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1 Dexter
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2006-present
Showtime (UK)
Developed by: James Manos, Jr
Starring: Michael C Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Desmond Harrington, CS Lee
What is it? A bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department moonlights as a serial killer.
Why should it be an honorary SFX show? This delightfully perverse show won the vote by a huge margin, and it’s easy to understand why. And it’s not just because it’s brilliant, and hasn’t suffered much from the quality seepage you’d expect from a show into its sixth season (with two more just commissioned!). Stylistically, it feels like a comic book adaptation, with stylised direction and editing, and Dexter himself, it can be argued, is a kind of anti-superhero – he may not have superpowers (then again, neither does Batman) but he does fight crime in an extreme way (he only kills bad guys) using a secret identity. It features some outlandish villains as well – the ice truck killer, the Trinity killer – who don’t feel too far removed from certain Batman baddies.
If they could just introduce an alien or a time-traveling murderer, we’d willingly cover it!
