Darkly Dreaming Dexter

It'd be easy, as with Dead Until Dark/True Blood, just to say, well, it turns out that the pay cable adaptation is better than the original. Admittedly, this has that problem where all of supporting characters are really bland and one-dimensional but were given something like depth (or at least the illusion of depth).

The main problem was that Dexter himself really wasn't that funny or interesting. There were a few moments of a sort of dark lyricism, but much of his narration was just pedestrian, with a sort of marginal cleverness. There were a few moments where Dexter broke into alliteration, which only recalled Humbert Humbert from Lolita, a character who is genuinely funny, disturbing and strangely seductive. (All things Dexter attempted to be, yet fell short of.)

Overall, I wouldn't say it was terrible, but I'm not really tempted to continue on with the rest of the series.