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His son David Zayas Jr
He’s smart. He’s lovable. This is 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 darkness for a long time
replaces his father in some scenes, as the two look remarkably alike. Visible throughout the first season, Dexter has a large scar on his left side. Later, in season two, the scar moved to his right side, leaving his left side intact. Over the years, my eyes adjusted, until darkness became my world and I could see.
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Main ThemeWritten by Rolfe KentPerformed by Rolfe Kent. After four episodes, I’m ready to proclaim this the best show on television right now, one that could one day rank with _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 a veteran; Buffy writer Drew Z. Greenberg, and the cast includes Buffy/Angel mainstay Julie Benz). Dexter is a sociopath, someone without human feelings and therefore without a natural inner moral compass, and he has an unquenchable bloodlust that drives him to kill.
Another thing the show does brilliantly is move at different speeds in parallel
But he had the great grace of having been the adopted child of a cop who (as we see in terrific flashbacks) managed to instill in him a complete moral code, to which he adheres on a strictly intellectual level. It’s an utterly brilliant concept (which I suspect 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, , and alien). There’s an apparent main story arc running throughout the season (concerning 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 feature a very strong full-length arc involving one of Dexter’s police colleagues and a local crime lord, while two of the four episodes so far have also featured a standalone story intertwined between (and playing off) the ongoing ones.
The casting and production are terrific
I’ve seen the future of how TV seasons are structured, and this is it. Even if the writing isn’t quite up to par with the best of _House_, it’s been excellent. The only reason you wouldn’t want to watch this absolutely brilliant show is the 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 all other TV shows on the air combined. If you can stomach that, tune in for a fascinating look at what makes us human — or inhuman.