Posted inWeird Sites of the Month

My Favorite Dexter Remakes and Riffs

I'm a big follower of the Showtime TV series Dexter, currently airing its final season. For the past year I've been rescreening the entire run, posting a running series of notes to twitter under hashtag #dexternotes (see the archive in The Nest), and my next personal reading project is to catch up with Lindsay's Dexter book series (the program is a fascinating study in adaptation, as it departs wildly from the books) in preparation for the upcoming release of a new title, ironically called Dexter's Final Cut (releasing end of August 2013 on Kindle and in mid-Sept in hardcover). As…
August 12, 2013Posted inWeird Sites of the Month1 Comment
Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons

Dexter Early Cuts: All in the Family

Kudos to Showtime for releasing animated tales from the Dexter universe between seasons. Here's a link to the Dexter: Early Cuts cartoon series on youtube (with voiceover by Michael C. Hall himself). All the Dexter webisodes are also available on the Showtime website. Here's the first chapter of "All in the Family": I've become quite smitten with the Dexter series of late, and have been rewatching the entire series, sharing my thoughts on Twitter as #DexterNotes. Also available here at gorelets.com in The Nest.
September 8, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons
Posted inData+Errata

Dexter Notes

I've been a longtime fan of the Dexter series on Showtime, and a new season (#7) is going to begin in about a month. I unfortunately don't subscribe to Showtime, having caught it through Netflix and Amazon Video on Demand in the past. But last month I picked up the entire run of the whole series (when I spotted it as a blu ray deal of the week on Amazon) and have begun watching it all over again, deliberately, studying this serial killer series for whatever new observations I can make the second time around and to uncover any lessons…
September 2, 2012Posted inData+Errata3 Comments