Dexter

Three episodes in and I am totally hooked by the American show Dexter. So hooked in fact its taking a lot of resistance to not get hold of, and watch them all together ahead of the weekly ITV viewings (I am waiting though as its good to have something decent on the TV in the week!). I know some people have been criticising the show for being a rip off of films like psycho - but I really think that this is the first time I have ever seen (or even read) something that is completely from a sociopaths perspective who has the urge to kill, yet controls this urge by killing only those that 'deserve it'. Of course there are the issues of why he gets to decide who deserves to die etc etc but from what I've seen so far he doesn't do a bad job in his decisions and has probably saved people because of it! Though I'm sure there's probably a mistake coming up soon but I will definitely be interested in how he handles it. Despite Dexter himself totally admitting that he has no emotions, no desire to be socially involved I think that this isn't entirely true. The fact that he only kills the people he does is some sign of humanity in him? Or how I believe on some level he has some sort of feelings for his sister if not his girlfriend.
Regardless of all this, the program is excellent, and as I have recently found out that its based on books and I can't wait for my library to sort them out for me :D