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damnitsteve:
Just wondering if there were any fans of Dexter out there. Season 2 was definitely the best thing I have ever seen on TV in a long time, but since I am too cheap to pay for Showtime, I can't say how Season 3 is going.

Anyone else watch this absolute gem of a show?

Inlander:
I've watched the first season two or three times. Haven't seen the second yet.

It's pretty good, I guess, but the more I watch it the more it seems that they're pretty shaky on the whole "emotionless psychopath" thing. Like all those times in Dexter's internal monologue when he's fretting about being revealed to his girlfriend and her kids because he's come to care about them or some shit. Um, what? Sorry, you can't say your character's an emotional black-hole one scene and then having him getting all gooey over his girlfriend the next. Some of the other writing is pretty iffy, too: like that bit when he's talking about how much he likes eating bananas while he drives. Who gives a fuck? That isn't some kind of darkly humorous insight into the banality and monstrousness that co-exist within Dexter's twisted mind, it's just banal and should never have made it through the second draft of the script.

Still, cool idea for a show.

KvP:
I think the point is that Dexter is a supremely unreliable narrator. He understands himself about as well as the audience understands him.

It's a fun enough show, but I highly doubt they'll be able to pull this shit off for another 2 seasons on top of this one. It can either repeat itself or get increasingly more ridiculous, 24 style. Seems like the writers are content to repeat themselves. The seasons seem to more or less revolve around someone discovering Dexter's double life and then getting offed in the season finale.

Also, any scenes without Dexter are uniformly awful.

Eris:
Well they are based off a series of books, so it depends on how repetitive the books they're working off are, I guess.

I watched the first season and enjoyed it. The twist ending was a bit clichéd, with est saying that something like that probably would happen when we were about halfway through the season. I am a bit sceptical about watching the following seasons, so I don't know if I will watch them. Might try out the books, though.

AanAllein:

--- Quote from: Eris on 03 Nov 2008, 01:23 ---Well they are based off a series of books, so it depends on how repetitive the books they're working off are, I guess.

I watched the first season and enjoyed it. The twist ending was a bit clichéd, with est saying that something like that probably would happen when we were about halfway through the season. I am a bit sceptical about watching the following seasons, so I don't know if I will watch them. Might try out the books, though.

--- End quote ---

I'm under the impression the second season has no basis whatsoever in the books. A lot of the first season was based on the novel (again, apparently) but it had a substantially different ending in the novel, and they've fleshed out a lot of the side characters.

This show is really schizophrenic in my mind. Dexter is a great, if occasionally misused character, but the other characters are so often very poorly written and/or acted. Like, whoever plays Deb is just a bad actress, and she is far from alone. But I still watch the show because, all these flaws aside, Dexter himself is a great character. It's just sad how often the show dips into cliché

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