I love Dexter. It’s not quite “The Shield with a serial killer protagonist” that I imagined, when I first heard the premise…on the contrary, it’s pretty pro-status quo and safe enough show for CBS to run it with a few edits. Still, the show excels at the creation, and casting, of brilliant villians, and Michael C. Hall plays a great “benevolent outsider”; an intriguing hybrid of Boo Radley, Patrick Bateman, and Bruce Wayne.
I received an email about the upcoming season 3 of Dexter, from a friend in a position to know, and it contained the following hints of what’s in store:
“…new season seems is trending darker. Again, nothing to do with “Dexter in the Dark”…no body-switching demons. Think more along the lines of the serial killer convention story from Gaiman’s Sandman run, and Suspect Zero.”
The Sandman story referenced is issue #14, it’s an outstanding issue of an epic series, and can be found here. Suspect Zero is a criminally-underrated, 2004 psychological thriller that plays like a horror movie designed to scare serial killers. Both are highly recommended, and if the shows’ producers really are drawing inspiration from these, then I can’t wait to see what they come up with.
Dexter season three is expected to begin airing on Showtime sometime around September 30th, 2008…but keep an eye on the torrent sites for pre-air leaks, in the weeks (months?) before this.
One Response to “Dexter Season 3 news!”
Cant wait!