Darkly Dreaming Dexter

If you already watched Dexter or if it's your first viewing I highly recommend watching Darkly Dreaming Dexter, A full season cut down to a fast-developing story.

i picked up the series for Dexter a while ago at one of those used media shops and haven't watched them yet. i decided to watch this edit first and was not disappointed by it. i wasn't lost at all, i didn't feel the scenes "jumping around" like other viewers did. i knew stuff was cut, but i didin't notice any change to the intended narrative.
the A/V quality was good enough for what looked like an SD avi file.
the video and audio editing for me was on point.
narrative, like i said, even felt like a standard three act movie. very tough to do in these tv-to-movie edits.
enjoyment, i loved it. what a great way to jump into this series. i should probably watch the full season 1 if i'm going to watch the other seasons, but a part of me feels like i don't even need to.
great work out of Adabisi . . . i also hope he some day finds time to hit the rest of the series (given he released this in '06, probably unlikely).

This seamless edit brought back to me what i loved about the early seasons of dexter... I would love to see Adabisi tackling the doaks arch, or the trinity killer arch.
A great way to re-view the series. love it I want more!

This edit was AWESOME! Adabisi set the goal to turn Dexter Season 1 into an actual movie, not just a 2 1/2 hour TV season. Well, he has succeeded with flying colors.

I love Dexter, but definitely it can be too complicated for its own good. Season 1 was great, but this version is better. The edit is structured almost exactly as if they decided to make Darkly Dreaming Dexter a movie instead of a TV show. Of course if there had been a movie instead of a show it would have been very different, but man was this great. At no point did it feel like a bunch of small arcs stitched together into one mega story.

I will say though, the A/V quality ain't the best for a DVD5. It's not terrible, but not that great. But the editing was excellent throughout. A minor quibble I have is that I think some of Dexter's voice-overs explaining what's happening should have been cut. A perfect example is near the beginning when he says "There he is. Mike Donovan. He's the one."

Without a doubt, the best Adabisi fanedit I've seen yet.

Dexter Season 1 was one of the highest quality pieces of television of the decade and my personal favourite season. It had less filler compared to later seasons, and so the fact that Adabisi managed to turn somewhere close to 11 hours of footage into 2hr 40min film is very impressive. Too much has been cut for a sequel fan edit though. I understood what was going on and thought the story was coherent, however someone who hasn't watched the TV show might struggle a little due to how high the pace is.

As a big fan of Dexter a little too much is cut for my liking. However in terms of functioning as a stand-alone film, this fanedit is a great way to revisit the 1st season of Dexter without having to spend 11 hours watching. Would recommend.