Dexter

[franko]

A neighbour brought me over Season One on DVD and said that I might enjoy it -- "It's different".

Yup. Interesting.

[cigarviper]

Jan 24, 2009 21:04:46 GMT -5 franko said:

A neighbour brought me over Season One on DVD and said that I might enjoy it -- "It's different".

Yup. Interesting.

I gave it a chance. Just wasn't my thing.

[PTH]

Every year my parents discover a new TV show that I bring over at Christmastime.

2 years ago it was 24, last year was Burn Notice, this year it was Dexter. They ate it up (I've seen every single episode at least twice...)

[Andrew]

I've enjoyed all three seasons so far - especially season three with the addition of Jimmy Smits, who does a great job as Miguel. It's definitely a different premise for a show, but quite entertaining.

[franko]

Quirky enough for me . . . a little "iffy" in spots for me . . . funnily enough, my wife [who detests violence and gets ill seeing blood] is the one who asks "ready for another episode?".

Halfway through season one . . . three seasons in the can already?

Last year my daughter brought home "Dead Like Me" -- that was interesting, too.

[Cranky]

Although I watch it, I find it disturbing that they are portraying a likable psychopath. I find it even MORE disturbing that the program has so much following.

I wonder, how many nutcases are getting affected and encouraged by the show?

[franko]

Well, HA, its just more of the "normalization" of everything on or over the edge and the erosion of things that used to be "traditional". Our society no longer holds one man-one woman for life as the norm [and it isn't gay marriage that put an end to it, it is serial monogamy, where divorce and remarriage and why bother to marry at all, that has done it]. Our society [for a long time, though it may be waning now] encouraged the early sexualization of women [pre-teens bought into and were encouraged toward the skank look -- and life]. Our society no longer holds people accountable for their actions: addicts are just "sick" and it isn't their fault they are addicted to crack or heroin . . . someone or something in society pushed them over the edge and their illness took hold of them . . . they shouldn't be forced to quite . . . in fact, we'll make sure they don't catch disease by providing money and space for them. [whoa, you say . . . I thought he had a modicum of compassion! I do -- I just think that helping people means pulling them out of the hole they have dug themselves into, not throwing them another shovel so they can dig deeper].

This brings me back to Edward Gibbon who said that five things marked Rome at its end and the fact that North American society is nearing a demise:

• A mounting love of show and luxury [check]
  
• A widening gap between the very rich and very poor [check]
  
• An obsession with sex [check]
  
• freakishness in the arts, masquerading as originality, and enthusiasms pretending to be creativity [difficult to say, perhaps . . . but then again, look at Serrano, etc . . . [check][
  
• An increased desire to live off the state [check]

Dexter et al are just symptoms of culture disappearing