Running Man, minus the dignity

Gamer is a terrible movie. It’s also a strangely written movie, one that goes out of its way to insult its assumed target audience, portraying gaming enthusiasts in lazy shorthand: either spoiled ADHD-addled teenagers or grotesquely obese shut-in perverts.  Who would immediately get the reference to a game changing mod (as opposed to a cheat), [...]

Supes and Bats in Bowling Shirts: Dexter’s Dark Avenger

Dexter, Season 2 Dexter’s season one self-image begins with the smug self-loathing of a monster, aware that only his conditioning allows him any place in society outside a jail cell. Confronted with two like-minded sociopaths he was unable to force into his mold, he began to see himself as a different and better breed of [...]

Darkly Dreaming Dexter: blood and ethical sociopathy

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay 2004 Dexter, Season One 2006 Dear Dexter is a single white male in his thirties who lives alone and works peripherally in law enforcement, and is generally considered to be a quietly well mannered and quirky guy.  He is, of course, an insane serial killer preying on the residents of [...]