Last night was the series premier
of the 3 year old tv series
"Dexter"
on CTV
we got to see the fist episode of season one
I've been hearing some of my US friends
speaking positively about this show
and how much they were looking forward to it
so I watched it
to see what's what
here's the premise:
a young boy is so badly abused that by the time he
reaches foster care he kills animals
on a regular basis
as he grows older he continues
only now his foster father the cop
knows what he's doing and suggests
that the next time
he gets the "urge"
he speak to him
but Dexter doesn't
instead
as an adult he becomes a forensic specialist
for the local police force
specializing in blood spatter....
well that...
and he's a serial killer
he finds out about the "bad guys"
that for reasons usually technical
are not being punished for their crimes
and he brutally murders them
and disposes of their bodies
uhhhhhm?
is this the kinda shit we should be touting
as good tv?
it's well done
it's glib
it's smart
it's flashy
and in my opinion
it's wrong.
Monday, February 18, 2008
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hehehe... last night Mick & I watched the TV movie redo of the old Knight Rider series... K.I.T.T. is now a Mustang instead of a Trans Am. It was fun, so many old TV series redo's are so dark and broody... this was the same old 80's light action fun that the original series was... remember back when TV was fun?
That is an example of why I do not watch T.V. As well as the fact that they are all basically soap operas now...
I read your blog just shortly after I posted on mine....funny how things connect despite being completely different............
it's almost like they are fostering the belief that the american public needs vigilantes because the system doesen't work.
another example is the movie The Brave One by Jody Foster.
*sigh* The ides of Feb suck shit big time
LD
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