Thursday, August 7, 2008

Review: Dexter Season 1 [TV Series]



"Almost impossible to resist"- that's the most suitable theme to describe the TV series of Dexter. Wicked dark thrilling and chilling thriller, slasher and psychothic serial killer, damn smart and entertaining. Impressive and brilliant story-telling. I'd love the intensity and the mystery, so damn creative. This series will definitely not gonna show here in our country guys...haha...violence and brutality...R RATED [Perfect series if you like 'Saw' or 'Hostel'. The easiest way to describe it is "Silence of The Lambs" for the "CSI's Series" generation. I've just finish watching the season finale last night (episode 12) - the result truly awesome. Strongly recommended.
Overall rating: 5 out of 5 - Ibrahem.s

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.

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