Worth Dying For.

Last night I finally finished watching season 2 of Showtime's Dexter. If you haven't heard of this show; or just passed it by along with the rest of the TV to DVD shows, which seems lately like every TV show from “Mork & Mindy” to “So You Think You Can Dance” is just popping out of the DVD birth canal faster than a beer guzzled by a NASCAR fan. So it's easy to miss the really good shows out the pile of crap they keep pumping out to make a quick buck. Because movie studios & TV studio's don't make much of a profit off of the opening weekend or on first air of the show. Unless the movie is a huge blockbuster it'll make it's money back while in the theaters then afterward everything is just profit for them. But a movie makes almost twice as much when it's put on dvd; so if you break down the cost to make and press each dvd the production company pays maybe 1-2 dollers per dvd, then they spit it out onto the retail market for a comfortable and satisfying $20 on average. So needless to say movie and TV studios make more money off dvd then they do with the initail first release. Back to the reason I'm writing this entry, Dexter is an amzing show, it's suspensful, smart, and full of dark humor. You should definately check it out.

Just to give you a brief synopsis, the show follows the main character named Dexter who works as a blood spatter expert for the Miami Metro Homicide forensics department. Which is the perfect gateway for his dark secret. You see Un-beknownst to all of Dexter’s friends, girlfriend, and sister; Dexter is a serial killer (I mean the term "friends" loosely, Dexter admits in his own commentary during the episodes that he doesn't really have friends or a girlfriend, just people he interacts with show the world the mask he wears that he's just an average normal guy). Now by actual definition yes Dexter is a serial killer, but watching the show you sympathize for him because he's using the monstrous skill of killing people for good... Dexter uses his skills and his access to police files to hunt down and kill people who themselves are murders, rapists, and other serial killers. So in a twisted and very realistic kind of way Dexter is more of a vigilante/hero. He doesn't kill innocent people only people who have done wrong and managed to slip by or walk free from the justice system. Now the majority of season one follows Dexter doing his normal routine, and the introduction to another serial killer who knows all about Dexter and his secret, then proceeds to play games with him. Dexter now makes it his personal goal to find and kill this man before his coworkers arrest him. Now I'm not going to give anything way from season one because if you watch the first two episodes you'll have the season finished in three or four days, it's that good.

Season two picks up right where season one left off, but this season is dramatically different. Season one followed Dexter going through his code and rules for killing people, Season 2 Dexter's underwater cemetery is found by local treasure hunters, and Dexter is quickly named the new target of the Miami homicide department and the FBI. Of course nobody knows that’s Dexter is the "Bay Harbor Butcher" so with every episode the suspense builds and builds and the more evidence that is found you wonder when Dexter is going to get caught. If you watch the show you know that Dexter is calm and manages to keep his cool in every situation, not this season, on top of being target of every cop in Florida his life that he has so perfectly created with his code is falling apart. The relationship with his girlfriend is on thin ice, Dexter can't calm the monster inside by killing since there is a sate wide manhunt for him, and to send Dexter eve further down hi downward spiral there's new sexy British female is pulling him further and further away from his code and rules.
Dexter is bizarre, creepy, and intense and quite possibly one of the best shows currently running. Along with Battlestar Galactica(the new version, not the seventies series) which unfortunately has it's crappy episodes from time to time just like every other show out there; they can't all be winners... unless that is if you're Dexter... Go watch this show now! If you don't have Showtime you can check it out on CBS they air the edited episodes which I don't entirely agree with; so minus the intense language, the very very small amount of nudity (like we're talking maybe out of the entire season two or three episode have nudity in it and it's for maybe less than a minute long), and the graffic scenes involving dead bodies. But I guess something is better than nothing. I believe you can also watch the first season for free online on hulu.com.