The Ice Truck killer finds a way to get under Dexters skin and its fun to watch Dexters emotions pour or rather just drip out of himBest lines Dexter Interesting hand jobAngel Thats funnyDexter Is itIts nice to see some faces from other Showtime series Erin Daniels Dana from the L Word pops in as the girl next doorShe plays a bit much without the 145m-uFavorite part is when the kid in the costume store wearing the presidents mask turns around just as Dexter says the word 145monsterNo killing in this one just a lot of maiming Which is nasty enough as it is but cmon Ive gotten myself all worked up to see some down and dirty serial killing and by gum I want my moneys worth Showtime isnt free you know The Ice Truck killers real purpose is in helping unravel the many layers of our fearless Dexter ITK is having fun with him and it unnerves the strictly business Dex The ITKs
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Dexter has feelings Im certain of it And the place where this is most clearly realized is the way in which he tells us about his father and his relationship to him certainly an indication of love He wants everyone to believe he has no emotions but I dont believe him He was willing to kill for his father Goodbye Nurse Ratchet And as Harry was the one to teach him how to live the vigilante lifestyle full of lessons of right from wrong the show could have been called The Code of Harry Not only does Dexter love his father but he loves Ritas kids too Or at least likes them a lot Upon hearing Ritas daughter cry as he removes her splinter Dexter intimates If I had a heart it would be breaking right now He does have a heart He just doesnt want to show it and it has something to do with whatever happened to him before Harry and his wife took him in as their foster child Its alluded to again in this ep The best
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Dexter, starring Michael C. Hall as a likable serial killer (my favorite kind), gave Showtime its highest series rating in nearly two years, with more than one million viewers showing up for its Friday-night bow.... IFC premieres Rank, a look at bull riders vying for the World Champion title, on Oct. 9 at 9 pm/ET.... Speed has picked up Pinks, in which amateur racers literally wager their cars in winner-take-all competitions, for a fourth season, to debut in February 2007.... Now out on DVD: Scarface: Platinum Edition, boasting digitally remastered sound effects; Body Double: Special Edition, including interviews with Melanie Griffith and Brian De Palma; and South Park, The Hits: Volume 1, featuring plenty of good filthiness.
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Tonights the night and its going to happen again and again So begins the tale of the forensics guru who specializes in uncovering killers by studying the blood spatterings they leave behind And how does his know what these killers think Because he is one Meet Dexter Morgan forensics expert by day serial killer by night This is a gruesome show and not for the uninitiated Like me I sat both terrified to watch the premiere episode but also strangely titillated I could not turn away but I also awoke in the middle of the night completed horrified So Im a lightweight now you know I hope you wont hold that against me The opening sequence is gorgeously shot slick like a David LaChapelle video Miami has never looked sexier But when the camera alights on a beautiful gazebo glitteringly decorated with twinkling lights and the sounds of a boys choir singing I knew we were in for trouble Not just us but the choir directo
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Question: You made a comment recently about Showtime series' poor ratings. I became a subscriber last year after reading about their new shows (Weeds, Sleeper Cell, Masters of Horror) and instantly became a fan of Showtime. So why are the ratings so bad? TV critics seem to like these series, and I'm sure Showtime has quite a few subscribers, though not as many as HBO. Is it because Showtime has yet to find that mainstream, smash-hit series? Do you think Dexter could be that show?
Answer: If there's any justice, Dexter will be Showtime's equivalent of FX's Nip/Tuck, a show so bold, bizarre and shocking, yet so riveting and original that it will generate buzz while polarizing the audience, many of whom will be unable to stomach the premise. (Dexter, played by Six Feet Under's Michael C. Hall, is a serial killer who targets only bad guys, though he's completely amoral and has to fake human emotion during his day job as a forensic blood-spatter analyst in Miami.) It's a wild show, for sure,
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Michael C. Hall, Dexter
Question: Thanks for your first review of Dexter. You asked yourself if it's the first serial-killer hero on TV. Do you remember Profit with Adrian Pasdar as the new vice president of a multibillion-dollar conglomerate? He wasn't a real serial killer, but all his actions to get power were pure evil. Your review made me think of this (first?) evil hero. I know people didn't flock to the series, but it became a real cult show (even if all the episodes weren't aired — thanks, DVD!). Do you think the audience is now ready to care about that kind of character?
Answer: I think it's probably wise that Dexter is airing on a pay service like Showtime, where none of those tiresome my-morality-should-be-your-morality watchdog groups will have any impact. In my circle of colleagues, even those with stronger constitutions were pretty much creeped out by this show, though all agree that Michael C. Hall is astonishing as the deeply disturbed Dexter, who preys on bad guys who've slipped through the
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Question: I was wondering if you had been given a chance to screen Showtime's new show Dexter. From what I've heard, it sounds a lot like Profit, with its "evil" main character. I no longer get Showtime, but I am a huge collector of TV shows on DVD (I have about 1,500 episodes of various shows). I was wondering if it would be worth my while and my dollar. I bought Dead Like Me sight unseen. I thought it a true pleasure though I had already fallen in love with Wonderfalls (both from Bryan Fuller).
Answer: Now this is a first, a DVD question about a show that hasn't even premiered yet. I understand clips of Dexter were shown at the critics' press tour in Pasadena this month (which I did not attend), and I heard some good buzz. But all I can say for sure is that I can't wait to see this show, about a forensics expert by day (played by Six Feet Under's Michael C. Hall) who by night is a serial killer, which means he sometimes can be found processing his own crime scenes. The twist here,
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Question: Any thoughts on the final episodes of Six Feet Under?
Answer: If I say I'm really enjoying them, does that make me a masochist? 'Cause as depressing as these final hours have been, I can't deny the fact that I've been moved to tears on more than one occasion (Brenda's breakdown in her brother's arms last week being one prime example). As much as I want to hate the Fishers for being so whiny and selfish, I find myself caring more about them with each passing meltdown — Michael C. Hall's David being the sole exception; he's just plain irritating. And whatever Alan Ball is paying Frances Conroy, it's not enough. It's almost inhumane how much anguish and despair this poor woman has been asked to tap into these last few weeks. And having already seen this Sunday's finale, I can tell you Ruth's suffering gets worse before it gets better. Speaking of the finale, I'm anxious to
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Two weeks ago, HBO's Six Feet Under aired its darkest, most disturbing episode ever. Gay mortician David (Michael C. Hall) picked up a hitchhiker from hell, who started out flirtatious, then turned ferocious, beating and torturing him. (The whole thing played like a bad student film, but we needn't digress...) What made the show subject David to such abuse?
"It was kind of a form of gay-bashing," Mathew St. Patrick, who plays David's boyfriend, Keith, tells TV Guide Online. "The guy turned out not to be gay. He was just a psycho. Those things do happen."
Still, the whole improbable scenario seemed to come out of nowhere. St. Patrick rationalizes SFU's wacky twists thusly: "I may not have happened to get hit in the head with a golf ball and die, but it happens. People do fall out of windows, get electrocuted in the tub or fall into blender machines at work. Or like the girls' night out we had, when they stuck their heads out of the top o
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