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This season, Dexter goes from happily married husband to guilt-ridden single dad. How will it affect his ability to maintain an average-guy façade while satisfying his need to kill?
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When executive producer/showrunner Clyde Phillips exited Dexter at the end of the fourth season, he left the remaining cast and crew with a puzzle worthy of a cackling supervillain: not only find a way to top John Lithgow's stunning performance as a Big Bad, but also somehow rebuild the main character's life after the season finale's devastating ending. While this subsequent season definitely shows some signs of early fumbling, it sports more than enough twisted drama to keep viewers firmly on (or behind) the couch. Picking up scant seconds after the previous episode, the story arc follows the conflicted sociopath Dexter (Michael C. Hall) as he struggles to uphold his newly amplified role as a family man, while fending off his increasingly demanding killer urges. Salvation, of sorts, comes in the form of a brutalized female victim (Julia Stiles), who enlists him to take down her tormenters. As the duo circle in on their targets, Dexter's sister (Jennifer Carpenter) investigates a gruesome string of ritualized murders and starts an awkward romance with a fellow homicide detective (Desmond Harrington), who has some growing suspicions about how Dexter spends his off hours. Fans of the morally ambivalent tones of the first two seasons may have difficulties with the increasingly human tendencies of the main character (unlike Lithgow's disorienting charisma, the bad guys are so over-the-top evil here that it's difficult not to root outright for their gory demise), but Hall's beautifully subtle performance makes the leap. While his character's situation has definitely changed over the course of the show, Hall still chillingly manages to illuminate his central inability to connect, especially when paired with Stiles, who does a terrific job of balancing vulnerability and righteous bloodlust. Dexter can be a frustrating show to follow at times--especially when dealing with the increasingly flat antics of the supporting cast--but when Hall and Stiles are onscreen, the possibilities seem freakishly infinite. --Andrew Wright
Dexter: The Fifth Season [Blu-ray] Reviews
| 170 of 204 people found the following review helpful:  The Best Season Yet, By This review is from: Dexter: The Fifth Season (DVD) DEXTER Season 5 is the best of the seasons so far. While last season was dominated by the presence of John Lithgow, the shining star of and surprise of this season is the presence of Julia Stiles as Lumen, an abused victim who escapes her abusers and pledges to join Dexter in 'stabbing out' her revenge. The writing is tighter and the subplots or sidebars are far more interesting: the many different love entanglements keep your head spinning. The fellow workers with Dexter (Michael C.Hall) remain the same - Jennifer Carpenter (the real Mrs Hall), Desmond Harrington, David Zayas, Lauren Velez, CS Lee, and James Remar - all better than ever. But the added attraction characters this year include Maria Doyle Kennedy (from The Tudors) as the nanny for Dexter's son, and Jonny Lee Miller as a twisted Inspirational Coach. The premise of following a serial killer who chooses as his victims criminals who would have otherwise not been punished is by now, after four seasons, a... Read more 127 of 152 people found the following review helpful: Pre-Release Of Season 5: A Few Thoughts, By This review is from: Dexter: The Fifth Season (DVD) Firstly, this is the best show on television, plain and simple. I came to it late, discovering just a little over two years ago, and so I've had to catch up - I completely agree with the many, many reviews on different sites which really go after the quality of the DVDs for "Dexter", by the way. If you can get Blu, do so. Now, a series about a serial killer didn't quite seem like my kind of trip when I first began watching "Dexter", but this show quickly pulls you in with excellent acting, writing and directing. (Trivia: Are any of you old enough to remember the geeky guy who lets his haunted car, Christine, take over his life and get even at everybody else, in the Stephen King classic, "Christine"? That actor, Keith Gordon, is the same man directing this series. Anyhow!) Michael C. Hall is nothing less than superb as the tortured title character, and he continues hitting it out of the ballpark this season, despite having spent the majority of this last year or so sick as a dog and... Read more 16 of 18 people found the following review helpful: Dexters Redemption, This review is from: Dexter: The Fifth Season (DVD) I was wondering after the devastating end to season 4 of DEXTER as to just how the show could recover and carry on. Well it has and I would rank season 5 as probaly my favourite next to season 1. Dexters world was shattered with Ritas death and it takes a while for things to get back to some kind of normality. Michael C.Hall is as usual brilliant as Dexter,his anguish and sense of desolation is brilliantly conveyed in episode 1 of season 5 and he shows a very "human" reaction to a creep in a boat shed,I will not reveal anything else but to me its a pivotal moment for Dexter. Dexter has to cope with being a single dad,the alienation of Astor as she turns on Dexter in regard to Ritas passing,Astor and Cody moving out to live with their grand parents in Orlando,getting a nanny for Harrison ,Quinns suspicions in regard to Ritas death,its no wonder Dexter is having a bad time of it,let alone his own guilty feelings over Ritas horrible death. I really dont... Read more |
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