Cape Coral

Iým not sure if the people in Cape Coral, Florida are aware of this, but one of Cape Coralýs citizens has a very, very dark mind. Iým not sure of where he lives in Cape Coral, but if people of Cape Coral want to take a deep look into his mind they need to turn on Showtime and find out.

Whenever discussing my favorite television shows, I cannot go without mentioning the Showtime series Dexter. It involves one of the most vile, brilliant concepts on television today.

Dexter is about a serial killer, who only murders the bad guys. It is a topic often brought up in vigilante stories, but usually the stories involve heroes in comic books and movies. Dexter works for the police department as a blood splatter expert and sees the flaws in the judicial system.

Without giving too much away, Dexter was a victim of the system and that experience heavily influences the person he has become today. Dexter humanizes these actions and you can not help, but applaud him for it. He is careful, heýs tedious; heýs funny and extremely likeable.

Author Jeff Lindsey, who lives in Cape Coral, Florida, with his family, came out with the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, which the first season of the show was based on. The novel and the series take place not too far from Cape Coral, in Miami FL. In the first season many taboo topics are prevalent in story lines. The topic of sex, in which Dexter has intimacy issues with his girlfriend. She, herself, was a victim of sexual abuse. Murder is of course chronicled; judging if itýs morally right to kill someone; if in turn, it saves a multitude of lives. It covers family life and how far individuals will go to protect one of their own? It talks about the failures of the judicial system and watching criminals fall through the cracks, only to kill again.

Lindsey seems to invoke the inner killer in all of us and humanizes it. It brings up an interesting topic as an audience member watching Dexter. Dexter is a character, that although he does the most vile of things, we root for him. We donýt care if he is from Cape Coral, FL or Timbuktu. We root for him to succeed at his job, in his personal life, as well as getting away with committing these horrific crimes. When the police say not to take the law into your own hands, there is an exception to every rule and he is the exception.

We donýt want to see him fail or pay for his crimes. He does things, that when push comes to shove, most of us could never do. Itýs not in our DNA. Itýs not something you are born with; it is something that is made. The show goes into Dexterýs history and how someone could develop just a dark side. And watching the show and being a fan of the show I find it amazing at some of the things humans are capable of doing and the depths that they will go to hide their dark and twisted secrets.

I donýt know how many people in Cape Coral watch the show, but the citizens of Cape Coral can rest assure, they have one brilliant, dark and twisted mind living in their city and he calls Cape Coral home.

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