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Modèle:Infobox Television Modèle:Dablink Dexter is an American television drama series based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr.. The show premiered on the premium cable network Showtime on October 1, 2006 and has since enjoyed wide critical acclaim.

The show stars Michael C. Hall (Six Feet Under) as the title character Dexter Morgan, a Miami-based serial killer who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a blood pattern analyst.

The first season finished airing on December 17, 2006. On November 2, 2006, Showtime renewed the series for a second season which began shooting on May 21, 2007 and premiered on September 30, 2007. Showtime President Robert Greenblatt has confirmed a third season is planned with the season two finale ending with an ad confirming that Dexter will return for a third season in 2008.<ref name=season3>“Dexter Season Three Is a Go!“</ref>

On December 3, 2007, CBS Corporation president and CEO Leslie Moonves confirmed that Dexter would "probably" air on the major US network in Spring, to fill holes left by the 2007 Writers Guild of America strike.<ref>“Dexter Could Make A Killing For CBS“</ref>

Dexter began airing on Australian pay-TV channel Showcase in December 2007.

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Plot

Main article: List of Dexter episodes
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Season 1

Orphaned at the age of three and harboring a traumatic secret, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) was adopted by a Miami police officer named Harry Morgan who recognized his sociopathic tendencies and taught him to channel his gruesome passion for killing and dissecting in a “constructive” way: by killing only heinous criminals (such as mob assassins and serial killers of the innocent) who have slipped through the justice system. To satisfy his interest in blood and to facilitate his own crimes, Dexter works as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department. Although his drive to kill is unflinching (otherwise overcome by a feeling of “emptiness”) Dexter is, through extensive instruction from Harry, able to fake normal emotions and keep up his appearance as a socially-responsible human being. He is well-liked by most of his colleagues (with the exception of Sgt. James Doakes), his girlfriend, and her children. The first season focuses mostly on Dexter's urges to find and kill the Ice Truck Killer. At the end of the season the killer attempts to kill Debra, but is stopped by Dexter. The killer reveals the he is Dexter's brother. Dexter has no choice, but to kill him at the end of the season, and makes the killer's death look like a suicide. However, Doakes doesn't accept the suicide theory and starts tailing Dexter because of his personal suspicions. The complete first season of Dexter was released in a 4 disc DVD package on August 21, 2007.

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Season 2

Dexter begins the season unable to satisfy his urges for over a month due to the constant surveillance of Sgt. Doakes. When the opportunity to kill arises, he has problems executing his victims.

To further complicate matters, treasure hunters discover Dexter’s underwater dumping ground for his victims. As the police extract body after body from the ocean, the media dubs the killer the “Bay Harbor Butcher”, and FBI Special Agent Lundy (played by Keith Carradine) is brought in to catch the "Butcher".

A cult following begins to form behind the “Butcher” when it’s discovered who his victims are <ref name="Dexter S2">IGN.com, “Dexter Gets Ready for Another Killer Season"</ref>, with Dexter even finding a comic-book character "The Dark Defender" created in his honor.

Rita’s relationship with Dexter becomes more tense as she and her children are dealing with the death of her ex-husband Paul, the result of a prison fight. Her late ex-husband’s suggestion that Dexter was to blame for his imprisonment eats at her conscience and eventually Rita accuses Dexter of setting up her ex-husband. Dexter admits to setting up Paul, but Rita refuses to believe that Dexter premeditated the crime. She assumes that Dexter is a heroin addict. He acquiesces to being an ‘addict’, though he characteristically allows the double entendre to go without clarification; in return, she vows to stay with him while he goes through Narcotics Anonymous program. Doakes pursues Dexter until he spots him at a NA meeting, and his first assumption is that Dexter’s devious behavior is drug-related.

Deb continues to struggle with the trauma of her experience with the Ice Truck Killer. For a sense of safety and comfort she stays with her brother, another new source of stress in Dexter’s life.

New cast members include Jaime Murray as Lila, a former meth addict and artist who becomes Dexter’s sponsor and secret lover.<ref name="Dexter Friends">IGN.com, “Dexter Makes Friends"</ref> The role of Rita’s son Cody has now been re-cast with another child actor.

Season 2 premiered on September 30, 2007. On July 17 the first two episodes of the season were leaked on the internet, and on December 4 the last two episodes were also leaked.<ref> Massive Leak of Pre-Air TV Shows: Piracy or Promotion? 

. TorrentFreak 
 
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. Retrieved on 2007-07-24. </ref> On November 4th, 2007, the Writer’s Guild of America started a strike, but writer Daniel Cerone stated in the LA Times that Season 2 has already been completed in anticipation of the WGA’s action.<ref name="LA Times: WGA on Strike">[1]</ref>

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Season 3

A third season of Dexter was announced following the season two finale, in which an ad ran assuring Dexter would return in 2008. Showtime President Robert Greenblatt also confirmed that a third season is planned.<ref name=season3/>

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Cast

Main article: List of Dexter characters
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Plot differences from the novel

There are numerous differences between the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter and the Showtime series based on it; they range from extra subplots to rearrangements and modifications of elements from the source material.

The novel is narrated exclusively from Dexter’s point of view and focuses mostly on his pursuit of the “Tamiami Butcher” (renamed the “Ice Truck Killer” for the series). With the exception of adoptive sister Deborah and adoptive father Harry, much of the supporting cast (Doakes, Angel and LaGuerta) have minor roles in the novel. The TV series expands on their characters with subplots not present in the original, such as Angel’s rocky relationship with his ex-wife.

Another addition is the inclusion of Rita’s abusive ex-husband Paul. Although he is mentioned in the novel, he is never actually seen. In the show, he becomes a full-fledged supporting character who professes love for his children, but nevertheless still treats Rita violently.

The biggest change is the lead-up to and revelation of the identity of the Ice Truck Killer, called the Tamiami Killer in the book. In the novel, Dexter (and to a certain extent, the reader) is led to believe that Dexter himself might be the one committing the murders, due to a series of strange dreams that connect him to the murder; the possibility that Dexter’s “Dark Passenger” is committing crimes when Dexter is asleep is brought up. The final clue is a blurry photo, taken from surveillance footage, of a man who resembles Dexter at a crime scene. After the Tamiami Killer kidnaps Deborah, Dexter (who is followed by Detective LaGuerta) finds and confronts him. It is subsequently revealed that the killer is actually Dexter’s nearly identical long-lost brother, Brian, who, like Dexter, witnessed their mother’s brutal murder. In the ensuing conflict LaGuerta is slain by Brian, Deborah finds out her brother is a killer and Dexter helps Brian to escape, an act referenced in the next novel.<ref> Jeff Lindsay 




.    Chapter 1 except of Dearly Devoted Dexter 
. Dearly Devoted Dexter
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. Retrieved on 2007-03-17. 

 “Doakes was convinced that I’d had something to do with LaGuerta’s death. This was totally untrue and completely unfair. All I had done was watch – where’s the harm in that? Of course I had helped the real killer escape, but what could you expect? What kind of person would turn in his own brother? Especially when he did such neat work.”

</ref> As a morbid trophy, Dexter adds a drop of LaGuerta’s blood to his collection.

In the television series, Brian is introduced under the fake name ‘Rudy’, a prosthetist who becomes Deborah’s boyfriend, and his relationship to Dexter only revealed late in the first season. Here, Dexter hesitantly kills Brian instead of letting him escape, Deborah does not discover her brother’s secret and LaGuerta is not present at all in the confrontation. Furthermore, while in the novel Dexter and his brother are nearly identical, the actors playing the two characters are distinct from each other in their looks.

Some of the characters have had their names changed. Detective LaGuerta is named Migdia in the novel and Maria in the show while Doakes’ first name is changed from Albert to James. Doakes’ first name is not revealed in the first novel, but in the sequel Dearly Devoted Dexter.

The character of Angel Batista is a lab tech in the books while in the television series he is a homicide detective.

The character of Vince Masuoka is Eurasian in the books and appears even less socially aware than Dexter is.

The character of Camilla Figg is a young lab tech infatuated with Dexter while in the television series, she is an older woman who once worked with Dexter’s father. She is the records supervisor and has a more maternal relationship with Dexter.

In the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Dexter references his urge to kill as being controlled by a “Dark Passenger”, and when in his killer trances he tends to refer to himself as We or Us. In the first season, only one reference is made to this “Passenger”, as Dexter stands at the scene of Angel’s stabbing by Brian alias Rudy, an event absent in the book. In Season 2 episode 3, the writers finally explain Dexter’s urge to kill as his “Dark Passenger” and make multiple references to it throughout the episode.

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UK Mobile Phone Issue

In preparation for the UK launch of the series, FX (UK) experimented with an SMS-based viral marketing campaign. Unsuspecting mobile phone owners received unsolicited SMS messages identified as being from “Dexter”, with no other identification or originating phone number. The SMS messages contain the following text, referring to the phone owner by name:

"Hello (name). I'm heading to the UK sooner than you might think. Dexter."

Some time later, an email is received directing the user to an online video “news report” about a recent spree of killings. Using on-the-fly video manipulation, the user’s name and a personalized message are worked into the report – the former written in blood on a wall by the crime scene, the latter added to a note in an evidence bag carried past the camera.

While the marketing campaign had succeeded in raising the profile of the show, it proved unpopular with many mobile owners who saw this as spam advertising aimed at mobile phones. In response to complaints about the SMS element of the campaign, FX issued the following statement:

"The text message you received was part of an internet viral campaign for our newest show Dexter. However it was not us who sent you the text but one of your friends. We do not have a database of viewer phone numbers. The text message went along with a piece on the net that you can then send on to other people you know. If you go to www.icetruck.tv you will see the page that one of your friends has filled in to send you that message. Therefore I suggest you have a word with anyone who knows your mobile number and see who sent you this message. For the record we did not make a record of any phone numbers used in this campaign."<ref> Dexter Text Message discussion 
. Designate Online

. Retrieved on 2007-08-15. </ref>

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Critical reception

The initial response to Dexter was positive. The website Metacritic calculated a score of 77 from a possible 100 based on 27 reviews, making it the third-best reviewed show of the 2006 fall season. This score includes four 100% scores from the New York Daily News, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Sun-Times and People Weekly.<ref> Dexter (Showtime) – Reviews from Metacritic 

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. Retrieved on 2007-07-27. </ref> Brian Lowry, who had written one of the two poor reviews for the show, recanted his negative review in a year-end column for the trade magazine Variety after watching the full season.<ref name="Lowry recanting">Looking forward, some no-no’s for the New Year</ref> On the CNET Networks website TV.com, Dexter has an overall rating of 9.4/10.<ref name="TV.com Ranking">TV.com highest rated shows</ref>

On December 14, 2006, Michael C. Hall was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in the category Best Actor in a Television Drama Series for playing Dexter.

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DVD release

DVD NameRelease DateEp #Additional Content
The Complete First SeasonAugust 21 2007<ref>DEXTER – THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON</ref>12
  • 2 Audio Commentaries by the Cast
    <li>The Academy of Blood – A Killer Course!
    <li>N Technology
    <li>2 episodes of Showtime’s Brotherhood
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    Soundtrack

    Modèle:Infobox Album The music from the Dexter TV series was released August 28, 2007 on the album Dexter: Music From the Showtime Original Series. It is produced by Showtime, and distributed by Milan Records. The album is also available online on the iTunes store. According to Milan Records, the iTunes release includes five additional bonus tracks from Seasons 1 and 2, however, as of December 07, 2007, these songs are not on the iTunes store.
    The album stretches 25 tracks over 1 hour and 4 minutes. Track 1 contains the opening theme to Dexter. Tracks 2 through 11 contain mostly Cuban and Latin music which were used during the show, with tracks 2, 6 and 9 being audio cuts from the show, when Michael C. Hall narrates. The songs 12 through 24 are the music written by Daniel Licht, who composed all of the show's themes. Bonus track 25 is track 24, "Blood Theme," with Jon Licht singing over. <ref>Soundtrack – Soundtrack.net: Album Information, reviews and more </ref> <ref>Soundtrack – Showtime: Official page </ref> <ref>Soundtrack – Milan Records: Official page </ref> <ref>Soundtrack – Amazon.com:Product page </ref>

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    Awards

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    Wins

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    2006

    • AFI Awards – TV Program of the Year – Official Selection
    • IGN – Best New Show
    • IGN – Best Actor – Michael C. Hall
    • IGN – Best Villain – The Ice Truck Killer
    • IGN – Best Character – Dexter Morgan
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series – Julie Benz
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    2007

    • Television Critics Association – Individual Achievement in Drama – Michael C. Hall
    • Saturn Awards – Best Actor in a Television Program – Michael C. Hall
    • Emmy – Outstanding Main Title Design
    • Emmy – Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Drama Series
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series – David Zayas
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama – Michael C. Hall
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Television Series, Drama
    • IGN - Best Storyline
    • IGN - Best Television Program
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    Nominations

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    2006

    • IGN – Best Television Program
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Actor in a Series, Drama – Michael C. Hall
    • Satellite Awards – Outstanding Television Series, Drama
    • Golden Globe – Nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama – Michael C. Hall
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    2007

    • SAG – Male Actor in a Drama Series – Michael C. Hall
    • Emmy – Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing, Drama
    • Emmy – Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music
    • Television Critics Association – New Program of the Year
    • Saturn Awards – Best Supporting Actor in a Television Program – James Remar
    • Saturn Awards – Best Supporting Actress in a Television Program – Jennifer Carpenter
    • Saturn Awards – Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series
    • WGA - Episodic Drama - any length - one airing time Dark Defender
    • WGA Award - Best Dramatic Series<ref name="WGA 08 Official"> 2008 Writers Guild Awards Television & Radio Nominees Announced 
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    . Retrieved on 2007-12-13. </ref><ref name="Variety WGA 08"> WGA announce TV, radio nominees 

    . Variety 
 
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    . Retrieved on 2007-12-13. </ref><ref name="HR WGA 08"> HBO tops WGA awards list with five noms 

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    . Retrieved on 2007-12-13. </ref> 

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    . Retrieved on 2007-12-13. </ref>

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    Cultural references

    • Frequent references are made to the novels and films of Bret Easton Ellis. Dexter uses the pseudonym “Dr. Patrick Bateman” to receive animal tranquilizers. Patrick Bateman is the main character and serial killer from the novel and film American Psycho. Dexter also uses the pseudonym of Sean Ellis for a session with a murderous psychologist, which references both Sean Bateman, the brother of Patrick Bateman and the protagonist of The Rules of Attraction, and Ellis himself.
    • The character of "Harry Morgan" is also a character name in Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. The character's famous sentiment, spoken while dying, was that one man, alone, was nothing at all; this is indicative of the communal themes of Hemingway's novel. It is ironic that Dexter's father shares this name, due to the fact that he taught Dexter how to live the lie that he does; in a sense he taught him how to live alone, closed off from others.
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    External links

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