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Dexter
Dexter premiered on Showtime in October 2006, based on Jeff Lindsay's series of novels, starring Michael C. Hall as a Miami police blood-spatter analyst who secretly moonlights as a serial killer targeting other murderers who've evaded justice, guided by a personal code taught to him by his adoptive father. The show's genuinely unusual premise — asking audiences to root for a serial killer protagonist by making his victims exclusively other killers — drew significant critical attention for its dark comedic tone and Hall's performance, and the series became one of Showtime's most commercially significant original dramas during its original eight-season run. The show's original 2013 series finale drew widespread and lasting critical backlash as one of the most poorly received endings in television history, a reception significant enough that Showtime later revived the franchise with "Dexter: New Blood" in 2021, specifically framed in part as an attempt to give the character and its audience a more satisfying conclusion. Dexter's combination of its genre-defining "sympathetic serial killer" premise and its unusually direct franchise response to fan backlash over its original ending has made it one of the most discussed and revisited crime dramas of the 21st century.
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Better Call Saul
Better Call Saul premiered on AMC in February 2015, created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould as a prequel spinoff to "Breaking Bad," following the transformation of small-time lawyer Jimmy McGill into the morally compromised criminal defense attorney Saul Goodman years before the events of the original series. The show earned a genuinely unusual critical reputation as a spinoff that many critics and viewers came to regard as artistically comparable to or even exceeding its acclaimed predecessor, a rare outcome for a prequel series built around a supporting character from an already beloved original show. Bob Odenkirk's lead performance, along with Rhea Seehorn's role as Jimmy's partner and eventual wife Kim Wexler, drew sustained critical acclaim across the show's six-season run, and the series became known for its meticulous, patient pacing and visual storytelling techniques directly inherited from Breaking Bad's own production team. Better Call Saul's combination of its rare success as an artistically comparable prequel spinoff and its meticulous inherited visual craftsmanship has made it one of the most critically acclaimed crime dramas of the entire television era, regardless of its connection to Breaking Bad.
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