Why do people watch dexter

His mark takes drugs, has sex with strangers, hurts animals. He demonstrates callous disregard for gun control laws, mocks his friends and — it transpires — once killed a bunch of people in a boating accident.

Worst of all, however — and brace yourself, for this is truly frightening — he has the temerity to work for Morgan Stanley. Dexter was just doing what anyone would have done, if they happened to be a sociopath trained in the art of murdering by a negligent parental figure.

Even so, there are plenty of signs that this new iteration is going to be worth sticking with. His external conscience has also been given a nifty upgrade. Few actors can scream with the panache of Jennifer Carpenter, and bringing her back is undoubtedly a smart move. Unlike that show, New Blood has plenty of direction.

It promises to tell a self-contained story, stripped of the flabby camp that came to define it, and to tell it well. But that would defeat the purpose of the show. Breaking and entering, that sort of thing. Just a thought. I think we like Dexter because we also have a dark passenger in our souls. Everyone has a dark side. But he has a Code. He is a serial killer, of cource, but he is a killer with cause. I think that he is not a monster. He does his own justice. Of cource, he is not a God, he has no right to do this justice and kill people, but he has not another choise — he became a serial killer because he had a psyhological trauma in childhood.

I think that we can understand him. What you call rationalization by saying that murder is never acceptable, I call BS. Why would it be unacceptable in the way that Dexter delivers it, but acceptable if done by injection by the judicial system? Yes, in this case immorality would have to apply to both parties or none if murder were wrong, but the fact the those who are being killed are in fact guilty, to me is not just acceptable, but desirable.

Call it rationalization if you will, but there is no internal struggle to rationalize to be, it was what I wanted from the beginning…. I personally like Dexter because quite simply he and I are quite alike. It is fascinating to look for what you have in common with him and where you differ. I think a fair amount of people can, on a psychological level, identify with Dexter, however unsettling that is.

Often there are only a few aspects that differ and keep one from acting as Dexter does. But a sense of addiction or dependency, a feeling of disconnection and wonder, conflicting impulses that require rationalization to control, a secret desire to do what Dexter does, I figure at least some fans must feel these things. Dexter is just more of the detrimental programming that has covertly brainwashed the zombies that walk the earth. Television is a marvel of technology and at the same time we have been lied to through it and been made repeaters of the lies.

Our youth has been desensitized by the killing in video games and shows like Dexter where it makes killing cool and justifies it because Dexter is a good killer and the other killers are bad and deserve to die. The social engineers in Hollywood and you know what group controls Hollywood have turned people into uninformed desensitized biological androids…. A person that claims definitively to have the only proper way of thinking is a narcissist and incapable of conversation. We simply are by nature.

This argument is invalid, since other serial killers also appear to be normal, not keeping heads in house yet we do not sympathize with them. For this argument to be valid, it has to apply to everyone, but it does not, therefore its a lie. We understand addiction and compulsion Bullshit, again. Society dislikes people with addictions. Like in first statement, for this argument to be valid it has to apply to all people most and since it does not, its bullshit.

Dexter rationalizes, therefore you rationalize Funny, usually when I or my rationality-friendly friends try to rationalize with people, we get negative behaviour from them. I have been to over 10 different countrys and its all the same.

Observable proof suggests that people are to emotional for me or my friends to tryt o rationalize, therefore they perceive it as personal attack and defence mechanism automatically turns on. On contrary and it have been proven over and over again in different places with different people. Reformulating This is not even the reason why we like dexter, but outcome. Guess its to complex for you to see the difference between two.

Anti-social behavior, but great social skills All sociopaths are anti-social but with good social skills. Guess what, that doesnt make to to like them.

Argument invalid. Everybody else likes him Most sociopath serial killers have good social skills, therefore in most cases people like particular serial killer until they find out his true identity. What you sed here, is deffintele NOT reason why we like dexter. By now, I have feeling that this topic was written by clinical retard. Dexter Morgan, without the Dark Passenger, is just an average guy.

Are you sir a chair? Or a tree? Because no sane human can possibly make such logical fallacies as you do here. Yes, Michael C. Hall Your opinion, not fact and definitely not psyhological reason why we like dexter, only your opinion on it. Too funny as is. I, as inteligent human, provided arguments on why everything you sed is false. You, from other hand, didnt provide any argument.

Its sad tho, that mature person like you, fail to prove me wrong, so instead you simply claim im wrong without any proof. You are terrible at spelling and grammar. You also seem very emotionally unstable due to your posting of negative and aggressive comments on non-academic articles. Just saying. I find intelligence a complicated thing to quantify. I think it rather ignorant to brand someone unintelligent based on their spelling and grammar.

Whilst I am very capable in many aspects of my life, there are many in which I struggle. However, I am astounded by my interactions with others on a daily basis. The fact that many go the step further of aggressively ramming such drivel down others throats is a worry. I read Lucias article and found her opinion interesting thanks for taking the time to write it. I agreed with her as I read.

However, I did so fully aware of the fact that everybody is different yet sometimes we can be grouped together. Therefore, I was able to read some of the other comments and agree with them as I read. Hopefully no-one on here is ignorant enough to think that there tuppence is the definitive answer.

As a group I feel many interesting points have been raised and we can all see the complexity of the issue a little more clearly. Lastly, I feel as a society we invest too much trust in qualifications. All to often I have experienced qualified professionals get it wrong. Thank you for your visit, comment and consistent feedback. You are absolutely right in assuming that the content of the article is my opinion and keep in mind that Psychology Corner is a blog, not a scientific journal or website.

Lastly, I do enjoy reading all your comments and I appreciate the critical view. I try to assimilate any constructive feedback and at times I do reconsider my point of view based on the interesting points you guys bring into the discussion. And I find this [edited by admin] disgusting.

This portrayal is completely deceitful, as so are all these action movie characters where the main hero has a terrible past, but now regrets this and that, and above all, is a complex persona full of complex emotions. Psychopaths are empty. Killers, whether army authorized killers, street killers as the one this Dexter guy is supposed to be portraying, people who takes the lives of other people are rather primitive subjects.

Killers are not able to create, to feel complex emotions, to make something new, or actually distinctive or significative of any positive sort to society. Should we also start getting our favorite rapist and our favorite pedophile? Wake up world, please. Your comment demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding the material, from someone who does not wish to understand.

Dexter is the same as the man who throws the switch to the electric chair. I think above comment is right on the desintizisation of Americas youth and the fact that killing wther for a unjust or just cause is wrong.

I too think the way dexter thinks, but do I perform them in real society? No benefit in real life, we have law enforcement to do that job and show them respect for it. Its just that sometimes society are the bad guys. He was influenced as an innocent. One likable attribute is his fearlessness! Hall reprising his role as the eponymous Dexter. The same premise is there: Dexter is a man constantly nagged by the urge to kill, but with the help of his adoptive father, decides to only kill people who deserve it.

While attending to his need to kill, he has to stay off law enforcement's radar and appear as a nice, harmless guy. From the trailer released earlier this year, it looks like a brand new story, with some pointed callbacks to the original series.

However, after surgery Debra suffers a major stroke and is rendered brain dead. In a mercy killing, Dexter takes his sister off life support. Dexter then visits Saxon and stabs him with a pen, but stages it so it appears to be in self-defense since he knows his police colleagues are nearby. In reality, Dexter actually didn't want his son to pick up on his urge to kill he calls it his Dark Passenger , and ran away to the Pacific Northwest to become a lumberjack.