Showtime’s DEXTER Loved By All

Our inboxes have been swamped with glowing reviews for Showtime’s new original series “Dexter,” based on Jeff Lindsay’s Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Alessandra Stanley for The New York Times writes, “I for one cannot wait to see the next episode.” The Chicago Tribune, not to be outdone, effuses, “Dexter’s dry, witty narration is so perfectly pitched that I immediately wanted to buy Lindsay’s novels to hear more of it.” Now that’s what we like to hear! Television critics trading their remotes for a book!

However, it is the New York Sun who delivers the rhetorical coup de grace: “”Dexter” is a mordant riff on the media’s aestheticization of murder and a macabre variant on the venerable modernist theme of the outsider.” Are you serious, New York Sun? I’m not sure that you wrote this yourself. Have you read our Honor Code on plagiarizing wordy academic papers by literature professors? Look, we may have to suspend you if you don’t drop the act.