Dexter

With Dexter and Breaking Bad now having ended, let's take a closer look at the former and briefly mention that the latter's main character is similar towards Dexter in that they both have a dual life and both well... don't have a happy ending, as anyone would had assumed throughout the series.

Dexter Morgan is a bloodsplatter analyst at Miami Police where he investigates brutal and bloody crime scenes of what happened and other stuff like collecting fingerprints and DNA, but once he is free at night, he turns into a serial killer, hunting only for criminals who he believes have escaped justice.

What made the TV series so interesting to watch was how Dexter would live out this dual life, trying to hide his darker self at all times, while each of the main antagonists of each season basically had something in common with him, similar in how many great Batman foes have something common with him as well.

The opening credits are really ordinary, yet they did draw me constantly in into reminding me how Dexter's routine not only works in the morning, but at night too. The code that his father Harry taught to him was the tool, and the excuse, for Dexter to be allowed for his "desire" to be softenend whenever there was a need.

A serial killer going for evil criminals only is a twisted noble idea, and I saw this before with a little anime known as Death Note, another incredible series. While it may "justify" circumstancial events at certain times, the more you act like this, the more you will recognize that it is not a permanent solution, as criminals change in shape and time eventually as well, but that's another topic.

The supporting cast of Dexter is for one half likeable and for the other...well, let's just talk about them. Debra Morgan was although an important character, dislikable because of her personality being in doubt so many times and basically having too many fuckbuddies.

Then you had Vince Masuka for minor comic relief, Angel Batista who remained cool throughout but never really shined,  Joseph Quinn who made a lot of bad choices and Maria LaGuerta started getting obnoxious the longer you watched her screentime.

No, what really made Dexter constantly interesting to watch were the crime scenes and the criminals themselves, with special mentions of course towards the main villains. For instance, the Ice Truck Killer, or Dexter's secret brother, was basically just a more extreme version of him that wanted to partner up.

Or what about Trinity, the most famous bad guy that at first seemed to have perfectioned his double life for 30 years, but once Dexter discovered more he was shocked at how horrible he really lived while keeping his insane routine in check of killing 4 individuals in the same manner.

Dexter was also easily distinguished for using a lot of narration from the main character which bugged some audiences, but I never really paid much attention to it apart from the moments when it was too obvious what he was either doing or thinking about.

Unfortunately, the series ended dissapointing because there were (like any bad ending) too many important questions left unanswered, and frankly the whole thing with Dexter turning into a lumberjacker was unexpected but not satisfying.

That doesn't mean that Dexter really shined, because it did, especially with Season 1 and 4 in particular. There were many suspenseful and excitingly lethal scenes to view, and Dexter's kill room remained interesting for the audience because we wanted to see the true faces of each criminal each time, like Dexter also wanted.