Dexter

Dexter is a Showtime Series which began in October 2006 and finished its fifth season in December of 2010. This American television drama series has a little bit of everything. By genre, Dexter can be considered a crime drama, suspense, horror, dark comedy, and mystery series.
This show follows around Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a likable forensics specialist on blood splatter who works for the Miami Police Department homicide unit. Dexter does have a big secret. He is a serial killer who only kills other killers. As his character is developed through the series, viewers learn that at the age of four, Dexter witnesses his mother being murdered with a chainsaw in a shipping container. He is lift for dead, in a pool of his mother’s blood for days. When he came out, he was forever changed, never being able to feel emotion again, and having urges of killing that turned into an addition. He was taken in by homicide detective, Harry Morgan, who used Dexter’s condition for “good.” Harry taught Dexter to channel his desires to kill to only killing criminals who escaped prosecution in the legal system. Dexter as an adult, lives by “Harry’s code,” which includes many rules. This code was to insure that the people Dexter kills are in fact killers and a danger to society.
Dexter is a very interesting series, because it tests viewers' morals. Although Dexter kills to fix the wrongs of society, he is still killing. Watching this show one finds them self in Dexter’s head, rationalizing murder. Thematically, is Dexter seen as an antihero, who secretly corrects society’s wrongs. He is in a bind because of our legal system. Even though his killings are corrective for the system, the system would hurt him if he was found out.
I would suggest Dexter to anyone with an appreciation for quality writing, production quality, crime dramas, moreover has a strong stomach.