![]() We’ve seen way too many seasons of way too many shows for “I’m not like that anymore” to work. God may love a penitent man, but they don’t make for good television. In both cases, the defense isn’t convincing. On TV, Dexter is doing that same song and dance. Now he’s making up a fictional storyline for why his own “moral code” justified those killings. In real life, Kyle inserted himself into a moment of chaos, heartbreak, and confusion and used the setting as an excuse to unload his inner demons. And on the other screen, there’s Dexter Morgan/Jim Lindsay, pulling on the mask of evolvement and scrunching it up like a sleeve of saltine crackers in a mime of equally feigned empathy. Comparisons come quickly to mind here with one screen flashing images of 18-year-old Kyle sobbing on the witness stand, trying his hardest to plead a case for himself and why he found it necessary to shoot and kill two men and wound another with a military-style automatic rifle during protests over the police shooting Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin. ![]() ![]() There’s a certain dark irony to recapping the second episode of a Dexter continuation on the same week as the Kyle Rittenhouse trial.
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