“Dexter” and the Demise of Decency on Television
The police drama has long been one of television’s greatest staples. Each week, they present us with difficult morality tales where the rule of law and modern ethics ultimately triumph. This process of educating the public is incredibly important, especially at a time when it’s getting harder and harder to engage in national discourses on the consequences of living in a society without faith. Yet one show has conspired to recklessly corrupt this vital learning process.
“Dexter,” a program running on cable’s Showtime network, has become very popular due its fast-paced action and graphic violence. The central character is named Dexter Morgan and he serves on the police force in the tumultuous and ethnically diverse city of Miami, Florida. The storylines here follow the arc of many others of the same ilk with one incredible exception: Dexter is a serial killer.
A serial killing police officer? Of course, that premise makes no sense. The show itself is a mess of unbelievable plotlines, blood-drenched footage, illegal activities and unnecessary nudity. The main actor is gruff and scroungey, a sort of “hipster” version of Law & Order’s Lenny Briscoe. When he’s not dispensing dry one-liners, he’s parading around the clubs and beaches of Miami with a self-satisfied, facetious grin. He always knows more than everyone else (since no one is aware that he’s really a serial killer) and this knowledge gives him a maddeningly pompous attitude. Most mature viewers would surely be turned off by such arrogance, but the young and trend-driven of this country have flocked to Dexter in droves. Possibly, they see him as a mirror of their own conceited and immoral psyches. He is there big and bare-chested on their tv screens giving a seal of approval to America’s youth as they cruise dark streets in the dead of night for some outlet for their terrible urges. Many children today will follow this man down his moral dead ends, desperate as they are for a slap in the face, a kick to the groin just to feel one little jolt of life. That is how vacant our young people have become for they have forsaken the deep moving passion that comes with faith, with having a sacred and personal relationship with the Creator of this world.
What a terribly pathetic end for a tradition that has meant so much to so many. You need only think of the humanity shown by our Kojaks and Columbos of yesteryear. They were fallibly human, after all, yet still woke up every morning to punch the clock and solve crimes. The police drama has even served as a mimeograph of the most dramatic changes in our culture– with Barney Miller, Hawaii 5-0 and Cagney & Lacey escorting the upheaval and integration of society safely into our living rooms. In recent times, Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue taught us the perils of the modern urban environment, a jungle so dark and violent that the idea of masculinity itself became a vital essence of these shows. This premise of virility is incredibly important because we forget the sexes are different. Men are physically abler than women and brute strength befits the male role as protector and leader. Sadly, the current crop of crime series has maliciously skirted this issue. We have female investigators starring on Bones and The Closer, uptight effeminates on Monk and The Mentalist, and those who mock moral authority on NCIS and Fringe.
Of all the police dramas on television today, there is only one man who can stand up to the tyranny of Dexter Morgan’s conceits. Oddly enough, he is another Miami investigator– David Caruso of CSI: Miami. Caruso exhibits an unbreakable strength in the face of relentless perversion. Deep and contemplative, he has the voice of a man who has genuinely seen it all in life. Whereas Dexter has fastidiousness about his home and workspace, Caruso has no femininity in him. He is solid and well built, consistent and dominant. No subordinate ever gets the better of Lieutenant Horatio Caine and they all know better than to try. On the other hand, the hipster Dexter stumbles through love affairs with domineering women, becomes flustered when someone touches his computer and always fails to stand up like a man when a public situation demands it. Rather, this smooth-chested transgressor prefers to operate in secret, stealing away in the middle of the night and lurking in warehouses like a common sex criminal. From a sunny balcony or a glistening beach, such pretense would most likely bemuse our favorite CSI star. With the slightest tilt of his head and a reflection in his impenetrable sunglasses, one can just imagine Horatio Caine summing up the ultimate failure of Dexter as a character, as a police officer and even as a man with a single, brilliant sentence.
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11:51 pm
So Stevie blogs about how he hates Dexter. That’s about it folks, nothing of note here, other than his apparently lust for Hor-YEAAAAAH-tio Caine. And apparently an intro to his fan fic of how he kicks Dexter’s ass and then probably bum-fucks Stevie.
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haveing a slight problem graspeing what fiction is there buddy. it’s not real nor is it suposed to seem to be real. why is it so unbeliable that a criminal investigater should be a serial killer? same reason you refuse to belive a cristian could be gay i guess…
also this little gem: “This premise of virility is incredibly important because we forget the sexes are different.”
… no we don’t that’s just you. maybe if you stoped fantazising about men that wouldn’t happen.
it’s incredibel btw hoe focused this article was on sexualzing dexter when really it isn’t that reliant on the sexual aspect.
once again just because you don’t like a show doesn’t make it bad. i think bones is retardetly boring care to prove me wrong with facts on that?
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9:51 pm
Many tv watchers today have a problem understanding reality versus what they see on their tubes. This is also tragically true for video gamers, who can end up living exclusively through their games at the loss of good health.
Mathias, I am not naive. Please understand that I know perfectly well this is a fiction tv show and full of nonsense. What worries me is that it teaches the wrong lessons to young and old alike and to glorify a man who brutally murders is wrong. If a similar show came out about a happy pedophile, would you use the same argument? Would you say, “it’s great tv because it’s fiction”? No, we need standards and rules. Society cannot survive in a vacuum.
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//Many tv watchers today have a problem understanding reality versus what they see on their tubes. This is also tragically true for video gamers, who can end up living exclusively through their games at the loss of good health.//
And you never talked to a gamer, have you? Fuck, YOU have trouble understanding the difference between reality and fantasy, any sane person would know better, apparently you refuse to believe that things are made up for some damn, psychotic reason. Show me proof that the number of people who can’t tell what is real and what is fake is so incredibly high, that it warrants a panic-button smash.
//Mathias, I am not naive.//
Bullshit you aren’t. You don’t bother doing one iota of research and have no clue as to what the hell actual research is.
//Please understand that I know perfectly well this is a fiction tv show and full of nonsense. What worries me is that it teaches the wrong lessons to young and old alike and to glorify a man who brutally murders is wrong.//
Actually it’s a dark series which blurs the line between murder and a justified kill. The man only murders other murderers and criminals, yet that’s what people seem to strive for whenever a crime happens, does that not show the darker side of humanity? That beneath everything people can be incredibly evil? That this can be our nature by default and the only difference is sanity? It’s a psychological series that’s designed to screw with your head and blur morals.
//If a similar show came out about a happy pedophile, would you use the same argument? Would you say, “it’s great tv because it’s fiction”? No, we need standards and rules. Society cannot survive in a vacuum.//
You’re comparing apples to oranges. Fuck, you’re comparing an apple to a rock, two entirely different things. Yes, both are considered a crime, but who in their right mind would say that raping a child is acceptable at ALL? You can justify murder, I can give a million scenarios that can and have occurred in daily life AND in the past AND involving religion and politics, but you can’t justify rape whatsoever.
You’re deluded Stevie, you’re in serious need of going to a mental facility, you can’t tell the difference between anything any more.
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yes a lot of people have problems diferinciating…. when it comes to reality TV. unless you have serious mental isues you are not going to have a problem realising a series is fiction.
as for your question… well comedian pointed it out better. dexter is not “a great show” because it’s fiction but because it raises great questions about our own morals. because it has a great theme because the charcters are likeable and often relatable. if we can not question our own morals they aren’t worth any ting.
so yeah if you can make a show with likeable charcters and a good story about pedophile rapist i will defend that as great TV.
also who the fcuk are you to talk about how it’s wrong to glorify muderes? aren’t you the one calling the men in the amry heroes? guess what in the end they too are simply glorified murderes.
so is all the causes of your beloved crusades. and so is you god should he exist.
if you let fiction decide what is right and wrong in reality then i’m sorry but you are not capabel of being a part of socity any way.
if you have isues like that please just wait until the mean in the white coats come and pick you up.
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7:42 pm
You’re referring to ‘The 700 Club’?
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8:35 am
Three shirtless pictures of Dexter in one article? Way to homo.
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9:52 pm
The photos are there to prove my point.
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10:59 pm
Which is what exactly? That they hired a moderately attractive man as a lead in a show in order to garner the views simply from women who are the female lowest common denominator? Sounds exactly like every other ploy used today, hire attractive people to at least generate money from those kind of people, male and female alike. Hell, it worked with you due to you drooling over Horatio Caine.
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11:47 am
I’m surprised Claire hasn’t attacked you for what she’d call blatant mysoginy here.
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8:50 pm
“I’m surprised Claire hasn’t attacked you for what she’d call blatant mysoginy here.”
First of all, a “journalist” should know how to spell misogyny. Second, there was no misogyny in his statement.
If you want misogyny, take a look at your facebook post that uses a quote from the bible to try to denounce women’s right to vote. THAT is misogyny.
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8:52 pm
Stop stalking me, little lady.
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9:23 pm
You can’t read can you? For one thing, I included males and females, I’ll be damned if i don’t believe that people will hire hot women just to get a male dime and vice versa. Secondly, you couldn’t come up with anything to refute my points again (what a surprise Stevie), and thirdly, you’re the psycho stalker who seems hellbent on finding out all kinds of information about people and posting it all up for your haters to read.
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11:55 am
“We have female investigators starring on Bones”
Welcome to the 21st Century, asswipe.
“uptight effeminates on Monk”
Monk may be uptight and has many, many phobias, but he is in no way effeminate. You have no clue what you’re talking about.
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11:50 am
Sorry, from what I’ve read Monk is meant to be a closeted homosexual. He’s very anxious and is always cleaning.
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7:14 pm
do you know what OCD is? that is what he is “suposed to be/have”
come on tell me. what does that mean. ki dare you. do some of your briliant research
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8:57 pm
“Sorry, from what I’ve read Monk is meant to be a closeted homosexual. He’s very anxious and is always cleaning.”
As someone who has seen every single episode of “Monk”, I can tell you for sure that he is not a homosexual. If fact, he’s pretty much asexual except where his late wife, Trudy, is concerned. She was the only person on the face of the earth who he could touch, kiss, and even have sex with (although he refused to admit to his therapist, Dr. Kroeger, that he and Trudy had engaged in such intimacies). He hates the naked human form, and it seems as though he’s even more grossed out by naked males than by naked females.
And anxiety does not make on a homosexual. I have severe anxiety, does that make me a lesbian? He also suffers from OCD which manifests itself in the fear of germs and the need to have everything perfect.
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9:12 pm
Claire, you watch way too much television. Isn’t your mother worried that it will affect your grades?
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“Claire, you watch way too much television. Isn’t your mother worried that it will affect your grades?”
Yes, because me having seen every episode of “Monk” obviously means that I’m glued to the television, night and day, 24/7, and that only a crowbar can pry me from the couch…
Mind you, I don’t even have access to a television during the school week.
And why do you assume that only my mother cares about my grades? I have a father too, you know. Just because your dad got sick of your shit and blew his brains out doesn’t mean that everyone’s father is dead.
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9:49 pm
Well that wasn’t nice at all.
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9:56 pm
Why SHOULD anyone be nice to you? All you do is hate and hate and hate and hate, and claim you’re full of love. You don’t follow the bible, you promote hate, you’re a sexist, racist, asshole who refuses to believe in the truth and throws insults around that a child would laugh at. You couldn’t insult a weak-willed wimp if you tried (because seriously, how the fuck is being called a liberal an insult? Do you even know what the hell a liberal is? Why the fuck is being a liberal a bad thing when there are countless conservatives who have fucked this country up just as bad as any liberal you can name), and you’ll grab onto the weakest of strings and straws to justify your insane ramblings.
You refuse to provide information that is required for your claims, you refuse to do actual research, you refuse to read or understand the bible in any way other than your own, you refuse to admit that women are just as capable as men are, you refuse to see black, mexican, or any other type of person other than a white american is something other than a stereotype, you refuse to learn, you refuse to change, and to top it off, you refuse to admit when you’re wrong.
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4:17 pm
Remember, “Art,like the Alamo, has to draw the line somewhere.”
—Gene Elder, San Antonio
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9:22 pm
Remember, “Art,like the Alamo, has to draw the line somewhere.”
—Gene Elder, San Antonio
so true
but also remember you’re “never gonna get hit by a train if you spend your life minding the gap”
…stephenson billings
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7:28 pm
Worst review I’ve ever read. I bet he argues that the Oscars are overacted as well.
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8:18 pm
That wasn’t very nice.
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10:35 pm
You don’t deserve kindness.
You reap what you sow.
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neither is any of your bullshit.
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5:42 am
1. The relation between art and its participants isn’t as simplistic as you have convinced yourself (presumably, to reinforce your feeling of righteousness with a black and white, us-against-them worldview). It does not merely reflect or represent social realities, nor does it simply impart values, or “teach the youth”.
2. At its best, art offers intriguing insight into the human condition. Such is the experience of Dexter, which presents the existential dilemma of dealing with the moral ambiguities of life. In its most effective moments, Dexter unassumingly presents the viewer with situational “grey areas”, giving the reflective viewer a provocative space in which to evaluate their emotional reactions and their ethicality.
3. Life is ambiguous and often absurd, and as such, should be approached with a subtle sensibility and a true passion for understanding. Some people of faith are quick to dismiss and falsify out of fear that which they see as potentially threatening to their convictions. When those convictions are born of unthought and authority, they become perpetuated dogma. Yet there are some men and woman of faith who’ve lived truly beautiful and thoughtful lives like Soren Kierkegaard and Meister Eckhart.
4. God is dead
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7:03 pm
Hello friend,
Thanks for taking the time to comment and while you certainly are passionate about your tv shows, you are sincerely mistaken on many points. Your idea that television in no way influences young people is absolutely wrong and not backed up by science or mere observation. Kids are constantly mimicking what they pick up on games and shows and it harms their gently forming brains beyond repair.
You are correct about art offering insights. Journalism and the Bible offer insights, too, and we all know that knowledge based on traditions, facts and history are far superior to your childish fantasies of adorable serial killers. There are no moral ambiguities in Dexter. It simply creates an utterly implausible situation, add graphic sex and violence and uses that formula to spread hate and liberalism. We have laws for a reason!
Søren was a haphazard thinker at best, a bit melodramatic and conniving at times and his writing is indulgence for young, lonely male minds. The fact that he held the spiritual, the otherworldly with such disdain and preferred to live constantly through emotions and sensations, the cage of corporeality, is nothing new. The Greeks did that as well. I am not impressed by that Silly Dane.
God is not dead but your stating that reveals much about the type of nihilistic liberal you are. God bless and I will pray for you, my son.
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7:22 pm
billings what does the word “justice” mean to you.
if the concept of justice presented in dexter isn’t moraly ambigious i have no idea what is.
as for kids being affected. never did he claim taht they weren’t but then that’s amoot point any way seeing as kids shouldn’t watch this to begin with. nobody thinks that.
but to claim that because they see a murder on TV they become murders or that because they see half naked men they become homosexuals is far more absurd anyway as well. your arguments are purely based on your own personal openion not on facts unless ofcourse they happen to be suporting your openion. we do not agree with you. why do you refuse to accsept that?
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8:19 pm
To be honest, it wasn’t until I read your response that my suspicion was put to rest that this entire website might actually be a satire. I mean, its simply unbelievable how transparently ideological, uncritical, and fearfully self-delusive these articles are!
But okay, I’ll play along. You’ve misread me on my first point, I think Jazze caught that quite rightly. But it’s telling that you enlist science to secure yourselves more firmly in your fearfulness. As if empirical studies as a whole have subscribed to the naivete of your religious indoctrination over their vast history of inquiry into perception, cognition, consciousness, and psychical awareness. You do, as you say, respect tradition, facts, and history don’t you?
The bible is insightful. But only insofar as its constant interpretation challenges us to reevaluate our beliefs, our selfhood, our worldview, and our place in it. How does one claim the superiority of one artwork (the bible) to all the rest? Dogmatism and the inability to think critically of a tradition that was given to you through the sentimentality of your upbringing. But I think we are not on sound grounds if we are endeavoring to co-evaluate scripture and cinema, radically different experiences. This difference doesn’t seem to register for you because, overcome by the zeal of “getting it right” the true word of god etc., you lack the subtle sensitivity I spoke of earlier to respond to nuanced interpretive questions.
Kierkegaard was the paragon of religiosity, upholding the value of existing uncompromisingly passionate. Accordingly to the general unrefined and coarseness of your thoughts, you cling to a sharp distinction between body and soul. There is a vast history of philosophy and psychology to explore with regard to this question, I suggest you do, you might learn what “ambiguity” means.
I pray that you kill your god for once as well. Nihilism can be quite a healthy experience. If your true strength can overcome it, then, with god’s blood on your hands, you’ll find life to be as passionate, meaningful, and yours to create.
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9:33 pm
//Your idea that television in no way influences young people is absolutely wrong and not backed up by science or mere observation. Kids are constantly mimicking what they pick up on games and shows and it harms their gently forming brains beyond repair.//
You’re partly right, children UNDER THE AGE OF 12 do imitate what they see on television and such because it makes for interesting games of pretend with their friends, but no sane person would let a child of that age have access to any show or book or whatever where there’s nightmare fuel abound, or contains messages much deeper than any kid could possibly comprehend.
As for teenagers, that’s a different story; you want to claim that tv and games fuck them up hard? Prove it, I’ve got actual physical studies and links to a million people saying it’s nothing more than a correlation or total bullshit (show me a study that says brain patterns change when someone’s playing something violent or watching a violent show, and I’ll show you a legit study of how drastically fucked up those patterns can be during a game of football), so you’ll have one helluva time trying to pass like you know what the fuck you’re doing. Any sane person knows the difference between fantasy and reality and acting as if they’re retarded will net you the exact opposite of what you hope.
//You are correct about art offering insights. Journalism and the Bible offer insights, too, and we all know that knowledge based on traditions, facts and history are far superior to your childish fantasies of adorable serial killers.//
Isn’t Leviticus essentially a serial killer? Aren’t there stories that Christians like you that are proud of contain multiple murders for no real just cause?
//There are no moral ambiguities in Dexter. It simply creates an utterly implausible situation, add graphic sex and violence and uses that formula to spread hate and liberalism. We have laws for a reason!//
No, it’s (once again) a series that makes you think about what’s the difference between a justified kill and what’s an evil one. Several Christians have committed the sin of ending a human life and yet these people are hailed as heroes; regardless of who they killed, were they in the right? Were they forgiven for killing a child of God, the very being they worship?
//God is not dead but your stating that reveals much about the type of nihilistic liberal you are. God bless and I will pray for you, my son.//
Again, you throw liberal around like it’s an insult. What, are liberals not allowed to be Christian in your eyes? How does that work? How does your dislike for them negate the fact that they’re Christians and take that title away?
Why do you have a God complex? You seriously have a ‘holy than thou’ attitude that you refuse to keep in check. You’re nothing but a devil in disguise, no God would ever show a being like you love for all of the hate you’ve spread for so long, and for all the lies you intently believe in and make up.
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9:10 pm
4. God is dead
if god is dead why is his gmail still on vacation responder? and why hasnt his snail mail become “return to sender”? i mean i have sent him a BUNCH of mail and none’s come back yet.
and if he really is dead – can i have his cornflakes? its not like he needs them = i’m sure heaven has a pantry!
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8:05 am
With filth like this on the televisions what will become of our children!? Someone think of the children! How dare they show a bare chest, the CHILDREN will no doubt become HOMOSEXUALS if this blatant nakedness is left unchecked! Outraageouuus. It’s shows like this that are driving our youth into the arms of SATAN and the TERRORISTS! In a post 9-11 world, how can we condone a serial killer in the police Arrhghghghh, the CHILDREN, the CHILDREEEN aaahahrhg /frothingatmouth.
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8:59 pm
“Stop stalking me, little lady.”
Stop being a patronizing, condescending, homophobic, sexist, racist pedophile, and then perhaps I’ll stop stalking you.
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9:08 pm
ooh stalking can be fun!
have you ever stalked jesus? i did that for a while, i mean what can he say – he sorta had to turn the other cheek – thats the standard he set for himself.
so stalkings fine, as long as the person your stalking is a omnipotent deity, and there are plenty of those around, jesus, allah, hare krishna, apollo, dangermouse, and that girl from family ties who plays micheal j fox’s sister.
any of those are safe to stalk, i’m pretty sure!~
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9:59 pm
“Well that wasn’t nice at all.”
Jesus fucking Christ, how many times do I have to say it?
YOU
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DESERVE
KINDNESS.
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Awesome work guys, keep it up. Also, these tirades going back and forth are very convincing, it’s like you guys are actually arguing on the internet! And you know what they say about that…special limp dicks or something, I don’t really pay attention. Also, Dexter is a master of jew-jitsu, the art of disabling Jews and as such should be a hero for all True Christians.
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1:34 pm
Keep your garbage conspiracy theories to yourself little man.
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1:56 pm
Advice you should try following.
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Stephenson Billings you are a fag Dexter is a bad ass show which is watched by millions of people worldwide. Go stick to watching your bible shows with no plot or good acting.
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9:10 pm
This entire site is one giant troll. You’re all incredibly stupid.
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12:29 am
//prefers to operate in secret, stealing away in the middle of the night and lurking in warehouses like a common sex criminal.//
I liked this one, you realize the character is a serial killer right? Hell even most murderers don’t kill people in the middle of the street in broad daylight surrounded by people. Just saying.
//The show itself is a mess of unbelievable plotlines,//
I’m only 15 and I understand all the plot lines in this show. It isn’t horribly difficult to grasp.
//blood-drenched footage,//
Well it is a show about a serial KILLER, not a serial hugger, of course there is going to be blood.
//illegal activities//
again serial KILLER.
//He always knows more than everyone else//
The character is of high intelligence so the knowing stuff is, in fact, normal.
I don’t find Dexter a role-model I find him a very interesting and intelligent character, but I wouldn’t say a role-model. I’m not going to after having seen Dexter turn into a vigilante hunting bad guys and killing them, that’s absurd. I mean you seem to be bashing Dexter because he is in essence a vigilante, Batman is a vigilante but kids have been looking up to him for decades and I bet you that far more people have turned to vigilantism
because of batman than because of Dexter.
Also If you start bashing Batman you will have a hoard of angry nerds here so don’t even think about it.
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1:19 am
Pace, you sound a bit young to be watching a television show like this, little guy! Maybe you should sit down with your mom and dad and talk to them about such things. Murder is very bad and very wrong, don’t let this program influence you otherwise! It’s very important and I realize you’re still a kid and things can be hard when they’re so confusing but listen I’m an adult and I know a lot about life! This is tough but sometimes you have to give up things that are interesting to watch. Dexter is not right for you, and your parents really need to pay better attention to the strange television shows you watch. There are plenty of great cartoons that people your age enjoy! Or maybe you should read a book and focus on sports. Sports are a great way to stay healthy and meet new friends!
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4:35 am
sports is a great way to gret hurt and humiliated by the fuck heads who participate in most sports. i have never meet a serious athlete of any kind that was nice to me. sports are not fun either so why should i bother? i have tried they all suck you can’t argue with facts.
also you have expirince in life? you yourself have never lived yourself you live through others. you have no real expiriences so no you do not know anything.
p.s. nobody have said murder is in anyway right beside you people on this site. you encourage it all the time. you are the one who seems confused here.
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10:04 am
“Pace, you sound a bit young to be watching a television show like this, little guy!”
You patronizing asshole, you don’t refer to a 15-year-old as “little guy”.
“Sports are a great way to stay healthy and meet new friends!”
Or they’re a great way to get seriously injured and wind up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life.
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11:50 am
//“Sports are a great way to stay healthy and meet new friends!”
Or they’re a great way to get seriously injured and wind up in a wheelchair for the rest of your life.//
And they’re a great way to release anger by going over to someone who wears a shirt that has a different team and stabbing them to death-oh wait.
//Murder is very bad and very wrong, don’t let this program influence you otherwise!//
Let’s count the number of ways that this is stupid: 1. he already said he knows that this is all fake. 2. He already said that Dexter is not a role model. 3. the bible said that murder is an excellent solution to many crimes and sins, including shit like cutting your hair, so explain who’s right and who’s wrong God v2.0?
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12:47 pm
Thank you Comedian for listening to me.
This is aimed at Stevie-boy himself I watch this show with my parents so I don’t think talking to them about how inappropriate it is will have any effect.I mean all that would is get them to say o.k. and not let me watch a show that I love, NOT what I want.
//Or maybe you should read a book and focus on sports. Sports are a great way to stay healthy and meet new friends!//
I read plenty of books, I read books in 9-12 at 7, so I’ve been reading books and have been very good at it for near a decade. I don’t play sports with any official team but at school but I do participate in gym class. Also I have plenty of friends.
//There are plenty of great cartoons that people your age enjoy!//
Again 15, not 5. And all my cartoons are on in the morning, Dexter however is on at night.
Also MY ENTIRE FAMILY, my sisters both younger than me and my parents watched Buffy the vampires slayers series for years. We even bought it all on DVD. We also watched all of the Alien series. At age 3 I could tell you the complete life cycle of an Alien.
My family may seem strange to you with our relaxed parents,and “inappropriate television shows” by the way none of my siblings watch Dexter, my family does realize that some things are inappropriate for young children, but we are a family of intelligent people we also know, this is something you can’t grasp, THAT IT IS A TELEVISION SHOW we can comprehend that it is a fictional story. It’s a hey look what if people like this were living around you, would you even know? I’m going to guess here and say that either you are an only child or your kid is and I feel sorry for whichever it is because you REALLY need to lighten up.
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1:02 pm
Pace, your note has weighed heavily on my heart and I promise I will pray for your soul and pray that someday you will see how terrible this situation is. I cannot believe that your parents would force you to watch hardcore adult shows like Dexter with all that nudity and violence. Haven’t they even set a reasonable bedtime for you??? Are they democrats? (You can tell me honestly.)
You poor, poor child. I cannot begin to imagine how it is destroying your brain. Maybe you’re just too young to realize it now but please tell me you’re not planning on growing up to become a serial killer? Again, Dexter is not a good man. He is a BAD MAN! BAD! I know your little mind might have with such salacious (that means bad!) content, but trust me I am an adult.
Also, you’re never too old to enjoy clean, fun cartoons! There are cable stations that run them all the time and Disney has a great number of shows about teens such as The Suite Life of Zack and Cody that you might try out. Look them up and good luck, sport!!!
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2:21 pm
//Pace, your note has weighed heavily on my heart and I promise I will pray for your soul and pray that someday you will see how terrible this situation is.//
What’s so bad about watching a mature show? He’s shown that he’s mature enough to understand the concepts of it, so it sounds like the ‘situation’ is non-existent. Not only that, but did he ask you to pray for him? Did he ask you to feel sorry for him? No, you’re patronizing another person for their ideals, you can’t stand the idea of people making decisions until they’re thirty years old, well past the age that people should be staying with their parents under normal circumstances.
//I cannot believe that your parents would force you to watch hardcore adult shows like Dexter with all that nudity and violence. Haven’t they even set a reasonable bedtime for you??? Are they democrats? (You can tell me honestly.)//
1. He didn’t say they forced him, he says that they allowed him, there’s a difference (doesn’t god believe in free will? Sounds like you’re against it). 2. What does one’s political view-point have ANYTHING to do with show preference or maturity levels? 3. have you ever seen Dexter? You seem to think you know everything about it, but if there was as much nudity and violence that you’re freaking out over, no one would be able to go to a store and pick up the DVDs for it.
//You poor, poor child. I cannot begin to imagine how it is destroying your brain.//
Because you know everyone inside-out, right God 2.0? I mean, fuck people and their thoughts, YOU should rule over them and tell them what’s right, they shouldn’t have a choice in the matter.
//Maybe you’re just too young to realize it now but please tell me you’re not planning on growing up to become a serial killer?//
Where did he say that he wanted to become a murderer? I saw him type up that he watches a show about one, but he knows that it’s all fake.
//Again, Dexter is not a good man. He is a BAD MAN! BAD! I know your little mind might have with such salacious (that means bad!) content, but trust me I am an adult.//
You’re an idiot (that means stupid) and you’re nothing but a man-child; a 60-something fucktard who lives with his mother because he can’t take two steps out the door without crying for her.
//Also, you’re never too old to enjoy clean, fun cartoons!//
So you admit to watching shit like Blue’s Clues and Little Bear?
//There are cable stations that run them all the time and Disney has a great number of shows about teens such as The Suite Life of Zack and Cody that you might try out. Look them up and good luck, sport!!!//
Didn’t you complain about Disney several times? Not only that, but shit like that show is meant for a younger audience, who have no idea how being a teenager works. Stop trying to tell people that they’re nothing BUT children and you’re the only adult around, you fucking pedo.
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12:51 pm
Also don’t call me anything like Sonny-boy or youngster, little guy or buddy. I seem to be the intellectual superior here. So please stop talking to me like I am not an intelligent human being or I will have to start treating you with the exact same disrespect.
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1:28 pm
“Again, Dexter is not a good man. He is a BAD MAN! BAD! I know your little mind might have with such salacious (that means bad!) content, but trust me I am an adult.”
Stop talking to him like he’s 5!
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1:50 pm
He’s just a child! Stop trying to lure him into your weird feminine fantasy world!
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2:04 pm
He’s 15! Yes, he’s still a child but he’s not 5 and deserves to be treated with more respect than you’re showing him.
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2:12 pm
He’s 15! If he couldn’t tell the difference between fantasy and reality, then lock him up in the loony bin, but he’s stated several times how this show is just FAKE and NOT REAL and thus KNOWS ITS FANTASY! Stop trying to ‘lure’ him into a world of crazy psychopaths who believe only they deserve rights and that all women are tools to them.
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2:23 pm
Don’t worry Stevie I’ll pray to my imaginary friend for you too.
//Also, you’re never too old to enjoy clean, fun cartoons! There are cable stations that run them all the time and Disney has a great number of shows about teens such as The Suite Life of Zack and Cody that you might try out. Look them up and good luck, sport!!!//
I laughed so hard at this for so long, Disney has been face-raping decent television since the conception of its television channel. Have you ever watched The Suite life? Have you seen the demoralizing messages? The LAME sense of humor? I mean I don’t look at Dexter as a role-model but I would rather it be him than those unfortunate Beige painted little children.
//World English Dictionary
child (tʃaɪld) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
— n , pl children
1. a. a boy or girl between birth and puberty
2. a baby or infant//
These I pulled off dictionary.com I find that I am in puberty and also not an infant so I do not seem to fit the definition of child.
//teen·ag·er
/ˈtinˌeɪdʒər/ Show Spelled[teen-ey-jer] Show IPA
–noun
a person in his or her teens.//
Look a definition I fit! With helpful pronunciation and everything just for you Stevie-boy!
Want to know something else? I have had girlfriends. I bet I just blew your mind, didn’t I Stevie?
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3:10 pm
First of all, the name is Stephenson. You’re just a child so I’ll allow you that one mistake. But listen Pace, I really do care for you and if Disney isn’t your style there’s always sports– football or baseball! Those are great morale-building experiences! I was a football player in high school and I’ll tell you it was one of the greatest times in my life! We had such fun together and the friendships we formed on that team, oh wow! I was a bit of a star back then I don’t mind saying and my speed on the field was legendary during the day. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could say the same when you’re older? Wouldn’t you rather look back on your childhood and say, “I was a football star” rather than, “I memorized every hardcore episode of Dexter”?
As for girls, I think it’s appropriate that you should start to notice them at your age but don’t get ahead of yourself and describe them as “girlfriends”! A boy should have only one at a time and maybe 17 would be a better age to start actually going steady. I don’t know what sort of crazy liberal home you’ve grown up in, but believe me early relationships with girls can be dangerous. I know this is hard and your body is very confusing and strange to you now, but please avoid the temptations of unpure thoughts and self-gratification. This is very, very important young man! God IS watching everything you do!
Well, I am so happy I was able to have this conversation with you today Pace and shed some love of Jesus Christ on your young life. Get up the spirit, buddy!
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3:22 pm
//First of all, the name is Stephenson. You’re just a child so I’ll allow you that one mistake.//
Nope, it’s Stevie, Stephenson sounds too mature for you.
//But listen Pace, I really do care for you and if Disney isn’t your style there’s always sports– football or baseball! Those are great morale-building experiences!//
Who’s to say he doesn’t enjoy them already? It’s not like you have to pick one thing to like and make it the only thing you can possibly talk about. It’s not a crime to like a show and a sport and not picking one or the other to talk about.
//I was a football player in high school and I’ll tell you it was one of the greatest times in my life!//
What, that you actually got off your fat ass and did something for less than 4 years?
//I was a bit of a star back then I don’t mind saying and my speed on the field was legendary during the day.//
So your ego grew back in school eh?
//Wouldn’t it be nice if you could say the same when you’re older? Wouldn’t you rather look back on your childhood and say, “I was a football star” rather than, “I memorized every hardcore episode of Dexter”?//
Or rather having the one story to tell over and over and over again to people who don’t give two shits about it, you can say you know about these shows and these facts and such. When the only thing you can talk about is football, eventually no one will give two shits.
//As for girls, I think it’s appropriate that you should start to notice them at your age but don’t get ahead of yourself and describe them as “girlfriends”!//
You don’t think it’s appropriate to like girls until you’re of legal age. Stevie, are you SURE you’re not gay? And what’s wrong with having a girlfriend in HIGH SCHOOL? You could argue something like elementary and how the idea of a girlfriend is vastly different then compared to high school (and you could even throw in middle school), but high school is the main age you WANT to be going out with girls so you know what the hell to do in an actual relationship with someone you WANT to be with.
//A boy should have only one at a time and maybe 17 would be a better age to start actually going steady.//
I don’t recall him saying he was going out with multiple girls at the same time, and again, explain how being past the age of experience leads to more experience with relationships.
//I don’t know what sort of crazy liberal home you’ve grown up in, but believe me early relationships with girls can be dangerous.//
Explain God 2.0, explain these: 1. how do you know his parents are liberal? 2. What’s wrong with being liberal? 3. why are early relationships dangerous? 4. How is 15 an early age for relationships? 5. Why don’t you have one?
//I know this is hard and your body is very confusing and strange to you now, but please avoid the temptations of unpure thoughts and self-gratification. This is very, very important young man! God IS watching everything you do!//
And how is his relationship with god of ANY importance to you? How do you know ANYTHING about him? All you know is that he’s 15, a guy, has dated several girls, and likes Dexter, that’s it. You don’t know jack-shit about him other than those small details.
//Well, I am so happy I was able to have this conversation with you today Pace and shed some love of Jesus Christ on your young life. Get up the spirit, buddy!//
You’re no one’s buddy, buddy, and you’re nothing but a sad, pathetic, desperate man seeking for attention.
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3:40 pm
You are one deranged human being and there should be a law prohibiting you near children. Your comments border on the reckless and dangerous. How dare you intrude on this little boy’s life with your hostility and conspiracy theories? Have you no shame whatsoever? Wow, I am simply dumbfounded by your cruelty and radicalism.
Secondly, how dare you criticize my football years. You know nothing and surely you would have been excited back in the game to even witness me on the field. It was a purely wholesome thing and how can you hate young boys having fun? You have a sick mind, little man. Almost as crude as Claire can be when she gets hormonally emotional.
Also, you know I’m not gay. Stop trying to slander me with your secret male sex desires.
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3:57 pm
//You are one deranged human being and there should be a law prohibiting you near children.//
Again, so Christ-like.
//Your comments border on the reckless and dangerous. How dare you intrude on this little boy’s life with your hostility and conspiracy theories? Have you no shame whatsoever? Wow, I am simply dumbfounded by your cruelty and radicalism.//
You’re dumbfounded alright, you hate hearing the truth and believe only in lies. How exactly am I intruding on this guy’s life? Aren’t you the one pushing YOUR beliefs onto him and telling him he’s wrong for enjoying life?
//Secondly, how dare you criticize my football years. You know nothing and surely you would have been excited back in the game to even witness me on the field.//
There’s your ego again, going off about how great you are and how everyone else sucks. Seriously Stevie, you have a God-complex, work it out.
//It was a purely wholesome thing and how can you hate young boys having fun? You have a sick mind, little man. Almost as crude as Claire can be when she gets hormonally emotional.//
You hate people enjoying life, you hate people based on their gender, you hate people who prefer a different sort of enjoyment other than sports, you hate people based on the color of their skin, you hate people based on their faith, you hate people based on their economic status, you hate people based on their political party, and you hate people based on their age. How am I sick for hating liars and terrorists like you when you despise people for being people?
//Also, you know I’m not gay. Stop trying to slander me with your secret male sex desires.//
Bullshit you’re not gay, you just told a guy to stay away from girls and you constantly put up topics involving gay sex in a way that only fan fiction writers use. You’re the one with a secret gay sex desire, so stop placing your self image on other people.
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5:18 pm
“there should be a law prohibiting you near children.”
Look who’s talking! The clown with an uncanny resemblance to John Wayne Gacey!
“Secondly, how dare you criticize my football years.”
How dare you criticize the lives of homosexuals and students who’d rather not toss around a piece of pigskin?
“You know nothing and surely you would have been excited back in the game to even witness me on the field.”
Wow, I thought pride was a sin, Billings. You sound awfully proud of your football years. You filthy sinner.
“Almost as crude as Claire can be when she gets hormonally emotional.”
Typical sexist male comment.
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3:26 pm
“I don’t know what sort of crazy liberal home you’ve grown up in, but believe me early relationships with girls can be dangerous.”
I come from a highly liberal home, and I’ve never been in a relationship. The daughters of my dad’s friend, on the other hand, come from a very conservative Christian family in Texas and both have illegitimate children—the eldest daughter got pregnant as an unwed 21-year-old, the other got pregnant as an unwed 16-year-old with drug problems.
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3:32 pm
Well that’s exactly my point– despite the fact these wonderful girls had a decent moral home they still fell into trouble. it can happen to anyone and I would hate to hear that our friend here go pregnant because of a poor grasp of sex.
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3:41 pm
Except there are countless examples of Conservatives with bad families and Liberals with better ones, so how does that validate or justify your arguments at ALL? You bash on Liberals but refuse to look at ANY negatives that Conservatives have, AT ALL, and you’ll completely ignore them in favor of liberal bashing. Claire just said that she was raised liberally and has no kids and hasn’t even had any sex, yet a family she knew was raised conservatively and both popped out kids while being unwed. Care to explain your line of thinking?
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3:26 pm
Ah, one fatal flaw in your little inspirational story there if you had any friends or people you communicate with you wouldn’t be here being a colossal douche.
Actually my family does pride itself on being able to quote obscure movie references and having friends go “oh, I love that movie”. Maybe we just have different families.
Please tell your imaginary friend to stop watching me, it is disturbing and tell Jesus to stop…shedding? like a retarded cat on me.
You might have been a football star in high school but your body deteriorated soon after that. I’m sure my BRILLIANT mind will continue it’s obscure references until I start to lose my mind, and most likely even beyond.
//A boy should have only one at a time//
you don’t seem to understand what I said I meant one at a time over a long period of time, I never said I had more than one at a time. I’m Pace a 15 year-old and I just pwned you.
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3:35 pm
Don’t let Claire and The Comedian egg you on little buddy. They are VERY BAD people! I know you think you’re smart now but we adults can see through the crazy antics of a young person. It’s all fun for now but Satan is truly standing right behind you, ready to catch you when you fall. He wants you to date boys and girls, rebel against society, drop out of sports and watch horror shows. Let me tell you that you’ll pay for it with eternity burning in the pits of hell. That’s not fun my friend!
Well, God bless you and stay clean!
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3:46 pm
//Don’t let Claire and The Comedian egg you on little buddy. They are VERY BAD people!//
Says the Serpent in the Garden.
//I know you think you’re smart now but we adults can see through the crazy antics of a young person.//
You call us bad people and then you insult the guy by saying he isn’t smart. How is he not smart if he knows the difference between fantasy and reality while you can’t?
//It’s all fun for now but Satan is truly standing right behind you, ready to catch you when you fall.//
What evil acts is this guy doing? You seem to know him better than he does, so please do tell.
//He wants you to date boys and girls, rebel against society, drop out of sports and watch horror shows.//
So far it sounds like the guy is just dating a girl, and what’s wrong with that? You sayin’ he should be gay and then burn in hell for that? And aren’t sports even MORE violent than any show imaginable? Those are fake, sports events have caused numerous people to start fights or murder people and the players themselves are trying to beat and pummel their enemies to win money.
//Let me tell you that you’ll pay for it with eternity burning in the pits of hell. That’s not fun my friend!//
Do you honestly think you’re going to Heaven simply because you said you’re a Christian? You’ve done enough things that could get an entire city into Hell.
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5:21 pm
“Don’t let Claire and The Comedian egg you on little buddy. They are VERY BAD people!”
You still haven’t answered my Confessionwire question about what exactly makes me such a bad person.
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10:49 pm
So wait, I have been damned and have fallen from the grace of god for watching t.v.? Huh, I thought it would take more than this.
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2:09 am
Stephenson Billings you are an idoit you have no idea what you are talking about you probally just hate Dexter because you cant afford Showtime go and call your cable provided and start actually watching good television for once. It is never too late to turn off the Veggie Tales christian vegetables what the fuck is that about that is a retarded plot which you probally love because you are a simple minded individual go get a life.
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2:10 am
Stephenson Billings you are an idoit you have no idea what you are talking about you probally just hate Dexter because you cant afford Showtime go and call your cable providor and start actually watching good television for once. It is never too late to turn off the Veggie Tales christian vegetables what the fuck is that about that is a retarded plot which you probally love because you are a simple minded individual go get a life.
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2:11 am
If all of you think Stephenson Biillings is a Fool and has no idea what he is talking about Praise this comment.
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2:47 pm
Ever notice how when someone replies with a good point,such as claire and others have stated,for example:
“First of all, a “journalist” should know how to spell misogyny. Second, there was no misogyny in his statement.
If you want misogyny, take a look at your facebook post that uses a quote from the bible to try to denounce women’s right to vote. THAT is misogyny.”
Claire told you the truth,you,stevie did not like hearing and could not think of anything rational to say back,instead,you said”stop stalking me little lady”
I wouldn’t be flattering yourself like that stevie with what you write.
Instead of helping people,you put people down instead of accepting people for who they are,you demean them with your ideals.
Say what you want about me,doesn’t affect me any,so don’t kid yourself into thinking I or most of us do,lol
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4:23 pm
Must be a good enough show for billings to like..
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10:04 pm
This is a terrible review, I doubt you have even seen more than 2 episodes. Saying the main character is “pompous” is a completely inaccurate description. Stop writing your terrible blogs and go jump off a bridge.
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