The Showtime series Dexter tackles Christianity in its new season, beginning this Sunday evening. Based on a series of novels telling the story of a serial killer who only murders other killers in order to stop them from harming innocent people, the series has always been an evidently sincere though highly idiosyncratic and very twisted investigation of fundamental moral questions.

Showtime is publicizing the upcoming season with an ad campaign full of Christian religious imagery—while associating that imagery with savagery and bloodlust. In addition, although the Dexter character will explore Christianity in response to a sense that his young son needs a moral grounding the father cannot provide, the season’s antagonists will be a pair of men (Edward James Olmos and Colin Hanks), one a professor of religion, who quote biblical passages and commit “some of the most gruesome murders in the show’s history,” according to the Huffington Post.

Although it’s possible that the show will treat true Christianity in a fair manner, it’s evident that this season of Dexter will comport with contemporary Hollywood’s tendency to depict the Christian faith as a worldview rife with hypocrisy and inextricably intertwined with bizarre and dangerous people and behavior.