Dexter - The First Season

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Customer Reviews:

Ya Gotta Love Dexter [Posted on 2008-12-22]
Great story line! Excellent Cast! The series is so well written. If you enjoy building a library of TV series on DVD, this is a must have. If you have never seen the show before, it's a "gotta see", start with season 1 and enjoy. It's weird to tell yourself you like this Dexter character and your pulling for him and some how justifying in your head it's okay to like a "serial killer", ya know, he does have a "code".

Technical Fail [Posted on 2008-12-27]
Say what you like about the show, this is a mention of the bad technical quality of the discs.

I just finished watching Season 1, Disc 1. I won't be watching the rest. While the "English 5.1 Surround" soundtrack seems fine, here are some critiques of the rest:

* The "English Stereo" soundtrack is reversed. Everything that should come from the left comes from the right, and vice-versa. So, in episode 4, where his girlfriend comes to visit dressed as Lara Croft, she knocks on the door on the right, and the sound comes from the left. Only on this track, that is. Spanish "mono" and English 5.1 have the sounds in the correct places. I found that out after swapping cables, thinking that my system was hooked up incorrectly.

* The "Spanish Mono" soundtrack is actually stereo. That's a good thing, - the bad thing is that they didn't have the technical proficiency to identify it correctly as such. I used the Lara Croft example above to verify that.

* The disc claims to be an NTSC region 1 disc, but it actually has no region coding, which means it works just fine on my Region 2 Pioneer combi-player.

* The 3D graphics in the menu are awful.

Dexter, season one [Posted on 2008-12-29]
This review is not about the show itself, others have already commented on that and I can't really add anything that they haven't said, it's just a primo show. This review is on the product of the Season One dvd set. 12 episodes on 4 discs and then some bonus features on disc four which includes the first few episodes of "Brotherhood" and a real life blood splatter mini documentary. As for the rest of the set, the main menus are pretty cut and dry with episode lists and audio setup. Unfortunately, I can't find anywhere to turn on subtitles/captioning for those few hard to hear moments. The discs are one sided with selected stills of Dexter facing up on the discs. So for the set itself, a good strong 4 stars but only due to the lack of captioning. For the show itself, top notch 5 stars.

Eerily Masterful ! [Posted on 2008-12-31]
Quickly gets you attached to the characters, and as long as you can put up with a healthy dose of foul language, it is one one of the best TV dramas because of the intensity of its suspense. I never expected this series to be as good as it is.

top 3 [Posted on 2009-01-02]
Ive followed 11 series so far and I put Dexter in my top 3. GREAT!

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