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TV: Showtime’s ‘Dexter’ Posts Record-Breaking Ratings

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Why aren’t you watching “Dexter” yet? Even if you don’t have Showtime, go rent the previous seasons to see what you’ re missing. Thankfully, there are plenty of fans out there keeping the serial killer drama hotter than ever – and it only helps that John Lithgow is starring as this season’s killer. A week before its season finale, “Dexter” has already posted ratings highs for Showtime. Sunday’s episode of “Dexter” averaged more than 2.1 million viewers at 9 p.m., repping the most-viewed single telecast for Showtime in more than 10 years. That also made Sunday’s seg the most-watched episode of “Dexter,” now in its fourth season, EVER. Showtime hadn’t attracted a larger audience for a single telecast since Oct. 1999, when it ran the Tyson vs. Norris fight. Next week’s “Dexter” finale will feature a final showdown between Michael C. Hall’s lead character and rival serial killer Trinity (John Lithgow).

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Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’ Is Now Available to Watch at Home!

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After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.

You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!

Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.

Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”

“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.

She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”

Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.

Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.

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