Dexter’s Past Life Bro Praises the New Show

Dexter’s Past Life Bro Praises the New Show by Roxanne McDonald

Not that “Dexter” needs any boosting, but endorsement from Hall’s “Six Feet Under” “brother” just proves all the more how great a show it is.

According to Adam Buckman of NY Post Online Edition, Peter Krause, who played Nate Fisher to Michael C. Hall’s David Fisher on “Six Feet Under,” offered big praise for Hall’s delivery of Dexter, the highly functioning sociopath who moonlights as a vengeful serial killer.

Quotes Buckman on Krause’s impressions, “It was a very brave choice for Michael to take on the series because, on the surface, there are some similarities to ‘Six Feet Under’.”

Besides acknowledging such obvious similarities as themes of death, Krause likened Hall’s Dexter to “Star Trek’s” Mr. Spock, as the character, he suggested, “looks at the world almost like an alien,” delivering a performance that gives us not only the multiple dimensions of Dexter as a cool,

calculated, emotionless super-human but that give us “these moments where there is this little emotional undercurrent where he’s not totally devoid of emotion…” a characteristic Krause admits is not only a fascinating choice on Hall’s part but is what he is really enjoying about the show.

As Buckman informs us, Krause is doing a Sci Fi mini-series called “The Lost Room,” which makes his observations not only connect “Six Feet Under” to “Dexter” but points to the synchronicity of working gigs the two “former” brothers share.

Both “brothers” are stellar performers: Hall showed remarkable range in “Six Feet Under,” with moments, for example, that rivaled Dexter’s—when he in all his bottled-up rage and introversion leaps up in threatening retort at the Kroener rep who has brought bullying to Fischer and Sons and intentions to force them out of business. And Hall’s range of personae also includes, for instance, his convincing portrayal of a gay man in the first series and a hetero man in the second. Krause, as well, has earned his kudos playing a range of diverse characters—from the freedom-seeking but clipped-winged Nate to the struggling writer who has an ongoing affair with his best friend’s wife.

So from one articulate character actor to another, the praise is well received, well-regarded, and mutually well-deserved.

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