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Dexter gets better and better. Clever storytelling and greatcasting. This show really does go from strength to strength.
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If you get dark humor or are just open minded. Dexter is a sick hero.
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Great blu-ray and Dexter is a beast. Highly recommended for all of you crazy cohouns who love to get down in the big city. Buy this Blu-Ray! You will not regret the decision.
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I LOVED the first two seasons and watched them through Netflix's streaming and then bought these discs to catch up on the third season.
Apart from other shows' episodes, there are NO Special Features in this set. Well, if you have a DVD drive in your PC and don't mind running software from the drive, there is supposed to be an interview or two. I have a Mac and the disc locked up my computer twice--that never happens, but this disc did it both times.
The video transfer is grainy and well beneath acceptable. While playing in my HD-DVD player, the video played at what appeared to be maybe 12 frames per second. Not acceptable.
UPDATE: While playing on my Blu-ray player, the frame rate is better and only occasionally gets out of sync. The picture is still grainy and there are still NO special features.
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*** 1/2
After two very strong seasons, "Dexter", the show about your friendly neighborhood serial killer, takes a slight quality dip. Not that it ever becomes poor or even mediocre, really. It's just that, so far with "Dexter", the show's seasons seem to be as good as the main villian, who usually serves as a twisted counterpart for Dexter. In Season 1, the Ice Truck Killer, who turned out to be Dexter's own brother, served this role. He offered Dexter a chance to find brotherhood, familiy, and acceptance, but in the end Dexter chose his "fake" life over a completely chaotic, amoral "real" life with his brother. In the second season, Lyla, a beautiful sociopath, also offered Dexter the chance for real acceptance by a disturbed kindred spirit, and yet he made the same choice in the end - to save the innocents in his life.
The third season finds Dexter looking for a truthful connection with not a brother or a lover, but a friend. Miguel Prado, played by Jimmy Smitts, is a powerful, respected DA. Like with Lyla, the two have an instant attraction, probably because they can each see the other for who they really are - a damaged and disturbed vigilante. Unfortunately, the storyline is slow to really catch on, and for a while, the season seems to drag. It's only at the end of the season, when Miguel and Dexter engage in a killer's game of chess, that the storyline gains momentum. It doesn't help that the subplots aren't particularly interesting either: Deborah's relationship with a musician, Dexter's impending wedding and fatherhood, or Batista's affair with a vice cop are all storylines that don't offer a lot of interest.
Fans should take heart, though ... Season 4, so far only two episodes from its finale, is right back on track. John Lithgow's Trinity Killer may be the show's best villian/counterpart so far.
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