I don't have much time to sit and watch a lot of TV. And I can't really binge-watch.
I made a deliberate choice to write something people would enjoy, not knock people out with 'Boy, he can really put a clause together!'
We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
