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I watched the whole season one. It was awesome. I didn't have Showtime so I watched it on Netflix, and I just ordered Season 2.

Did yall like it? Does it stay good? Try to keep the spoilers to a minimum please on anything past S1.

Dexter's good stuff. I don't think S2 is quite as good as S1 but it's not far off. Seemed to lose it's way a bit but ended in good form. It seems to have more of a polarising effect depending on how you react to one character in particular.

Definitely worth watching.

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Erik King made Season 2 great.

Season 3 Episode 1 is out. It was "Pre-released" much like Episodes 1 and 2 from Season 2.

So far, it's great. They're taking a slightly new direction with Dexter.

It stays great, but gets a little less believable. But since it's TV, who gives a shit. I have a major hard-on for Michael C. Hall, though, so I'm biased.

Kind of expected with the way that Season 2 turned out.

I liked Season 2, but character motivations just seemed off at points.  The amount of Deus Ex Machina was also somewhat absurd.    Still, it was entertaining and managed to continue growing Dexter as a character.

Dexter is a very cool character. Not often you can like a mass murderer, but they pull it off with some pretty good writing.

Semi spoiler, skip to 'Overall' if you haven't seen season 2.


I started getting sick of Rita (though she is a fine little thing) and was glad the British Skank showed up for a bit. It didn't quite seem to fit with how Dexter described himself as a non-sexual being though.



Overall, one of the best shows to come out in a long time.

If you do not understand why Dexter would fuck the Brit, your penis must be broken.

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Did I say anything about not understanding it? Yeah, she's hot as fuck. Just didn't fit with the way he explained himself throughout the series.

He has some mental issues, he is not in a coma.

He thought of fucking Rita as like a chore.

I can think of a lot of things I could describe fucking Rita as, a chore wouldn't be anywhere near that list. ;)

Dexter comes on to Rita in the very first episode of the show after seeing the first Ice Truck killer victim.  In heightened emotional states, he seems to have normal urges just like anyone else.  The shown sexual interactions with Lila seem support this.

He just doesn't understand the whole Miami date scene and people looking for casual sexual relationships or just relationships period.   His connections to Rita and Lila don't come from a desire to date or have sex, they come from a desire to be seen as normal.

True, but he saw his relationship with Rita as ideal because she's too broken to fuck. He could seem "normal" without the obligations of actually participating in the sticky parts. He cares about Rita (and her kids), but almost deifies her.

Thanks lily, I was having troubles remembering all the details.

I'd say there is some accuracy to what Rasix is saying as well. But his sex problems are a lot bigger than 'not understanding the miami fuck scene'. When he came on to her in that first episode, IIRC, he knew it wasn't going to go all the way.

Either way, he's a damn interesting character.

I don't think Dexter's asexual, he's just afraid (?) that 'the monster' will show through in intimate environments because he doesn't know how to fake it. With Rita this matters, because she's basically a normal, moral person whereas Lila is amoral.

Dexter is hands down my favorite show airing on any channel. Now that I know the first episode of Season 3 is out On Demand I'll watch it. When does the series start up again "for real"?

Finished season 2 last night.  Thoughts tainted with massive spoilers ahead.

Same here, the best show out now. Season 3 is starting 29th September if I remember correctly. Pre-Air of S03E01 was great, I like the new direction its taking.

Season premier was MEH. What the fuck happened to his shaggin' wagon (minivan)?

He gave it away in the second to last epsiode of the second series.

Ah, I must have missed it :(

I liked the first episode, especially towards the end.  Jimmy Smits with that mustache looks like my Uncle Monfredo when he was young and trying to look dashing for the ladies.  I also like that Dexter is less naive (if you can put that label on a serial killer) and beginning to become darker.

Eh, he gave it away to Rita.  You see him getting out of it at work. 

I finished season two as well. It was good, but the resolution was ridiculous. The character development was very good, though. I could have done without the whole Paris thing though. That seemed completely tossed together at the end so that the viewer wouldn't be wondering about it.

Season three is turning this show into a whole bunch of cheese  :heartbreak:

Season 3 is really bad so far. I'm beginning to think last season would have been more interesting with him caught and cuffed. He's going to track down another serial killer.  Whoopee friggin' doo.

Yeah but it'll be a twist which most likely means it was one of the remaining Prado boys.

Missed last nights episode, wasn't in a tving mood.

Anyone else sick of Miguel?

A lot of family issues happening too...If I wanted family issues, I'd walk upstairs and punch my wife in tits.

JIMMY SMITS IS FREAKING ME OUT MAN.

Just wait until Smits finds out Dexter's a serial killer, then the series will spice up!   :drill: :drill:

This season is still all kinds of terrible.  Next episode seems to be the standard "OHH HEY, WHERE'S DEXTER" bit, while Dexter's out killing someone.  Hell.

If it weren't for the awesome Californication, I would have dropped Showtime by now.

wHaT Is hApPenINg wiTh THis sERiEs? :uhrr:

Smits is awesome though. Just the right kind of borderline crazy.

I like Smits, too.  The show is making me wonder just how twisted he really is.  Something bizarro is going to happen with him.

What if Smits is the dude peeling flesh. DUN DUN DUNNNNNN!

sorry for all my recent posts in the tv section, i just found it and you are all talking about my favorite shows.

Anyway, the thing i like best about these dexter episodes lately is that when he does get a good clean kill off it feels very satisfying. Almost like your craving to kill along with his serial killer instincts.

Psycho.














Heheh just kidding :)

I really like this show, but I didn't really get it at first.  I was like, why is the acting and dialog so terrible.  Then I realized that was part of the show like some sort of indy film and I loved it.  Which is strange because usually the stuff other people consider slow burns are things I'm into right away.

Science is one cold-hearted bitch with a fourteen inch strap-on. :-)

Today's was ok, not great but ok, but fuck, next weeks looks like it will be horrible  :uhrr:

I'm about 1/3 of the way through season 2 on DVD. This Lilah chick is really annoying me, from the second they introduced her it was clear they'd be sleeping together, and humanizing Dexter too much starts to detract from the overall point of the show.

Hopefully he kills her.

I was having a hard time staying interested in the latest episode.

I'm pretty tired of these characters I think. I'm not sure.

Finished watching Season 2. Bittersweet.

Sigh. Obvious plot is obvious. :oh_i_see:

So....um...yeah

I kept thinking 'I wish True Blood would download faster' during this. I don't know, the show has just lost something. Honestly, it almost needed to change locations after the first two seasons. I wasn't married to any of the characters that were still around....after the loss of Doakes. Sure, it's not possible but I think it would have been interesting.

Decent cliffhanger this time though :)

Unlike the rest of you I like where this season is going. The theme seems to be fatherhood both literal and metaphorical. I think it's clear that Miguel is going to become Dexter's spiritual son, but without his code. I think we're going to see Dexter realize he has literally created a monster.

It'll be interesting. If I have any worries it is that they might stray too close to the subplot with the brother in season 1. The aspect of "this person understands me but I still have to kill them!"

I'm enjoying it, too, Riggs.  I like the Miguel character but I don't think he'll be around next season, at least not all of it.  Miguel is enjoying it too much.  Dexter is going to have to do something about him.  I bet it'll be nasty, too.  So far, I'm okay with this season.

I think it's decent, it's just too close to a rehash of previous seasons, the brother in the first and Laila in the second. It feels... too naive that Dexter would fall for the brothers-in-arms deal again. He has already been burned twice. He should KNOW now that it's smoke and mirrors.

He does. That's what all those visions of his father are about, his subconscious telling him that this will be nothing but trouble. The point is, Dexter's lonely. He feels like no one understands him so he keeps reaching out and getting burned. He's alot like his sister that way. They both make horrible personal decisions for similar reasons.

I don't think it is smoke and mirrors with Miguel though. I think Miguel is genuinely Dexter's friend. The issue is going to be the code. Miguel is not bound by it which will be Dexter's test this season and I think he'll end up killing Miguel before the season is over because of this conflict.

Whew.  Finally caught up on season 3.  Five minutes, folks.

JIMMY SMITS IS FREAKING ME OUT, MAN.

It's back to option one. :grin:

Option one was the only real option.  Gots to love option one.

Ending last night was :ye_gods:

I think it was the best episode this season, and really brought a meandering story together.


I think it was the first time in Dexter I was really taken by surprise, and let out a verbal "fuck!"

Jimmy Smits continues to freak me out, man.  Its hard to see Bobby Simone act like that, but he does it well.

Seconded!  I really enjoyed it

I like that it tied all three storylines together. I also like that they're setting up Laguerta to go "he was out all Thursday, and his SUV has those halogens...oh my god!"

Intriguing episode. I liked that Masoko got some screen time, he's a funny guy.

Smits deserves an award for his performance in my opinion. He's really convincing.

Late viewer here.

That really felt too easy. I was expecting something more climatic somehow. The last episode will have to close a fuckton of plotlines, at that, seeing how Miguel being dead will unwind a bunch, well, a bunch. :oh_i_see:

You have no idea how pissed I was at the "cliffhanger" ending being resolved the way it was.  That was pure, unadulterated bullshit.

Other than that, I thought it was fine.  I'll have to watch it again before the big finale.

What bothers me is that it's now too late to do anything more this season. The giant arc with Miguel ended rather suddenly and the Skinner arc feels sorta like a sideshow and shouldn't be the material for the finale. There's a million social complications to be had, but from the my perspective, that feels insignificant in a show like Dexter. He needs having the hounds chasing him to really flower as a character, not merely social pressure.

Did you not see the preview? Judging by the previews he is going to be hounded by Ramone. I'm predicting all 3 brothers dying at Dexter's hand before it is all over.

I didn't... ...it wasn't included in the rip I downloaded. :grin:

Thanks though. That would be fateful indeed, but I still don't think they'll manage to top last season or even the first. The second season's climax was awesome.

Shouldn't that be in green?  Blowing up the shack? Murder trip to Paris?  GYAH.

I stopped watching previews a long time ago.  If I want to know what's on the next episode, I'll just watch it.  The same goes for films - more often than not, you can pretty much sum up a film by its preview.  I'd rather reserve as much surprise and enjoyment as possible, considering that I'm completely jaded.  I also mute commercials, which drives other people nuts, the mouth-breathers that they are.


The Fonze was on the ramp, revving his engine at that point.  They managed to wave him off, thankfully.

I still say they jumped the shack.  We'll see.  I downloaded the shows I missed when my wife decided Showtime wasn't worth 2 shows I watch and a bunch of terrible movies.

I think I subconsciously excluded the murder trip to Paris, because that was pretty lame. Well, that wasn't really part of the Doakes-plot anyway. Blowing up the shack... well, I'm okay with that. It was more about the build-up to me. Dexter was in a serious way on the verge to getting busted. I liked that.

Jumped the shack, har-har. :-)

So, what did you guys think about the Season Finale? I liked it. I also like how they are setting up Deborah finding out about Dexter's past and maybe even that Brian was his brother. Good stuff for Season 4 I'm thinking.

<fingers in ears> La-ala-alalala!

Fake edit: Goddamnit.

Hmm. I'm not sure. It was okay. I liked the resolution of Ramone's arc. The skinner, not so much. I guess I thought it was a little too soapy overall, with Deb, the wedding, the secrets unfurling.

Overall I'm only mildly satisfied with season 3. It had very jumpy pacing towards the end, perhaps too many plotlines that needed conclusion. On the other hand, having Harry in as Dexter's conscious has been great.

It was ok, not great, not too bad.

Left me not really caring about the next season though.

Something keeps nagging me.  Why did Dexter have to fake King's death instead of just explaining that he was kidnapped by King, woke up, managed to escape and kill king in self defense.  Hell it's fully explainable since he was on the Freebo case and besides, Dexter's blood is on the scene as well.

Does anyone have a reasonable explaination? 

Maybe they would be a little suprised that King would choose Dexter specifically...and much more surprised that their little bloodspatter dork managed to physically overpower and kill someone who was a torture expert? That kind of behavior doesn't fit the persona he attempts to portray.

No worries about Dexter's blood on the scene. After all, he'd probably be the guy asked to check for blood and then test it.

What Xerapis said. And Dexter wouldn't want to answer questions about why he specifically was chosen. Remember, people like his sister were much more visible on the Freebo case than Dexter. Everyone who was taken so far had some connection to Freebo. At best, Deborah would wonder if Dexter had bought drugs from Freebo due to last season's addiction sideplot. At worst, she'd start to really wonder what's going on and start digging.

Well, I obtained the rest of the episodes I missed and finshed them up yesterday. This season ended up better than I thought it would.  Still, I think this show has gone from a remarkable show to just a pretty good one.

I did not care for the entire Skinner plot or almost everything with Deb in it.
I did not care for Rita being a giant schizo bitch through most all of it (pregnancy sure, but they wrote her really oddly), but she did look pretty damn hot in her wedding dress.

I liked the work Jimmy Smits did with Miguel.  A truly manipulative monster.
I liked Dexter's dad.  I liked that Dexter went back to his dad after the betrayal he felt.

I would have liked to have seen more done with Masuka and Batista, but I think they did a good job with them for the most part.  The show focused really tightly on Dexter and Miguel and it didn't seem like there was much room for anything else.

I would really like this to move forward at a faster pace toward someone discovering him.  Someone he loves.  The Deb thing is going to take forever because she's a dipshit and won't connect it further than Brian Moser is Dexter's brother. If they recycle the "Dexter can't get along with murderers" plot line again..  :angryfist:

Not spoiling myself by reading the thread, on last episode of series 1.  Just wanted to say how good this show is, even the opening sequence is great.

I have one episode left in season 3.

Yes, this season went off rails a bit. The stuff with Smits was great, but everything else was blah. The writing did no favor to many of the seconday characters and at times, such as the shit about Quinn and the IA woman, it passed the line into just plain stupid and made the characters look stupid, particularly Deb who mindlessly believed whatever was told to her last.

This is not an ensemble show. In the first couple seasons characters like Angel and Masuka fit in because they hung out around Dexter, this season it felt like the writers were just going through the motions of giving them some minor plotlines even though they had nothing to do with the story. Like they felt obligated to throw them some bones, rather than write a story that would genuinely include them.

The skinner stuff was not interesting and didn't really go anywhere. Also at this point the kills Dexter makes feel almost perfunctory. Remember the car salesman in season 1. (?) That guy got a lot of screen time before biting it. This season the kills consisted of a 5 second shot of Dexter looking at their face on google, perhaps a 30 second interaction and then voila, they're dead.

Rise!

No comments? Really? We thought it was a great start, with a very interesting cliffhanger. The kind of dark comedy that we've come to expect from Dexter. Also, seeing John Lithgow in this was odd but slightly awesome.

What? It's back? Season 3 was a bit of a grind, like True Blood season 2, not quite as deteriorated as later Heroes or Prison Break seasons, but dangerously off-putting. I will struggle to get back into this.

This season has been good so far. What I wrote above is still true, the storylines for the secondary characters still feel pretty weak, the secondary characters are only interesting when they interact with Dexter. This is most apparent in the new romance subplot, which feels pointless and soap-opera like. But other than that this season has been pretty great so far, even though Dexter is now married and with kid there is less family bullshit than in last season, it's really more of a backdrop than a major plotline.

The Trinity killer is chilling. I don't know why he creeps me out so much but he really does. He feels dangerous. Moreso than any other past killer.

So far I like this season, especially how they're showing Dexter having issues adapting to his changed life. I like that Dexter is making mistakes now.

The Trinity killer is, I think, the first psychopathic killer we got on Dexter. The people Dexter have been killing have been random thugs and/or perverts, while the main plots have covered apathic genious killers that aren't really moved by many of the expected emotions, like Dexter himself. It made them very removed from our own world of, well, real people. The Trinity killer on the other hand does feel for his victims, he's just so off the fucking hinges that he can't help himself and that lack of control and rationale can be a lot creepier than the calculating, by-the-numbers murders we've had this far.

Yes and yes. Lithgow is a great choice as he has proven capable of pulling simultaneously funny, charming, and pitch black wicked. I look forward to further intractions with him. I also agree that while the A (each season's serial killer) and B (Dexter's episodic escapades) plots have been consistantly strong, the the office politics C and D plot stuff was especially unnecessary and unrelated for the last few seasons (Frankly, almost everything that includes LaGuerta and Batista). Unless they start pulling those threads back into the storyline proper they really need to stop introducing them.

That said, I'm happy to see Lundy back and look forward to Debra's collision with Dexter's past.

LaGuerta has always been soap-opera-esque, remember when the other woman took over as captain (in season 1?) and LaGuerta drove her insane by sleeping with her boyfriend? That was really mid-afternoon soap style plotting, complete with ridiculous sinister surprise reveal. Batista's role has somewhat degraded over time, and Quinn is just pointless. Can anyone name anything he's done on the show that's even mildly interesting? Hopefully Dexter catching him pocket cash will turn into a real plotline, the character has no reason to exist otherwise.

Agree on Lithgow, he's scary in a way the other antagonists have not been. The way he killed that woman in the first episode was disturbing in a way the show hasn't been in a while.

I was a little afraid Lithgow would be hammy but he's not. He's being probably the most creepy I've ever seen him. I've heard an interesting rumor about Trinity and his upcoming actions.

What rumour from where?  Because if it's just supposin' then I don't understand why we're using spoiler tags.

I stopped watching in S3 with Jimmy Smits.  Yeesh.  Between him and the actress who plays the sister (along with a few other duds) I couldn't watch this anymore.  Is S4 worthy like S1 or S2?

We're two episodes in. Who knows? Lithgow is a great actor and has already completely owned his scenes, and Carradine's Lundy is the same passionately competent old detective he was in season two. I'm looking forward to watching those two outthink eachother... whatever the rest of the cast does with their own screentime.

The Skinner wasn't a particularly interesting mystery, and Smits wasn't dangerous enough to Dexter. Plus Dexter's awkward stumble towards marriage was mostly yawnsville. This season would be hard pressed not to clear last season's bar.

Best episode in a long while. Tied everything together, better Dexter/Target interaction than anything in seasons two and three, and transcended the soap opera shit they were delving a little too deeply into. I retain the interest I was losing.

I agree, this is the first time in a while that the villain of the week didn't come off as perfunctory.

I thought they were going to drag out the stuff with Zoey or whatever her name was. Make it a 2-3 episode arc.

And wow...that ending. I think we all know that only one of the two of them lives which is sort of sad.

Pretty obvious that Lundy dies (:[) but Debra lives (:[)

Neither necessarily dies... at least one of them could wind up in a coma, or they could both simply be hospitalized. The show doesn't always choose the most obvious answer.

He looked really dead.

He's dead. :cry:

This last episode was pretty darn good I thought. I really thought Dexter was on the verge of revealing his inner self twice. Once to Rita and the other time to Deborah.

I'm beginning to think that's what this season is about. Something's got to give. Trinity, like Ice-Truck, serves as an example to Dexter. Someone else who survives despite ghastly secrets. Trinity will die, but not before he teaches Dex something. I'm sorry to see Lundy go, though... the show has a shortage of smart people.

Lithgow is the heart of this season. I am on the edge of my seat in totally casual, otherwise pleasant scenes.

Really, really solid episode this week. Moreso than usual.

This season is so much better than last.  Guessed the whole impetus for Trinity's killings right from the start.  It's somewhat sad that someone like Lundy couldn't at least theorize that he was playing out something from his past and in particular some of the details.  But then again, he didn't know how far back it went.

I don't know if Dex has thought out the logistics of him rummaging in his shed at 3am after a kill.   :awesome_for_real:

The scene with Trinity and his wife was just chilling, even as I knew he wasn't going to kill her. I think Lundy had a LOT of theories, and had been working on it so long he didn't want to nail anything down that he wasn't certain of. Dexter has the advantage of having the man's name.

On a lighter note:

Yeah.  My only concern is that they're really dipping back into the themes and storylines of season 1.

John Lithgow better get nominated for an Emmy.  He is by far the most terrifying villain Dexter's ever had.

It's too late to make the Bautista/La Guerta subplot relevant to anything. At this point they can't even drop it. We have to watch save time for it in EVERY EPISODE. Also poor Masuka... the guy just can't catch a break.

The twist at the end was very soap-opera-y but overall a terrific episode with his wonderfully fucked up family. That daughter!

Also, someone mentioned season 1 but if you think about it we also have shades of Season 2 with Quinn = Doakes and Next door neighbor guy = Rita's Lila. I have to wonder if all the symmetry isn't on purpose but I haven't figured out why yet.

If this symmetry is going somewhere, like the doe-eyes between La Guerta/Bautista, it's running out of episodes to hit a punchline. Everything's been throw-away implications until now and a maelstrom of revelations is going to feel rushed. In theory they might be building up to a set of cliff-hangers for next season, but at the moment it's just getting messy. FfffFff.

Wife and I just finished Season 2.


Also, are we the only ones that wish Dexter's sister would just die or go away forever?  I can't stand her character at all, she's like a bitchy whiny child but more annoying.

In the spirit of jumping the shark, many called this "blowing up the shed".   At least we got a final "motherfucker". 

It was pretty obvious a mile off what was going to happen, for exactly that reason.  If anything else had happened it'd have been the series finale.

Ummm...wow. That series finale was a game changer in some ways and left me with so many questions about how they'll do things next season.

We don't have showtime, so i quickly avert my eyes for spoilers, we can't wait to netflix the season.

I imagine it will go the direction that the books have. If you would like spoilers from next season head here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_in_the_Dark).

If you don't want spoilars I'd suggest not reading this thread any more.

Saw the ending of the finale coming from about 15 minutes in, didn't reduce the impact too much though.

I saw it coming a few weeks ago, was kind of surprised it happened though. The impact is going to be.... sigh.

Well...about the finale

I have a peculiar ability not to make connections or draw conclusions when I watch or read fiction, even obvious things I otherwise have no issues with. It's a kind of blissful ignorance to be honest because things like these take me by pleasant surprise and have me smiling for hours.

That said, this season was absolutely sublime. In my opinion the best season yet because of its exceptionally high and even quality.

Woah.  Well, this season definitely makes up for the throwaway disaster that was the previous season.

...anyway, yes. Better by far than the previous two seasons. I hope they're turning Quinn into another Doakes.

This season really did end up better than the last two.  I liked it as much as the first season, primarily because of John Lithgow's character.

Post-mortem interview of Rita on Dexter:

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b158524_will_dexter_jump_ahead_in_time_julie.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_tv-movies (http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watch_with_kristin/b158524_will_dexter_jump_ahead_in_time_julie.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=imdb_tv-movies)

Bumping for good news:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailydish/detail?entry_id=62165

Bump for hot news:

http://weblogs.variety.com/on_the_air/2010/06/julia-stiles-joins-cast-of-dexter.html

No idea who she is.  I'm pretty sure I saw at least one of the Bourne films and I almost remember her face, but I guess she didn't really stand out for me.  She reminds me of one of those Brady Bunch girls.

I'm 99% sure that after the last episode of last season that this show is over for all intents and purposes, and there's nothing that hot chick can do to change that.  Not even tits.  Well.  Maybe tits.

Interesting trailer here for Dexter Early Cuts: Dark Echo coming up this fall:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARHS0vO9TSw&feature=popular

aaaaaaaand here is the season 5 trailer for the actual show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUbCMbW-BRE


WARNING: CONTAINS MAJOR SEASON 4 SPOILERS.

Really deserved, he did a hell of a job there kudos to him!

After how bad Season 3 and most of 4 was I'd say the end of the most recent season was the only way to actually save the show.

What?  Season 4 was bad?!?

You are honestly the first person who has said that to me.

"Mostly" being key though....
I'm polluted by too much book knowledge so when I see them pulling punches it weighs on me.

Season 4 wasn't "bad" in total, it just had early shades of being lame. Don't get me wrong it straightened up pretty quick and turned into a better season than I ever would have guessed. I agree Lithgow was great.... I think Season 4 fixes alot of things I was not liking. I think it's fairly reasonable to say it still wasn't as "tight" as 1 and 2 though. It's just fault by comparison.

Dude, stop hitting enter.  We do that for you here.

Hahaha. I'll stop with the poetry format.

I'm not real sure what I think about this season yet and it's nearly half over. It's definitely not up to the quality of season 4 though.

I think it's rubbish compared to the fantastic season 4. This one just doesn't seem to go anywhere, much like the most recent season of True Blood...

I'm liking the Dexter/Lumen interaction, don't really care for the other plot lines much though.

I thought Dexter changed his dumping spot to somewhere where the Gulf Stream would carry the remains?  Why was he near shore?  Did I miss something?

I actually find the Dexter/Lumen stuff pretty meh; Dexter/Catherine the Nanny of Aragon stuff is pretty entertaining to me though. And I like all the stuff going on with Deb and LaGuerta, though that may be because I've been watching The Wire lately.

This season has definitely picked up in the last 3 episodes or so.

Fair enough, I just can't stop myself thinking that everyone apart from Dexter only exists as window dressing to tease the viewers with finding out his secret.  Anyone normal isn't going to hide a messed up serial killer, so once they find out, they have to die.  The wife and the sister might possibly cover for him, once it became obvious he wasn't going to tell his wife and they had worn out the angle of her been suspicious, she became less interesting with predictable results, nicely removed the older two kids as well. 

Lumen is different, she's totally messed up, her self interest is the best reason to keep quiet, so now instead of one unpredictable insane person running round with a terrible secret, we have two, plus psycho baby.

This season really picked up alot in the last 2 episodes and Jordan Chase is a great villain. Still, my favorite part recently has to be Dexter handling the abusive dad and the way he described the effect of each of his punches on the man's nervous system.

I just discovered that the asshole cop dude is.... robocop.

Yup. I keep expecting some sort of cheesy shout-out to happen in-show. Thankfully, not so far.

Yeah, I told Zal here that on the way to work one day. I noticed instantly for some reason, but couldn't remember his name in robocop until a couple days ago.


















Murphy!

I was getting really annoyed with the Lumen plot line, but since she sort of "stabilized", it has grown on me a lot. I still give her character a very very slim chance of making it out of the season alive.

Now, this might be a stretch but my girlfriend pointed it out. Jordan Chase has a necklace which is a vial of blood. The actor who plays Jordan Chase is Johnny Lee Miller, who was the first husband to Angalina Jole, who used to wear a vial of her second husband's blood (Billy Bob Thorten) around her neck.

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

I enjoyed the finale, though as I said to my wife:

Yeah, everything seemed to get wrapped up pretty neatly this season, especially compared to last season's finale.

It's been picked up for another season, and possibly a seventh ...

Oh, this should make next season 'fun'

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/14/dexter-stars-file-for-divorce/?hpt=T2

And she's asking for spousal support. If this turns nasty I wonder how they'll write Deborah out of the show?

Well, this starts back up again tonight.

Surely, someone important finds out this season. Right?

Maybe Deb finds out and Dex kills her.   :why_so_serious:

We can only hope.

So I'm just now catching up on season 5.  SO GOOD.  Even having mostly dodged spoilers, though, I know it's all going to go to shit, and that makes me :cry:.

This season has been pretty meh. Hopefully it picks up.

There's an ad at the end of the show encouraging you to join the Dexter community on facebook & there's even a Dexter app, which I found way more disturbing than the current plot.

My beef with this season is that the main villain isn't very compelling. It feels almost like a Se7en ripoff except with an apathetic zealot murderer. Most of the side plots I've enjoyed: Masuka's string of interns, Deb's stuff, Angel's sister  :drill:, Dex and Sam, etc. The BBEG just kinda sucks.

I think the Professor has just been a vehicle, almost a metaphor, for Dexter's own self-discovery.


The opposition of Brother Sam as the "good Christian" with the Professor as the "Zealot" are kind of a nice touch, as well.  Brother Sam died forgiving his killer (Grace), while the Professor is trying to bring down the wrath of God on the world (giving evil free reign upon a world undeserving of Grace).  And Dexter is playing the part of free will, not evil or good.

--Dave

I just went through a Dexter MARATHON!!! And have to say this show is  :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill: :drill:

However this season as far toooo many cringe moments, i mean dear god what happens to that waitress and the dudes sister  :ye_gods:

And the religion subtext goes from  :oh_i_see: :uhrr: :ye_gods:

But now that they got that out of their system (I hope), its hopefully on to brutally murdering that sob.

Just a theory:


Even with that twist, this season has been my least favorite.

You're just starting to think that?

It didn't really occur to me until Dexter glances up where Travis was looking in the church last episode. Then I thought back and it seemed somewhat obvious at that point.

Yeah least favorite by far.

Really?  The second season was absolutely abysmal.  The ending just made me laugh and nearly turned me off of the entire series.

This one is at least mediocre, and a slight improvement over last season.

So... Debra found out at long fucking last.  I was disappointed that they ended this season with a cliffhanger, though, as they've always been good about keeping storylines relatively self-contained within seasons until now.  They also didn't resolve the storyline with the videogame intern--setting him up to be the villain next season?

They can also feel free to drop the incest shit at anytime and that would be perfectly fine with me.

Overall, this was probably the weakest season so far.  My guess is that they felt compelled to bring Debra in on the secret because they're running out of other places to go with this character.

Just finished watching all of this season over a 2 week time frame.  Terrible.  As bad as blowing up the shack or the entirety of season 3.  Next season should be interesting, but this season was really dull and kind of sloppily executed.

I fast forwarded through most episodes, it's not worth watching anymore. The writing and characters are so inconsistent, nobody on the series learns anything, nothing ever has consequences.

The last three episodes were despicable.  There were so many last minute miracles (literally, if you can read spanish) that the whole thing just stopped making any damned sense by the end.  The entire season was telegraphed pretty much from the beginning as well; the minute Debra got her promotion I knew how the season was going to end, though I didn't think it would be so dramatic, which I thought was just absurdly stupid.  Seriously, there were far better ways for her to find out.  I literally facepalmed when she walked into the church.

I take back what I said about this season being mediocre.  By the end of the season it was truly dismal.

As for the incest stuff: it honestly didn't bother me.  What bothered me was Debra acting like an unprofessional love-sick schoolgirl at the crime scene on episode 12.  The writing this season was spectacularly dumb.

Another problem with the series was how crazy Travis was.  Out of everyone Dexter has targetted he is probably the only one that you could legitimately see putting in an insanity plea if caught and getting institutionalised.  It takes a lot of the righteousness out of Dexters code to be hunting someone so obviously sick.

The incest thing to me felt like a particularly mean-spirited writer getting off on making the divorced couple kiss.

Oh Jesus fuck yes.

That was everything I wanted.

Greeeeat episode.

Solid first episode.  Teasers for the rest makes me feel like it's going to a dumb, dumb place.  Still, next episode should be great until they go full retard.

Heh.  Forced myself to turn off before the teasers.  I hate those "On this seasons of" teasers.

Well this hasn't started out strong. Everything is grating, Dexter's inner monologue, Debra, fucking Debra and the entire cast for that matter. It was easy to forget how unrealistic the show was because it covered its mistakes with happy coincidences and played up the gravity of the situation. Now? Pssh, the murder rate in Miama might as well be 200000 deaths per day.

So Deb is babysitting Dexter.  Who exactly is baby sitting Harrison?

Shit, I'm married, my wife does most of the child rearing, and I have maybe 2-3 hours A WEEK that I can actually call my own.  Dexter, a single father, has all the time in the world to himself, to the point where he can leave his kid with the babysitter for nights on end?

Jesus, is the kid anything more than a prop to this show?  The writing used to be fairly strong on this show, but since the Lithgow season it's fallen off dramatically.

I can't help but compare this to Breaking Bad, and Dexter comes off looking really shitty in comparison.

Ya.  This episode was weaker than the first one and I'm not confident in where it's going.

Wow, my friends and I watched season 6 in three-episode chunks over the last month and came away feeling entirely positive about it, and the first two episodes of 7 that I've seen so far were both fantastic.

Season 1: Fuck yeah!
Season 2: Fuck yeah!
Season 3: Well, okay.
Season 4: Lithgow was great, otherwise meh.
Season 5: So, yeah.  A season of nothing happening.
Season 6: Hey, this was surprisingly good, let's see the en-HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIII*
Season 7: IIIIIIIIIIIIIIII*

Deb already had the best line in the series in episode 2. 

Um, did you not see the latest episode?

Oh God.  I did watch it.

My mind doesn't remember things like it should.

Just watched the entire season...

It was good in parts but it felt like they could have done more with the plotline and it seems like there'll be a lot more new characters come next season...

Next season's going to be the final one.

I am not sure how I feel about this finale.

I'm not caught up.  I almost want to just read a synopsis and be done with it.   

That finale was so laughably bad. This entire season has just been a train wreck.

All these characters they introduced this season that didn't matter, touching on things that might be interesting and then just forgetting they ever touched on them, and then

Yep, terrible. No real tension, nothing really resolved, no lessons learned- basically a waste of time. Glad this show is done with.

I really liked the finale until the last 5 minutes. I smell meddling from the network there. It should have ended


Since they're talking about a spin-off I think an interesting take would be Harrison in 15-20 years looking into his family's past.

Something like this would have made a decent ending.  When ever they extend something that's so obviously meant to end, it always gets messed up.  I didn't realise there was another season coming.  I really thought that was that until the very last bit.  I was more than surprised.

I quit watching this when what's her face  killed doaks, or what ever his name was.

Season 4 was really good.  Otherwise you're not missing much.

I'm not caught up (lost interest really early, like 3rd episode), so I read a synopsis and I'm glad I did and don't plan on watching the rest of the season now.

I just read the synopsis.  Ohh god.  Yah, I'm not watching this crap until I have a major illness and am bored stiff.

Umm...Nah, I'm not THAT late to the party  :why_so_serious:  :grin:
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But hey, just wanted to say that I binge-watched (thanks Netflix Italy) the first two seasons and I absolutely loved them (minus some excessive "deus ex machina" moments here and there): I would put the series almost on par with Breaking Bad and other similarly high-valued products. S02 also ended perfectly and, as far as I'm concerned, they could have wrapped the whole show right there.

You know, considering that they dragged this for six more seasons, I'm actually hesitant going forward not to spoil the fantastic experience I had watching the first two seasons.

Couple more seasons then quit while you're ahead.

I liked the whole run but then I'm like that.

But nothing was better than the season with John Lithgow in it (3rd season? 4th?).

The thing to keep in mind is that Dexter is a modern day Greek tragedy. He always thinks he's got things under control, but you the viewer are supposed to understand that he really doesn't, and things just keep getting worse and worse for him. It really is like Breaking Bad, in that although it does play the trick of telling the story of the bad guy using hero tropes you'd be mistaken to actually root for him to succeed.

John Lithgow's season is certainly the high water mark, and where I would suggest stopping.

I've been rewatching this during my commute recently. I suggest watching through the end of the John Lithgow 4th season at least comma but the last four seasons are a huge step down. In fact,  the show gets worse and worse as it goes. If your binge watching it now, you're probably doing it on Netflix. If so, I'd suggest watching the OA instead of the last four seasons.

It's not as good after season 4, but I never thought was really that bad until they start the process of ending it.

They fucked that up - they didn't have the courage to pick an ending they were happy with and instead its just a weird mess that takes way too long.

I hit my breaking point in season 8.  I was able to stomach the rest as each season had its high and low points. I really started hating Deb at some point and that affected some post Lithgow season watching. If season 4 was bad I probably would have stopped watching then. Season 3 was pretty damn terrible, and the resolution to 2 was awful in its own right.

Thanks for all your posts. Now I'm re-watching S01 (then, eventually, the 2nd...yep, like I said, loved them :D) with my girlfriend, who also fell in love with the show, then see who this John Lithgow guy is  :oh_i_see:

 This show was created by cowards who wouldn't know tension if it bit them on the face.  I gave up during season 5.  The end of 4 was definitely the high point.  I almost quit after season 1 when Deb didn't die.  She was nails on the chalkboard every time she was on screen.