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Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American premium channel Showtime. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst.
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Writers who dare to take risks with their creations.
Season One, incredible.
Season Two, I wanted to love it, but ended up thinking it was good.
Season Three, wow what a step up.
1) The characters are evolving: it is great to see. Grats to the writers for having the courage to take risks.
2) Dexter is faced with new human experiences we haven't seen him have to deal with before. While these may not be action sequences, they are insights to how he thinks, which I loved in the first season, and felt like I missed in the second season.
3) There is witty writing not just in a few episodes, but many.
4) The action pace may seem slow, but the writers are building you up to experience what Dexter does. It is worth the cost in action, and there really is plenty to think about on the way.
5) Not least, but the actors, all of them, did a great job! Jimmie Smitts does an excellent job with his guest appearance!
In short, with this season, I would say this series is on par with Sopranos' best seasons and Battlestar Galactica's best. It really needs to start being given awards for the writing, acting, direction, and music.
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Where is this box set?
This was due out ages ago. I think it's being shown in the UK before being released here. Does anyone know if that's true? Highly irregular! I hope I'm wrong.
I rated it 3 stars because I haven't seen it yet. I hope it's a 5, tho.
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Diana Z
I love Dexter. My daughter got me started on it and I have been watching it ever since. I already have season 3 reserved. It is one of the best shows on TV.
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totally whack
its june 6th and dex season 3 on dvd is not available until august.
but they do offer it for video on demand today. anyone else think thats total crap or is it just me?
they're never gonna get anyone to pay for online content no matter what they do. there's just too much free stuff out there.
you're just gonna piss off loyal customers like me.
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Dexter III--He's more human and lovable than ever...yet an ever more confident killing machine.
In Season III, the human side of Dexter gets more play than ever. It gets a huge boost in the endearing (and comical) struggle that emerges as Dexter contemplates true commitment--the forever kind, to not one but two other human beings--his Madonna lover Rita, and a surprise other one (who you'll learn about when you watch). He's also struggles to TRUST, and to let himself give in to his longing for a real friend, one he can be honest with, who wont bolt from him when Dex bares his soul.
On the other side--the EVIL. In this Season, Dexter is at the top of his game in murder, and also more sure of himself and of the justice of his executioner role. In fact he is so now so efficient in his evil, that some of the suspense that I felt in I and II--the holding of my breath whenever he was in the middle of a kill mission, has faded. In Season III, the guy's so good, and the risk of his bumbling and exposure so low, that I got a little complacent. Maybe this is a flaw in one sense, plot-wise in this Season. On the other hand, not to disappoint viewers, the killing stories display a long set of new skills by Dex, as he sets up more and novel clever traps, and improvises tirelessly in his damage control stunts, when bad luck threatens his missions.
But as Dex becomes more sure-footed in his evil deeds, he becomes much more troubled as he tries valliantly to learn how to behave like a good guy in the growing set of "good" guy roles he takes on. For me, this made for a much more interesting Dex, as it presented a growing contrast between the loyal, loving, generous, child-adoring man, who's earnest and vulnerable (but very funny), as he treads in unfamiliar feminine fiefdoms (like Yoga classes for couples, led by misleadingly gentle-voiced women), and the dispassionate and less guilt-ridden killer Dexter, the one that is even more eerily calm as he garrotes and injects his prey, and forces him to face a candlelit shrine of his victims' photos, while gagged and saran-wrapped, in a final Judgment Day, before he saws, bags and dumps him. One of the best scenes has Dexter facing a nasty serial wife-killer and chuckling with him about the best ways to evade a girlfriend--golf and boats it turns out--all while getting just the right facts to send the guy off on his last jaunt at sea.
So this new Dex--more good yet more "bad", makes this season cool and novel. And, as many reviewers noted, the playing out of that remarkable and dark friendship with Miguel, the centerpiece of Season III--captured me...maybe even more than the Skinner guy lurking around and flaying people all Season did! See this season, enjoy it, and decide for yourselves.
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