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The Dexter Season 2 DVD brings home all 12 episodes of the Showtime drama’s 2007 season. Michael C. Hall stars as Dexter Morgan, as the FBI hunts the Bay Harbor Butcher and Sgt. Doakes watches his every move. The second season adds Keith Carradine and Jaime Murray. In stock and dispatched within 2 business days. Add it to your cart today.
| Format | DVD |
|---|---|
| Discs | 4 |
| Studio | Showtime / Paramount |
| Released | August 19, 2008 |
| Run time | 10 hours and 36 minutes |
| Condition | Not specified |
| Availability | In stock |
The Dexter Season 2 DVD collects all 12 episodes of the Showtime drama's second season, which aired from September 30 to December 16, 2007. Michael C. Hall returns as Dexter Morgan, the Miami police blood spatter analyst with a secret, and this time the investigation turns toward him.
This is a DVD, so it plays in standard US DVD players and in Blu-ray players, which also read DVDs.
Season 2 picks up about a month after the first-season finale. Dexter finds he cannot kill, because Sgt. James Doakes (Erik King) is watching his every move. His sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) is staying with him while she recovers from her ordeal with the Ice Truck Killer.
Then divers discover Dexter's underwater dumping ground. The media names the unknown killer the "Bay Harbor Butcher," and FBI Special Agent Frank Lundy (Keith Carradine) arrives in Miami to lead a special task force.
At home, Rita (Julie Benz) suspects Dexter has an addiction and pushes him into Narcotics Anonymous. There he meets Lila Tournay (Jaime Murray), who offers to be his sponsor. Meanwhile, Doakes grows more suspicious that Dexter is tied to the earlier murders.
Critics praised the season, and it scored 85 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 11 reviews. The Chicago Sun-Times called Dexter one of the best shows on TV that decade. In the Dexter Season Two set, the pressure on Dexter comes from every side: Doakes, the FBI task force and his own family.
Dexter ran for eight seasons and 96 episodes on Showtime, and owning each season on disc lets you follow the story in order, with no streaming subscription required.
Go back to Dexter: Season 1 or continue with Dexter: Season 3. For the whole run in one box, see Dexter: The Complete Series + Dexter: New Blood, or browse our TV series collection. For episode details, read the Wikipedia article on Dexter Season 2.
Dexter Season 2 DVD: Questions Buyers Ask
How many episodes are in Dexter Season 2?
All 12 episodes that aired on Showtime from September to December 2007.
Who is Frank Lundy?
He is the FBI special agent, played by Keith Carradine, who leads the hunt for the Bay Harbor Butcher.
Will it play in my US DVD player?
Yes. It is a DVD, so it plays in standard US DVD players and in Blu-ray players.
Should I watch Season 1 first?
Yes. Season 2 begins about a month after the Season 1 finale and builds directly on it.
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N. Durham –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Compulsive and addictive viewing pleasure
Who knew that a show with a serial killer as the protagonist could ever be so good? The second season of Showtime’s Dexter not only improves on an excellent debut season, but blows it out of the water. As the second season opens, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has some problems. Doakes (Erik King) knows something is suspicious with him and is keeping on his trail, making Dexter’s ritual of killing bad people even harder than ever to get away with. Making matters worse is the discovery of Dexter’s dumping spot in the ocean, which leads to Agent Lundy (Keith Carradine) coming on the scene. Not to mention that Dexter’s relationship with Rita (Julie Benz) is very much on the rocks, especially when he meets a woman named Lila (Jamie Murray) who is much more akin to Dexter’s persona. In the meantime, Dexter’s sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) has become a changed person since her experience with the Ice Truck Killer, and when revelations about their father Harry’s (James Remar) past come to light, Dexter begins to question everything there is about himself, including the code that Harry instilled in him. Loaded with some inventive twists and turns, the second season of Dexter is some of the absolute best premium TV you will ever see, and certainly the best thing to ever grace Showtime. All in all, if you’ve been missing out on Dexter thus far, you have been missing out on quite a bit, and this is one series that definitely deserves your time and attention.
Sophia Bezirganian –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Less vigilante satisfaction, more 3 D human Dexter
Dexter Season II was just as satisfying to me as the super, cool, Season 1. Dexter’s development of more 3 dimensional morality, and through this, a much more realistic character, made me enjoy him and the show just as much. Yeah he has more ambivalence (for a while) in this season. But in the end, as was clear, but less convincingly so, in Season 1, he is not a true psychopath.
And I love the often slapstick, sick-humor (e.g. between Deb and Lila, and of course, from Dex’s sex-obsessed lab boss), which alternates with subtle understated very funny lines and and actions by Dex, Doakes, Lila(e.g. her hilarious paintings and sculptures), sister Deb, and…just about everyone.
I differ with some reviewers who say the love interests in this Season so strain our credulity, that they become one of the flaws that make Season II not as good as Season I. I tend to believe they are just as believable (or unbelievable) as the romantic tangles of Season I…if we can believe Rita can possibly still let loser ex-hubby Paul through her front door, and that Deb can lose her usual right-on instincts about who’s a BS artist vs. who’s a legit guy, in her choice of lover in Season 1, surely we can believe Dex’s and Angel’s being led by their proverbial “male DNA” to hang with (and over) “vampire” girl in Season II!
Some reviewers also think the lower numbers of vigilante executions by Dex in this season are another mark of its lower status compared with Season I. But while Dexter is diverted by several potential big threats to his cover, and thus away from keeping up his vigilante “count”, those missions he does complete in Season II are developed more, with resulting greater heights of “dealing out justice” than those in Season I. And each of the two grand finale, long-time coming, executions that complete Dex’s quest in both I and II,deliver an equally satisfying punch in my mind! Well, both seasons are great…and worth your time if like me, you come to love Dex, and to want to stroke his sexy boyish face, and root for him to find his way to a less tortured life!
So Judge (or suspend judgment) for yourself, and watch this very satisfying “dark comedy”
Michael Green –
Originally posted on Amazon.com · not a MarioShroomed purchase
Can a Serial-Killer Keep a lascivious Soul-Mate?
I have watched seasons 1-4 back-to-back and there are spoilers in this review. Our serial-killer hero, Dexter, is not a born psychopath, but a good kid made into a killer by the profound trauma of witnessing his mother murdered by chain saw and then being forced to sit in her blood for two days before being rescued by a cop, Harry Morgan, who becomes his foster dad and teaches the emotionally empty shell how to pretend to be normal and in order to keep Dexter safe, how to channel his demons into the constructive path of hunting and killing only murderers. The lessons from Dexter’s adoptive dad Harry echo internally as his ghost returns as the voice of guidance and internal dialogue.
Season 1 is a dramatic bullet-train of non-stop heart-pounding thrills – in which Dexter is toyed with by a fabulously talented serial killer who seems to know him intimately and whose skill seems to exceed his own. Dexter works as a blood-splatter analyst for Miami Metro Homicide and helps his step-sister cop Debra hunt the Ice Truck Killer who leaves beautifully exsanguinated corpses. Family ties become strained and the question posed is what sort of family ties a serial killer can have as Dexter struggles to maintain a relationship with his girlfriend Rita and her two kids.
By season 2 Dexter’s relationship with Rita is thrown into turmoil with the reappearance of her drug-addict husband and a passionate romance with Lila, an artist, tormented with her own demons, who is determined to have Dexter as her soul-mate, but who keeps threatening Rita and the kids. Season 3 finds Dexter exploring the prospects for friendship with a rogue prosecutor with his own sense of justice. Dexter teaches him how to kill but the friendship sours as Ramon Prado pursues private vendettas with his new-found skills and, like Lila, must eventually fall under Dexter’s knife. Except for Rita and her kids, an intimate relationship with Dexter is a bit like conjugation with a black-widow spider.
Part of the series’ charm is the way we find ourselves rooting for a serial killer trying to act the way he should when he can’t feel it. All those moments of emotional isolation, of feeling different but trying to fit in, of acting how we think we should in order to belong – make Dexter a sympathetic figure. The show is also packed with wry irony and double entendres that put us in Dexter’s shoes, and mordant wit as when Dexter is ready to kill a psychologist who pushes his patients to suicide – but puts it off for a few days because he needs another session with him to address some intimacy issues he has with Rita. Finally, the only people with whom Dexter can let his hair down and be himself are his victims, strapped to the abattoir table; not only do they have so much in common but they are hardly in a position to hold what he says against him.
One of the best critical reviews of The Final Season describes how the writers gave up in the final season and the show went to pot; I suspected that the decline would come earlier because it takes a lot of suspension of disbelief to watch a full-time serial killer, boyfriend and father surrogate, homicide forensics expert, sympathetic brother find time to juggle it all – and indeed by Season 4 things break down quite badly. Dexter is on the trail of Trinity, the USA’s most successful uncaught serial killer with a 30+ year record. Trinity hides in plain sight as a model citizen, father, deacon and home-builder. He takes troops of workers around the country to build homes for the needy and kills at these distant locations. Dexter undertakes to enter Trinity’s life as one of his helpers and becomes an intimate of Trinity’s family and church. When Dex decides that it’s time for Trinity to go, Dex offers a confidence that triggers a profound guilt in the senior serial-killer. Dex stalks Trinity to his job site, takes out his anesthetizing needle and sneaks up from behind but sees Trinity about to leap to his death by impaling himself on the rebar below. As the very large Trinity jumps, Dex grabs his wrist and unlike real life where they both go over or you can’t hold on, Trinity hangs there while Dex has the insight that it is okay for Trinity to die so long “as it’s by my hand.” So just as Dex is about to release Trinity’s wrist, 4-5 co-workers come up and grab the boss and pull him to safety. Whoops! Whatever happened to the meticulous take-no-risks Dexter who never comes close to being caught? Dexter doesn’t have even a moment’s reflection about what he was doing planning to snatch Trinity from the middle of a fully occupied work site.
It gets better, or worse. Dex becomes a softy and wants to start saving people instead of just killing the bad guys. One of Trinity’s victims is a 10-year old boy drugged and put into a duffle bag who will be dumped at night into a cement fill at the job-site. (Don’t ask how Trinity gets a large pit full of wet cement in the middle of the night at the build site.) Rather like rescuing the damsel tied to the tracks, Dex arrives in the nick of time, but Trinity dumps the bag into the cement and then the two commence to struggle over the shovel in Trinity’s hands. Dex wins, whacks Trinity in the head and he goes down. Now, certainly this is a moment with not a lot of time to spare, but certainly a few seconds for a couple more good whacks to make sure Trinity is done for; or a slit with the shovel edge against a jugular so the bag can be pulled out without Trinity’s interference. But Dex gives one whack, then turns toward the sinking bag and here is the kicker: the serial-killer manual 101 says than when engaged in hand-to-hand life-and-death struggle with another experienced serial-killer you don’t let him out of your sight unless he’s dead or permanently disabled. But Dex simply turns his back on Trinity and …
Well, folks, the writers started to shut down and call it quits in Season 4. Between Goodwill, Amazon and E-bay I managed to buy Seasons 1-5 for under $24.00 (shipping included) but it’s 50-50 whether Season 5 will ever get watched. By the way, Showtime must have produced the DVDs on a shoestring. The only one with subtitles was my sole Blu-ray purchase, Season 3; and both Season 3 and Season 4 begin with mandatory inescapable Showtime advertisements.