- Who? Since I started watching, the main question I have is who is going to find out who Dexter really is? So far everyone who has learned his identity is dead. But he has stuck to the code and never killed a non-killer who has learned his identity. My theory is that this season will be different. I think Deb will find out who Dexter is. She already is investigating Harry's (Dexter's father) former informants (and lovers which include Dexter's real mom). She knows that somebody took Lundy's stuff after he was killed. She is also starting to deteriorate after Lundy's death. I don't know what Dexter will do if she finds out, but the Trinity killer reenacts his family's deaths and I wonder if the same theme will play in Dexter.
- The Code. Another theme throughout the series is how closely Dexter follows Harry's Code. Everytime Dexter has deviated from the code he has learned to regret it. But he we are again, Harry is warning Dexter about juggling his family, his job, and his obsession, but Dexter thinks he can control all three. It will be interesting to see if Dexter or Harry is right.
- Secrets. I read in a review somewhere that Dexter is really not about killing, but about secrets. I buy that Dexter is about keeping secrets and how to hide a dark side. Harry has said about the Code, that it will keep him alive. Dexter isn't killing as some morality play. He is killing in order to control his urges and following the code to insure that he can survive. Part of that survival is keeping his secret.
- Why I Enjoy. The storyline is the backbone of what makes this series enjoyable. It presses on in each episode and makes you look forward to the next episode and the conclusion of the season. Overall, it makes me wonder how all of these side plots will converge in the conclusion. Another interesting aspect throughout the series has been the duality in Dexter between his public persona and his blood hungry inner self. The show relates that relationship to how everyone puts on a different face in public, because Dexter puts on a show for everyone else. Only his victims know Dexter for what he really is. I think they are touching on that a bit this year with Dexter's problems with Rita and how she feels he is being disingenuous. I also like how the show makes you understand Dexter. Part of the reason the show did not seem attractive to me at first was that I didn't think that I could feel sympathy and watch a serial killer. I felt it would be a dark CSI. Dexter in the show is really guy with normal problems that are complicated with an obsession to kill.
- Negatives. I few things irritate me about the show. The music, while usually great sometimes gets in the way, especially when they play Dexter's theme. I've just heard that song too many times. The Trinity Killer. Did Lundy really never notice that the Trinity Killer always kills mothers and fathers with two kids? I made the connection that it was a family of four 2 or 3 episodes before Dexter? Was that really a big revelation? I am also always a bit aggravated that things always work out for Dexter. They don't always at first, but they do in the end. At the end of the 2nd season, Doakes found out who Dexter was and Dexter had a problem, he couldn't kill Doakes because it didn't fit with the Code. But he got lucky and Lila did it for him and Doakes was framed as the Bay City butcher. Also, Dexter left blood at the scene where George King was killed, but they never found it. He also has found a reason to kill everyone who has found out.
Overall, Dexter is a great show. For a while I believed that you watch comedies on TV and dramas on the big screen, but Dexter has changed my thoughts on that. It is a series that you'll watch and talk about the next day.
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