Dexter

Good but wore out quickly. John Lithgow in season 4 was probably the best antagonist. Easy to recommend but also easy to suggest skipping. So do what you want, I don't care.

Very watchable for the first several seasons. It peaks in Season 4 and then just drops off a fucking cliff, so I would watch the first 3 seasons in anticipation of the 4th, and then just stop watching cold turkey.

Say what you will about seasons 3-8. The first two seasons of Dexter were absolutely amazing.

After the series ended, I was kind of torn. Seasons 1 - 4 were really amazing (especially Season 4!). Season 5 was not so super amazing, but following the forth season, that was hard to do, still ok. And then it kind of went downhill, slowly, but steadily. I was really disappointed in the ending, it just didn't do justice to the greatness of the early seasons. Still a good show.

A ludicrous last few seasons (and possibly the most disappointing series finale ever) really drag down what is a perfectly good batshit crazy romp.

season 4 was amazing. the rest is forgettable and got uglier and uglier towards the finale.

By a long shot, the worst ending ever.

One of my favorite tv series.

I really would like to rate this higher, but honestly, it fell off after a few seasons. Especially the last two. People say that it dropped in quality after season 4, but I think even season 2 fell off. I had to stop myself from skipping more than a few scenes because of how annoyed I was with a character, which was the point, but it got to that point of "I can't take it anymore". Wish the quality stayed up from the first season.

Great to shit in 4 seconds

this is not about a serial killer. it is actually about love.

Nice series; the first four seasons each have one defining motive - they are simply fantastic. Then it goes downhill... I recommend to quit after season 4.

Great up until the end of season 5, but declines pretty hard afterwards.

Score is for S1 + S2 only, Michael C. Hall is hilarious and the whole dynamic with Doakes was doubly so. Stopped watching it as soon as they brought in a family plot at the end of the second season, so I dodged a bullet.

it just bored me in the first episodes so i quit

Seasons 1 and 2 were great, 3 was alright, and 4 had a great villain and an amazing climax. The other half was laughably bad, and the laughable badness was more consistent than the good stuff, unfortunately.

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The brilliance of many early episodes is completely undermined by the nearly unwatchably incoherent garbage into which the series had descended by its conclusion.

Based on the first two seasons, this was an intriguing concept for me (I like focusing on serial killers in shows/movies), but failed due it succumbing to the usual bad American show tropes present back in this time. The main man is performed too smugly for his own good and doesn't really reign in any narcissism or self-delusion that makes real serial killers interesting, and the supporting characters were pretty awful, especially his sister. Death Note is a far better substitute for this.

A brilliant first season nailed the tension, characterisation, and tense of the series. Again, varies from season to season. Dexter and Hannah were a match couple.

First season is pure gold, then the series takes a steep downhill and slowly recovers until it's quite good again in the last few seasons. Except the finale of course.

If I were rating the first couple of seasons, it would be higher. The last few, likely lower. There is 3.5 days of content here and it's definitely uneven

Some fantastic thrills in the first few seasons but slowly treads towards a terrible ending.

I'd rate 80 for the first few seasons, but then I'd gradually became worse. It actually got so bad I was happy Dexter stopped after 8 seasons.

Even in the bad seasons, the procedural stuff is highly entertaining. Even in the good seasons, the supporting cast is godawful.

W4E2P2S2V1M1A2R3. Obviously varies wildly between seasons (while also becoming formulaic towards the end), but one of my all-time favorite shows. Smart premise, well executed.

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Points for first few seasons

While the first two seasons are fantastic and the 5 followings are good, the last season is just like the Miami hurricane in the last episode; Dexter becomes a boring idiot who repeats the same mistakes that led to Rita's death. The series ended for me in the 7th season.

It was able to carry suspense for multiple seasons. And it was quite cinematic at a time when few shows had the means to do so. It squandered the good will of its fan base by turning the series to complete shit by the end. The finale is rightfully regarded as one of the worst finales.

Some seasons were excellent, others lagged. Overall, it’s great.

S1: 85, S2: 80, S3: 75, S4: 85, S5: 75, S6: 60, S7: 68, S8: 45

Peaked at season 4 and went steadily downhill from there until being absolute garbage. The first four seasons are more or less great, but the show is not really worth watching after that as it only disappoints. Showtime doesn't know when to let their good shows gracefully bow out while they are still good.

I really loved it, with its flaws of course, for the first four seasons. The idea at the base of the series and summarized below, mixed with a kind of dark humour and light love stories, with a great aesthetic of the blood, was great. I would rate them 75. After, it's a mess.

Season 1: 95, Season 2: 80, Season 3: 70, Season 4: 60, Season 5: 45, Season 6: 20, Season 7: 45, Season 8: 15

Just could not make it through one more episode of that insufferable British woman he dates. Guess I got lucky as the general opinion is that this show goes off the rails in the finals few seasons. Save yourself some trouble and don't even start.

Tried several times to get into this, but it did nothing for me. Based on Season 1, nothing special.

one of the best thrillers of the 2000s.

The common man's projection of a murderer, totally functional besides all that killing on the side. And only laziness and complete uncaring can explain how bad this got towards the end.

good start, lithgow season hurray! Bad ending boe!

I knew I was going to love this show just by the opening scene. "Tonight's the night..." The Lithgow season is one of the best seasons of television ever. Unfortunately, Michael C. Hall gets cancer in real life at one point and when he comes back he's not as cut up and menacing and the character loses a lot of credibility. Top it off with some horrific writing and the worst ending in the modern era of television and my rating has to drop. Stop after season 5 and you'll love this show

Great show.

Began brilliantly, lost its way, but still comes up as one of the most fascinating, addictive series.

Starts out truly great, but gets derailed and ends up with a disappointing final season, which then get distilled into a horrible and rage-inducing last episode. Shame, because it had tonnes of atmosphere and Dexter was so extremely recognizable as a man who has to fake a connection to a world he does not even understand. His monologues were the epitome of dark humour.

good series

This show was brilliantly written, directed, and acted. It was absolute perfection in almost every way. The suspense kept me breathless though every episode. I binged all 8 seasons in a week.

This show is dumb. And has low production quality. Seriously, you deserve better. Stop lying to yourself.

First four seasons are fantastic, after that it goes steadily downhill.

On the premises alone, this tv show deserves a high ranking. Around the fourth season, it would seem that all the writers, directors, and cast have been replaced with shells of idea-less human-like dolls. Everything changed for the worse, even Dexter thoughts didn't feel like his and no argument of character development can discredit that.

One of the most overhyped shows of the last 15 years. -- Season 1: |69| -- Season 2: |73| -- Season 3: |68| -- Season 4: |71| -- Season 5: |67| -- Season 6: |61| -- Season 7: |72| -- Season 8: not yet rated

Season 1: **** (70) Season 2: **** (80) Season 3: *** (60) Season 4: ** (50) Season 5: **** (70) Season 6: *** (60) Season 7: **** (70) Season 8: ** (50)

S1 only

SURPRISE MOTHER FUGGER

I know the show it weak for more seasons than it's strong. But looking back it's easy to forget that and remember how great the show was to watch.