the showtime original series dexter is pretty good. my nephew bought it so he and his girl could sit and watch it on our huge ass tv. i finally got bored and watched it myself. i have lots of friends who have been watching it and they all said how good it was so i figured i’d watch it. since it was just sitting there on the dvd rack and all.
i thought the first few episodes were some of the best tv i’d seen in a while. right up there with the sopranos and six feet under. the dude that plays dexter also happens to be in six feet under. he’s really good.
after the first few episodes i thought it kinda dropped off a little. i think they got too concerned with developing the relationship between dexter and the ice truck killer and forgot about all the things that made the first few episodes so good and interesting.
but, nonetheless, i kept watching. which i guess is what they want when they make a series. they want to get you from one episode to the next. but i think if i had been watching it week by week they would have lost me after week four.
but as it is, i was watching on dvd and could watch a few episodes at a time which made it easier for me to sit through the weaker episodes and keep moving on.
i don’t know if i’d buy the dvd set unless i could get it in the fifteen to twenty buck range, but it’s pretty good to have in the collection. people like it. and it’s cool to be able to break out if someone has heard about it but never seen it.
i’m sure i’ll watch season two and three. on my cable systems ondemand.
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