Anyone watch Dexter? It's such a different kind of show. It's about a blood specialist for the Miami Police Department...who's also a serial killer. I won't say anymore other than it's really good...and funny too.

A buddy of mine told me about it and we've been watching since episode three. It's available on OnDemand, so that allowed me to catch up a bit. It's an interesting show and certainly better than all of the run of the mill crime shows on these days.

I watch very little drama on television, but I'd endorse this.

this is my favorite show going right now. Great acting/writing. This week's episode was the best yet.

Stoked it got picked up for season 2 already.

Man, this show is just getting better and better. The new development with the prosthetic limb doctor! Wowaweeewa...

I read both books and it's hard to seperate the two.


It was strange that they tried to follow the book on certain points, but peel off in different directions on other points, ie: character development


no question that this is an excellent show and worth watching

The whole 'revelation' was a little obvious, but it has been funny to watch the interactions.

I watched 1-9 (yea, that's 7+ hours!) last night, since I couldn't go to sleep until after 7am. Great show.

OnDemand is handy. =)

True...I kinda saw it coming when they first introduced the doctor but to see it actually happen is cool....it then leads you to think about all the inevitable conflicts.

GODAMMIT

I saw this thread you guys hyping it and I have since found that TVShow website and Dexter is on there. Now I have to sit in front of my computer for 7 hours until I catchup to new eps. Thanks alot.

Yeah that'll really cut into the tranny porn viewing....

I've only seen tranny porn once and I was getting blown at the time. Long story. There was a girl involved.

I saw the pilot and I'm dying to see the rest. WTF is On Demand? Is it like TIVO? You guys must be rolling in dough...

It's like a part of my digital cable package...you can watch a lot of movies and shows whenever you want for free if you subscribe to those channels normally. Think of it as free pay-per-view.

BUMP!

I started watching this on VOD the last few days, up to ep 6 now and its pretty good. I like the main character, very interesting. A lot of the other supporting characters I didn't like at first but a few are starting to round out. I like Angel at least. The sister however is a product of goofy writing. She went from not being able to wipe her own butt to writing up new and accurate profiles on serial killers. A bit of a reach, but whatever. Hopefully she gets killed later and I'll like the show more.

Season finale was really good, looking forward to season 2.

I hate to be "that guy" but the books are really good. Read "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" by Jeff Lindsay. The first season is roughly based on his first novel. The show is relatively faithful, but in the book, he really doesn't have feelings for anyone. Truly psychopathic. And they invented some plot lines for the TV show, but they pretty much had to, and they weren't THAT outrageous.

I liked the show, too. The opening sequence is kinda cool, no?

Wang

I was "that guy" earlier in the thread. Agreed, both books are excellent and the show is worth watching. I'm looking forward to next season.



Here are some changes that the TV show made:


Like Wang said, he has no feelings in the books. He is driven by serial killer instincts and the books have him tied together with the cycles of the moon.

His girlfriends son is a budding psychopath caused by the trama the GF's ex put the kid through. The GF's son killed the neighbors dog that was barking and there is forshadowing of Dexter taking him under his wing and training him like Harry did for Dexter.

The sister doesn't date his psycho brother.

We don't meet the psycho brother until he has Dexter's sister tied up.

Near the end when his sister is layed out for Dexter to fillet, he gets very close to giving into his inner monster. His sister is awake and is trying to talk him out of it. We don't know if Dexter would have gone through with it because the lady hispanic detective barges in and shoots Dexter in the leg. The brother shoots the lady detective in the chest, killing her, and then Dexter takes his brothers gun and shoots his brother.


dammit, that post sucks..........read the books people, very entertaining in a brain candy sort of way.

I haven't read the books but one of the other parts that I read was left out is in the books they allude to Dexter thinking he is actually the Ice Truck Killer.

I've also head a few people say they enjoy the series more than the books.

So I'm late to the party, but I just finally got to watch the last two episodes of the season. Man...holy ****. I mean, throughout the show, I started to see specific things coming, but the twists aren't really any less "fun" as a result.

I'm kind of curious about how they're going to approach Dexter now that he seems to basically have emotions.

One of my roomates was bugging me for a while to watch this show. It sounded interesting but I never seemed to have time to watch it. Finally in the last 24 hours I watched every episode. Great show. Sucks that they only have 12 episodes.

I've just finished watching the first 5. Extremely interesting concept. Some of the blackest humor I've seen, which is great.

sumanabatch! can't seem to find anywhere that has episode 7 or higher...dogdammit....help a bruva out yeah?

http://torrentspy.com/torrent/909456/Dexte..._XviDproper_LOL

thanks but i was really hoping for instant gratification instead of torrent.

You don't have OnDemand?

negative ghost rider.
No ondemand, no dvr, no hd. just basic (read as: cheap) cable service.

When does it start up again?

Sometime this fall, Sep/Oct

God damn it. Bumping this thread just got my hopes up.

HAHA, sorry. I saw that and had to post it.



Jadaki:HBO::Me:Showtime

I am always telling people how great Dexter and Weeds are.

I still haven't watched Weeds yet, but Dexter was great.

First 2 episodes of the new season have been leaked. A pretty well respected member of the torrent uploading community has confirmed them to be real. I haven't dloaded them yet but when I do I will come back to hopefully confirm that they are real.

If you dont feel like waiting for confirmation you can dload them here.
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1787471/Dext...p_XviD_SiTV_avi
http://torrentspy.com/torrent/1787458/Dext...p_XviD_SiTV_avi

I heard 3 and 4 will be out soon too, apparently they made some promotional DVD and it got leaked.

Even more good news.

First 2 episodes of the new season are very good. I hope 3 and 4 will be online soon. Dont wanna have to wait any longer.

Even if they do get out, thats all you will get. you will be waiting an extra month for episode 5 since will have seen the first 4.

Better than waiting till they actually come out imo.

Not for me if it's anything like last season. I dl'd and watched all the episodes in a matter of days, and still had trouble waiting. I may even just wait until the whole season is out before watching and just do a marathon.

I was actually thinking of doing this too. That's how I watched season 1...but that was because I didn't know about the show until season 1 was over.

It's a crime this show isn't on Showcase or Bravo. Huge snub at the Emmy's or whatever TV award show just announced it's nominees. Hell, I've only seen the pilot (1st episode) and I can't wait to see more...

One little joke I enjoyed 9and I think I mentioned it somehwere) is the name of Dexter's boat: Slice of Life...how funny is that?

It's good, I don't know if any of it is really emmy worthy.

The show has a few flaws primarily the girl playing Dexter's sister is a horrible actor, and there are a few occasional holes that stand out in the stories.

It's showing first run on TMN (our HBO) in Canada right now.

Watched episode 7 last night. missed the first two, i believe.

Great stuff.

OK. good. I just finished the first season and this was something I wanted to bring up.

No one really cares since you're all watching or have watched season 2, but I really don't like a lot of the actors on the show (mostly the women).

It has great characters and a good story, but for the most part, the show is filled with poor actors. Or, at least actors I just don't like in these roles for whatever reason.

Hall is great as Dexter, the second season his sister gets slightly more tolerable and the focus is on mostly the male characters anyway aside from Lila. They bring in Keith Carradine for season two also which is a big positive as far as talent. Also the guy who plays Doakes actually gets to do a little acting and not be as one dimensional as he was the first season.

I beg to differ. Disliking someone on a show doesn't mean they're a bad actor. I didn't like her at first, but I've really enjoyed her character on the show. She is angry, vulnerable, impenetrable, prone to behaving like one of the hookers she was posing as, she lacks diplomatic skills...etc. All told, I think she does a very good job of portraying a complex character that people aren't supposed to like.

btw, I've seen all of Season 1, as well as the first two eps of 2, so I have enough material for a judgement. That's not to say you're not entitled to your opinions...I just disagree and hope you will give the actors in a show like this more leeway to make their characters seem like real people.

I have a feeling if you watch her in anything else she would be just the same as she is in Dexter, I don't think she can really act. It's her mannerisms that annoy me to death and I really don't think those are her acting, not to mention her crooked mouth and some of the weird faces she makes just make me cringe. She attempts to overdo every emotion and it comes across as cheesy to me, though it isn't nearly as bad in season 2. I suppose that is supposed to be a stark contrast to Dexter on the show but sometimes she reminds me of an anime character with her eyes bugging out and odd smirk.

There are lots of shows with characters I don't like that are well acted, problem is that Deb is supposed to be likable but it doesn't come across that way (to me) on the show.

Yeah, and after seeing season 2 it makes his one dimensional act in season 1 that much funnier.



Hmm...I actually think that Deb is supposed to be kind of annoying. She's an idiot, she's annoying, she's needy, etc...these aren't qualities of characters that are meant to be well-liked.

Although I think I disagree with what I just wrote. I could delete it, but whatever.

Doakes is hilarious...

"Take a picture, it'll last longer, ya fukkin' freak"

"Does the sight of all that blood give you a hard-on?"

"You owe me a new Michelin, ************"