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Monday, October 3, 2011

Why, Dexter? Why, indeed?

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Monday, Oct 3, 2011 4:04 AM EST

Why, “Dexter,” why?

A once-great show embraces self-parody in a mostly embarrassing season premiere

DEXTER (Season 6)

Michael C. Hall as Dexter (Season 6, episode 1) - Photo: Randy Tepper/Showtime - Photo ID: dexter_601_1435 (Credit: Showtime)

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[This is the first installment in a series of recaps of "Dexter," Season 6. It contains spoilers for tonight's episode and presumes at least some past familiarity with earlier seasons. Read at your own risk.]

As far as I’m concerned, Showtime’s “Dexter” (Sundays 9 p.m./8 Central) doesn’t derive its core tension from its season-long “A” plot, be it season four’s “Spy vs. Spy” duel between Dexter and John Lithgow’s family man/slayer or last season’s oddly endearing, empathetic tale of a vengeance-obsessed rape victim played by Julia Stiles. What makes “Dexter” get thumbscrews-tense is the constant nagging dread of what will happen if — no, when — sister Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) learns what sort of person Dexter really is. The idea of a clever and empathic serial killer looking for self-improvement is nonsense, but we buy into it because the show and its eponymous antihero run on consistent fantasy rules. The rules dictate that much as murder is Dex’s Dark Passenger, Deb is his Light Passenger, his connection to everything good in him. Were Deb to find out the truth and inevitably reject Dex, he’d be over, uselessly mad — the balance between Dark Passenger and mordant narrator shot to hell. The show’s brilliance lies in its ability to balance all else on this single knife-edge.

1 comment:

  1. I've long wondered about my own fascination with Dexter. This review helped place it all into perspective and helped me to appreciate Season 6, episode 1, even more... I'm hooked on the comedic interplay of balanced good and evil and how neither fully consumes anyone... It's a fascinating dance.

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