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Dexter: The First Season [Blu-ray]

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Directors: Adam Davidson, Keith Gordon, Michael Cuesta, Robert Lieberman, Steve Shill
Actors: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, Lauren Vélez, David Zayas, James Remar
Studio: Showtime Ent.
Category: DVD

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Sales Rank: 8,501

Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Media: Blu-ray
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Running Time: 600 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

MPN: PARBR140064
UPC: 097361400648
EAN: 0097361400648
ASIN: B001HPP2X2

Release Date: January 6, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

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•	Condition: New
•	Format: Blu-ray
•	Closed-captioned; Color; Widescreen

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
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.

Amazon.com
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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