Dexter: The Fourth Season
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Actor: Michael C. HallBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Dictionary); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 632 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-08-17
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Showtime / Paramount
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- AC-3; Box set; Color; Dolby; Dubbed; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Dexter: The Fourth Season
Movie Review: One Totally Awesome Mind-Blowing of An Ending for a Phenomenal Season 4
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, let's start this review off by stating emphatically that this is a review of the just finished season 4 on Showtime and not the DVD release itself, which except for any special features or add bonus material is going to be the exact same thing that you just finished up watching today (Sunday, December 13th, 2009), so let's not split any hairs concerning reviewing the actual series as it played out on Showtime and the DVD release. It is pretty much the same thing, except of course if they change the ending when the DVD comes out.
I have enjoyed every season of Dexter: The First Season from the very first episode to this latest "mind-blowing" ending that I just finished watching a mere 15 minutes ago. Now I won't spoil it for those of you who haven't seen the ending, but I am fairly certain that it is going to take me several days to get my head wrapped around the last scene of this season. DAMN those writers and producers anyhow, now I have to wait several more months before the start of season 5. Talk about your torture!
Michael C. Hall is brilliant in the role of Dexter Morgan and as a matter of fact, everyone in the series is absolutely fantastic. Even your minor or supporting role characters are simply outstanding. Of course I have to throw out a special Kudos to the actor who portrays Masuka as he is with-out-a-doubt my favorite character on the series with the exception of Dexter himself, which I personally just love his inner monologues. Masuka is absolutely brilliant and he really adds a hilarious comical addition to every scene he's in, even when he isn't trying to be funny.
*****SPOILER ALERT*****
Some of the interesting plot points of season 4:
1. Quinn starts to become a lot more curious about Dexter than he should be.
2. Dexter's search for answers from a like-minded individual actually causes the seasons ending climactic mind-f***.
3. Deb's obsession with finding the CI (confidential informant) that her father Harry was seeing.
4. Dexter's constant juggling of; work, family, and his Dark Passenger, and the problems that arise because of it.
5. The fact that Trinity is actually incorrectly named, which brings up an interesting point; what would you have called him instead?
As far as next season, here are a couple of logical thoughts that I had:
1. Since Dexter and Rita where just married, and it is doubtful that Dexter adopted Aston and Cody, it might be probable that Rita's mother may come back into the picture and try to get the kids but will only be able to try and get the older two since Dexter is the father of Harrison and would have all parental rights to him. Where I don't believe he may be that assured with Aston and Cody.
2. Of course this is going to affect the older kids in a HUGE way, so that opens the potential to follow along with the storyline that runs rampant through the Dexter novels where Aston and Cody are budding young serial killers themselves and they see the same in Dexter so he start to mentor them like Harry did for him.
3. Someone is obviously going to have to step in and help raise the kids since Dexter has to "work" at both jobs. Therefore, this opens up the possibility for another love interest, although it won't come to fruition until the last couple of episodes of season 5 at the earliest. Deb won't work because of her job, so this is why I get the feeling the mother-in-law may be coming back into the picture. If only for a short time.
4. Dexter is really going to feel this, and is going to shut down for awhile towards co-workers and Deb.
5. Quinn is really going to start getting suspicious of Dexter and will turn into a version of Dokes.
6. Dexter is not going to get sloppy as I felt he did in season 5. He is going to actually be a lot more careful and focused as a way to shut out the pain.
7. I would like to see a female serial killer introduced into the story in such a way that she is actually a sympathetic type and kind of like Dexter in that she only targets men or women that say for example, harm children. Wouldn't this be kind of like the ultimate love interest for Dexter?
8. The opening episode of season 5 has to be a direct continuation of the last episode of season 4, perhaps where Deb comes running up to the house and Dexter is sitting there holding Harrison and covered in blood.
9. Obviously everyone will know that it was Trinity, but to everyone's knowledge he is alive and on the loose. Of course Dexter knows better than that, but that will bring up a continuing story line of everyone's search for someone who doesn't exist anymore.
*****END OF SPOILER ALERT*****
HBO's The Sopranos: The Complete Series used to be my favorite series ever on television, until Dexter came along. Now Dexter is hands down my favorite with the Sopranos and Sons of Anarchy: Season One coming in for a tie for second place. Okay, and then I have Weeds - Season One and True Blood: The Complete First Season (HBO Series) coming in at a tie for third.
If you haven't seen Dexter, I would highly recommend that you get the first three seasons on DVD and sit down and start watching them. I guarantee you that you won't be able to stop at just one episode, you will watch them all until there are no more to watch, and then you will watch them again.
Shawn Kovacich
Author of the Achieving Kicking Excellence books and DVD series.
Summary of Dexter: The Fourth Season
The Showtime Original Series DEXTER? is back with an all-new season, and this time America's favorite serial killer has gone from freewheeling bachelor to responsible husband and doting dad. Maintaining an average-guy facade while satisfying his need to kill has never been easy. But now, with wife and kids in tow, Dexter's got more to lose then ever, as he gets drawn into a deadly game with a killer every bit as dangerous ? and conflicted ? as he is.Unfolding with tragic inevitability, Dexter's fourth season is a taut game of cat and mouse between Dexter (Emmy nominee Michael C. Hall) and Arthur Mitchell, "a very special kind of monster," unnervingly portrayed by John Lithgow in his Emmy and Golden Globe-winning performance. 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 at the end of season 3, he 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. "Who knew life could get so unsimple?" he asks early on. Dexter and Mitchell are not the only characters harboring secrets. Some we can mention (Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta and Detective Angel Batista are in a relationship), but others we dare not even hint at (the episode "Hungry Man" has a doozy of a cliffhanger revelation). 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 (Keith Carradine), 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 (James Remar) and learns more about her twisted family tree. Disappointingly, interviews with Hall, Lithgow, and other cast members can be accessed only on a PC, but the DVD does contain episodes of Californication, Lock 'N Load, and The Tudors. --Donald Liebenson
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