Dexter: Vigilante Serial Killer

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Dexter
English 102
Barton Owen
Professor: Louis Eaton

Just imagine sitting at your dinner table and your teenage daughter says that she is infatuated with a vigilante serial killer. Well, it’s happening across America and across the world. Showtime’s Dexter is rocking pop culture to its very roots. While the majority of people enjoy watching shows like Criminal Minds where an FBI team is constantly apprehending serial killers, Dexter is exactly the opposite. He is a vigilante serial killer, and somehow he has made it ever so appealing to a vast audience base.
Dexter is a mini series on Showtime, based a series of novels by Jeff Lindsey containing the fictional antihero vigilante serial killer who everyone knows as the calm, cool, collective, Dexter Morgan, forensic blood splatter analyst who enjoys his job more than expected by day as a member of the fictional Miami-Metro Police Department. (Lindsey, Darkly Dreaming Dexter, 2004) But by night he delivers a cold, calculated, justified, death, to those that have earned it, on a table wrapped in plastic, from a knife cloaked in leather.
Although Dexter appears to the public to be a quiet man that is only part of his well maintained disguise. A …show more content…

(Monaghan, 2004) Upon acquittal, Wyatt kills many more members of the notorious gang to avenge his brother Morgan’s death before the end of his campaign. Vigilante murders occur frequently today primarily due to lengthy trials and numerous well-developed, publicized loopholes in the legal system allowing criminals to walk freely. Vigilante killers are commonly acquitted depending on the situation due to some of the same loopholes, whether it’s a father shooting the drunk driver that has just killed his two sons or a mother shooting her daughter’s admitted

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