Time to Kill

I don't usually watch alot of tv, especially when it comes to closely following a series. With the exception of Californication, which historically I've watched online, and Better Off Ted, the best new comedy of the year, the only thing I really watch is soccer. That all changed a couple of weeks when I discovered Dexter.

Dexter Morgan brings a face to serial killers that we've never seen before... the face of someone we root for. Sure he gets sadistic pleasure from dissecting and dismembering his victims while they're still alive and seems get off to blood like I get off to girl on girl porn, but hey he only kills murderers. That, plus we'd hate to see him get locked up because that would mean the end of a truly innovative series. Watching a man juggling responsibilities between his job as a blood splatter expert in forensics, his girlfriend and her kids, and his intrinsic need to kill on a regular basis is not only interesting, it's goddamn entertaining. His voice guides us through the show as a third person narrator meant to be the voice in his head. As an example a typical internal dialogue might go something like this, "Things to do today: Pick up Deb and the kids, stop by the station, pick up heavy duty trash bags and industrial plastic wrap, kill murder rapist after he gets off work at ten." For some reason watching an obsessed serial killer struggle with some of the same problems us non murder addicts deal with is endlessly amusing.

As I mentioned, I started watching Dexter a couple of weeks ago and have already killed the first two seasons. It's like Law and Order if the main characters were 10 times smarter, had personal lives we cared about, and spent half their time tracking murderers and subsequently killing them. If you don't try to start watching this series you should kill yourself, before Dexter does the job for you.