"Dexter" (2006)TV series 2006-????

Seasons:

1 | 2

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

Takes life. Seriously.

Plot:

A like-able Miami police forensics expert moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice.

Plot Keywords:

Blood | Father Son Relationship | Breasts | Blouse | Serial Killer

Awards:

Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 11 wins & 23 nominations

Cast

Michael C. Hall	...	Dexter Morgan (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Julie Benz	...	Rita Bennett (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Jennifer Carpenter	...	Debra Morgan (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Erik King	...	Sergeant James Doakes / ... (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Lauren Vélez	...	Lt. Maria Laguerta (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
David Zayas	...	Angel Batista (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
James Remar	...	Harry Morgan (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
C.S. Lee	...	Vince Masuka (23 episodes, 2006-2007)
Christina Robinson	...	Astor (23 episodes, 2006-2007)
Geoffrey Pierson	...	Captain Tom Matthews (15 episodes, 2006-2007)
Preston Bailey	...	Cody (12 episodes, 2007)
Daniel Goldman	...	Cody (11 episodes, 2006)
Keith Carradine	...	Special Agent Frank Lundy (11 episodes, 2007)
Devon Graye	...	Teenage Dexter (10 episodes, 2006-2007)
Jaime Murray	...	Lila (10 episodes, 2007)

(more)

Series Directed by
Michael Cuesta		(5 episodes, 2006)
Tony Goldwyn		(4 episodes, 2006-2007)
Keith Gordon		(3 episodes, 2006-2007)
Steve Shill		(3 episodes, 2006-2007)
Marcos Siega		(3 episodes, 2007)
Robert Lieberman		(2 episodes, 2006)
Nick Gomez		(2 episodes, 2007)

Series Writing credits
Jeff Lindsay		(24 episodes, 2006-2007)
James Manos Jr.		(24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Daniel Cerone		(6 episodes, 2006-2007)
Melissa Rosenberg		(6 episodes, 2006-2007)
Timothy Schlattmann		(4 episodes, 2006-2007)
Lauren Gussis		(3 episodes, 2006-2007)
Scott Buck		(3 episodes, 2007)
Drew Z. Greenberg		(2 episodes, 2006)

Series Produced by
Daniel Cerone	....	co-executive producer / executive producer (19 episodes, 2006-2007)
Sara Colleton	....	executive producer (16 episodes, 2006-2007)
John Goldwyn	....	executive producer (16 episodes, 2006-2007)
Clyde Phillips	....	executive producer (14 episodes, 2006-2007)
Chad Tomasoski	....	associate producer (13 episodes, 2006-2007)
Melissa Rosenberg	....	co-executive producer / consulting producer (12 episodes, 2006-2007)
James Manos Jr.	....	executive producer (12 episodes, 2006)
Robert Lloyd Lewis	....	producer (11 episodes, 2006-2007)
Drew Z. Greenberg	....	producer (11 episodes, 2006)
Arturs Rusis	....	associate producer (11 episodes, 2006)
Scott Buck	....	co-executive producer (7 episodes, 2007)
Michael Cuesta	....	co-executive producer (6 episodes, 2006)
Dennis Bishop	....	producer (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Original Music by
Daniel Licht		(16 episodes, 2006-2007)

Series Cinematography by
Romeo Tirone		(23 episodes, 2006-2007)

Series Film Editing by
Elena Maganini		(6 episodes, 2006)
Scott K. Wallace		(4 episodes, 2006)
Louis F. Cioffi		(4 episodes, 2007)
Stewart Schill		(4 episodes, 2007)
Padraic McKinley		(2 episodes, 2006)
Rob Seidenglanz		(2 episodes, 2007)

Series Casting by
Shawn Dawson		(17 episodes, 2006-2007)
Deborah Aquila		(3 episodes, 2006)
Mary Tricia Wood		(2 episodes, 2006)

Series Production Design by
Anthony Cowley		(12 episodes, 2007)
Brandy Alexander		(4 episodes, 2006)

Series Art Direction by
Richard Fojo		(1 episode, 2006)

Series Set Decoration by
Debra Combs		(11 episodes, 2006)
Bryan Thetford		(4 episodes, 2007)

Series Costume Design by
Abram Waterhouse		(12 episodes, 2007)
Jill M. Ohanneson		(7 episodes, 2006)

Series Makeup Department
Keith Hall	....	makeup department head (11 episodes, 2006)
Jay Wejebe	....	key makeup artist (11 episodes, 2006)
Mandy Danielle Benton	....	additional makeup artist / makeup artist (9 episodes, 2006-2007)
Lynda Kyle Walker	....	hair stylist (8 episodes, 2006)

Series Production Management
Kenneth Andrade	....	post-production supervisor (12 episodes, 2006)
Shawn Petersen	....	post-production supervisor (12 episodes, 2007)
Gary Law	....	unit production manager (6 episodes, 2006)
Luis Patiño	....	post-production supervisor / unit production manager (6 episodes, 2006)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Michael R. Melamed	....	second second assistant director (7 episodes, 2006)
Walter W. Parry Jr.	....	second assistant director (7 episodes, 2006)
Jessica Faires	....	dga trainee (7 episodes, 2007)
Linda Rockstroh	....	first assistant director (6 episodes, 2006)
Marla Hudnall	....	dga trainee (5 episodes, 2006)
Alexis Schmidtberger	....	dga trainee (5 episodes, 2007)
E. Langston Craig	....	second second assistant director (4 episodes, 2006)
Warren Gray	....	first assistant director (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Art Department
Rupert M. Benson III	....	assistant property master (12 episodes, 2006)
Rhonda DeMarc-Elliott	....	buyer: set dressing (12 episodes, 2007)
Bo Johnson	....	set designer (12 episodes, 2007)
Cindy Peters	....	art coordinator (12 episodes, 2007)
Daniel Brewer	....	construction coordinator (11 episodes, 2006)
Alexa Roman	....	art production assistant (11 episodes, 2007)
Bennett Andrews	....	greensman (8 episodes, 2007)
Pola Shreiber	....	property master (7 episodes, 2006)
Kevin Egeland	....	graphic artist (6 episodes, 2007)
Joshua Meltzer	....	assistant property master (5 episodes, 2006)
Jamie Neese	....	graphic artist (5 episodes, 2006)
Richard E. Kruder	....	set dresser (3 episodes, 2006)

Series Sound Department
Jason Krane	....	dialogue editor (14 episodes, 2006-2007)
Javier Bennassar	....	sound effects editor (12 episodes, 2006)
Joe Earle	....	sound re-recording mixer (12 episodes, 2006)
Elmo Ponsdomenech	....	sound re-recording mixer (12 episodes, 2006)
Ronald L. Wright	....	boom operator (12 episodes, 2007)
Dicken Berglund	....	adr mixer (11 episodes, 2006)
Beau Biggart	....	adr mixer (10 episodes, 2006)
Roger Pietschmann	....	sound mixer (7 episodes, 2006)
Russell McAbee	....	utility sound (6 episodes, 2006)
Peter Hansen	....	boom operator (6 episodes, 2007)
Fred Judkins	....	sound supervisor (5 episodes, 2006)
Gary Megregian	....	sound effects editor (4 episodes, 2006-2007)
George Flores	....	sound mixer (4 episodes, 2006)
Mark McBryde	....	additional adr mixer (3 episodes, 2006)
Lenny Rabinowitz	....	adr recording engineer (3 episodes, 2006)
Steve Weiss	....	sound mixer (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Special Effects by
David H. Watkins	....	special effects coordinator (9 episodes, 2006)
Craig Barnett	....	special effects technician (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Visual Effects by
Daniel Carrington	....	Flame artist / flame artist (13 episodes, 2006-2007)
Scott Milne	....	visual effects supervisor (4 episodes, 2006-2007)
Rick Cortes	....	Inferno artist (2 episodes, 2006)
Bryan Whitaker	....	CG artist / visual effects (2 episodes, 2007)
Gregg Katano	....	visual effects producer: Hi-Ground Media (unknown episodes)
Duy Tan Nguyen	....	digital effects artist: Hi-Ground Media (unknown episodes)

Series Stunts
Shawn Crowder	....	stunt double / stunt coordinator / ... (6 episodes, 2006-2007)
Alina Andrei	....	stunt double / stunt double: Jennifer Carpenter (4 episodes, 2006-2007)
Wally Crowder	....	stunt coordinator (3 episodes, 2006)
Sam Hargrave	....	assistant stunt coordinator / stunt double: Rudy (2 episodes, 2006)
Artie Malesci	....	stunt coordinator / stunt coordinator: Miami (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Warren Feldman	....	second assistant camera (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Ryan French	....	set lighting technician (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Steve Hurson	....	first assistant camera: "a" camera (23 episodes, 2006-2007)
Earl C. Williman	....	gaffer (23 episodes, 2006-2007)
Bradley Richard	....	first assistant camera (22 episodes, 2006-2007)
Michael D. Gonzalez	....	grip (13 episodes, 2006-2007)
Eric Fletcher	....	camera operator / steadicam operator (12 episodes, 2007)
Patrick Beatty	....	grip (9 episodes, 2007)
Nicole Dayton	....	grip (7 episodes, 2006-2007)
Jason D. Hodges	....	key grip (7 episodes, 2006)
Earl Willaman	....	chief lighting technician (7 episodes, 2006)
Jon Zarkos	....	first assistant camera (6 episodes, 2006-2007)
Geoffrey Haley	....	camera operator (6 episodes, 2006)
Scott Andrew Ressler	....	camera operator: "b" camera (6 episodes, 2006)
Hannes Steixner	....	grip (6 episodes, 2007)
Philip Lee	....	camera operator (5 episodes, 2006)
Mark Mele	....	rigging best boy (5 episodes, 2006)
Andy Shuttleworth	....	camera operator (5 episodes, 2006)
Cameron Smith	....	best boy electric (5 episodes, 2006)
Leo Ibanez	....	grip (4 episodes, 2007)
Edward 'Gooch' Gutierrez	....	best boy rigging grip (3 episodes, 2006)
Thomas Burns	....	set lighting technician (3 episodes, 2007)
Deron Tse	....	additional grip (3 episodes, 2007)
David Kimelman	....	camera operator: "a" camera / camera operator: "b" camera, Miami (2 episodes, 2006)
Mike McGowan	....	camera operator: "b" camera / camera operator: Miami / ... (2 episodes, 2006)
J.A. Byerly	....	rigging gaffer (unknown episodes)
Michael J. Fowler	....	video playback operator (unknown episodes)
Brad Grimmett	....	additional steadicam operator (unknown episodes)
Riley Sidore	....	set lighting technician (unknown episodes)

Series Casting Department
Garrett McGuire	....	casting associate (23 episodes, 2006-2007)
Julie Tucker	....	casting: New York (8 episodes, 2006)
Phyllis Karpinski	....	casting associate: Florida / casting assistant: Florida (3 episodes, 2006)
Lori Wyman	....	casting: Florida / extras casting: Florida (3 episodes, 2006)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Kathleen Felix	....	costume supervisor (11 episodes, 2006)
Safowa Bright-Asare	....	key set costumer (7 episodes, 2006)

Series Editorial Department
Sarah Eichenlaub	....	post-production assistant (9 episodes, 2006)
Tyler Scalzi	....	post-production assistant (6 episodes, 2006)
Jeff Ervin	....	assistant editor (5 episodes, 2006)
Harry Berenson	....	assistant editor (4 episodes, 2006)
Steve Tacon	....	digital imaging technician (4 episodes, 2006)
Mike Grant	....	assistant editor (3 episodes, 2007)
Susan J. Vinci	....	assistant editor (3 episodes, 2007)
Tracy Barroga	....	assistant editor (2 episodes, 2007)

Series Music Department
Mark Bensi	....	music editor (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Gary Calamar	....	music supervisor (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Alyson Vidoli	....	music coordinator (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Rolfe Kent	....	composer: main theme music (11 episodes, 2006)
Jonathan Licht	....	composer: additonal music (8 episodes, 2006)
Jeanne Fay	....	music clearance (7 episodes, 2006)
Will Edwards	....	composer: original music (4 episodes, 2006)
David E. Russo	....	composer: additional music (3 episodes, 2006)

Series Transportation Department
Chad Moore	....	transportation co-captain (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Phil Balani	....	driver generator operator (12 episodes, 2006)
Sergio Orozco	....	transportation coordinator (8 episodes, 2006)
Don Violett	....	transportation captain (6 episodes, 2006)
William R. Peck	....	driver (5 episodes, 2006-2007)
Miguel Lozano	....	driver: honeywagon (2 episodes, 2006)

Series Other crew
Timothy Schlattmann	....	executive story editor / story editor (24 episodes, 2006-2007)
Rami Rank	....	assistant production office coordinator / assistant production coordinator (14 episodes, 2006-2007)
Millie Hirsch	....	studio teacher (12 episodes, 2006)
Paul Matthaeus	....	title designer (12 episodes, 2006)
Laura Sevier	....	rights and clearances (12 episodes, 2006)
Susan Safer	....	production accountant (12 episodes, 2007)
Josh Bodnar	....	title designer (11 episodes, 2006)
Delia Circelli	....	production coordinator (11 episodes, 2006)
Kellie Cyrus	....	script supervisor (11 episodes, 2006)
Leo Fialho	....	assistant location manager (11 episodes, 2006)
Rosario Lopez	....	production assistant (11 episodes, 2006)
Lindsay Dwyer	....	assistant production coordinator (10 episodes, 2007)
Jay Holben	....	consultant (9 episodes, 2006)
Robin Ginsberg	....	production accountant (8 episodes, 2006)
Martin Palma	....	key craft service (8 episodes, 2006)
Scott Lipsey	....	script coordinator (6 episodes, 2006)
Matthew Balzer	....	production assistant (5 episodes, 2006)
Justin Dec	....	office production assistant (5 episodes, 2006)
Katherine Grace	....	layout board (5 episodes, 2006)
Josh Novak	....	production assistant (5 episodes, 2006)
Billy Smith	....	location manager (5 episodes, 2006)
Bekah Sturm	....	production assistant (5 episodes, 2006)
Terry Gusto	....	location manager (4 episodes, 2006)
David McDivitt	....	stand-in (3 episodes, 2007)
Ivan Mladenovic	....	key office production assistant / production assistant (2 episodes, 2006)
Melinda Taksen	....	script supervisor (2 episodes, 2006)
Rebecca Boyle	....	additional script supervisor (2 episodes, 2007)
J.D. Freixas	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
Ben Gurner	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)
Jan Kunesh	....	director of production finance / production finance executive (unknown episodes)
Natalie Pearsall	....	production assistant (unknown episodes)

Series Thanks
Jeb Bush	....	special thanks (3 episodes, 2006)

Production Companies

• Clyde Phillips Productions
• Colleton Company, The
• John Goldwyn Productions

Distributors

• Showtime (2006-) (USA) (TV)
• FX (2007-) (UK) (TV)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (2007) (USA) (TV)
• Fox Crime (2007-2008) (Japan) (TV)
• TV3 Danmark (2007-) (Denmark) (TV)
• Viasat 4 (2007-) (Norway) (TV)
• Viasat3 (2007-) (Hungary) (TV)

Other Companies

• Central Casting  extras casting
• Chapman / Leonard Studio Equipment  cranes and dollies
• Digital Kitchen  titles
• Entertainment Clearances  rights and clearances
• Go For Locations  locations website hosting
• Inter Video  computer and video playback
• King Media Services  DVD design and authoring (season 1)
• Manhattan Transfer  adr facility
• Milan Records  soundtrack
• Movie Movers  trailers
• ShowBiz Enterprises  draperies
• Technicolor Sound Services  post-production sound

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Certification:

USA:TV-MA | Japan:Unrated | Chile:18 | Hungary:18 (some episodes) | Hungary:16 (some episodes) | Canada:13+ (Quebec) | Canada:18A

Filming Locations:

Alamitos Bay, Long Beach, California, USA

Company:

Clyde Phillips Productions

Trivia:

Dexter frequently uses aliases that references Bret Easton Ellis books/movies. These include using Patrick Bateman (the main character from American Psycho (2000)) when buying tranquilizers and Sean Ellis (reference to both Ellis and Sean Bateman - from The Rules of Attraction (2002)) when seeing a psychiatrist.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the introduction shown before every episode, the first scene is Dexter slapping a mosquito on his left arm. The hand that squashes the mosquito is a left hand...this is not physically possible.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "The Wire: Late Editions (#5.9)" (2008)

Soundtrack:

Main Theme

The Best Show on TV

After four episodes, I'm ready to proclaim this the best show currently on TV, one that may someday rank with the likes of _The Sopranos_ and the first season of _Twin Peaks_ as a contender for the second best TV show ever (after the incomparable _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_; one of the show's producers and writers is former Buffy writer Drew Z. Greenberg, and the cast includes Buffy / Angel mainstay Julie Benz).

Dexter is a sociopath, someone with no human feelings and hence no natural, inner moral compass, and he has an unquenchable blood lust that drives him to kill. But he had the great grace to have been the adopted child of a police officer, who (as we see in terrific flashbacks) successfully instilled in him a complete moral code, which he adheres to on a strictly intellectual level. This is an utterly brilliant concept (which I assume derives from the novels it's based on), one that allows the writers to explore the nature of moral behavior and of what it means to be human (Dexter is, in a sense, an alien).

Another thing the show is doing brilliantly is moving at different speeds in parallel. There is a primary apparent season-long story arc (concerning a cat-and-mouse game between Dexter and a serial killer), and a a secondary arc involving Dexter's sister's police career. The first handful of episodes include a very powerful completed arc concerning one of Dexter's police colleagues and a local crime lord, while two of the four episodes so far have also included a self-contained story spliced among (and playing off) the ongoing ones. I've seen the future of TV season structuring, and this is it.

While the writing isn't quite up to the brilliance of the best of _House_, it's been excellent. The cast and production are terrific. The only reason you wouldn't want to watch this utterly brilliant show is the frequent use of extremely graphic images: there have probably been more severed body parts shown in these first four episodes than in the first four episodes of every other TV show on the air combined. If you can stomach that, tune it for a mesmerizing look at what makes us human -- or inhuman.