@chuwaay said:

It's close between S4 and S6 for me. Both finales take the shock level up a notch.

Also enjoyed S6. Reading the Boards spoiled it some for me; but, even so--still a great season.

@Gus Gorman said:

@MrRadical said:

Season 4, Trinity Killer was played so great by John Lithgow.

Season 4 is indeed the best season.

(Season 5 is the most underrated)

I'd have to go and see what happened when, but I will say that season one nearly lost me. Just didn't get into it at all, and thought a lot of it was unintentionally funny. But I gave it a chance and got hooked in season 2. It was never flawless, but for me it didn't really start to go downhill until Debra's breakdown following LaGuerza, and boring Hannah certainly didn't help that feeling much. I guess they had to switch things up, but Debra fell apart for me once she found out and became a quasi-active accomplice. The show lost it's moral center. However, one of the highlights was definitely the relatively brief scene where she finally asks Dexter if he's a serial killer and he confesses.

@Dedoc1967 said:

@Gus Gorman said:

@MrRadical said:

Season 4, Trinity Killer was played so great by John Lithgow.

Season 4 is indeed the best season.

(Season 5 is the most underrated)

I'd have to go and see what happened when, but I will say that season one nearly lost me. Just didn't get into it at all, and thought a lot of it was unintentionally funny. But I gave it a chance and got hooked in season 2. It was never flawless, but for me it didn't really start to go downhill until Debra's breakdown following LaGuerza, and boring Hannah certainly didn't help that feeling much. I guess they had to switch things up, but Debra fell apart for me once she found out and became a quasi-active accomplice. The show lost it's moral center. However, one of the highlights was definitely the relatively brief scene where she finally asks Dexter if he's a serial killer and he confesses.

Took me four tries (and don't know how many months) to get through even the first episode of season one! But, for some reason I kept coming back--UNTIL I finally got hooked.

@FormerlyKnownAs said:

I'd have to go and see what happened when, but I will say that season one nearly lost me. Just didn't get into it at all, and thought a lot of it was unintentionally funny. But I gave it a chance and got hooked in season 2. It was never flawless, but for me it didn't really start to go downhill until Debra's breakdown following LaGuerza, and boring Hannah certainly didn't help that feeling much. I guess they had to switch things up, but Debra fell apart for me once she found out and became a quasi-active accomplice. The show lost it's moral center. However, one of the highlights was definitely the relatively brief scene where she finally asks Dexter if he's a serial killer and he confesses.

Took me four tries (and don't know how many months) to get through even the first episode of season one! But, for some reason I kept coming back--UNTIL I finally got hooked.

They hadn't found their way until season 2.

5 and 6. It was raw, edgy and I was on the edge of my seat. I loved how Dexter was kinda of an antihero helping his her find piece.

The apocalypse killer was a little fight clubby but still never saw that coming and makes what he did to his sister more grotesque

I am late to this thread. I am now rewatching the show on Netflix, binge watching it. I liked seasons 1 and 2 a lot. The concept was still very new. The story line with Doakes was interesting. Doakes was a dick most of the time. He showed some empathy and compassion toward Dexter when they talked honestly in that cabin. Good writing.

Sorry, but it is difficult for me to name a favorite season. I liked the season with Jimmy Smitz as Miguel Prado, the DA who went a bit crazy with vigilante justice. I could see that going badly early on. Dex is a loner. He never wanted to be a subordinate to Prado. He didn't even want a partner.

That season seemed to highlight for me just how awful it is to have someone operating outside of society's established laws (as imperfect as they are), i.e. the "rule of man" as opposed to the "rule of law" issue. Dexter was judge, jury, executioner, guided by Harry's code. Dexter was trying to follow Harry's law I guess (though they were still murders). But Prado wasn't even doing that. He simply rationalized the killing of that defense attorney. She had done nothing illegal, much less deserving of capital punishment. He was out of control and therefore made Dexter's hit parade.

I didn't care for the whack job religious killer season. I am not real sure why I disliked it so much.

I actually loved the story line with Hannah McKay. That has a lot to do with her being gorgeous and having a nice personality. If I had been Dexter I would have gone on down to S. America and met her there, began life anew. She was easy to fall in love with.

Season 4, hands down.

I just finished watching season 4. This TV series has really fascinated me so far. Extremely beautiful.