Dexter - The Complete Second Season

I started watching this series during the second season and it seemed so dark and morbid. As I got into it I realized that Dexter was really a good man with a desire for justice and if the law did not take care of the evil doer, then he would. I had to buy the first season to see how it all began. The series is captivating and you almost cheer him on when he brings the demise of those that "almost" got away with crime. The fear of getting caught is always there and you wonder if he ever will be. I don't like the fact that his sister has a foul mouth but he needs her as I see that he uses her to his advantage. This is a very good series. If you do not believe in "eye for and eye" then don't watch it. Otherwise, I recommend it. The language and the killing may be questionable, but it keeps my interest.

I think that the most interesting character besides Dexter was Doakes, but this season eliminated Doakes and in so doing, reduced the complexity and value of Dexter himself. By allowing that storyline to go forward and having Dexter do what he did. he is not avenging murders, he is what he was born to be a sociopathic, self-serving, serial killer, no more, no less. A great character has been destroyed and a character with depth is looking more like you would expect the brother of dopey, clingy, pathetic, Deb to look like. Not a good move.

Dexter is an extremely well written & acted show. For a show about a serial killer, it also has plenty of heart.

This is TV at it's best. Provocative, consistent, nothing comes close. I thought the first series was great, this
second series surpasses it!

Even though I am a huge fan of "Dexter--the First Season," I couldn't imagine a better second season. In fact, I'm going to need imagination-stretching exercises because all the people behind "Dexter-The Second Season" give us just that--a BETTER second season!

An observation: Whoever determines casting definitely has an eye for borderline anorexic women with small breasts. Dexter's sister Debra, his girlfriend Rita, and newcomer Lila, an English woman he meets in a 12-step program and who becomes his sponsor for Season Two--all match that description.

In Season One Dexter tells us over and over he is emotionally dead, but as the season progresses, Dexter truly develops feelings for Rita and her two children. In Season Two he no longer denies his feelings, making it clear how much Rita means to him. However, Lila's presence and declaration that she understands him moves Dexter off-kilter.

Throw into the boiling pot the discovery of all Dexter's plastic bags of body parts hidden at the edge of the ocean's currents and the viewer has an explosive combination that keeps him/her on the edge for all of the second season.

But I neglect to include Special Agent Lundy, who has come to Miami to solve the serial killer case after the plastic bag discovery. He always gets his man and in one scene in particular, I could not imagine how Dexter would escape being identified. But remember? I have an imagination problem. I was wrong. Lundy (wonderfully played by Keith Carradine) also plays a pivotal role in a sub-plot. Nah, I'm not saying.

As the season nears the end, I am astonished to think that the program will end the way it seems to be heading. However, by season's end all loose ends are tied, and concludes, better than first season, with a promise of even better things to come in the third season.

I've described the bones of Second Season, but not the flesh. Season Two is about relationships: lovers, friends, lust, love, co-workers. It is also about character development. I did not care for Dexter's sister Debra in the first season, but her character development made me become quite fond of her in the second. Lila's character becomes more and more annoying as the season progressea, but I did not like her to begin with.

Sometimes the tension is thick enough to cut and once I actually screamed out loud! I scared both me and my cats! In one episode when Dexter drags a torso from one of his victims into the police department with Debra nipping at his heels, I kept thinking, How will Dexter get out of this?

Michael C. Hall is brilliant as Dexter.