Dexter Season 2

Going into the season finale my two thoughts were:

1) Man this show is tremendously engaging
2) I have no idea how they can keep the momentum going

Happily I can say the finale didn't do anything to effect the first opinion, and slightly mitigated the second. The entire second season dealt Dexter avoiding capture as an investigation of his murders has been ongoing, and while its been incredibly well played out and generated a lot of tension, the fact that I'm aware of the third season means that I knew our intrepid anti hero would eventually pull through. The problem is that if the show continues to place prominent emphasis on Dexter just trying to keep from getting found out its eventually going to get tired, and they're going to run out of compelling ideas to keep Dexter out of jail (unless the show really wants to take an interesting turn and have him get caught, which I doubt). In contrast, what makes a show like Breaking Bad so engaging is that they don't really dwell the idea of whether the main character is going to get caught and just revolve the show around how he deals with his illegal activities (though I will admit it is easier to make a meth producer who's trying to help his family sympathetic than it is a serial killer). Thankfully this season ended with Dexter starting to embrace what he sees as his moral code and desire to optimize his skill set, rather than just exist to avoid capture and fulfill his primal urge to kill. I'll be interested to see how they actually play out this idea. I just hope they don't turn him into some kind of demented superman (though there have always been those overtones) and maintain the ambiguity, tension, and dark sense of humor that's marked the show so far.