DEXTER
Does anyone else besides Racoon Boy watch or enjoy this show? My brother got me into it over the holidays and I've just blazed through all 24 episodes (two seasons, 3rd in the works).
Okay, for the unfamiliar, I'll paint the picture. Dexter is a likeable, borderline-genius, 30-something guy who works as a forensics investigator and blood spatter analyst for a police department homicide unit. Dexter is also a serial killer. For reasons that would serve as minor spoilers to the 2nd season if I wrote them, he was basically left emotionless as a child and raised by his adoptive cop father to always blend in, fake social interaction, and follow a code of taking out those who deserve it. Essentially, a somewhat-inadvertently yet well-trained serial killer who only kills other killers.
So each episode consists of Dexter hunting and brutally killing freed murderers and other "bad guys", hiding his own tracks from the PD, dealing with co-workers who have it in for him, faking and bumbling his way through relationships, developing and struggling with feelings and his personal identity, and following the season-long story arcs.
The Dexter character also narrates parts of the shows, in the sense that you hear what he's thinking, and it gets really witty and twisted. Sometimes he just doesn't have a clue, other times he's pondering who the hell he is and why, or how he's supposed to manage his priorities, and sometimes he just plain mind-rapes people.
Highly recommended. It's on Showtime which I believe is a specialty channel in the U.S., but yay for torrents. It's also got the best intro sequence to any show I can think of. The show was based on a novel, so the first season has some story elements that are cool when you see them but might seem a bit sappy in retrospect - I personally would have saved that story arc for the second or third season.
