Dexter

The Showtime drama Dexter is not what one would call a “typical” television show. The series, after all, contains a serial killer as its main antagonist and not only follows his murderous actions but his attempts to continually stay one step ahead of the law. Then again, Dexter Morgan is not your typical serial killer—he follows a rigid code in selecting his victims, who are inevitably murderers themselves that have escaped justice. While Dexter invokes his own brand of vigilantism in an attempt to keep the streets of Miami safe, he also struggles with a childhood trauma that has made him hollow inside and is the source of his murderous tendencies. Dexter is thus not merely the story of a serial killer but a psychological study of an empty human being attempting to fit into a society that he finds foreign; in short, Dexter is a character study of anyone struggling to find their place in what can often be a lonely and unknown world.

Dexter Season One Review of the first season of the Showtime series about a serial killer who works as a forensic analysis for the Miami Police Department while dispensing his own brand of vigilante justice.

Dexter Season Five Review of the fifth season of the Showtime series in which Dexter Morgan must come to terms with the events of season four while assisting a rape victim cope with her own inner demons.