Just wanted to take a moment and let everyone know that, along with Heroes on NBC, I have another favorite new show. This one is so good I found myself actually affected by it like no other show in years.

The season finale just aired and I’m still thinking about it. It is a masterfully written show and arguably the best I’ve seen in as long as I can remember. This first season has been phenomenal and I can’t imagine how they’ll top it for next year.

Official Dexter Homepage

LOS ANGELES, CA (November 2, 2006)

SHOWTIME has ordered a second season of its freshman drama DEXTER, starring Emmy®- and Golden Globe®-nominated actor Michael C. Hall (“Six Feet Under”), it was announced today by Robert Greenblatt, Showtime President of Entertainment. DEXTER premiered last month to widespread critical acclaim and ranks as SHOWTIME’S top-rated series. Production is set to begin on 12 new episodes next spring and will premiere on SHOWTIME later in 2007. The series follows Dexter Morgan (Hall), an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer.

DEXTER has been one of the most talked about and critically lauded new series of the year. Said New York Magazine in its review last month: “…horrifying, intoxicating, seductive and thrilling, all at the same time.” The Boston Globe’s Matthew Gilbert proclaimed, “This fiendishly excellent new Showtime series turns blood splatter into a pop art form, like Jackson Pollock meets Annie Leibovitz.” Additionally, Time and People magazines both named DEXTER one of the best new series of the fall season.

DEXTER is based on the compelling novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” by Jeff Lindsay, a South Florida native. Orphaned at the age of four and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter is adopted by a police officer who recognizes Dexter’s homicidal tendencies and guides his son to channel his gruesome passion for human vivisection in a constructive way - by killing those heinous perpetrators who are above the law or who have slipped through the cracks of justice.

A respected member of the police force, a perfect gentleman and a man with a soft spot for children, it’s hard not to like Dexter. Although his drive to kill is unflinching, he struggles to emulate normal emotions he doesn’t feel, and to keep up his appearance as a caring, socially responsible human being.

article courtesy of Showtime