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Dexter - The Complete Second Season
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DEXTER is a crime drama about Dexter Morgan a man who leads a double life as an incredibly likeable forensics expert for the Miami Police Department and as an emotionless vigilante serial killer. Taught by his foster father to harness his lust for blood and killing Dexter lives by his own strict moral code - he only kills murderers who can't otherwise be brought to justice. Dexter is a killer who grapples with fitting into society while at the same time he struggles with his inability to feel emotion. The irony of Dexter's life is that he works closely as a blood splatter analyst with the very people who hunt his kind - the homicide department. Dexter's "Regular Joe" front is in full force while working alongside the ill-tempered Sgt. James Doakes who seems to be the only one to sense Dexter's more sinister side and Lt. Maria LaGuerta the head of the division who pursues Dexter sexually with as much force as she would any criminal. While his sister Debra Morgan a tough and determined cop leans on Dexter for personal advice and career advancement the closest one Dexter "connects" with is Det. Angel Batista whose similar attention to detail and taste for forensics almost mirrors his own. While sentiment and feelings elude Dexter he struggles to find a kindred spirit of sorts in his emotionally damaged girlfriend Rita who keeps him grounded in the realities of "normal" life and provides him respite from the dark corners of his mind. The series is based on the acclaimed novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay.System Requirements:Running Time: 636 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368925144 Manufacturer No: 892514
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Dark and sinister is the new sexy, thanks to Dexter, which in its second season has proven to be the most successful series Showtime has offered up yet. Remember how much you squirmed in your seat during the season one finale? Believe it or not, the premiere of season two felt like it could have been a season finale--because jaws were on the floor when the credits rolled. For being a supposed sociopath, Dex is pretty broken up about the gruesome events that concluded last season. The one and only person who could possibly understand him is six feet under, and it seems our unlikely hero is losing his homicidal grip. He?s even having a little trouble slicing up a few of his latest victims (from a murderous gang member to a chainsaw-wielding fiend from his past). Enter Lila (Jaime Murray, Hustle), a lady with a sweet British accent and a few dark secrets of her own. She seems to accept Dex for who he really is, and he finds himself feeling relaxed for the first time in his life. In contrast, his relationship with his girlfriend Rita (Julie Benz) has been stretched almost to a breaking point. The problem is, he should be anything but relaxed. Someone picked a poor place to go scuba diving off the Florida coast, and came across an underwater graveyard: Dex?s primo spot for dropping dismembered bodies wrapped in heavy-duty trash bags. Word about the "Bay Harbor Butcher" gets out quick, and the F.B.I. sends the best of the best, Special Agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine, Deadwood) to work alongside the police to sniff out Miami?s latest serial killer. This guy is no schlub, and Dex may have met his match. And, yes, Dexter gets to work with Lundy on a daily basis, which provides some wonderfully awkward moments. It certainly doesn?t help that the intuitively paranoid Sergeant Doakes (Erik King, Oz) is hot on Dex?s trail. Season two of Dexter is all about decisions. Lila or Rita? Old code or new code? Run or fight? Right or wrong? Well, one thing?s for sure: When it comes to writing, casting, acting, and production, the makers of this show made all the right decisions. Michael C. Hall is simply superb as the title character. You?ll never find yourself more willing to genuinely root for a serial killer. It?s bloody liberating. --Jordan Thompson
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Dexter - The Complete Second Season
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User Comments About Dexter - The Complete Second Season
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Watching Dexter is addicting
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Dexter is an extremely well written & acted show. For a show about a serial killer, it also has plenty of heart.
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Gripping, intelligent and fun.
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Provocative, consistent, nothing comes close. second series surpasses it. This is TV at it's best. I thought the first series was great, this.
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I have an imagination problem. Michael C. Throw into the boiling pot the discovery of all Dexter's plastic bags of body parts hidden at the edge of the ocean's currents and the viewer has an explosive combination that keeps him/her on the edge for all of the second season. I did not care for Dexter's sister Debra in the first season, but her character development made me become quite fond of her in the second. But I neglect to include Special Agent Lundy, who has come to Miami to solve the serial killer case after the plastic bag discovery. Hall is brilliant as Dexter.
In fact, I'm going to need imagination-stretching exercises because all the people behind "Dexter-The Second Season" give us just thata BETTER second season. Season Two is about relationships: lovers, friends, lust, love, co-workers. However, Lila's presence and declaration that she understands him moves Dexter off-kilter. Lundy (wonderfully played by Keith Carradine) also plays a pivotal role in a sub-plot. Lila's character becomes more and more annoying as the season progressea, but I did not like her to begin with.
I scared both me and my cats. I've described the bones of Second Season, but not the flesh. Nah, I'm not saying. In Season One Dexter tells us over and over he is emotionally dead, but as the season progresses, Dexter truly develops feelings for Rita and her two children. In one episode when Dexter drags a torso from one of his victims into the police department with Debra nipping at his heels, I kept thinking, How will Dexter get out of this. But remember. However, by season's end all loose ends are tied, and concludes, better than first season, with a promise of even better things to come in the third season. I was wrong.
He always gets his man and in one scene in particular, I could not imagine how Dexter would escape being identified. An observation: Whoever determines casting definitely has an eye for borderline anorexic women with small breasts. In Season Two he no longer denies his feelings, making it clear how much Rita means to him. It is also about character development. Sometimes the tension is thick enough to cut and once I actually screamed out loud. Dexter's sister Debra, his girlfriend Rita, and newcomer Lila, an English woman he meets in a 12-step program and who becomes his sponsor for Season Twoall match that description. Even though I am a huge fan of "Dexterthe First Season," I couldn't imagine a better second season. As the season nears the end, I am astonished to think that the program will end the way it seems to be heading.
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Who would have "thunk" one could like a serial killer!!
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I was a fan of Dexter before I realized that Showtime (I was not a subscriber at that time) had begun a series based on my favorite serial killer. I quickly became a Showtime subscriber and ordered the entire first season from Amazon.
I was enchanted by the TV series and remain so to this day. The TV series has created a great set of supporting roles, such as LaGuerta, Harry, Matsuko,Debra,Doakes, Rita, Aster, Cody, etc.
For once I can say that, for the most part, I like the TV series better than the books;so do other Dexter-lovers that I know. Go DEXTER.
to name just a few, I have started the 3rd season and it is looking good. Darkly Dreaming DexterDexter in the Dark (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard)Dearly Devoted Dexter.
I like second-season Dexter because he has begun to grow as a real person, because he is not infallible and because his sister has grown as a person and has to rescue him.
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A Superb Second Round to Follow A Fabulous First Season
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Whoo. Wonderful plotting, terrific acting, excellent dialogue, and well-rounded characterization make for a quality series that doesn't droop or disappoint in its second season. Is she his soulmate. The consequences of this relationship ripple into the lives of Dexter's loved ones, including Rita and her kids. Mir It will begin a showdown of significance. Dexter also develops a new relationship with a woman who has an affinity for things dark and dangerous.
Not a serial killer this time. We learn more about some of the characters, including Dexter's foster dad, and his sister Deb gets to have (another) romance. Now, I gotta see Season Three.
His antagonist, Sgt Doakes, gets off, then back on Dexter's case. He's excellent in his (temporary). role.
While the first season focused on the search for and relationship of Dexter to the Ice Truck Killer, the second season takes us into Dexter's crisis of identity, and the noose narrowing about his neck as his cache of victims (underwater in the Atlantic) is retrieved and analyzed and start pointing uncomfortably close. You probably wouldn't be reading this if you hadn't already seen the first season of DEXTER, the one that introduces us to this unique serial killer and blood splatter forensics expert, the destroyer of destroyers, and a guy trying to figure out how to live with his dark passengerhis terrible sociopathic need to kill. Keith Carradine comes into the cast as an FBI expert on serial killers, one with a bit of a zen vibe.
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