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Among the eight seasons of the original Dexter series, Season 2 ranks first on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer at 96%, while Season 8 ranks last at 35%. The list below is ordered by critics’ scores, not audience ratings or a universal judgment of which season viewers should prefer.
All eight original Dexter seasons, ranked
Rotten Tomatoes lists the following Tomatometer scores for the original eight-season series. Scores and review totals can change as the site updates its data; the figures here reflect the listed season scores in the cited Rotten Tomatoes sources.
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Dexter: The Complete Series + Dexter: New Blood | $36.21 | Buy on Amazon |
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Dexter: The Complete Series | $35.12 | Buy on Amazon |
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Dexter: The Complete Series | $44.61 | Buy on Amazon |
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Dexter’s Laboratory: The Complete Series (DVD) | $31.20 | Buy on Amazon |
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| Rank | Season | Tomatometer | Review count |
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| 1 | Season 2 | 96% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 2 | Season 4 | 88% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 3 | Season 5 | 84% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 4 | Season 1 | 83% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 5 | Season 7 | 79% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 6 | Season 3 | 72% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 7 | Season 6 | 38% | Not stated in the cited source |
| 8 | Season 8 | 35% | Not stated in the cited source |
Rotten Tomatoes’ editorial feature also identifies Season 2 as the highest-rated season, at 96%, and describes Seasons 6 and 8 as having fallen into Rotten territory. Rotten Tomatoes’ Dexter series page lists the season scores.
What the ranking says about the score spread
Season 2 leads the list
Season 2 sits eight percentage points above Season 4, the runner-up. Rotten Tomatoes’ editorial feature names it the highest-rated season in the series. Rotten Tomatoes editorial
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- Genre: TV Crime
- Number of Discs: 36
- Number of Tracks: 0
- Playback Duration: 5637
- Rating: NR
Seasons 5 and 1 are nearly tied
Season 5 scores 84% and Season 1 scores 83%, a one-point difference. Season 1 adapts Jeff Lindsay’s novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter, the book that introduced the story’s source material. Dexter television-series reference
Seasons 6 and 8 are the lowest-ranked
At 38% and 35%, respectively, those two seasons are substantially below the other six in this critic-score ordering.
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How to read Rotten Tomatoes’ scores
The Tomatometer reflects critics’ reviews; Rotten Tomatoes presents audience reception separately through the Popcornmeter. A season’s percentage should therefore be read as the share of qualifying critic reviews classified as positive, not as an audience poll or a rating of how much every viewer will enjoy it. Rotten Tomatoes also calculates its series-level “Average Tomatometer” by adding the season scores and dividing by the number of seasons with a Tomatometer. That aggregate is a separate measure from this season-by-season ranking. Rotten Tomatoes’ Dexter series page
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