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Reader Feedback on "Heart of the Splatter"
olaf -- what are you talking about? the review says that it's sick to watch a show about a noble serial killer. it kind of is. why can't americans just admit to their perversions?
--rita
11/28 |
For whatever stupid reason I cant explain, I find the show entertaining.
--ALP
11/24 |
Hee hee, this is pretty funny. I stumbled onto this one after reading a much better review in the latest New Yorker. Almond certainly could do a better job of watching and reviewing. As to his 'heartfelt rant' at the end, well, how utterly amusing. A much better rant might have compared Dexter to, say, other cowboyesque works like Shane, Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name movies, Sam Peckinpah's work, and Pulp Fiction. Something thoughtful about the progression and mutation of video portrayals of vigilante justice and what it says about the pop-cultural American psyche versus the evolving-culture American psyche. But, that might have meant delving into something real.
--olaf
11/22 |
You couldn't have missed the point of this show more profoundly then if you hadn't watched it at all. I assume you just glanced at the first episode and proceeded to compose your rant?
--jg
11/21 |
I think I agree with most of Steve's criticisms and comments. however, I still like the show and find it intesting. I think it falls in the realm of something like "art." it dredges up stuff that real life might not. Dennis Cooper serves up some pretty crazy shit, but it's interesting in the way it twists your mind around. Cronenberg's Crash was totally ridiculous, but somehow morbidly compelling.
--nm
11/06 |
Having just entered the last comment, I was directed to the comments page. Wow, hostile comments. How about criticizing the critique, not the author?
--AB
11/05 |
Well said, Steve.
--AB
11/05 |
"Dexter is supposedly based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay, though it comes off more like the byproduct of a cynical pitch session: Hannibal Lector meets CSI." ??? Please have the journalist read the book before they pretend like they know what they're talking about. Everything in Dexter is taken almost verbatim from the book.
--dg
11/02 |
Hey, EIM, I'd love to read your fiction. Where is it published?
--Sami
11/02 |
Hmmm. Dexter sounds like a majority of Almond's short stories. Long on forced weirdness, short on plot, rampant with psuedo-hottie longings, lacking in development. You'd think he'd loooove this one.
--EIM
11/01 |
More preaching from Steve Almond, that curiously heartless figurer of sentimental doodads.
--VT
11/01 |
Not sure what show this guy saw, but Dexter is, in fact, a satire. A dark satire, but a satire nonetheless. Grow a sense of humor, dude.
--ROB
11/01 |
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