Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray] by Adam Davidson, Keith Gordon, Michael Cuesta, Robert Lieberman, Steve Shill, starring Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, James Remar: DVDNear.com

Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray]

Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray]
by Adam Davidson, Keith Gordon, Michael Cuesta, Robert Lieberman, Steve Shill

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Actor: David Zayas, James Remar, Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Vélez, Michael C. Hall
Director: Adam Davidson, Keith Gordon, Michael Cuesta, Robert Lieberman, Steve Shill
Brand: Paramount
Writer: Clyde Phillips
Writer: Daniel Cerone
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 600 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2009-01-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Showtime Ent.
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Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
Closed-captioned; Color; Widescreen

Movie Reviews of Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray]

Movie Review: Spectacular
Summary: 5 Stars

Dexter has finally made his Blu-Ray debut, and the glossy, well-made series looks wonderful in the format. Besides some relatively small BD-Live features (including seeing the first episode the third season), there really isn't anything here that wasn't on the standard-def version of the Complete First Season, but for Blu-Ray owners who haven't taken the plunge into Dexter's world, this is definitely worth checking out. Below is my original review for first season.

The interesting concept of this Showtime series makes it reason enough to check it out. Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) plays the title character, who works in forensics for the Florida police by day, and is a serial killer at night. Because of his job and upbringing by a police officer foster father (James Remar), Dexter knows how to cover his tracks while wearing his mask of humanity by day. Slowly though, things start to take a turn when another serial killer with connections to Dexter's own mysterious past rears his head, and soon enough our title character is caught in a bloody game of cat and mouse. What makes Dexter so good is the approach taken to the theme of the series by the creators and Hall himself. What could have easily flopped and failed miserably instead evolves episode by episode as we attempt to see what makes Dexter tick. The rest of the cast is excellent as well to say the least. Julie Benz (the vampiric Darla from Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel) is superb as Rita: Dexter's rape victim girlfriend whom he keeps around so he doesn't have to bother with sex, HBO's Oz veterans Lauren Velez and David Zayas as fellow cops, and hottie Jennifer Carpenter (whom Hall has recently married, seriously) as Dexter's sister. Not since Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer has there been an interesting and above all chilling glimpse into the mind of a madman that walks among us. Spectacular, and definitely worth picking up even if you never caught the show on Showtime during it's first season run.

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Summary of Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray]

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 departments.

An interesting and original idea that's very skillfully executed, Showtime's Dexter is never less than watchable, often quite compelling, and sometimes thoroughly riveting. As the 12 episodes from the show's first season (packaged here in a four disc set) reveal, it's also the epitome of "high concept," a kind of Silence of the Lambs for the C.S.I. generation. Creator-executive producer James Manos Jr.'s title character, one Dexter Morgan (played by Michael C. Hall of Six Feet Under renown), works for the Miami Police Department as an blood spatter analyst, visiting crime scenes and helping figure out what happened. He has an avocation, too: during his off hours, he tracks down some very, very bad people who for various reasons have eluded the proper authorities. Seems his adoptive father, a cop himself, taught the kid how to channel his dark side in a "positive" direction; and so, having captured these evildoers (including a child molester-murderer and a recidivist drunk driver with a trail of bodies in his wake), Dex dispatches them with clinical precision, thus making him a serial killer who snuffs serial killers. But there's more--much more, as it turns out. By his own description, Dexter is "a monster," an empty shell who fakes all human interactions and admits to no real feelings for anything or anyone, including his foster sister (Jennifer Carter) and his nominal girlfriend (Julie Benz), a former crack addict and battered spouse who's as uninterested in sex as he is. There's an explanation for Dexter's weirdness, of course, one so deep and traumatic that even he isn't aware of it. It's gradually revealed over the course of the season as he and the cops (who include Erik King, Lauren Velez, and David Zayas, all first-rate) track down the so-called "Ice Truck Killer," a fellow monster whose grisly m.o. both fascinates and taunts our hero, leading to a genuinely shocking and squirm-inducing finale. Dexter can be a bit arch, with an ironic, too-hip-for-the-room tone that get a little old. Still, it's a safe bet that anyone who views this first season will be salivating for the second. Extras include audio commentary on two episodes, a featurette about real-life blood spatter analysis, and a variety of DVD-ROM items. --Sam Graham

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