of the generally stupid cliches in serial-killer-dramas is the idea that the killer will be sending personal messages to one particular detective, which started out bugging me in Dexter except that of course it ended up making perfect sense.)
There was a brief scene in one episode ( I forget which one it was) when Doakes and Dexter were walking past an office when an obviously distraught woman was being consoled by an officer that they would find her husband. Her husband was the one who molested boy scouts. Doakes asked Dexter if he got off on other people’s pain.
Well, the motel swimming pool was his first pile o’ parts, so there wasn’t any hysteria about the ITK at that point. The ice rink was his second pile o’ parts, and he didn’t disable the security system, at least not completely, because the police had the security tapes. He just wasn’t caught on tape. His third pile o’ parts was at Christmas Village, after the police had announced that the ITK was in custody which presumably would have led to a general community relaxation. The only other parts he left were bits of the security guard, and it can’t be that difficult to drop off something the size of a foot on a beach without attracting notice. Well, and that one woman’s body that he got after Dexter dumped her, but that was a different set of circumstances.
So no, to sum up, I don’t find the mechanics of Rudy’s actions to be all that much of a strain of credulity. And his stunts have to be big and public, because he’s doing them to attract Dexter’s attention.
Except that Dexter’s attention would be attracted just as well by body parts left in a backpack under a bench at the bus station, if they were drained of blood etc.
I’m glad to hear that the second season is not going to be about the book. I’ve only read the first, but I was shocked by how much more interesting the show is than the book. I’ll probably read the second book too, but it’s fine with me if the show isn’t anything like it, especially given how differently season one and book one ended.
Anyone see the new promo for this season that features “88 Lines…about 44 Women” by The Nails except it’s about all the people Dexter has killed? Probably the funniest promo I’ve ever seen…