Dexter on Showtime

in this season...oops.

And pretending to be a drug addict is a TERRIBLE plan.

Sorry, should probably stop liveblogging my several seasons behind viewing.

I find dexters overly pink lips distracting. always want to apply chapstick when I watch..

I really was sort of hoping they would just jump like 2 years into the future

can't think of anything worse. i think the writers have handled it perfectly, the show has moved on in a big way from the old "one lolkill a week!" mode, returning to that after such a huge event would have made the show a silly pastiche of what it was. it's a welcome change to make it much less jokey and frivolous, more about him dealing with raw grief.

also this was predicted at the end of s3 (blood on wedding dress) so 'no larger plan' crit is kinda bs, esp after only seeing the opening episode of a show that generally takes a while to reveal that season's plot arc

is it posted on this thread that michael hall and jennifer carpenter are married.

new antagonist might work out pretty well this season imo - love the way he was quickly moved from "oh yawn another gf killing chump that dexter will chop up" to full on sinister uh oh

Mickey mouse "your mom is dead" scene was one of the greatest things this show has ever done

I agree with the Mickey Mouse scene. So far the rest of this season has done nothing for me, though.

i find it kinda fascinating how much i enjoy deb now (although she is obv fucked up and crazy in lotsa ways) vs wishing she was offscreen for lots of the previous seasons.

also plz for the love of god cut out the goddamn la guerta/angel romance drama ugh. moments like those are the ones where i feel like the show has kinda lost its place a little - NO ONE is tuning into dexter to see if those two are going to make it work or for any quinn/deb relationship dealings and feelings.

also, am i the only one that thought that much of season 4 was spent establishing what a fucked up awful person rita is?

yeah 'blood on the wedding dress' isn't exactly david simon level foreshadowing or plot building sorry.

It's obvious Quinn will not actually expose Dexter, so why are they even bothering with this angle?

so that dexter has a good reason to kill him later in the season?

eh, it's not like they're even really bothering with that anymore - i mean, he killed that guy at the station being an incredible asshole, essentially

that annoyed me b/c harry was all "good job!"

Quinn needs to die sooner rather than later. I hate the actor and character so much I want to leave the room every time he shows up on screen.

Now, usually, I don't do this but uh....go head' on and break 'em off wit a lil' preview of the remix....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HD2xXo-lw

complaining that dexter isn't following the established lofty script traditions of the wire is kinda missing the point imo. dexter is basically a pulpy noiry soap opera, never saw it as aiming to make Serious Points. it's like moaning that a batman comic doesn't have the scope of war & peace.

tho when the wire borrows from dexter (mcnulty becomes a quasi-moiderer!) it becomes pretty much unwatchable.

the problem with Dexter is when it tries to deviate from pulpy noiry soap opera into serious drama.

the show also totally lost its sense of humor somewhere along the way. going back and watching the first season, it strikes me how funny it was up until the end game in the last few episodes when suspense takes over.

tbf, it seems like in some ways they're trying to get back to that era... a lot more Dexter quips to the audience than we've gotten in a while, and this Julia Stiles thing could be fun/interesting, though I don't know where they're taking this. I expected her to be unintentionally hilarious when I heard that she was cast.

(still disappointed with the single-stroke kills, though!)

also i hope the kids stay gone, but i'm sure they'll come back. the nanny stuff already smells like a bad storyline

I finally saw season 4 of this and it was good but it also drove me bonkers. Dexter has *so* *many* chances to kill John Lithgow, and he didn't, and fucked up stuff kept happening to people as a result (murders, kid getting kidnapped, etc.). Additionally, in the past a lot of the people he killed escaped the law/fell through the system's cracks and that's why Dexter felt he had to step in and kill them. Here, everyone knew John Lithgow was the killer. I think it was 100% guaranteed that if the Miami police got him, he'd get convicted & get a sentence he deserved. Not only that, but the *hundreds* of families who lost loved ones because of this dude would love to see this guy caught and convicted. They all deserve the emotional release/closure of seeing the case solved, but they're all robbed of it because of Dexter. Only Dexter gets that release! In sum, he was being totally selfish and crazy all season. Also, I wish they'd get rid of imaginary Harry because he had really worn out his purpose as a foil.

I know this is all fiction but it really made me mad!

I know Dexter kills people because he likes murdering, and the vigilante justice thing is a front to make it acceptable, but still, fuck!

sometimes i wish harry would morph into ajax.

so whats the deal with Lumen? Serial serial killer hanger-on-er?

she's dexter new girlfriend/enabler, duh

they are totally wasting this baby thing

I get that dexter isn't the wire but this thing just seems adrift

yeah, my hopes are middling

i dread the inevitable "twist" that the nanny or julia stiles will have been a serial killer ALL ALONG

bingo...you know thats coming. after dexter kills quinn of course. And whats the deal with Maria and her famous blowjobs?

don't get ahead of yourself, it's next season when she turns out to be the BJ killer and dexter has to snuff his own boss

haha. everytime i hear about her bj's i picture her giving one and her giant bulgie eyes popping out like large marge.

turns me on.

iltmi is that way

this show is losing me

seriously though what is the big deal about marias blowjobs? are they trying to say she blew her way to Lt.??

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BORING

"I would rather put a campfire out with my face."

lol it's amazing how much I've come around to Deb since the first season.

quinn though... ugh. the actor played a similarly skeezy character on gossip girl - dude makes my skin crawl.

i keep thinking he's the secret son of ray liotta.

I just finished Season 4 today and basically had the same reaction as Abbott, I assumed I'd dig it more than 3 cuz Lithgow >>>>>> Smits, but I actually found Dexter's dancing with Smits for a whole season a lot more entertaining/gradually rewarding. Was pretty underwhelmed when he finally got around to putting JL on the table.

Love that Batista's shield looks like a heart in that cartoon, apt.

also did they ever really explain why/how Lithgow had a kid before his current family?

creeping feeling of worry/dread that julia stiles is going to repeat the shitty shitty smits plot arc. which will get real boring real fucking fast

nope they left that entire story about lithgows first kid out. WTF.

also did they ever really explain why/how Lithgow had a kid before his current family?

― da croupier, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Don't you know how babies are made?

Yes, through writer contrivance. I just missed it if they established that he had a previous fake happy family before his current one or what.

He seemed so obsessed with family values and having a perfect family that it rang false to me that he would father a child with some woman (or wife?) and then leave.

Seriously, couldn't they have cut a few "I'm disappointed in you, Dexter" scenes with his dad to detail Trinity's backstory? Especially if they're going to make his bastard/abandoned/whothefuckknows daughter such an integral part of the season? It's funny this is the season that got all of the attention/accolades when it easily felt like the sloppiest.

That said, I will never complain about soulful romantic interludes with Sgt. Batista

im a wee bit tired of the batista laguerta shit