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Why does the opening of a cardboard box give me tacit permission to act like a sociopath?
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Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Related Stories Leave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to get trapped in a billionaire sociopath’s museum room for serial killers, alongside his former colleague and now-dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) lying on the floor.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Winston’s in danger of being crushed by the system, not just a few popular-kid sociopaths, and the unassuming nature of Dinklage’s performance gives the character a stubborn dignity amid all the silliness and prosthetics.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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Julie Beck, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2025
Only a sociopath or a sadist could tell a lie of this magnitude, but again, such broad characters are par for the course in shows like this.
—Judy Berman, Time, 10 Sep. 2025
Related Stories Leave it to Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) to get trapped in a billionaire sociopath’s museum room for serial killers, alongside his former colleague and now-dead friend Angel Batista (David Zayas) lying on the floor.
—Clayton Davis, Variety, 5 Sep. 2025
Winston’s in danger of being crushed by the system, not just a few popular-kid sociopaths, and the unassuming nature of Dinklage’s performance gives the character a stubborn dignity amid all the silliness and prosthetics.
—Alison Willmore, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2025
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“Sociopath.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sociopath. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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sociopath
noun
so·cio·path
ˈsō-sē-ə-ˌpath 
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
ˈsō-sh(ē-)ə-
: a sociopathic individual
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