Just realized that there is an episode of Dexter waiting on the table for me this morning. Miss that show, no matter how weird it got, it was a nice recovery at the end of a Sunday if the Giants pissed me off. And that was during the Coughlin days!
So hopefully after today's game it's even more horrid and disgusting than before! Who knows?
Isn't that most shows?
But Big time. The last season was just stupid but I had to keep watching to see where it was heading. Just watched the first episode. We're off to an OK start!
I did too but checked the Showtime App and it's on there already.
It will not even be hard to top how it ended. All the writers have to do is make it boring/mediocre and that will top the last season.
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forward to this. I think (hope) they recognize where they failed and can fix it.
It will not even be hard to top how it ended. All the writers have to do is make it boring/mediocre and that will top the last season.
of course, low bar for that, but I was hoping they'd make it as good as the first few seasons.
Looking forward to starting the new Dexter also.
So if you know that it turned in to a joke of a show with the poor finale, that would mean that you did watch the show when it was good in order to know that it turned to crap. Arent you even curious to see if they are able to "right the wrong" that the final season was??/
Well now Harrison is a grown up so lol I hope they try it out
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pretty funny seeing this. Dexter turned into a joke of a show with the worst final season and finale I can ever remember. I’d watch it for the comedic relief I guess. But that’s about it.
So if you know that it turned in to a joke of a show with the poor finale, that would mean that you did watch the show when it was good in order to know that it turned to crap. Arent you even curious to see if they are able to "right the wrong" that the final season was??/
It wasn’t just the final season, the last few were terrible. I watch a lot of tv so I’ll probably get to it eventually, but it isn’t something I care much about.
season 7 was awesome.
seasons 6 and 8 were brutal, 8 comically so. 6 more just unrealistic even by this shows standard and 8 was like they weren't even trying.
but season 7 was really good - but I do admit by that point I was "hate watching" - that's what I call continuing to watch a show that is now shitty just because you made the multiple season investment and want to see it through to conclusion.
This is what I did with the latest season of Fargo - and the last few of Dexter, but was pleasantly surprised with Dexter season 7.
(I mean, c'mon, it's been almost 10 years)
But the original show jumped that damn shark when Dexter didn't kill Hannah when he had her on his table and instead had sex with her. She was a boring character in a boring storyline.
Instead, in the final season, there should've been "the everyone killer" who just took out every character in Miami Metro one by one. Quinn. Deb. Bautista. Laguerta. Masuka. Everyone.
The thing I hate is the most about season 6 though? They did that dumb "dead the whole time" trope with Edward James Olmos. I mean come on. Why would they bring in Colin Hanks just to be the side bitch?
I did like those horses walking around with the dismembered body parts lol thought that was very cool.
Hated the old lady Dr. Vogrl in season 8, too. Her set up was cool and I thought she was coming to take Dexter down but nope. She created the code lol. So bad. Michael C Hall was great as Dexter but man when she got killed I couldn't stop laughing at how comical that scene was. Awful acting.
He was a gay Ukrainian mobster pissed off about his lover getting killed.
I feel like it would have seemed a lot more "true" if he killed Deb to keep his secret.
not something he would have done lightly or easily since she didn't meet the code, and it would have caused him a lot of anguish but I felt he had to do it. Maybe after she killed LaGuerta
While, as mentioned, I liked season 7, but Deb learning the truth and her reaction was kind of a stretch.
I feel like it would have seemed a lot more "true" if he killed Deb to keep his secret.
not something he would have done lightly or easily since she didn't meet the code, and it would have caused him a lot of anguish but I felt he had to do it. Maybe after she killed LaGuerta
While, as mentioned, I liked season 7, but Deb learning the truth and her reaction was kind of a stretch.
Also Dexter doing the perp walk for everyone in Miami Metro homicide to see was an end of the show/final season moment. That happened in the middle of season 7. It lead to nothing and that big, anticipated moment played out was an entire waste.
season 7 was awesome.
seasons 6 and 8 were brutal, 8 comically so. 6 more just unrealistic even by this shows standard and 8 was like they weren't even trying.
but season 7 was really good - but I do admit by that point I was "hate watching" - that's what I call continuing to watch a show that is now shitty just because you made the multiple season investment and want to see it through to conclusion.
This is what I did with the latest season of Fargo - and the last few of Dexter, but was pleasantly surprised with Dexter season 7.
I think it started declining when Clyde Phillips left after season 4. I’m excited he’s back for this season. Throw in hall’s bout with cancer and as expected the show suffered
The Rita stuff was patched up very quickly but I did enjoy Dexter breaking the news to the step kids and grandparents with a Mickey Mouse hat on his head lol.
I don't know. Julia Stiles just sucked and has always sucked. I never cared for her.
I'm just glad the show is back so I now that I have something to look forward to.
Nothing will top watching Dexter season 4 the first time around. The Lithgow season might be my all-time favorite TV experience. I watched it again of course and it wasn't the same but sitting in my living room in 2009 watching the last few episodes for the first time was way too gripping.
You didn't get a whole lot of TV like that back then.
Looking back yeah, 12 years later you're possibly right but even before finding out Rita's fate, I've never been more invested in a show when that season aired in 2009.
You don't like the adventures taking place in Dexter? It's a simple, fun concept. Dexter has his guy/woman and it's head-to-head battle for survival and maybe does some night stalking on the side, laced with dark humor.
One season he gets a friend, the next he gets a love interest. Has a kid. Normal life of a serial killer.
I don't know ... how else would you want the show to play out? Yeah the show had its warts but I don't think I ever put an episode on hold, even when Breaking Bad aired at the same time. What a problem it was in the early 2010s! Two shows on at the same time.
I was never a fan of Deb, so not sure I'll like it with no James Remar and Deb in that role.
I like his girlfriend.
I was never a fan of Deb, so not sure I'll like it with no James Remar and Deb in that role.
I like his girlfriend.
John lithgow is credited for two episodes. I’m looking forward to seeing how the trinity killer is brought in. Who has that vision dexter or Harrison?
I was never a fan of Deb, so not sure I'll like it with no James Remar and Deb in that role.
I like his girlfriend.
I like that it felt like a Hallmark movie just with a Dexter theme.
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I like the premise, I like the plot with Harrison, and I liked all the imagery.
I was never a fan of Deb, so not sure I'll like it with no James Remar and Deb in that role.
I like his girlfriend.
I like that it felt like a Hallmark movie just with a Dexter theme.
Not far off (in my mind at least), did you read any of the Dexter books? They almost read what I imagine a Hallmark movie book would be like, but obviously darker. Much darker.
Speaking of books, I kind of liked how Dexter's new name was Jim Lindsay, and I wondered if that was paying homage to the Dexter book author Jeff Lindsay.
too coincidental IMO if not.
No, I don't think. Maria (different name in the books, doesn't make it out of the first book - Dexter kills her if I remember right) and he never sleeps with Deb.
I agree. Jimmy did a phenomenal job in season 3 and a lot of people don't like it.
1 was my favorite.
2 was good
3 was solid
4 was my favorite first time watch
5 was solid
6 was decent. I'll agree with uConn they could've sped things up a bit by this point.
7 was trash
8 was somehow worse than that
Hannah was just my least favorite character of the show and that is saying a lot.
A lot had to do with the showriunner leaving I think his name is Clyde Phillips. He’s doing the new blood season.
Also, we don't have to worry about Hannah making a return to visit Dexter.
Deb just tries to discourage him (so far) and where is the fun in that?
If I remember correctly, the ghost Harry didn't make any appearances in the final Dexter episode. Not even one.
Lol. Blaming Dexter for being dead is something Deb would definitely do. If Dexter hadn't left the room and Deb did her job, Oliver Saxon wouldn't have shot her. Everything was good in Deb's book until that point. She thought she was going to bag Saxon without Dexter but she needed him more than ever. Also she wouldn't have had the career she had if it wasn't for Dexter leaving her tips early on in the show.
Deb was an annoying, inconsistent, judgmental yet stupid character.
Deb being the Dark Passenger seems almost like a way to keep Deb involved in the show.
Deb being the Dark Passenger seems almost like a way to keep Deb involved in the show.
Definitely would take Harry over Deb.
I thought they butchered the code thing anyway with presenting that Vogel was the one who constructed it. Kind of cooler to think he just thought of these rules on the fly to keep Dexter's tendencies a secret, rather than go blab to a woman about everything. Lame.
That was a dud too in the last season. I thought, at first, she was there to track Dexter down and be a villain but nope. She was some wisdom mommy character.
Deb being the Dark Passenger seems almost like a way to keep Deb involved in the show.
According to one of the podcasts don’t sure if it was before or after the premier but they said that’s the biggest misconception they aren’t the dark passenger they are his conscience trying to help him contain the dark passenger which is the urge to kill
That's right. When I heard Dexter was coming back. I just watched season 4 and 5.
But the metaphor replacement (or whatever) still stands. This season shows the flashbacks with Dexter wanting to kill the bully when he was a teenager and he said it to Harry and mentioned his urges and need to kill didn't stop.
Harrison is a Brainiac and helps bullied kid out.
they need to get Harrison killing already, my guess is the creepy serial killer abducts the police chiefs daughter, Harrison finds her, Dexter arrives on the scene while Harrison is butchering him.
Circle of life.
The revised/renewed season is pretty bad. The only reason to watch it is to get a Dexter fix after 10 years.
they need to get Harrison killing already, my guess is the creepy serial killer abducts the police chiefs daughter, Harrison finds her, Dexter arrives on the scene while Harrison is butchering him.
Circle of life.
This is where I think they'll go with this as well.
Plus the dad needs to find something linking Dexter to the murder. I'm guessing this season is 10 episodes? Don't worry. We'll get there.
I hope the gun store owner gets killed lol
Also another thing to note, the daughter (Audrey) seems as if she's a carbon copy of some other Netflix show I've seen before. Forget what one though.
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I cannot wait until Dexter walks on him doing some sicko ritual all appalled by what he sees lol
Then we have the cameras in the woods and the CSI guy who recreates the crime scene perfectly even though 50 different people were traipsing around the deer he says there is a rock missing that must have caused a head injury.
There's more but it all seems rushed and lazy.
The whole "things don't add up here" part you've taken notice of and the holes in Harrison's story as well, they're going to get to that.
I hope.
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Exactly. This was one of my favorite shows to watch. Just let loose and have fun. It would air Sunday nights so if the Giants pissed me off it was nice to see someone get hacked by Dexter.
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But let's face it, if you're a stickler for plot holes, how we're you ever a Dexter fan in the first place? The show always had huge plot holes.
Exactly. This was one of my favorite shows to watch. Just let loose and have fun. It would air Sunday nights so if the Giants pissed me off it was nice to see someone get hacked by Dexter.
Agree
Fuck Glennon. Fuck Judge and Johnny Bullhorn.
(For the Anthony Cumia fans)
(For the Anthony Cumia fans)
Couldn’t disagree more (except the Chloe part lol). Dexter losing control of his passenger, Harrison being a douche understandably or not, both things with Matt’s dad, the unexpected surprise and the revelation at the end. This was probably the best episode yet and next weeks is set up to be crazy.
I was trying to be vague as to not spoil it for those who haven’t seen it yet
Yeah my response was premature. Started off a tad boring and the ended strong.
Nice seeing a body count after the Giants play like shit.
But like I said, it's all gotta be a work in progress.
Lol that makes so much more sense. You didn’t see how it finished when you posted and I replied having already seen it forgetting I did start off a tad slow and hit the passing gear about 2/3 through.
As far as the special guest if only his sister traveled there with him it was would of been perfect 👍
I wasn't expecting anything in particular for this restart season. It's starting to get better, but all in all, I think the show might have been left buried.
I wasn't expecting anything in particular for this restart season. It's starting to get better, but all in all, I think the show might have been left buried.
If the writers have the balls, they will have Dexter take out the "return guy" before it gets way too weird.
Remember. Rule #1. Don't get caught.
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That whole conversation seemed a bit contrived/in your face.
I wasn't expecting anything in particular for this restart season. It's starting to get better, but all in all, I think the show might have been left buried.
If the writers have the balls, they will have Dexter take out the "return guy" before it gets way too weird.
Remember. Rule #1. Don't get caught.
Problem is he didn’t know he was there and by there I mean wherever that is Angela and molly went to for that conference
I wasn't expecting anything in particular for this restart season. It's starting to get better, but all in all, I think the show might have been left buried.
I feel the opposite. I’ve loved it from the getgo. I don’t remember if it was a podcast or an interview when production just started on the show, and they were pretty straight forward that this isn’t going to be anything like dexter that we’ve had before. It’s a different show and should be viewed as such. That makes sense to me because that’s the biggest complaint I’ve seen that it’s not the same.
I do like how they brought in some of the old cast. The one in the last episode, the trinity killer will be in it( John Lithgow accidentally let that out in an interview awhile back, and although it’s listed by IMBD as someone else as the driver but supposedly the voice of the truck driver that dropped Harrison off in the first episode was the guy who played doakes
Right I’m sure but at that point the damage is done already. Now if he killed him it would put up some massive red flags when he should be in full damage control.
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supposedly the voice of the truck driver that dropped Harrison off in the first episode was the guy who played doakes
I’d love for him to show up once as his conscience (whatever you want to call it) and say it. When Angela shows him the obituary in the preview would be perfect
and the reboot.
You beat me
first she's going to confront Jim Lindsay about being Dexter Morgan or she's just going to run the F away from him for not being upfront.
Fuckin' Lila. That was a very satisfying kill.
Fuckin' Lila. That was a very satisfying kill.
I hated that accent. so much. People hated Rita, partly because she was a soft-talker, maybe partly because she was a bad actress, and maybe partly the role sucked.
I disliked Lila more than I disliked Rita.
Maybe that's why they went heavy on the attractive trait in the casting, if someone is attractive enough people may overlook things about the role
What exactly makes it not hold up any way? Not enough purple filters? 2009 being old fogey stuff haha
What exactly makes it not hold up any way? Not enough purple filters? 2009 being old fogey stuff haha
I think that ending shocked everyone.
I hate reading novels so I couldn't help you out. But from what I've heard they're actually very good.
I do feel a little butchery
Yeah
I read 4 of them years ago because I am a big fan of the show. The first book "Darkly Dreaming Dexter" is the 1st season of Dexter. The rest are completely different from the show and from what I remember they were pretty good. If you are a fan of the show they are worth checking out.
Meh. I'm not a huge reader so I don't know if this is common or uncommon.
I should though. Reading is the spice of life.
Hope he gets Joe Judge on his table soon
But yeah. Seriously. Good stuff. I've been enjoying this season so far.
Last one before the big holiday week!
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Just got done watching it. Very gripping.
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With a big cliffhanger
Just got done watching it. Very gripping.
I’m guessing next week will be mostly dexter escaping and dealing with kurts crony. Kurt trying to turn Harrison on dexter and the girls getting a step closer to finding out dexters secrets
Agreement
I liked it. Thought they'd do a bit more now that it's coming to an end soon. Hopefully they have the balls to do a few things I'd like to see happen.
Next week will be cool since I'll be in Chicago next week and streaming Dexter on my phone!
i think the ratings on showtime are 2 million but online I think I read last week reached 8 million. They might be thinking of doing more
I know the show is not a masterpiece by any means or it's not going to crack any top 10 "zine list" that all of those diamond-brained hipsters make but it is a fun show.
One thing I'm certain of is that the oil billionaire HAS to reappear in some way. There's no reason to have a character like that be so prominent for several episodes and then just vanish completely.
the scene with Harrison and Kurt in the cabin was great as was Dexter's trek through the snow escaping Kurt's buddy.
I didn't realize that Zach is Mark and Donnie Wahlberg's nephew.
3. Kurt "gutted" the downstairs, but (a) left the jacuzzi tub, but in cracked pieces in the corner of the luxurious bathroom, and (b) just as the chief is talking about searching every landfill (how many landfills are going to be in that area?), they show a close-up of some wall trim that's pretty distinct, so while Kurt "gutted" things, he was pretty fucking sloppy compared to other similar situations the show has featured.
4. As others have said, the chief getting immediate internet hits for whatever it is she's searching.
I wish the writers would tighten these and other things like it. The first two examples, just don't have Dexter SAY anything.
Still ... I'm choosing to set those things aside and I'm enjoying the show, overall.
I mean, Dexter DID waste someone at Miami Airport in the original show and Kurt did have a caustic remark when he said something along the lines to Harrison about how there are no cameras for the school to "protect the children" but everyone in town shits their pants over the white deer.
Kurt is builidng up be one of my favorite Dexter rivals. He's up there with Rudy and Trinity.
I guess sergeant Doakes, too. Lol.
One thing I'm certain of is that the oil billionaire HAS to reappear in some way. There's no reason to have a character like that be so prominent for several episodes and then just vanish completely.
I'm curious about the Billionaire as well. I figured he was bankrolling Kurt and maybe it was going to be a group of them killing people together.
Really? I didn't see that
She was watching some tour ( who'd ever think that people from a podcast would go on a tour) of a true crime podcast hosted by the hosts of the show and I was thinking it was going to be the small Auditorium and they pan to the audience and it's an NBA sized arena filled from top to bottom with young women lol. Not one dude in sight.
Merry fucking kill!
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And did anyone notice the teacher/bartender was one of them
Really? I didn't see that
Apparently the girl who plays the bartender said on one of her social media it wasn’t her and she’s in episode 10 so 🤷♂️
I don't know how to interpret Harrison's reaction. Seemed like he maybe felt like Dexter's reasoning for killing Matt was sketchy.
I also like the parallels between Kurt and Dexter and their differences. Serial killers have a blurry line, lol.
Dexter born in blood but Kurt nurtured in it.
One of the best Dexter seasons, I hope they keep it going but keep the quality.
Anyone know the plans after the finale? Is this one and done or would they consider a season 2 (and beyond?)
I think Dexter will just easily dupe Angela into getting her to not turn him in and go along with it for finding the missing girls. Hopefully more Kurt in the finale from flashbacks.
I think the woman who is playing Angela is a pretty bad actress.
and I agree, Dexter simply explains away any doubts with the discovery that Kurt was the killer of all the area missing girls. Part of me thinks that Angela sees all the links to Dexter and the Bay Harbor Butcher and suspects him being involved in the local missing girls. I
I think he explains his whole name change, etc. by pointing out the Trinity killer, murderer of Dexter's wife) was never found (unless his remains have been identified which I don't recall ever happening).
I think the Bay Harbor Butcher angle was interesting, learning that it was Dexter and not Doakes could be for some fun cat and mouse, but I think it gets dropped with the death of the blogger. I'm also surprised they had Kurt kill her off so unceremoniously. Maybe because her death benefited Dexter too in a way.
I felt that was a perfect way for her to go out - off screen. I was never wondering where she was and didn't spend one second thinking about her unless she was on the screen talking like an idiot. I thought she had too much screen time.
Oh well. I guess now Deb is "gone" you have to have someone to fill the annoying character vacancy.
I think it was clear she was a goner when you can see Kurt watching her from some distance. He had a menacing look on his face. Then he was wearing something (robe or something) to tip you off he was in the middle of embalming Molly.
I felt that was a perfect way for her to go out - off screen. I was never wondering where she was and didn't spend one second thinking about her unless she was on the screen talking like an idiot. I thought she had too much screen time.
Oh well. I guess now Deb is "gone" you have to have someone to fill the annoying character vacancy.
Welcome back Molly in the Deb role! :)
Conscience, not conscious. lol, he's not conscious.
Money might bring it back
Maybe it was different for other people but the way I remember it was everybody in my life got into the original show at the same time, in late 2008/early 2009. I think some people were getting into it in the middle of season 4 because people were begging me to let them into my house to watch new episodes because of Showtime. Different times.
I think the show should've been shorter (of course) but they had to capitalize on the surge in viewership. History will probably repeat itself. I'm sure Dexter is still Showtime's moneymaker.
I'm actually watching a movie right now with Angela in it on Netflix. Wind River or something. She's basically the same character here from what I've seen so far.
Always someone who has to be a hero.
Too many people liked the show and character a lot, and forget that he was never supposed to be a hero. I like that they showed the contrast of Dexter and Harrison. They both have dark sides, but Harrison seems genuinely interested in being a good person, where as Dexter never cared about that, he was a sociopath. At the end, Dexter realized that Harrison wasn't like him in that sense, and that's all he really wanted. He wanted his son to be able to feel happiness and pursue it. Dexter could never feel those things. If nothing else, I feel like it completes the character of Dexter. It might not have been the best season of Dexter, but I feel like it did good service to the character
and the main angle they have to continue (if they decide to) is with Harrison continuing and Dexter as is conscience.
The main piece I hated was the sequence with Logan in the jail - that was more cartoonish than most plot liberties IMO.
I was hoping Dexter would reunite with Angel and then ... kill him very quickly. Lol. He was always a worthless character.
Dexter not being wise enough to realize Harrison would pick up on that something happened to Coach seemed a bit ... stupid. You have blood all over yourself and you break out of jail and you call your own son from the coach's phone and Harrison won't notice?
Meh. Whatever. Wish they'd come up with some new shows so I'd have to stop relying on the old ones coming back.
Way too much was cartoonish, convenient, or massively unexplored while more mundane shit is examined in detail.
I simply don't buy the Harrison about face. Reeks too much of a 'ha, ha. y'all wanted Harrison to be just like Dexter, but he's not' plot twist.
Wouldn't surprise me at all if "Harrison" is a new series. An unguided tormented soul trying to find his way in the world, trying to figure out if his urges to maim/kill are anger or blood lust.
I'm glad I signed up for showtime to watch it just for its own value. I would rank this season near the bottom of all the seasons, though. The collateral entertainment of showtime (Yellowjackets, Your Honor, American Rust, amongst others) is a most welcome bonus.
Dexter killed lots of innocent people, primarily when it came to saving his own skin.
He killed a random guy in some kind of boat gas station right after Rita died.
He's killed quite a few people that were not confirmed murderers with confirmed being the important word, but some who were just rapists or drug dealers.
Then .... Just left him there.