01-29-2009, 06:17 AM
The Showtime show Dexter is easily one of my favorite shows on TV, and it seems that A LOT of other horror fans out there dig the hell out of it too. If you haven't seen it, it is based on the the book Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay. It follows the life of a man who is by day a blood splatter analyst for the Miami Police department, and by night a serial killer of people who he deems are "bad people'. When I first heard of the show, I figured "Hey, a vigilante who wants to fight crime", but the truth is much darker. Dexter is a true serial killer. He cannot stop his urges to kill. He kills "bad" people mostly to stay of the radar, and to feed his "Dark Passenger". Now my question is this. What is the genre this show fits into? Thriller or Horror? Micheal Myers could easily be considered a serial killer, and Halloween is horror. Hmmm, what a fine line these things walk.![[Image: dexter.jpg]](http://i459.photobucket.com/albums/qq311/damonconant12345/dexter.jpg)
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