Dexter Morgan: a "Complex and Ambiguous Meditation on Morality"

             In the series Dexter, the main character is a "normal" guy working for the Miami Police Department as a blood splatter analysis. Because of his disturbed childhood, Dexter now lives a double life. He has the need to kill people, but with the help of his foster father, he learned to control this need by killing bad person who, according to him and his father, do not deserve to live. In fact, woking for the police department, Dexter has access to all the cases of crimes. In his spare time, he deters crimes that have not been solved and kill the assaillant. Since he knows the protocole about what police are looking for on a crime scene, he is never suspected.
             This series are watched by millions of people who developed a certain respect for the character, although he is a serial killer. It creates an ambiguous reflexion about who and how people deserve to live. Dexter offers the public a clear differentiation of "good" and "bad" and makes it acceptable to be a serial killer. It forces the auditory to think about what is "normal" and what is not. The usual popular series as CSI, Criminal Minds, Bones and so on, portrait situations in which law always wins over crime, which provides a sense of security to the audience. In Dexter, we are put in a situation where we do not where the line stands between what is right and what is wrong. It brings us to wonder how could a show like this, bringing a new perception of crime, impact some peoples life.

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Written by Laurie St-Pierre