In my testing of American series, I discussed Dexter recently. In the pilot, I can say that the concept is very interesting (clever idea for a serial killer a hero) and it is very well built.
That said, from the driver I see some big weaknesses. The main
: so we put the package into the hero he seems surrounded by neu-neus. Maybe his voice take too much space and prevents them from developing the other characters, at least it's efficient to plant our sociopath invertebrate. Personally, if I follow I do not know how many episodes for the show to actually confront an opponent at his level, I will not continue the experiment for long.
Well, it was for the large structural weakness in character. But there is also a big weakness "ideological" if I dare say, that of to explain his status as a final lesson of education given by his adoptive father to channel his urge to kill. I find it very unhealthy. The yankees love the concept of private justice since the 80s even though we do not see too many movies like the famous Vigilante Death Wish ( A Death Wish ) Bronson exploding with some thugs to overcome the deficiencies of the system judiciary. I dare not even imagine how Dirty Harry would have been a dung if the producers had wanted to explain the behavior of the character brilliantly played by Clint Eastwood: his dad made him the lesson that was crushed to death by a drunk driver, her sister who is rape ... Yuck, which approach foul of human psychology to want to reduce a character to a completely disembodied personal revenge.
Brief Dexter does not directly directed violence in the outfield, this is anecdotal and not treated in a fun way "to Tarantino," the first 3 episodes anyway. But this moral violence to seek at all costs to justify, explain, connect the obsession of a serial killer with something rational in the company, I found Dexter very nauseous. Top violent films show violence as it is without them feast, just to punctuate the narrative. Justify violence is decidedly the worst drift on screens in recent decades.
short, all that to say that despite a very good concept and a great character, Dexter leaves me doubly marble. Maybe I'll watch other episodes occasionally, but I'm pretty disappointed with the treatment.
And finally, my starting point is to say that the series are often better written than movies, I can find on my personal and small sample sets are not proportionally better. We simply meet several people who are better prepared, more profound: normal, must be long in their company. The rest is just as complicated to succeed, and the series are still very predictable in their twists and caricatured as the films have a field of evolving larger narrative. Needless to say, not tomorrow I'm going to cinemas to turn me into a geek series;)
