We may be more disposed to accept, if not actually approve, Dexter’s murderous activities because his victims are themselves reprehensible criminals who have, for the most part, molested and killed children and other innocents, and who have got away with it because the law is either ineffectual in its maintenance or full of loopholes in its application but this alone fails to explain the pleasure and enthusiasm expressed by both readers and viewers with regard to the Dexter novels and TV show. Garroting, slicing, and vivisecting: how and why do these incite pleasure in the average readership and television audience? For example, Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter series has come to be seen as intriguing and entertaining, even chic. 18–20Vengeance is mine I will repay, saith the Lord.
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