Dexter: The Avenging Angel

                  Dexter: The Avenging Angel

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a man with homicidal tendencies, lives a double life. He works as a forensic technician for the police department during the day and kills heinous perpetrators in his free time.

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NY times says He Kills People and Cuts Them Up. But They Deserve It. Besides, He’s Neat.

The hero of Showtime’s famous series “Dexter,” is a smart, wittily self-aware homicidal maniac. But Dexter is a made-for-television serial killer: he kills only people who deserve to die. In his spare time, he works as a blood-spatter pattern analyst in the forensics lab of the Miami-Metro Homicide Police Department. The series first aired on showtime on October 1, 2006. The first season of Dexter is among the top-rated season of  television of all time.

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The show is based on a crime novel by Jeff Lindsay, “Darkly Dreaming Dexter,” but it serves as the next step in the relentless escalation of eroticized violence on television, a “CSI” for premium cable. The good guy  in fact, the forensics expert is a serial killer. But it’s O.K., the show still has some redeeming social value; he practices vigilante law enforcement, targeting murderous pedophiles and drunken drivers who would otherwise escape justice.

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On television “forensic science” serves as the fig leaf of gross-out thing. “Dexter,” with its stylish cinematography, jaunty Cuban music and fetish for dismemberment, takes it one step further out of bounds.

“There’s something strange and disarming about looking at a homicide scene in the daylight of Miami,” Dexter says in a dime-story detective’s first-person narration. “It makes the most grotesque killings look staged, like you’re in a new and daring section of Disney World: Deathland.”

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 The first corpse he is summoned to examine is so tidily dismembered that there is no blood, and studying the pattern of blood spatter for the police is Dexter’s day job. He hides his excitement beneath a veneer of professional callousness. “How does he do it?” he says aloud to the officers staring at the neatly butchered hunks of flesh. “How does the killer get rid of the blood?” In his own head, he is inspired. “Why haven’t I thought of that?” he says to himself. “No blood. What a beautiful idea.”

Debra,  Source: Showtime

He is protective of his foster sister, Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), a rookie in the vice squad who yearns to become a homicide detective. Dexter is gentle and chivalrous to his putative girlfriend, Rita (Julie Benz), a single mother and former abused wife, who is too emotionally damaged. Rita suits Dexter just fine.

In flashbacks and snippets of drive-time autobiography, Dexter reveals how he became a serial killer with a conscience. He says he has no memory of his early childhood, but he and Debra were raised by kindly foster parents. His foster father, Harry Morgan (James Remar), was a Miami detective who spotted Dexter’s tendencies when he was still a boy. “You’re different, aren’t you Dexter?” Harry asks him in a flashback after finding the remains of a neighbor’s dog.

Harry teaches Dexter to put his sick perversions to good use, carefully hunting down the guilty and administering his own brand of retribution. Dexter said that Harry gave him a policeman’s training. Dexter says. “He made me a very neat monster.”

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Showtime's drama Dexter ended in 2013 after eight seasons of suspense as the eponymous forensics’ specialist by day and serial killer by night tried to evade capture. The final episode of the ho a published-on September 22, 2013.

Genres: Crime film, Psychological thriller, Mystery, Dark comedy, Police procedural.