A blog about television by TIME’s TV critic James Poniewozik.

Psycho Killer, Qu'est Que C'est

If you watch only one police procedural on TV--and you probably should watch only one police procedural on TV--make it Dexter (Showtime, debuts Sunday), in which Michael C. Hall of Six Feet Under plays a serial killer who channels his impulses into finding and murdering other murderers. Hall is creepily appealing. The show's meditations on morality are fascinating: is it a person's actions or a person's nature and thoughts that make him good or evil? The cases are fairly well plotted. Beyond that--well, I reviewed it here, so I'm not going to expound further. As the man sang:


              When I have nothing to say, my lips are sealed.
              Say something once, why say it again?

Fa fa fa faaa fa, fa fa fa faaa fa, and have a nice weekend.

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