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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.78:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.57 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 6421098592
Director ‏ : ‎ Jeremy Podeswa, Keith Gordon, Marcos Siega, Nick Gomez, Steve Shill
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Blu-ray, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Run time ‏ : ‎ 10 hours and 36 minutes
Release date ‏ : ‎ May 5, 2009
Actors ‏ : ‎ Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter, David Zayas, James Remar, C.S. Lee
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
Studio ‏ : ‎ Showtime / Paramount
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001S2PT3M
Writers ‏ : ‎ Daniel Cerone, James Manos Jr.
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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Another entertaining Dexter season two series fans of the series will enjoy.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2019

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After I was hooked on the entire first season of Dexter I decided to also purchase the second and third season. In the second season Dexter is keeps thinking about his past but cannot stop his special form of psychopathic justice following a strict code.

There are many twists and turns in the 12 episodes of the third season which will keep you wondering whether Dexter will be found out about his secret psychopathic self. This series comes in four DVDs covering the following topics: It’s alive, waiting to exhale, an inconvenient lie, see-through, the dark defender, Dex, lies, and videotape, that night, a forest view, morning comes, and resistance is futile, there’s something about Harry, left turn ahead and the British invasion.

In conclusion, if you are a fan of the Dexter series you should check out the entire second season collection.
Rating: 5 Stars. Joseph J. Truncale (Author: Never trust a politician: A critical review of politics and politicians).

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Michael Green

Can a Serial-Killer Keep a lascivious Soul-Mate?

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2016

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I have watched seasons 1-4 back-to-back and there are spoilers in this review. Our serial-killer hero, Dexter, is not a born psychopath, but a good kid made into a killer by the profound trauma of witnessing his mother murdered by chain saw and then being forced to sit in her blood for two days before being rescued by a cop, Harry Morgan, who becomes his foster dad and teaches the emotionally empty shell how to pretend to be normal and in order to keep Dexter safe, how to channel his demons into the constructive path of hunting and killing only murderers. The lessons from Dexter’s adoptive dad Harry echo internally as his ghost returns as the voice of guidance and internal dialogue.

Season 1 is a dramatic bullet-train of non-stop heart-pounding thrills – in which Dexter is toyed with by a fabulously talented serial killer who seems to know him intimately and whose skill seems to exceed his own. Dexter works as a blood-splatter analyst for Miami Metro Homicide and helps his step-sister cop Debra hunt the Ice Truck Killer who leaves beautifully exsanguinated corpses. Family ties become strained and the question posed is what sort of family ties a serial killer can have as Dexter struggles to maintain a relationship with his girlfriend Rita and her two kids.

By season 2 Dexter’s relationship with Rita is thrown into turmoil with the reappearance of her drug-addict husband and a passionate romance with Lila, an artist, tormented with her own demons, who is determined to have Dexter as her soul-mate, but who keeps threatening Rita and the kids. Season 3 finds Dexter exploring the prospects for friendship with a rogue prosecutor with his own sense of justice. Dexter teaches him how to kill but the friendship sours as Ramon Prado pursues private vendettas with his new-found skills and, like Lila, must eventually fall under Dexter’s knife. Except for Rita and her kids, an intimate relationship with Dexter is a bit like conjugation with a black-widow spider.

Part of the series’ charm is the way we find ourselves rooting for a serial killer trying to act the way he should when he can’t feel it. All those moments of emotional isolation, of feeling different but trying to fit in, of acting how we think we should in order to belong – make Dexter a sympathetic figure. The show is also packed with wry irony and double entendres that put us in Dexter’s shoes, and mordant wit as when Dexter is ready to kill a psychologist who pushes his patients to suicide – but puts it off for a few days because he needs another session with him to address some intimacy issues he has with Rita. Finally, the only people with whom Dexter can let his hair down and be himself are his victims, strapped to the abattoir table; not only do they have so much in common but they are hardly in a position to hold what he says against him.

One of the best critical reviews of The Final Season describes how the writers gave up in the final season and the show went to pot; I suspected that the decline would come earlier because it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief to watch a full-time serial killer, boyfriend and father surrogate, homicide forensics expert, sympathetic brother find time to juggle it all – and indeed by Season 4 things break down quite badly. Dexter is on the trail of Trinity, the USA’s most successful uncaught serial killer with a 30+ year record. Trinity hides in plain sight as a model citizen, father, deacon and home-builder. He takes troops of workers around the country to build homes for the needy and kills at these distant locations. Dexter undertakes to enter Trinity’s life as one of his helpers and becomes an intimate of Trinity’s family and church. When Dex decides that it’s time for Trinity to go, Dex offers a confidence that triggers a profound guilt in the senior serial-killer. Dex stalks Trinity to his job site, takes out his anesthetizing needle and sneaks up from behind but sees Trinity about to leap to his death by impaling himself on the rebar below. As the very large Trinity jumps, Dex grabs his wrist and unlike real life where they both go over or you can’t hold on, Trinity hangs there while Dex has the insight that it is okay for Trinity to die so long “as it’s by my hand.” So just as Dex is about to release Trinity’s wrist, 4-5 co-workers come up and grab the boss and pull him to safety. Whoops! Whatever happened to the meticulous take-no-risks Dexter who never comes close to being caught? Dexter doesn’t have even a moment’s reflection about what he was doing planning to snatch Trinity from the middle of a fully occupied work site.

It gets better, or worse. Dex becomes a softy and wants to start saving people instead of just killing the bad guys. One of Trinity’s victims is a 10-year old boy drugged and put into a duffle bag who will be dumped at night into a cement fill at the job-site. (Don’t ask how Trinity gets a large pit full of wet cement in the middle of the night at the build site.) Rather like rescuing the damsel tied to the tracks, Dex arrives in the nick of time, but Trinity dumps the bag into the cement and then the two commence to struggle over the shovel in Trinity’s hands. Dex wins, whacks Trinity in the head and he goes down. Now, certainly this is a moment with not a lot of time to spare, but certainly a few seconds for a couple more good whacks to make sure Trinity is done for; or a slit with the shovel edge against a jugular so the bag can be pulled out without Trinity’s interference. But Dex gives one whack, then turns toward the sinking bag and here is the kicker: the serial-killer manual 101 says than when engaged in hand-to-hand life-and-death struggle with another experienced serial-killer you don’t let him out of your sight unless he’s dead or permanently disabled. But Dex simply turns his back on Trinity and …

Well, folks, the writers started to shut down and call it quits in Season 4. Between Goodwill, Amazon and E-bay I managed to buy Seasons 1-5 for under $24.00 (shipping included) but it’s 50-50 whether Season 5 will ever get watched. By the way, Showtime must have produced the DVDs on a shoestring. The only one with subtitles was my sole Blu-ray purchase, Season 3; and both Season 3 and Season 4 begin with mandatory inescapable Showtime advertisements.

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"I'm the helpful handyman. How evil can I possibly be?"

Reviewed in the United States on December 24, 2011

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Season Two of DEXTER gives up twelve more episodes of guilty pleasure viewing. You don't get more anti-hero than Dexter Morgan, by day an unassuming blood spatter analyst on Miami Metro Police's forensics team and by night a notorious serial killer dubbed by the media as the Bay Harbor Butcher. That's right, after years of Dexter's being so very careful with his kills, his chickens have still come home to roost. Imagine his shock when his dumped garbage bags full of hacked-up body parts are found just off the coast of Miami, riling up the media, throwing Miami Metro PD in chaos, especially when evidence surfaces suggesting that the Butcher may be a cop in their department. To quote Dexter: "For such a neat monster, I'm making an awfully big mess."

Season Two conveys a whiff of Kevin Costner's No Way Out and Denzel Washington's Out of Time , as Dexter finds himself furiously racing against time, what with his colleagues getting ever closer to uncovering the Bay Harbor Butcher's true identity. Still, to demonstrate again how thought-provoking this show is, when the police's digging around unearths that the Butcher seems only to have slain other murderers, one headline from the print media reads: "Bay Harbor Butcher: Friend or Foe?" We see Dexter, after reading that, stand a little bit taller.

Not that the recent past is neglected. The harrowing Ice Truck Killer case isn't yet so distant in the rear view mirror. Dexter is haunted by having had to kill the Ice Truck Killer who, as you know, was his long-lost brother. Dexter's cop sister Debra (an appealingly awkward Jennifer Carpenter) is a wreck. She's still coping with having been duped and captured and almost killed by the Ice Truck Killer who, as you know, was her fiance. Let's face it, Debra's radar for sensing serial killers is sort of suspect.

Dexter has always been meticulous about blending in, about preserving his "Dark Passenger." He adheres to the Code of Harry, rules of survival taught him by his foster father, him what originally set him on this dark road. To hide his true nature, Dexter Morgan maintains a cloak of normality, fakes emotions he doesn't feel, adopts behavior that pushes him unobstrusively to the background. Except that enough of Dexter's secret life had leaked into his "cover" that he finds himself having to confess to his girlfriend Rita that, yes, he is an addict. She assumes a drug addiction and convinces him to attend Narcotics Anoymous. But we all know it's an even darker dependency that he clings to, and it's really interesting watching Dexter try to 12-step his way to recovery, especially when he lands a beautiful NA sponsor (played by Jaime Murray, marvelous) determined to reach the "real" Dexter. As ever, only the combustible Sgt. Doakes suspects that there's something off with the resident blood spatter analyst. And in this season's final few episodes, the highly charged interactions between Erik King ("Doakes") and Michael C. Hall become utterly compelling.

I think I'm in love with Deb Morgan as played by Jennifer Carpenter. Deb wears her emotions on her sleeve, is brash and bull-headed and fidgety and so potty-mouthed that Richard Pryor just ran off to fetch a bar of soap. She spends the first half of Season Two traumatized from her time with the Ice Truck Killer. Carpenter oozes attitude and wounded vulnerability and she's so very likable. And anyone could see it coming, that Deb would latch onto Keith Carradine's grounded FBI agent.

Michael C. Hall's complex and uncannily sympathetic performance obviously anchors the show, and you can pin phrases such as "darkly funny" and "a deliciously wicked turn" to what he brings. His frequently amusing voice-over narration sheds a light on how his mind works. We take in his pointed commentary on society and its many vagaries. We observe Dexter's growth as a character. We see him evolve beyond the Code of Harry. Which doesn't mean he stops chopping up those what deserve to get chopped up. What's that credo? Some whatsis about having the serenity to accept the things one cannot change? And, ultimately, after the season-long bout of second-guessing, what's Dexter Morgan if not serene? It's the show itself that's morally ambivalent, leaving its audience conflicted and yet absolutely engrossed. Addicted, even.

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A. Smythe

Dark, dangerous, and downright funny.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 5, 2008

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As soon as i finished watching season 1, I ordered this region 1 dvd from amazon.
The first year bowled me over as a piece of great, original television unfolded before my eyes. I wasn't sure it could get any better, but it did.

Season 2 takes us on a more complete journey into the minds and lives of the characters. The show stays true to what made it so good, but adds greater depth and creativity; everyone seems to be on a mission to find themselves, or are at least trying to recapture who they think they are.
Dexter's life becomes much more complex as his web of ever increasing lies constantly threatens to come undone and wreck the lives of almost everyone. A special mention should go to all the suppoting cast, especially Jennifer Carpenter, who plays Deb. Her story was great and she acted her socks off.
The whole show seems to have taken a step up in every way and has really started to mature. Fantastic writing keeps this ahead of most other dramas, and with the work that follows, it allows us to enjoy a uniquely entertaining piece of television.
Dark, dangerous, and downright funny at times, I wasn't disappointed with a single minute of a single episode. TV doesn't get any better than this.

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Mr. A. J. Ralph

The best show on TV just keeps getting better!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 23, 2009

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I loved season 1 but season 2 just goes beyond.This time round Dexter is implicated for his crimes and goes at any cost to evade detection.Other storylines include his affair with the mysterious Lila,plus tracking his mothers killers.

The only thing I hated was watching the last episode which made me very anxious for season 3.For the last year I have had Dexter withdrawal.I just can't wait for the next season.Best show on TV!

Alan Mcintyre

Dexter Season 2

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 15, 2013

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Dexter is one of the most original TV Shows. The main character is Blood Splatter analyist in the Miami Metro Police whiule being a serial killer. His sister is an up and coming police officer working in homicide with Dexter. It is dark and humourous with so many good and engaging characters. I bought the first season and now I'm hooked

David W

A great season

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 14, 2014

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Dexter series 2 is just as good as the first series if not better! Dexter and rita's relationship develops a lot in this series

Jack Wilson

Flawless

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 17, 2014

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The best individual sseason of any T.V show I've seen!

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