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Hmmm… do random NA sponsors usually get invited into morgues to finger bodies?

Dexter is a fabulous series, but as a cop drama there are always sizable irregularities, like the pictured scene involving Dexter and a woman who he happens to invite into a make-shift morgue filled with body parts from the Bay Harbor Butcher. Call me crazy, and I’ll be the first to say that I am not, nor have I ever been a cop on the Miami police force, but it seems like it would be against procedure to let Jane Average have her way with the evidence. Luckily, this is hardly a cop show despite most of the main characters being cops or working for the MPD, so it seems OK to let things like this slide. Dexter is a show about self discovery, and sometimes the key to figuring things out is to hang out with a crazy artist into body parts. More after the jump…

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Working the program.

The award for most brilliant narrative choice so far on Showtime’s serial killer drama Dexter goes to putting the titular character in a twelve-step program. First of all, it eliminated the one “this is ridiculous, why is it still going on” thread from last season with Doakes following Mr. Morgan to figure out “just what that guy is up to” — despite the ease at which this all seemed to wrap itself up (I ain’t complaining). More after the jump…

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I feel last season I was perhaps a tad overly critical of Dexter, Showtime’s surprisingly engrossing serial-killer drama. I got on board late and was forced to catch up over the course of a weekend having read all of this press about how brilliant and edgy the show was. Maybe my expectations were too high, or perhaps I secretly didn’t believe anything of cultural consequence to be shown on Showtime. By the season’s end I was a fan, but still had reservations. The supporting cast was too flat, and the season’s big revelation carried so much emotional weight I doubted they could ever find a story that would be even close to approaching the level of personal intimacy achieved. Going into this new season, I’m extremely optimistic, not the least of which is due to the very awesome Dexter posters plastered all over this city. Much more after the jump…

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The first season of Dexter, Showtime’s great, white hope of a new drama based on the life of a serial-killer (who kills serial-killers), ended this past Sunday. Many people believe this is the show that might finally catapult Showtime to HBO-like heights. Not so fast, I say. More after the jump…

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I finally got around to checking out the first two episodes of the new Showtime series Dexter last night. It was good. It was really good. Or maybe I should say Michael C. Hall was really good. Its hard to make out the difference between the two since he’s in almost every frame. Certainly he’s great in the show. It wouldn’t matter how violent Showtime made this series if the character of Dexter wasn’t played to perfection. Hall, in the role, has so much menace in his eyes he comes off as truly frightening, though perhaps the real scares come from how easily it is to empathize with him. Its no small feat to draw emotion from a character who himself claims to be void of any. Hall plays the role of a “shell” as if it were Jake Lamotta mixed with Stanley Kowalski.

If the show has any fault, its in the setup. The whole serial-killer who hunts serial-killers (who hunts serial-killers) is a little too The 3 for my tastes, and all the scenes with his sister revolving around the politics of police just makes me antsy for the next episode of The Wire. Still, the series is good, and I hope to be caught up by the time the next episode airs on Sunday.NOTE: The first two episodes are also available for free at Showtime.com.

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