Dexter Season 1 DVD

A fascinating and original idea that’s very masterfully performed, Showtime’s Dexter on DVD creates fantastic entertainment. As the 12 episodes in the show’s first season reveal, it is also the epitome of “high concept,” a kind of Silence of the Lamb for that C.S.I. generation.

Dexter Morgan, works best for the Miami Police Department being an bloodstream spatter analyst, going to crime moments and helping evaluate which happened. He’s an avocation, too: throughout his off hrs, he tracks lower some very, very bad individuals who for a number of reasons have evaded the correct government bodies. Appears his adoptive father trained the little one how you can funnel his negative side inside a “positive” direction and thus, getting taken these evildoers (together with a child molester-killer along with a recidivist drunk driver having a trail of physiques in the wake), Dex dispatches all of them with clinical precision, thus making them a murderer who snuffs serial murders.

There is however more–a lot more, because it works out. By his own description, Dexter is “a monster,” a clear spend who knockoffs all human interactions and confesses to no real feelings for anything or anybody, including his promote sister and the nominal girlfriend, an old crack addict and battered spouse who’s as bored with sex because he is. There’s a reason for Dexter’s weirdness, obviously, one so deep and distressing that even he is not conscious of it. It’s progressively revealed what kind of of the season because he and also the cops  find the so-known as “Ice Truck Killer,” another monster whose grisly m.o. both fascinates and taunts our hero, resulting in a truly shocking and squirm-inducing finale. Still, it is a safe wager that anybody who sights this primary season is going to be salivating for that second. Extra supplies include audio commentary on two episodes, a featurette about real-existence bloodstream spatter analysis, and a number of DVD-ROM products.

Dexter Season 2 DVD

Season 2 of Dexter on DVD is just as good as the first season, if not better. In case you haven’t already met Dexter Morgan), he’s a Miami police forensic expert – he specializes in blood spatter – with a taste for murder. By twist of tale, Dexter’s past returns to haunt him this season and Dexter the hunter becomes Dexter the hunted. This takes the excitement and suspense up to new heights.

Dexter continues to come to terms with the season one’s shock ending and initially finds (to his horror) that his killing skills are just not what they once were. And as if he didn’t have enough worries, Sergeant Doakes, the only person around who senses that Dexter  isn’t all that he seems, is still very much on his case. Add to that the fact that his sister Debra, who is still dealing with her own trauma from season one, is asked to join the FBI manhunt for him. The team is being led by Special Agent Lundy and this is a development, Dexter remarks sardonically, that “makes for an awkward family dynamic”.

Also very interesting to see this season, is the relationship between just-demoted Lt. Maria Laguerta and the new Lieutenant parachuted in over her head to take over her shift command, Lt. Esme Pasquale. The cracks in Dexter’s seemingly perfect relationship with girlfriend Rita that began to appear in season one, also begin to get wider in season 2.

There’s much more but I don’t want to spoil it for anyone who hasn’t seen it. Twists and turns abound and each episode seems to bring a new shock for the viewer to take in. The humor is dark but it is hysterically funny. I never thought the day would come when I would be rooting for a serial killer – even a fictional one – but here we are.

I say long live Dexter!

Dexter Season 3 DVD

Wow, Season 3 of Dexter on DVD is probably my favorite so far!

Showtime’s breakout hit series Dexter, about a serial killer who targets only the scummiest of the scum, hits its stride in season 3. Dexter Morgan begins season 3 somewhat chastened by the events of the previous season–where whiffs of his secret life became known to others and he was nearly found out. Dexter tries to settle in to domestic life with girlfriend Rita and her kids.

Yet Dexter is soon back to his compulsion for seeking out criminals who’ve somehow escaped traditional justice.

Season 3′s breakout guest star is the amazing Jimmy Smits, who plays District Attorney Miguel Prado, a polished pillar of the community, an ambitious politician–and a guy with a secret every bit as dark as Dexter’s. As Miguel and Dexter peel away each other’s unsavory layers, Dexter tries to tamp down Miguel’s blistering desire for revenge, and Miguel begins leading a double life–one that could threaten Dexter’s life and family as much as the growing list of bad guys in Miguel’s crosshairs. The other main star of Dexter is the city of Miami, its teeming beauty and corruption celebrated in equal measure, and its blistering sun shot without tempering. The city is so integral, visually and viscerally, that it’s impossible to think of Dexter being shot anywhere else. The set’s best extras–engaging interviews with cast members Hall, Benz, Carpenter, Lauren Vélez and David Zayas–must be watched on a computer, for reasons that are unclear. Still, the interviews are must-sees for all Dexter fans. It’s a killer season.

Dexter Season 4 DVD

Season 4 of Dexter on DVD Will Blow You Away

Dexter‘s fourth season is a crazy game of cat and mouse between Dexter and Arthur Mitchell (portrayed by John Lithgow).

Whoever guest stars in seasons to come has a very hard act to follow. (Never mind all the blood, Mitchell’s greeting, “Hello, Dexter Morgan,” from the episode of the same name, will disturb your sleep.) But let’s not forget Hall’s consistently cutting-edge work. The Dexter saga has a rich back-story and mythology, but for those new to the series and lured to this season by Lithgow’s justly celebrated performance, season 4 is a good place to start, because it represents something of a new beginning for Dexter himself.

Married to Rita at the end of season 3, Dexter is now dreaming of “having it all” as a husband and father, trying to juggle the demands of his job as a Miami Metro Police Department blood-spatter analyst, his new family, and his other calling as a serial killer. But he is more conflicted than ever. His new baby keeps him up nights, and the normally precise and methodical Dexter finds himself exhausted to the point of making mistakes in court. Dexter and Mitchell are not the only characters harboring secrets.

As the season unfolds, an incognito Dexter insinuates himself into Arthur’s life and discovers disturbing parallels in their lives. Meanwhile, now-retired serial killer hunter Frank Lundy , who nearly uncovered Dexter’s identity back in season 2, returns to ask for his help in catching the Trinity Killer. His reappearance upends the life of Dexter’s sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), a homicide detective and Lundy’s former lover. Debra has also been digging into the past of her late policeman father Harry and learns more about her twisted family tree.

Dexter Season 5 DVD

Season 5 of Dexter on DVD is the best so far. While last season was dominated by the presence of Arthur Mitchell (John Lithgow), the shining star of this season is the presence of Julia Stiles as Lumen, a victim who escapes her abusers and pledges to join Dexter in ‘stabbing out’ her revenge. The writing is tighter and the subplots or sidebars are far more interesting: the many different love entanglements keep your head spinning.

The cast members are all better than ever.

The premise of following a serial killer who chooses as his victims criminals who would have otherwise not been punished is by now, after four seasons, a character we can all understand – emotionally, motivationally, and as a brilliant law enforcement team member. But the coups of the season was the addition of Julia Stiles who does some of the finest work of her career here. Enough said. The suspense is what drives this show!

Dexter Season 6 DVD

Season 6 of Dexter on DVD has not been released yet.

Our best guess is that it will be released in August 2012.

If you haven’t seen Season 6, I won’t post a synopsis here so as not to spoil all of the crazy twists and turns.