Review: All Jekyll And No Hyde Makes “Dexter” A Jumpy Boy

That sucks for him. But it’s pretty entertaining for us.
TV’s favorite serial killer/forensic expert begins his second season of "Dexter" on Showtime this Sunday. And he’s got a boatload of problems. He can’t get it up. He can’t kill. And a suspicious colleague is following him everywhere, so Dexter must try to look as normal as possible. He even joins the squad room bowling team. "What’s disturbing is that I’m good at it," Dexter tells us in voiceover.
This is an absolutely riveting performance by Michael C. Hall, who had plenty of experience with sex and death on "Six Feet Under." Here he does an astonishing thing by making us root for the psychopath. Of course, that’s partly because Dexter only kills bad guys. You could say he administers frontier justice. But still, when you see how he does it…Hall and the writers accomplish something pretty amazing by making us empathize […]

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