Yo, i only seen this show a few times but i aint feelin it at all. Now, I kno that theres a good chance that I didnt really get the whole idea becuz of not seeing much of it, so i totaly understand that this is completely just my opinion, without much to back it up other than its just how i feel. I aint knockin none of yall tho for likin this show so plz dont think I am attackin u, Ima just say my thoughts on the idea of the show.
Ima sound pretty stupid for this but its how i feel so w/ever...I feel like alot of these shows just try too hard to be edgy now adays, once u have a idea like, Highschool teacher/meth cook in breaking bad, and it does good and audiences get real into it, then the networks get all like oh lets make a show about another normal life guy who does somethin unexpected, and u get this crap.
Honestly, also I really, really dont put much morality or values judgement into the shows i like or dont like....I enjoy all kind of shit. Murder, drugs, sex, or watever. I aint some kind of freaky anti "bad" things in TV/movies person. I like all kind of movies about the under side of life or shows about the same type of thing. drug addict movies/shows, shows about crimes, killin, gangs, watever. Im sayin, i aint the type of person whose like , OMG!! this show is so immoral, it shows bad things! Na, Nothing like that at all, really dont give a fuck. So I want yall to kno that, before u read my thoughts here and go thinkin that i just dont like it cuz Im some kind of morally conservative person or some shit like that, becuz Im the farthest thing from that.
But IDK, for some reason it just bothers me that its a show about this dude whose a serial killer. Not becuz I think it will make ppl do that, i hate that arguement. I dont think its a bad influence on people, or watever. I just....I dont know, the idea, it just seems far fetched in general, and like its tryin so far to be controversial and edgy that it dont care about picking a topic thats actually just pretty tasteless. wats next, a show about a serial rapist and his normal life against his secret rape life? Becuz when it goes from drug dealers, mafia, prostitues, and all kinda shit like that in these kind of shows, to straight up serial murderers, then it feels to me like they just pushing to come up with somethin that will shock and suprise people and draw in the audience that is gonna be like "oh cool , thats sick and twisted, i LOVE shit like that!"
I been unfortunate enough to know ppl in my teenage years, that would see a show like this, and think its badass and intriguing, and that its cool to be like dexter. Like they wouldnt do it but they would geniunely think it is COOL to be a person living a totally underground secret life doin somethin that ppl see as so horrible, and gettin away with it becuz u carry on this normal ass life on the surface.
and they woudnt dream of bein like dexter or nothin, but just the whole attitude people have when they watch this shit that it aint necessarily bad is weird to me. kinda off thats all. showin it by makin dexter a "good guy" character instead of the usual way a main character who does "bad" things is showed (as a person with flaws but someone who gets a little sympathy, froma mostly neutral point of view) is kind of normalizing it in a way. instead of observin wat the person is doin, and just showin and tellin about this life of "bad" things they live, drugs or crime or w/ever, and just presenting it to the audience but not really takin sides too much, this series seems to be on some kind of "dexter is a nice guy! root for the serial killer ! " type shit. Iunno, it just seems a lil fucked up. they show him in a positive light, thats kinda wat i aint about. At least in the parts I seen, it seems that way to me. maybe im wrong, idk.
And i aint even saying that kind of pro-dexter, "serial killing is acceptable becuz we show him as the good guy" attitude CAUSES somethin...becuz it dont really...nothin gonna happen, it aint gonna make ppl kill ppl....I dont think its corrupting the children, or makin people more open to killing. Its just a show, but jus the way its made and the kind of turnin the serial killer into the hero type dude , is just leavin a bad taste in my mouth so to speak. like I said, i dont feel like its shocking or groundbreaking in the good way that makes people think or really means anything, its just kind of a tasteless, see how far u can push it thing. The difference between somebody saying "Fuck religion" and "Jesus christ was a faggot and a bitch pussy who probably got fucked in the ass by the apostles." Both of them are "shocking" to main stream everyday society type people but one of them is more of a "makin a statement" type of thing and the other one is just sayin obscene shit just for the sake of it, when it just aint necessary at all and dont mean nothing, its just bein unnecessarily disrespectful and shows noooo taste at all.
So its a little bit like that to me , of course not exaclty the same or on the same level, just the whole subject of who dexter is suppose to be and how it seems like they tryin to be too hip or somethin by pickin this but end up just being liike...Ugh....thats just classless. I just aint exactly cool with the idea of somebody doin this bein a acceptable kind of thing that people aint only ok with but think its kinda cool. Iunno, thats just me, it seems fucked up to me that somebody would view this and not be disgusted by makin a serial murderers life seem cool but its just my opinion and why i dont like it, i aint judging nobody who does like it or sayin u shouldnt like it. just for me this show sucks, it really aint even that creative its just takin the secret life plot and putting in a "shocking" hobby as the secret life. its shock value that gets ppl who are about 'deviant' shit all wet in the panties.
