I'm watching Dexter this week. I like it. I'm not in awe or anything, but I really like how they treat the issue of the main character wanting to appear normal, to blend in. I guess looking at the world through the eyes of a psychopath with a morality code is as good a device for that as any.

For those who don't know the show, Dexter is a blood splatter specialist, and a serial killer who only goes after murderers who have killed indiscriminately. Dexter has no empathy, but intellectually he knows right from wrong and is determined to act accordingly. I can imagine that lots of viewers find themselves identifying with him. I know I do.



In the last episode I watched, Dexter was sitting next to his girlfriend who was crying her eyes out at some movie they'd rented. He thinks, "Maybe if I don't blink, my eyes will tear up." I laughed my ass off at that. God, the number of times I've had that exact same thought!