ABSTRACT
This chapter examines it as a popular literary form that has portrayed violence in varying degrees and ways over different spatial and temporal contexts. It conducts a brief overview of a few crime shows on contemporary Indian platforms, in order to identify the possible impact of “ Dexter” on Indian media content. Similar to series and films in the slasher and psychological thriller/horror subgenres, “ Dexter’s” representation of blood and violence is rather explicit. From the pilot episode onwards, the viewer is made accustomed to the sight of blood being spilt. Also owing to the police procedural aspect of the series, human bodies are represented both, during as well as after the act of killing. Although “ Dexter” is one of many crime shows portraying a serial killer as its protagonist, its immense international popularity has had a powerful echo in the Indian context as well, making it a worthy subject for analysis.
