8. There Are Bret Easton Ellis References Throughout
Comparisons have often been drawn between Dexter Morgan, gentleman serial killer, and Patrick Bateman, the similarly murderous-but-well-dressed star of Bret Easton Ellis's Wall Street satire American Psycho. And those similarities aren't purely cosmetic. Aliases adopted by Dexter throughout the show riff on American Psycho and other Ellis books, with the Patrick Bateman pseudonym employed to buy tranquillisers. Meanwhile, when he starts seeing a therapist Dexter books himself under the name of Sean Ellis, a combination of Sean Bateman (Patrick's younger brother from the novel The Rules Of Attraction) and Bret Easton Ellis. Apparently he has time to read a lot between murders, even though he seems to mainly own IT textbooks...
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