Dexter: The Complete Third Season |  | Actor: Michael C. Hall
Studio: Showtime / Paramount
Category: DVD
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Rating:  205 reviews
Sales Rank: 166
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 629 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.5
MPN: PARD893804D
UPC: 097368938045
EAN: 0097368938045
ASIN: B0015ABRE2
Release Date: August 18, 2009
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Product Description
Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American premium channel Showtime. Set in Miami, the series centers on Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall), a serial killer governed by a strict moral code who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood spatter analyst.
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Showtime's breakout hit series Dexter, about a lovable psychopath, a serial killer who targets only the scummiest of the scum, hits its stride in season 3. Dexter Morgan, played with nuance and glee by the outstanding Michael C. Hall, begins the season somewhat chastened by the events of the previous season--where whiffs of his secret life became known to others and he was nearly found out. "I need to find out what it's like just to be normal. If that's something that's even possible for me," he muses, as he tries to settle in to domestic life with girlfriend Rita (the baby-voiced Julie Benz) and her kids. Yet Dexter is soon back to his compulsion for seeking out criminals who've somehow escaped traditional justice. Hall, one of TV's most talented actors, manages to make Dexter's off-kilter moral compass totally believable, if not quite sympathetic. The rest of the cast is stellar, including Dex's sister, Debra, played by Jennifer Carpenter as the seemingly more combustible Morgan--a hot-tempered Miami detective in the same division where Dexter toils in the background as a blood-spatter specialist. Deb wears her heart on her sleeve, as a cop and a sister, and her deep love for her brother is a key part of what makes Dexter so human. (And Carpenter's chemistry with Hall is amped by the fact that in real life, the actors are married.) Season 3's breakout guest star is the amazing Jimmy Smits, who plays District Attorney Miguel Prado, a polished pillar of the community, an ambitious politician--and a guy with a secret every bit as dark as Dexter's. As Miguel and Dexter peel away each other's unsavory layers, Dexter tries to tamp down Miguel's blistering desire for revenge, and Miguel begins leading a double life--one that could threaten Dexter's life and family as much as the growing list of bad guys in Miguel's crosshairs. The other main star of Dexter is the city of Miami, its teeming beauty and corruption celebrated in equal measure, and its blistering sun shot without tempering. The city is so integral, visually and viscerally, that it's impossible to think of Dexter being shot anywhere else. The set's best extras--engaging interviews with cast members Hall, Benz, Carpenter, Lauren Vélez (Lt. Maria Laguerta) and David Zayas (Det. Angel Batista)--must be watched on a computer, for reasons that are unclear. Still, the interviews are must-sees for all Dexter fans. It's a killer season. --A.T. Hurley
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 Great show ! March 7, 2010
Danielle Sullivan
Dexter is addicting and is a great cop/ murder show. It is funny and serious at the same time.
Dexter rules! March 3, 2010
Edward Kohl (San Antonio, Texas)
We love Dexter, and this season is another really good one. We received it quickly and at a great price. Thanks Amazon!
Dexter Rules February 27, 2010
Edward H. Simches (Boston, MA)
If you are at Season 3 of Dexter, then you are hooked. Jimmy Smits is awesome as the guest star for this season. If you haven't yet seen Dexter, you need to watch each season in order, so that you get to know all the characters who appear in each of the three seasons. The only problem we have is deciding when to stop, as we usually watch 3-4 episodes at one sitting (We just finished watching the 2nd season a month ago)
dexter February 24, 2010
Queenieuknowwho
This is a great season i have the first three and will order season four asap!!!!
 Good, but first season's still the best...and who knew America would love this death porn/weekly snuff film so much? February 20, 2010
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
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4.4 stars
I enjoyed this more than the second season, mainly due to the entire arc with Smits. He works well with Hall and some of their scenes together are excellent. But as before, I find the side plots with the other actors less and less compelling.
Carpenter just doesn't impress me much; she could easily be in any other boring typical cop show out there, ditto for most everyone here except Hall, who continues to carry the series along with the very good writing. Angel seems to be the only one here truly progressing as an actor, and his scenes are the pick of the non-Dexter litter.
I must say, however, that this was the season where I finally realized how sick this series and my/our love of it is. Seriously, folks. How mentally ill and numbed to violence are we now that we can watch the increasingly graphic murders on this show and be entertained by them?
It hit me when Dexter is with Prado as he murders his first victim in the kill room. Whereas in the first season we got mostly visual suggestions of the brutality, in a much more artistic and Hitchcockian way, now the producers are making straight out snuff films. Watch the camera when Prado stabs the guy; it shows the knife go right in to the hilt, then it show Prado's almost orgasmic glee in murdering this guy, and then it pans to Dexter's grim smile, as if to say, isn't it fun to kill people?
I had a sudden queasy feeling when I saw that, and it hit me pretty clearly how sick I and we have become when our weekly entertainment is watching carefully-made pictures of the joy that a murderer feels. The moral compass of this show seems to mirror our own capacity for ever more brutality; the more you get the more you want.
Just like pornography. That is in fact what this show is becoming: death porn. In their desire to show the inner workings of a killer, they have realized that this format will let them make weekly snuff films, however blase, and each season they are stepping up the intensity of the graphic murders. The ratings are just rocketing, though, so all must be well.
And we sit back and eat popcorn and smile as people are carefully disemboweled on screen. Is this not sick? I think it is, but just like the boiling frogs we have been lowered into this cauldron slowly over the decades until we accept that this is entertainment. At this rate, how long until we broadcast capital punishment via pay-per-view? Or simply stop caring that as a nation we have become inured and numb to murder and torture?
Speaking of which, isn't it time for our greatest killer, Dick Chainysaw, to appear on this show and kill some folks along with our hero Dex? How awesome that would be. "They deserve it, Dexter. We are Good, and they are Bad. This is Justice."
And of course, I will now get comments from the (always bravely anonymous) fanboys about how this is just a tv show, and don't be such a wimp. Yet I find it more than coincidental that as tv gets sicker and sicker, we are increasingly unconcerned by our government killing and torturing people, all in the name of Justice.
In the end, that's what lets them get away with this show: Dexter is killing bad people! They deserve to die! And we want to see them killed as slowly and brutally as possible.
So who's really sick? Maybe it's we as a nation that need to be laid out and tied down on Dexter's killing table, with pictures of the millions of innocent people our tax dollars have killed while we look the other way, from Cambodian carpet bombings to Langley-remote-controlled drones that may be murdering yet more innocent Pakistanis this very moment.
And then Dexter will say, "It was never enough, was it? You needed ever more resources, ever more markets, so you could live your detached, pseudo-comfortable lives free from thinking about how many innocent people died to create that fake world of Fake comfort. All so you could sit in your living rooms and watch tv shows about how murder is really not so bad...as long as you kill the right people."
But hey, I'm just kidding.
Let's just relax, and be entertained.
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