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DEXTER
( Showtime )

Justice is murder for Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a part-time sleuth and — oh, yeah — serial killer who learned young to put his deadly urges to productive use by slaughtering only bad guys. Hall's composed, self-aware performance is flat-out stunning, and so is the treatment of this psychoprocedural's central idea: Is it a man's thoughts or his actions that make him good or evil? The Season 1 series finale — in which Dexter chose his adoptive sister over his also-murderous biological brother — raised the disturbing possibility that Dexter may actually have a real, rather than manufactured, sense of morality. I'll be waiting for Season 2 to learn more. The suspense is killing me.





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