Dexter

[Rasix]

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

[birdsguts]

Hahaha. I'll stop with the poetry format.

[Ozzu]

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.

[Tarami]

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...

[Arthur_Parker]

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

[gimpyone]

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?

[Rendakor]

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

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.

[Ozzu]

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

[Arthur_Parker]

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.

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.

[Riggswolfe]

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.

[waffel]

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

[Zaljerem]

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.

[Slayerik]

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

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!

[Morfiend]

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.

[Slayerik]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Riggswolfe]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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

[Slayerik]

[Zaljerem]

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 ...

[waffel]

Oh, this should make next season 'fun'

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

"Having been separated for some time, Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall have filed for divorce," their reps tell CNN in a joint statement.

[Riggswolfe]

Oh, this should make next season 'fun'

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

"Having been separated for some time, Jennifer Carpenter and Michael C. Hall have filed for divorce," their reps tell CNN in a joint statement.

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

[Ozzu]

Well, this starts back up again tonight.

Surely, someone important finds out this season. Right?

[Samwise]

Maybe Deb finds out and Dex kills her.   

[Thrawn]

Maybe Deb finds out and Dex kills her.   

We can only hope.

[Samwise]

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 .

[Ozzu]

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

[Arthur_Parker]

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.

[Rendakor]

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  , Dex and Sam, etc. The BBEG just kinda sucks.

[MahrinSkel]

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

[DLRiley]

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

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

And the religion subtext goes from  

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

[Ozzu]

Just a theory:


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

[angry.bob]

You're just starting to think that?

[Ozzu]

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.

[DLRiley]

Just a theory:


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

Yeah least favorite by far.

[Ruvaldt]

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.

[Zar]

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.