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Smile Store - Dexter - The Complete Second Season
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List Price: $39.98
Our Price: $24.99
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Manufacturer: Showtime / Paramount
Starring: Michael C. Hall
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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097368925144
Format: AC-3
Label: Showtime / Paramount
Manufacturer: Showtime / Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Showtime / Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-08-19
Running Time: 636
Studio: Showtime / Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 2006-11
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Editorial Reviews:
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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:Â TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating:Â NR UPC:Â 097368925144 Manufacturer No:Â 892514
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Summary: Wow ... where did Dexter go? I'm crushed!!
Comment: Is it just me, or has this series mellowed more than a little? Season 1 was original, smart, darkly funny (the best kind), and kept you on the edge with the plots. Season 2 has nothing to boast about! You know what's going to happen before it happens ... no suspense, no gross-outs, no good. All-in-all, finding this series tedious. Never thougt I'd say that about this character. I'm a huge Dexter fan (the Dexter in Season 1). Try to rent this out rather than buy. Save a few bucks.
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Summary: Best season yet
Comment: Dexter is one of my favorite characters.
Season 2 takes place about 5-6 weeks after season 1, debbie is trying to coop with what happened to her last season, and and some of the other characters are trying to move past what happened near the end of last season. Early on, Dexter's bodies are discovered in the ocean.
This brings about what season 2 is about, as the heat gets closer and closer on Dexter, he has to choose between accepting who he is, trying to change, or giving up.
This is a great season, we get some new characters, and this is an original storyline not found in any of the books. Julie's character (Rita) gets more face time this season, and really starts to come around and be more of herself. You feel sorry for her, and proud of her.
Dexter starts getting help for his "addiction" and meets someone who starts to change him, for good or worse, and provides lots of conflict for this season.
I do not wish to spoil anything, so please understand why I'm being so cryptic.
I rate this set as
Overall Rating - 5/5 Stars
Video - 5/5
Audio - 5/5
Bonus - 1/5
Story - 5/5
It is as good or better than season 1 in everyway, with exception to the extras. I want more extras! This is ridiculous!
I kept this as 5 stars, even taking into account the abysmal lack of extras because of the very low price of the dvds, and the phenomenal content contained on those discs.
This is a no-brainer purchase in my mind, and a delightful evening well spent. You can tare through the season in about 10 hours.
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Summary: I'm still hooked!!!
Comment: Although like it's been written here ,Dexter Season 2, may have been a lil' less than the first season, the 2nd season finds Dexter in a diferent place....personnally, romantically and in in his own ways ...spiritually. With all that has happened in the first season, Dexter, is still searching in the 2nd season. The charcters of the second season act on their impulses of the first season and without giving it away they become more connected to Dexter in the 2nd season. Gone are the main plots attachments from the 1st season only to spawn different questions, different feelings...could Dexter not be as hollow as he once proclaims himself to be? Let me put it to you this way...If you watched the 1st season, there is NO WAY you can miss a second of the 2nd season, trust me! New twists and character developments as well character additions make the 2nd season suspensful, sexy, and in some ways a bit sad. Who stays together, does any focal character die, who gets together, what happens to our dear Dexter, our Dark Avenger...?...you'll have to buy the 2nd season and find out...enjoy droogies...!
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Summary: Dexter finds himself off his game but the second season of this show isn't
Comment: (Have an opinion? Write a review! The voting system here is about voting those reviews that helped you make a deicsion to buy something NOT if you agree or disagree...that said...on with the show).
Dexter Morgan the vigilante serial killer who finds his impulse to kill channeled into "good" (killing the bad guys that get away)is one step away from Batman--both are disturbed and decide to deal out justice their own way and both just are striving for a normal life that eludes him something that is alluded to in a couple of episodes of the second season.
The second season finds Dexter at odds with his own instincts. His relationship with Rita appears on the rocks and Doakes is still trailing Dexter trying to figure out what is "wrong" with him. When an FBI agent (Keith Carradine)takes an interest in his handiwork complicating his world. There's more challenges facing Dexter than ever during the second season as he stumbles towards his own strange sense of humanity.
The show which is shot in Digital HD looks surprisingly good. Colors pop capturing the bright overripe look of Miami. Audio sounds good as well.
The extras are a bit slimmer here--we get two episodes of the fine Showtime show "Brotherhood", text biographies, a photo gallery. There's also online access to a pair of episodes for "The Tudors" (2nd season) and "Californification". Unfortunately, we don't get any featurettes this time around nor any commentary tracks for the series but, hey, it's the quality of the shows and season that matter more than anything else. The extras are disappointing and considering you are paying for this it would be nice if they included something more substanial next time.
I'd suggest to Showtime that NEXT time they include a featurette perhaps on a real FBI agent that hunts serial killers, perhaps an interview with the author of the original novel (Darkly Dreaming Dexter)focusing on the departure the show has taken from the novels or even a featurette with the actors discussing what attracted them to the roles in the first place.
The show is a fascinating glimpse into the fractured psyche of Dexter, his sister and friends. It's also really compelling, dark television for adults that. Dexter may not be the boy-next-door but he's trying to be inspite of his darker impulses.
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Summary: Better Than Season 1...If That's Possible?
Comment: Coming off the phenomenal first season what we have here is absolutely no sophomore slump. Dexter season two has evolved in a good way...Less killing with more uncertainty and conflict swirling around Dexter and the almost equally great supporting characters.
This show seems to have so much to interest anyone. A fantastic locale. A truly unique story around a very charasmatic central character. Colorful supporting characters whose own personas help galvanize the viewer's interest. Oh yeah, macabre death as a form of moral judgement at the hands of Dexter and "Harry's code". A thousand word review is pointless if you saw season one...Season two is better, if that's possible? I think that it might just be. Highly recommended, and in the viewer's opinion the hands down best series since Dallas. I only wish Mad Men's season two could be the same quality, not likely by that one's early indications. Mad Men makes me appreciate Dexter even more!
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