I guess another example would be Dexter from the book and television series. I followed it on TV and I think the actor Michael C. Hall did a fine job but though his character was a serial killer, he was always the Protagonist, and each season he was faced with an Antagonist, sometimes a cop trying to expose him more often a serial killer who was way 'worse' than him. The seasons varied with John Lithgow being IMO the acme of bad guys. The idea of the series was quite insidious, suborning the viewer/ reader to identify with the protagonist, himself a serial killer. Not everyone I know will watch it and I don't fault them a bit.
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