My wife has Gilmore Girls and One Tree Hill.
I have Dexter.
But the show really is special to me. I moved into the first place my wife and I would rent four months before our wedding. For the first time ever I was living completely myself. No roommate, no pet.
I had heard about Dexter. The first season dropped the year I graduated High School. At the time I was a little weary of it, thinking it’d be too dark and weird.
And it is dark and weird. But the show has such a humor, wit and eventually, very conflicted heart that grows as Dexter does. (The books thus far are MUCH darker)
I think Dexter resonates so much for me because I can be a very inward person, and see the duality and contradictions in myself pretty clearly. There’s something comforting and almost commiserating about watching a character live that out.
I binged the entire first six seasons on my phone at night before bed. It was such a crazy first watch, and I look back fondly on those times as a lonely bachelor, like Dex himself. ;)
Micheal C Hall’s fitness level also motivated me to start working out regularly and I modeled some of my routine after his.
I’m pumped for Ressurection Season 2, having slept on season 1 for no apparent reason and just finished it a month ago.
Just came here to say that I have what is probably considered an ‘unusual’ comfort watch go-to. Though perhaps not among you all.