--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rory, it sounds to me as if you would really enjoy the > TV series "Dexter." For me it's one of the best essays > on *compassion* I've ever encountered, and for me that > term means a lot of what you seem to mean when you use > the term unconditional love. > > Dexter is a nerdy guy who works as a forensic investigator > for the Miami Police Department. But he moonlights as a > serial killer. He's played by Michael C. Hall, who played > the gay brother in "Six Feet Under," and he's excellent, > but he's only one member of a superb ensemble cast of > characters, *all* of whom eventually inspire you to feel > almost as much compassion for them as you begin to feel > for Dexter himself. > > Dexter is not for everyone. But if you can manage to find > seeing yourself as Goering uplifting, then getting inside > the head of a serial killer is going to be no problemo. > The first season is available on DVD.
Many thanks, Turq! It sounds good. I appreciate your thinking of me, and will try to check it out if events flow that way. I resonate with your taste in film; like you, I *greatly* enjoyed Firefly during its all-too-brief flight, though I think Deadwood was my favorite show of the past few years. That constant subtle shifting between monstrous/angelic in each character, with historical overtones in that fluid Shakespearean/Biblical rhythm of 19th-century autodidactic speech, spiced with marvelous mining-camp obscenities -- Yum! Unbeatable! But then, I have not yet been drawn to watch The Sopranos, or Lost, so I'm a little behind the times :-) *L*L*L*
