Articles tagged "dexter"

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Antiheroes like Jack Bauer are TV’s new heroes

by Noel Holston [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.May.09] :. British talk-show host and satirist David Frost once observed that television is “an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn’t have in your...

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‘Dexter’ gets a life

by Ellen Gray [Philadelphia Daily News (MCT)]

[28.Sep.08] :. “Dexter” spent the spring on CBS, but with the writers strike now history, television’s most sympathetic serial killer is back on premium cable Sunday (9 p.m., Showtime). Which is,...

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TV Review

Dexter: Season Three Premiere

by Cynthia Fuchs

[26.Sep.08] :. The moral muddling is never resolved in Dexter. The more Dexter (Michael C. Hall) insists on his rightness, the more limited his vision appears.

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Dexter

by Cynthia Fuchs

[17.Feb.08] :. Predictably, the network cut is much more concerned with removing all premium cable language than with obfuscating the utter corruption Dexter embodies and acts out each episode.

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CBS breaks network ground by airing edited version of ‘Dexter’

by Diane Werts [Newsday (MCT)]

[13.Feb.08] :. Portraying something does not equal glorifying it. Repeat this repeatedly. Lather, rinse, repeat. It’s a fair point to stress and re-stress as CBS prepares to debut Showtime’s acclaimed...

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‘Dexter’ eludes detection, for now

by Maureen Ryan [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[10.Oct.07] :. As viewers saw on the Sept. 30 Season 2 premiere of “Dexter” (Sundays, 9 p.m. EDT on Showtime), Dexter Morgan is a changed man. This terrific Showtime series is giving us a much more...

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Dexter

by Michael Abernethy

[4.Oct.07] :. With Dexter worrying and fumbling, the second season has opened with questions.

 

Dexter

by Cynthia Fuchs

[16.Oct.06] :. While Dexter provides a seductive enough surface, it doesn't lose sight of the ugliness "deep inside."