Critical reception
What did Season 1 score on Metacritic?
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Critical response. Metacritic gave "season 1" a score of 40% based on reviews by 18 critics. 
Reaction to “Alpha House” has been generally positive. Metacritic gives season 1 an average rating of 68/100 based on reviews from 18 critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives the show a score of 72% based on reviews from 25 critics. 
Metacritic gave season 1 a "generally favorable" average score of 62% based on reviews from 16 critics, and seasons 2 and 3 an 89% (4 critics) and 83% (5 critics), respectively. 
Season one was met with generally favorable reviews, and currently holds a Metacritic score of 62 out of 100, based on 24 collected reviews. Season two was met a more enthusiastic response, and holds a Metacritic score of 72 out 100, based on 9 collected reviews. 
Critical reception. Although reception to individual seasons has varied, the response to "Dexter" has been mostly positive. The review aggregator website Metacritic calculated a score of 77 from a possible 100 for Season 1 based on 27 reviews, making it the third-best reviewed show of the 2006 fall season. This score includes four 100% scores from the "New York Daily News", "San Francisco Chronicle", "Chicago Sun-Times" and "People Weekly." Brian Lowry, who had written one of the three poor reviews Metacritic tallied for the show, recanted his negative review in a year-end column for the trade magazine "Variety" after watching the full season. On Metacritic, season two has a score of 85 with all 11 reviews positive; Season 3 has 78 with 13 reviews; Season 4 has 79 with 14 reviews; Season 5 has a score of 75 with 11 reviews; Season 6 has a score of 63 with 10 reviews; Season 7 has a score of 81 with 7 reviews; Season 8 has a score of 71 with 10 reviews. While remarking on some of the show's more formulaic elements (quirky detective, hero with dense workmates, convenient plot contrivances), Tad Friend of "The New Yorker" remarked that when Dexter is struggling to connect with Rita or soliciting advice from his victims, "the show finds its voice."