- Starring: Julie Benz, Lauren Velez, David Zayas
- Summary: Six Feet Under's Michael C. Hall is still dealing with death, just in a different way. In this adaptation of Jeff Lindsay's novel "Darkly Dreaming Dexter," Hall stars as a forensics pathologist who moonlights as a serial killer. (He's not all evil, though; he only murders bad guys.)
- Genre(s): Drama, Suspense
- Show Type: Between Seasons
- Season 1 premiere date: Oct 1, 2006
- Episode Length: 52
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 27
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Mixed: 2 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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100Fantastic, fascinating, creepy, charming and gruesome.
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80From the start, it's mostly on Hall to seduce us, and he's so artful with the material that he consistently elevates it.
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50Dexter is too chilly to be chilling, too affected to be affecting.
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30The grotesqueries of "Dexter" are not something that can easily be dismissed with the old "you don't have to watch" line. We don't have to watch. We do have to live among the viewers who will be desensitized, or aroused, by this show.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 372 out of 386
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Mixed: 3 out of 386
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Negative: 11 out of 386
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MichaelD.10A finely drawn character study masquerading as a blood-splashed procedural, Dexter explores what it means to feel human
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RobF.3
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