Dexter

[Rogue Angel]

...premieres it's second season THIS SUNDAY...... FINALLY!! ugh, i've been waiting FOREVERRRRRRRRR!!!!!

um yeah... i'm fuckin psyched, can ya tell? hahaha, i absolutely LOVE Dexter... i'm obsessed with the show... it was my newly named favorite of last year, once the Sopranos sucked it's way off the air with the stupid series finale... *muttering obscenities*... yeah, yeah... i'm STILL not over it. *L*... but anyway, Dexter is KICK ASS if you like crime stuff.... i already did some background for the series Weeds, also a Showtime series... so i will do a little for Dex, as this is going to be a thread that is used often after this Sunday... [img]smile.gif[/img] Anyone who watches is more than welcome to come back in and comment on the week's show afterward....

OK. short version. *L*... Dexter is a crime scene analyist, a leading blood spatter expert... Oh, and he's also a serial killer... LOL. but wait! don't hate him yet... he ONLY kills the bad guys that get off because there is lack of proof... he follows them, witnesses their wrong-doing himself, then goes about the process of tracking them and killing them. In the first season, you find out the reason behind his psychosis... You already know that Dex is adopted from the beginning... his adopted dad Harry is his hero... he figures out what's wrong with dexter at a very early age, and helps him channel his compulsion to kill into something a little more positive at least, being a police officer himself... During the first episodes, you see more of dexter's work... you meet his girlfriend Rita, who has a crack head ex that pops back into the picture on down the road and makes things difficult for her... Dex, ever the (sorta) good guy, does not kill him, but conks him on the head, puts drugs into his system, then calls the cops to pick him up so that he goes back to jail, leaving Rita free of him once again... Dex also has a sister who he is "very fond of" in his words... He doesn't understand love, but he does understand loyalty... which comes in handy for Deb, as Dex's nutty serial killer brother pops up at the end of the season and turns out to be the killer they've been searching for. He kidnaps Deb, along with some other things, leaving dexter a trail back to his childhood, and long-forgotten traumatic memories of seeing his mother sawed into peices because his dad didn't pay someone their drug money... locking the 2 boys in a blood drenched containment unit for 2 or 3 days until Harry comes along and finds them...

ok... i KNOW it sounds kinda silly, but it's actually really very good... Particularly if you know the guy that plays Dex from his previous show on HBO, Six Feet Under, my ALL TIME favorite series.. he plays a gay guy in that show, and he was damn good at it... it's so weird to see Michael Hall now playing a serial killer with dead calm... i keep expecting him to put a silly smile on his face, walk with a swing in his hips, and run around rita's kitchen gushing at how marvelous her decor is.... *chuckling*.... he's a very versatile actor, that's all i can say... *L*.... as believable as he was in that role, he is as equally as believable as a man who fights crime with the police by day, and becomes a vigilante killer of the guilty when it gets dark...

bottom line? GOOOOOOOOD show... sick, twisted, a little macabre and demented... but a good good show.... [img]smile.gif[/img]

(FYI, anyone who wants to play catch up, they are still showing season 1 of the series on Showtime "on demand"... [img]wink.gif[/img] )

...to be continued after Sunday... [img]biggrin.gif[/img]

[wildnthewind]

I knew you'd like it..... For once you get to root for the bad guy... LOL [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

yep, you called it! lol... way back when, before i started watching.... i knew i'd like it, i just didn't have the time to get into a new show when it first came out... i was still trying to get an entire anime series (Inuyasha) watched via netflix... After that, and the end of the Sopranos... i was left with TV time to kill... *L*
and yes! that's the best part, you get to root for the "bad" guy... and not feel guilty, because he's actually a good guy... errr, sorta! lol. I get cracked up, Wild, don't you, when he's funny? He totally doesn't get the humor behind some of what he says, though it's a dry, sick kinda humor.. What i'm anxious to see is if Rita is going to start becoming suspicious that Dex isn't quite as "normal" and "nice" as she believes, after her ex-hubby's accusations, and finding his shoe in the yard to corroborate his story that Dex knocked him out and dragged him through the yard and away.... i'm also wondering where they are gonna take the plot, as last season's story was the Ice Truck killer, who is now dead... They will have to come up with another bad guy... and i don't think they can swing making HIM Dex's brother too... *chuckles*... we'll see sunday i guess! [img]wink.gif[/img]

[wildnthewind]

Yep it's different, I like the whole theme of the show. good guy-bad guy!!If I remember right he always cuts them in the face before he does um in.. [img]graemlins/thinking.gif[/img] We'll see tomorrow.. [img]eek.gif[/img]
He should've been a vampire lol. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

GRRRRRR. i fucked up. [img]frown.gif[/img] the premiere of season 2 is sept. 30th... so NEXT sunday... *sighs*... but, for anyone who wants to play catch up, tonight they are showing the last show of season 1, the lead in to the new show next week. i'm all kinds of disappointed... par for the course today, apparently... i think someone stole sunday and skipped to monday early and didn't tell me. *just shrugs*...

anyway, wild... looks like we'll have to wait til NEXT sunday to talk about the new episode... [img]frown.gif[/img] though you're right about the cut on the face thing... [img]wink.gif[/img] he makes one small cut to the face so he can draw his blood sample and apply it to a slide for his "collection"...

[wildnthewind]

LOL... I watched it anyway.. His bro's neck was pulsating blood.. Good effects.. [img]graemlins/star.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

WOO HOOO!!! finally! here we go!!!!! [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/thumbs_up.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

Dexter was fkn aweome!!! [img]biggrin.gif[/img] from the looks of it, things are gonna start falling apart... oooh! i can't believe paul is DEAD! poor paul... the one time he was tellin the truth... *L* and i can't believe dex can't kill! he's growing a conscience, oh no! [img]confused.gif[/img] i can't wait to see what happens next! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Rogue Angel]

*waits patiently for Wild to come along*... lol, apparently NO ONE else watches this show! unbelievable... you guys are missing out on a really good show. [img]smile.gif[/img]

[mr rogie]

Can't get it in my area, I heard good things 'bout it though.

take care neighbor [img]graemlins/rose.gif[/img]