Dexter - Season 2
Jul
My most recently favoured series, Dexter (based on the novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” - also worth a read), is back for its second season in the UK. I’d highly recommend a look if, like me, you’re a fan of dark humour, intelligent plotlines and a cast worth their weight in gold.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the series, Dexter, named after the program’s protagonist Dexter Morgan, is based around the life of a blood spatter pattern analyst who, in his spare time, doubles up as a serial killer. Of course, there’s always a twist - in this case, Dexter is a “conciencious” serial killer - only killing people who he classifies as evil - and proceeds throughout the series to silently remove murderer, after rapist, after psychopath from the streets of Miami.
As always, I won’t give too much away - other than to say that the series dives straight in and continues the pace of the first series perfectly. Be warned - the series isn’t for the faint of heart, especially those who find the sight of blood disturbing, and the humour can be incredibly dry - if you’re easily bored, you may find the effort a little much at some points.
Dexter starts on FX on the 6th July - if like me you can’t wait that long, I’m reliably informed that there are torrents of the season available across the internet.
enjoy.

July 7th, 2008 at 10:01 am
I really want to get into this show - everyone keeps telling me how great it is, but every single time I sit down to watch it, I get interrupted about five minutes in!
The first five minutes of the first ever episode doesn’t paint a pretty picture of the main character either. Although we don’t actually see it, he ruthlessly murders a child molester and you’d expect that in a series like this, what with him being a vigilante of sorts, that he doesn’t get any enjoyment out of ridding the world of these evil people, but in this series, he seems to get quite a lot of enjoyment out of it!
Everyone seems to love it though, so I’ll give it another shot as soon as I can!