DVD Review of Dexter Season 2

I don't have Showtime so I've had to wait for the DVD Sets...season 2 came out a couple of weeks ago...what took you guys so long? Anyway, he is right abut one thing, you will sit there until it's over. Silly me, actually made then cancelled plans around disc 3.

The show is on it's own merits and Hall, deservingly so earned a Emmmy nomination this year. BUT, the huge problem I have with the show is that---THEY ARE BASED ON BOOKS!!! I understand taking certain "liberties", but come on- Lila was never a character, his sister Deb knows about him and his Dark Passenger, which would be very compelling for the show. The List couold go on and on. There are essentially just two plotlines in Season 2 that were in one of the books. But, I learned to just seperate the two, it was a slow process that my wife was getting annoyed at. Always pointing out differences between the two mediums.

If you happen to be a fan of the show, get the books, the second is my favorite but the most recent 3rd Edition is great!

I picked this up about a week and a half ago and blew through it in no time. Everything about the review is spot on, I really don't know whether I should root for Dexter or not. Especially as his conflict with Doakes got more complicated, I didn't know if I should want the "honest asshole" Doakes to somehow "win" or the "nice serial killer" Dexter to keep his secret.

Good stuff.

Need...ha...what took so long? Well it all depends on when we get the DVDs from the distributor. Our goal is to have the reviews up anywhere from two weeks before to two weeks after street date. This is the time of year when all the studios are releasing their previous season's TV shows on DVD so there is a LOT of material to plow through.

Where's the Shield review coming then!!?

This show is so good its silly. But thanks to Netflix being a bunch of bitches i've only managed to see the first disc. c'mon its been on my queue since last August, you'd think they might send me the discs in a timely manner. its killing me.

but to placate my need for some Dex i started reading 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter'. I haven't decided which I like better yet though, book or show.

I've watched an episode here and there but I can't get past the ridiculous premise. He's a serial killer, but feel free to root for him because he only kills other serial killers. It's kind of like making a show about a rapist who only rapes other rapists.

@gimpythewonder

Be aware that season two differs drastically from the second book in the series (I have Showtime, and I also was curious last year whilst waiting for Season Two to start).

Season one and Darkly Dreaming are fairly close (with only the end differing in the details).

Although, I *would* be interested in seeing Rita's kids picking up Dexter's code (and there are glimpses of how both the kids are disfunctional in both Season One and the first book), that isn't touched on in Season Two where it is a theme in the later books.

Me? I don't like the later books as much as the first, but I really, really liked Season Two, and I am awaiting Season three.

I actually preferred the first season of the show to Darkly Dreaming Dexter simply for the expanded story and the way that Brian totally screwed with Dex's head.

The second two books are great, and I think that they're good in different ways than the show, and that the divergence helps to keep things fresh. (Spoiler alert) Rita's kids SOOOOO need to take up Harry's code. That's one of the coolest aspects of the books yet to be explored.

Notafan, if you're watching an episode here and there, your opinion is null and void. That would be like reviewing an entire film based on a clip you saw on Entertainment Tonight. This isn't CSI where each episode is a complete story. Each season of Dexter is a 12 hour movie. If you'd watched the show from the beginning, you'd know that the premise is actually quite clever, and wonder why nobody thought of it sooner. If you don't want to root for him that's fine, but that doesn't make the story any less interesting. He's a forensic blood spatter analyst trained by his cop father, who could see the monster emerging in his young son and instead of enrolling his kid in useless therapy sessions he forged Dexter into a weapon against the other monsters in the world who escape justice. He taught him how to blend in, how to disguise himself with all of the artifice of human feeling and likability. Dexter is charming, sensitive and well liked by everybody but Doakes, and it's all a brilliant act because he has no human feeling, and the code he lives by is the only thing that keeps him a free man. You don't have to like him, but that doesn't make the show any worse, or any less creative. If you didn't have mixed feelings about the man that would be ridiculous. That's the point of the character, you're supposed to feel conflicted, you're supposed to like him and hate yourself for liking him.

Maybe you're just mad you didn't come up with the idea, but it seems you've seriously missed the point.