After hearing the recommendations here and elsewhere, I
finally got around to watching the first half of the first
season. I have some of the usual gripes I have about
television in general, especially the fact that Dexter lives
in a waterfront apartment and owns a boat on a city employee
salary.(Seriously, must everyone have a huge, expensive home
no matter how far beyond their means it would be in real
life?)
I an however, on the whole, enjoying it more than
the first Dexter book, which I read before there was a tv
show. It was okay, but I didn't feel compelled to rush out
and pick up the sequel. I think the show, despite running
through most of the big events in the first book in the first
episode, does a pretty good job of capturing the character,
and it also fleshed out some of the peripheral characters,
particularly Doakes and LaGuerta, quite nicely. It almost
makes me regret canceling my cable. Almost.
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