Critic Reviews

It's bold, different and exciting, with a central character and performance that take your breath away.

Daring and original.

Fantastic, fascinating, creepy, charming and gruesome.

If you want edge, here's Dexter. [9 Oct 2006, p.41]

This series has always handled the duality of his character with masterful strokes. And it has done viewers a favor by quickly setting up the seasonlong scenario.

Dexter, one of the best shows on TV this decade. High praise, indeed. Deserved.

Hall, who invests strange, demented Dexter with real heart and humanity. It's a spooky tour de force.

When Season 3 kicks off spectacularly, there's a slight exhale in the first 59 minutes--then a twist. And not a small one, either. By the second episode, the writers give you roughly 40 minutes to digest that twist, then drop a real stunner. Which is--just to cut to the chase here--truly and incredibly exciting television.

The series is as compulsively watchable as ever, with Dexter's marriage, stepchildren, newborn son and stifling suburban life complicating his leisure time.

All your favorites are back in force, with a few twists, but the allure of the series always has been and always will be Hall, who manages to make a killer (who kills only people who deserve it, mostly) likable, believable, engaging and funny, as he works his job as a blood splatter expert at Miami Metro Homicide.