Dexter

Dexter is a TV series I recently fall in love with. It’s a story about Dexter Morgan, a gook-looking young man who has a decent job as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami police, and his secret.

Dexter has been worked as hard as he can to maintain to appear normal in his whole life so far. His foster father, Mr. Harry Morgan, put an effort on that. As former homicide detective of the Miami PD, he taught little Dexter everything he knows about covering the tracks since Dexter first exposed his urge to kill. The father seemed to realize right in the beginning that Dexter’s urge is deep inside and the best he, as a guardian, could offer is to guide his loved son to channel the impulse to kill to follow “the Code of Harry.” Even after Harry’s death, Dexter has kept his words to Harry. He lives with the code: Kill only those who are themselves killers because they deserve it.

Dexter spends his nights tracking down those who have escaped justice. It’s the business with which he must cope and he does it well. Following up Harry’s words, Dexter is always meticulous. He spends a lot time and efforts to collect the proofs. He has patience for the right moment. Usually he would first make his victims unconscious. While waiting them to wake up, he ties them up naked on a table with plastic tape. He would confront them with evidence of the crimes before he chop up the bodies. Dexter is obsessed with the blood. He keeps blood slides from all his victims and neatly organizes them in a wooden filing box hidden inside a window air conditioner in his apartment. That he can use for the relief from the urge of killing sometimes.

During the day, Dexter appears as a good fellow of his colleagues, a smart brother of his foster sister, Deborah, and a nice boyfriend of Rita. He tries to explore the emotional aspects of the world which he has nothing so far to feel. Success or not? We’ll see.

It would probably be the best show of the year on my record.

Here you can find some clips of Dexter. The “Opening” (click “The Fun Parts”) is my favorite. They present it with an irresistible charm that will also be found exactly in episodes.