Dexter
August 25th, 2006
Heather Havrilesky’s roundup of this autumn’s US TV drama premieres includes three shows I’m very much interested in. Obviously there’s Aaron Sorkin’s Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. Then there’s NBC’s new superheroes-sans-spandex show Heroes, which sounds like a cross between Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan’s Demo and J Michael Straczynski’s Rising Stars.
And then there’s a show I’d heard not a word about, Dexter:
Show: Showtime’s “Dexter”
Stars: Michael C. Hall
Premise: Ultra-creepy forensics expert murders people who’ve committed crimes and gotten away with it.
See Also: What’s he going to do with that hand saw?
Why Watch? Extremely original: It’s as if David of “Six Feet Under” went nuts and turned into that creepy guy who tortured him.
Why Skip It? A hero who delights in torturing and murdering people? Thrillingly perverse, but who has the stomach for it?
I do hope Dexter makes it over to the right side of the pond. It’d make a nice double-bill with one of the CSI shows.
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