We’ve raved and raved about the brilliant Dexter on TVScoop, and soon, we can all watch it for repeat viewings in marathon sessions over the weekends, just like we did with the first series of 24 and various series of The Sopranos. How? Read the headline.

For those who still aren’t sure what the show is about, lemme fill you in. Dexter is based on the story of Dexter Morgan who was orphaned at the age of four and harbouring a traumatic secret, Dexter (played by Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor Michael C. Hall of “Six Feet Under” fame) is adopted by a police officer who recognises Dexter’s homicidal tendencies and guides his son to channel his gruesome passion for human vivisection in a constructive way – working for the Miami Police Department as a ‘blood spatter analyst’, visiting crime scenes and helping to solve murders.

However, during out of hours, Dexter focuses on capturing the heinous perpetrators (including a child molesting-murderer and a drunk driver with a trail of bodies in his wake), and dispatches them with clinical precision, thus making him a killer who murders killers.

By his own admission, Dexter is “a monster”; an empty shell who fakes all human interactions and admits to no real feelings for anything or anyone, including his foster sister (Jennifer Carter) and his nominal girlfriend (Julie Benz), a former crack addict and battered spouse who’s as disinterested in sex as he is. There’s an explanation for Dexter’s weirdness, of course, one so deep and traumatic that even he isn’t aware of it. It’s gradually revealed over the course of the season as he and the cops track down another fellow monster whose grisly motives both fascinate and taunt our hero, leading to a genuinely shocking and squirm-inducing finale.

The 12 episodes from the show’s first season (available in a four-disc DVD boxset from 19th May) reveal, it’s a safe bet that anyone who watches this first season will be salivating for the second. Extras include audio commentary on two episodes, a featurette about real-life blood spatter analysis, and a variety of DVD-ROM items.