Posted on 02/09/2008 12:42:30 AM PST by JohnHuang2
It's tempting to root for the writer's strike in Hollywood to continue since it's resulted in a slowdown in stylized depravity. But it's never that easy. CBS is now planning to fill this void in new scripted programming with something so warped that you'd pray for a power outage.
CBS will repurpose the Showtime drama "Dexter," the series that asks viewers to root for a lovable serial murderer. Fans can now buy the first season of the show on DVD, the same 12 episodes set to air on CBS. You can't miss the cover: Star Michael C. Hall has a hand thoughtfully placed on his face -- but the hand isn't his. It's a dead hand. It's the same kind of humor that inspired the writers to name the killer's boat "Slice of Life." Their "Dexter" Web site announces the CBS airings with a splashy blood spot, complete with sound effect. This serial-killer premise is just so much fun.
"Dexter" will air on Sunday nights at 10 p.m., or 9 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones. CBS claims the series will be edited for extreme violence or gore. But there is no way that CBS can edit out the central theme of this program. Dexter finds killing and dismembering human beings to be intoxicating. CBS thinks we, too, should be fascinated and intoxicated by that.
The drama is based in Miami, where lovable Dexter satisfies his taste for pork sandwiches and his blood lust for long, drawn-out dismemberment. During the day, he works as a police specialist, examining the blood spatter at crime scenes. At night, he spends his time preparing his next victim. Showtime (and now CBS) believes they have enough "moral ambiguity" in the series because he only kills other serial killers. He's a toxic avenger.
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Just who would advertize on this kind of show? There should be an instant boycott of any firm that does.
Or Dexter could be described as a policeman who is tired of seeing the scum walk free and renders his own brand of justice; that should play better with the moral extremists who cant appreciate that this an adult TV drama (you know..make believe). His work happens to take him outside the boundaries of todays’ societal norms but not unlike 24’s Jack Bauer. Which is extolled as a great show and should have more of the like on either big or small screen here on FR. I’d describe 24 as one of the two best shows on TV today the other is Dexter. It is expertly written, doesnt get all bogged down in useless fluff to fill 43 minutes, and is very engrossing. Again like 24 if you miss an episode or 1/2 of the wrong one you might as well go buy the series on Dvd because your done. So all you knee-jerkers who will decry Dexter and laud 24 are either ignorant, blind or have selective moral outrage, because they are cast from the same die.
Not to mention you have 237 other channels to choose what drivel you’d rather rot your brain for an hour
Hate to say this, but this show is actually great. It was my favorite shows. Reminds me so much as what I always wanted to do to my father.
If Dexter was doing this to pedophiles, most Freepers would classify the show as a moral masterpiece.
Yeah, a kinda creepy concept, but the books are well written, and Dexter has been trained by his late father to only kill the worst of the worst of society.
GUBMINT JACKBOOTS HAVE DESCENDED UPON POOR MARKT'S HOME AND ARE FORCING HIM AND HIS FAMILY TO TURN ON THE TV, TUNE IT TO CBS, AND WATCH THIS PROGRAM!!
THE REPUBLIC IS IN DANGER!! THE CONSTITUTION HAS BEEN SUBVERTED!!
Do I even NEED a /SARC tag?
"Outside today's societal norms"? Just go ahead and say "beyond good and evil," since that's what you really mean.
You're right to connect Dexter to Bauer. Both characters exploit viewers' Love of Death while giving a sentimental, moralistic sheen to nihilism.
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