John Lithgow is one of my favorite actors and I follow him on Twitter. When I found out he was playing a bad guy in Dexter, I quick, put Dexter Season 1 on my Netflix queue and put the first CD all the way to the top.
I'm sort of anal, and I couldn't just start watching Season 4 of Dexter without seeing every single episode of every single season. A couple of days later Dexter arrived, and I was all excited because this is my genre. It turned out to be mind-numbing and terrible. There was too much blood and death, there's a lot of death in 24 but not so much blood. Yes, I know it's fake blood, but it is still icky. What's more, Dexter is just okay looking, but he's not very interesting to look at -- and he's a psychopath and has no emotion. Playing an emotionless person doesn't lend itself to a lot of drama. Yet, Data in Star Trek Next Generation was a android without emotion and he pulled it off. He became one of the most interesting characters in the show. Dexter is not an interesting character. Yet he's doing very interesting things and people around him are interesting...and I do want to see John Lithgow. Hmm.
So I'm in this anal-retentive quandary. Do I skip all the seasons and go ahead to Season 4 and just watch Lithgow; all the while intensely bothered about all the shows I missed? Or do I sit through and watch the gory details of each episode and hope like hell the show gets better? Any suggestions from anyone out there who on some slim chance is reading this blog because hell froze over?
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