Dexter
You and Dexter both arrived in 2006.
- Network
- Showtime
- Genre
- Crime thriller
- Premiered
- 2006
- Premise
- a serial killer who hunts killers
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About
As of 2026, it's 20 years old.
Dexter pulled off the audacious trick of making you root for a serial killer by giving him a code: he only murders other murderers. A blood-spatter analyst by day and vigilante killer by night, he narrated his own chilling lack of feeling while the show dared you to like him anyway.
It was tense, darkly funny, and genuinely gripping — at least until a finale so infamous it became a cautionary tale about how not to end a show.
Twisted, compelling, and morally slippery, Dexter is the drama that made an audience quietly cheer for a serial killer and feel only slightly bad about it.
Dexter season by season
Dexter ran for 8 seasons (2006–2013) across 96 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
