November 24, 2007
Sympathy for the Devil: The Nice-Guy Serial Killer Next Door
During the past two years Showtime has made its mark with series that ostentatiously demand our sympathy for narcissists, wrongdoers, the egregiously misbehaved. The New York Times reports.
"At the center of “Californication ” is a wounded philanderer. “Brotherhood” delivers a thug with brain trauma. On “Weeds” a widowed mother, her options foreclosed, turns to drug dealing and parental neglect. What does it say that Dexter Morgan, a forensics expert and serial killer, is the most likable character in this assembly?
There's something seriously wrong with all of us. That said. I can't wait until the next Dexter episode.
Related:
-- ‘Dexter’ Draws Blood, Bigger Audiences - Viewers are catching on; last Sunday’s episode attracted a network-high 1.23 million viewers, Showtime said on Wednesday. That marked “the biggest audience ever for a series on Showtime since the network started breaking out numbers for individual series in 2004, and nearly 10 percent of Showtime’s overall subscriber base of about 13 million,” Broadcatsting & Cable reports.
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