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His son David Zayas Jr
He’s smart. He’s lovable. He’s Dexter Morgan, America’s favorite serial killer, who spends his days solving crimes and his nights committing them. During season 8, Angel Batista was not always played by David Zayas.
Dexter Morgan: I lived in the darkness for a long time
fills in for his father in a few scenes, as the two look remarkably alike. Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later in season 2, the scar moved to his right side, leaving his left side unmarked. Over the years, my eyes adjusted, until the darkness became my world and I could see.
Performed at the 64th Golden Globe Awards (2007)
Main Theme Written by Rolfe Kent Acted by Rolfe Kent. After four episodes, I’m ready to proclaim this to be the best show currently on TV, one that may one day rank with the likes of The Sopranos and the first season of Twin Peaks as a contender for the second-best TV show of all time (after the incomparable Buffy the Vampire Slayer; one of the show’s producers and writers is former Buffy writer Drew Z. Greenberg, and the cast includes Buffy/Angel star Julie Benz). Dexter is a sociopath, someone with no human feelings and therefore no natural, internal moral compass, and he has an insatiable bloodlust that drives him to kill.
Another thing the show does brilliantly is move at different speeds in parallel
But he has the great blessing of having been the adopted son of a police officer, who (as we see in fantastic flashbacks) has successfully instilled in him a complete moral code, to which he adheres on a strictly intellectual level. This is an utterly brilliant concept (which I assume derives from the novels it’s based on), allowing the writers to explore the nature of moral behavior and what it means to be human (Dexter is, in a sense, an alien). There’s a seemingly season-long primary story arc (about a cat-and-mouse game between Dexter and a serial killer), and a secondary arc involving Dexter’s sister’s police career. The first handful of episodes include a very powerful full-length arc about one of Dexter’s fellow cops and a local crime boss, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a standalone story spliced in between (and standing out from) the ongoing stories.
The cast and crew are fantastic
I’ve seen the future of TV season structuring, and this is it. While the writing doesn’t quite match the brilliance of House at its best, it’s excellent. The only reason you wouldn’t want to watch this utterly brilliant show is its frequent use of extremely graphic imagery: there were probably more severed body parts shown in these first four episodes than in the first four episodes of every other TV show on the air combined. If you can stomach that, tune in for a mesmerizing look at what makes us human — or inhuman.
