Dexter - Complete Season 1-8 [DVD]
M**E
Beautifully presented, complete boxed set. Well written Crime Thriller. Gory? yes. Unwatchably horrific? No.
Dexter Morgan is a thirty something blood spatter analyst working with the forensic department in Miami. A critical incident in his early childhood haunts him and he’s described as psychopathic. He’s an excellent forensic analyst, but frustrated with the inability of Miami Police to bring murderers to justice, he meticulously plans and dispenses his own form of retribution to killers.Constantly seeking to understand his own motivations, this is also the story of a damaged individual desperate to come to terms with his mindset while being able to avoid detection by living a normal life. Frustratingly for Dexter, it appears that just about everybody he encounters is also, in their own way, pretty damaged.I usually read crime fiction, so a boxed set was a bit of a departure for me – but I did enjoy the series – it’s not complicated to watch, the storylines are intriguing, usually fast and pacy, including loads of cliffhangers, the acting is believable with some great characters.Dexter’s sister Debra, a Miami Cop, makes Gordon Ramsay’s language sound mild. There is a lot of effing and blinding (mainly from Debra), and some rather bloody scenes – but while the macabre bits are gruesome, I didn’t find them unwatchable – the storyline doesn’t concentrate soley on making the viewer feel sick, but I couldn’t recommend this to those of a very sensitive disposition.This beautifully presented boxed set contains the complete series 1 - 8 of Dexter – each series is comprises 4 CDs, each CD contains 4 episodes, the episodes are around 40 minutes long, so there’s many, many hours of ‘binge watching’ here. If you don’t binge, the beginning of each episode gives a quick resume of what’s been happening in the series as a quick reminder, although I found the repetitive intros to each episode a bit tedious – I got the allegories the first time.What I would have liked, is more of the forensic science, there is some, but that's not what the series concentrates on.Well worth getting if you enjoy crime thrillers and don’t mind lots of fake blood.
M**D
Kept me interested
The top picture gives one box set and the illustration gives another, I have had both these box sets and for space saving would go with top picture that opens at the top so illustration one that slides out of a sleeve and opens in centre I will be selling. Which box set you would prefer I don't know but I would say illustration would be most likely to become the collector one.I really enjoyed all the series but felt it was a little dramatic, I like reality drama's that keeps to reality as much as they can. I know it is hard to make a series and make it to real life. I feel this series lost its reality when 3 detectives become suspicious of Dexter and 2 of them where murdered. It is hard to believe the force wouldn't of furthered the evidence of the findings of top detectives, not only that there was all these killers going missing and the only evidence they existed was on a slide for a microscope, even serial killers have records and they where disappearing from existence and there daily lives and no one noticed,In the second season they called the killer the Bay harbour butcher and they knew that it was someone within the force and the detectives suspicions grow on Dexter, not does only Dexter escape but he also manages to turn the evidence around to frame the one blaming him. In serious 5 another detectives casts his suspicions on Dexter and the turn away from it because of the loss of his wife, then a third detective top of the force casts her suspicions, then when they finally work it out he manages to fake his own death and escape because he developed normal feelings. It was a funny finish and I give it five star not for reality but because of the interest it kept one on their toes, like one review said after watching season 6 he just had to get season 7 and 8 because it was one of those drama's that kept one thinking what was going to happen next?One of my best drama's was Breaking Bad because it kept me on my toes and this came a very close second, it is not expensive and gives hour of viewing and it got like I said five star because it kept me interested. I an sure Hannibal would of worked it out and would of helped the police to crack the case of the Bay harbour butcher a lot sooner and maybe without all the slip up.
M**Y
Good Acting
My hairdresser told me about this box set, was not to sure if I would like it, she is a lot younger than me and I thought our viewing taste would be different, no I really enjoyed Dexter and all the story lines.
M**.
Excellent Price. Series. Delivery.
This is an excellent Series which can easily lead to bing watching if not careful. It has a very original premise with regards to a Serial Killer. If fact albeit. Serial Killer he works to a code of Ethics as such, which kind of makes you not hate him as person. He actually comes across as a likeable chap albeit the ‘Bad Guy’. Yet there is method to his madness. Excellent and have watched this 3 times already this was bought as a gift for my friend who watched it ALL within two weeks - hence the binge watching. Recommend. Not for the faint hearted or squeamish person albeit it’s more to do with the individual stories than that actually murders themselves, so not just blood and gore.
A**.
Brilliant
Brilliant
A**C
dexter boxset
first 5 seasons are amazing although show gets worse after that
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