I’m not quite sure I get the appeal of Showtime’s Dexter. I watched the first five episodes or so, and I couldn’t really get my head around why I wanted to watch a show about a serial killer (even if he was ostensibly a “good” one) and some of the acting seemed so wooden that I couldn’t really take it. Still, people I actually like seem to love the show, so maybe I’m the strange one in the transaction. Here’s a teaser for season six, which I will probably be skipping to watch a reality competition about cooking.
This article appears in Jun 16-22, 2011.

why in the world are you writing a blurb on something you know nothing about? the show IS about him, and what he does. so your critic is a bit inane