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trinityvixen) wrote2007-08-29 10:48 pm
trinityvixen) wrote2007-08-29 10:48 pm
Uh oh!
We have another fun TV show to keep track of: Dexter. Turns out ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
feiran has a real jonesing to see it, and I just happened to have it to sample from Netflix and we've spent all evening on it. Next disc for next week, me hopes.
It's really just drawn me in. I don't think that Michael Hall's character is as charismatically or wildly wonderful as, say, Christian Bale in American Psycho. But, seeing as it's a series and not a one-shot story, there's more risk with this character. He can be harmed, trapped, exposed--as the continuing run around of the main plot proves. The lack of exaggerated comedy at once is more funny and scarier than American Psycho. Dexter is one of the few quite plausible sociopaths I've ever seen in popular media. So much of him is really eerily real (despite the premise--a serial killer of serial killers--being slightly far-fetched), right down to his intelligent understanding of his nonetheless uncontrolled urges. The faking of personality that Hall pulls off is less performance and more mirror of reality, so it's scary as nuts. Loving it, even as it occasionally scares the shit out of me. He's only sort of lovable, which is about the right way to play the character (otherwise you lose the sense of his monstrosity and his constant harping on that end would just seem like bragging).
And I am soaking up the forensics in this. It's actually really good. The interplay with the police and the forensics is so much more realistic than something like C.S.I.. Oh yeah, this is definitely a rent-it-until-it's-finished series.
feiran has a real jonesing to see it, and I just happened to have it to sample from Netflix and we've spent all evening on it. Next disc for next week, me hopes.It's really just drawn me in. I don't think that Michael Hall's character is as charismatically or wildly wonderful as, say, Christian Bale in American Psycho. But, seeing as it's a series and not a one-shot story, there's more risk with this character. He can be harmed, trapped, exposed--as the continuing run around of the main plot proves. The lack of exaggerated comedy at once is more funny and scarier than American Psycho. Dexter is one of the few quite plausible sociopaths I've ever seen in popular media. So much of him is really eerily real (despite the premise--a serial killer of serial killers--being slightly far-fetched), right down to his intelligent understanding of his nonetheless uncontrolled urges. The faking of personality that Hall pulls off is less performance and more mirror of reality, so it's scary as nuts. Loving it, even as it occasionally scares the shit out of me. He's only sort of lovable, which is about the right way to play the character (otherwise you lose the sense of his monstrosity and his constant harping on that end would just seem like bragging).
And I am soaking up the forensics in this. It's actually really good. The interplay with the police and the forensics is so much more realistic than something like C.S.I.. Oh yeah, this is definitely a rent-it-until-it's-finished series.
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But you'll love it. I know you will. You liked this guy from Six Feet Under right?
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Also, when I first started reading this, I thought you meant Dexter's Laboratory.
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And I have to admit: if Hall is so consistently giving me the creeps, he must be doing something right. It's funny how naturally he breaks into smiles and laughter (something I never saw whenever I'd catch the odd episode of Six Feet Under). Yet he makes it look exhausting at the same time. Which is just right for the character. I heartily recommend this one.
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