Dexter on Showtime

im a wee bit tired of the batista laguerta shit

whoa, what happened to Peter Weller? i like where that's going though!

man when the writers on this show suck, they suck hard.

ie - the whole scene close on internal affairs dude saying "so hey whats all this i hear about how awesome ur blowjobs are" *wink wink* to set up the "suprise" IA bust in the hotel room. how exactly was that imaginary conversation supposed to go, you lazy chumps?

or the whole convenient ankle bracelet thing that obv makes it impossible for dude to have gone to whathisnames house, but apparently does absolutely nothing when dex drugs him and drags him off to the middle of the woods to slice and dice.

i thought the idea was that he would be tracked via the ankle bracelet as well, since he was out of the bridge area (bringing the police straight to them), hence the quick return

What do you guys think about Julia Stiles as season 5's companion?

i think julia stiles sux. she conveys the same "inflection" in her voice whether she is upset, angry..what ever. dexter and companions dont go so smooth...see smits.

yeah i agree, dexter doesn't do 'buddy seasons' so well

This is getting ridic even for dexter! The double body crime scene fabricated in 30 second? Ugh!

You know a show is good when the hardcore original fans start to hate on it, happens everytime, just like with a band.

^ apparently has Attack of The Clones running silently while listening to Weezer's Hurley

That said, I kinda loved the Smits season. maybe I'd been prepped by all the criticism, but it was nice to have Smits actually playing a guy we're supposed to find insufferable and annoying, as opposed to some sexy Supreme Court Justice turned sexy renegade lawyer nonsense.

he was annoying as fuck.

i don't think this current season is terrible by any measure and probably better than 2+3 (4 + 1 still being reigning champs + especially 4).

he was annoying as fuck.

It seemed like he was inviting Dexter over to dinner more nights of the week than not! Watching Dexter react to that kind of overbearing behavior was pretty awesome imo. Plus they kinda mapped out his character a lot more than they did Trinity, while still leaving some mystery as to just how crazy he was.

although i did love dexters reaction when lumen yelled "fuck you" at him.

I am always surprised by the hate for the Smits season from hardcore Dexter fans. I thought he was great, hilarious, and over the top in a good way. Loved the way he'd yell "Ellen WOLFE!" And he and Dexter's rooftop confrontation was awesome.

i think julia stiles sux. she conveys the same "inflection" in her voice whether she is upset, angry..

Agreed. Her acting in this season so far is pretty tone-deaf - almost as if she's playing the Kristen Wiig parody version of her character.

yeah she's not good. unfortunately, she's not hamming it up enough to be amusing, either, which is the way to go on Dexter.

just really boring this season.

I just watched this week's episode - not amazing, but at least entertaining in a traditional Dexter action episode. Matsuka had a great moment.

lol'd hard at: "He doesn't need Saint Bridget. He has Father Dexter."

"shit a brick and fuck me with it."

these words were actually spoken. oh, deb.

the dialogue in this show is really so bad it's good

why do they keep doing dexter and a buddy seasons...CUT THE SHIT ALREADY.

I have to admit I'm a LOT more amused by their romantic screwball team-up than everything Smits. Now that things are happening again in the show it's a lot more tolerable.

Objectively, I don't feel like this show has gotten a lot worse, but the more I watch of this season the more I hate all of it retroactively. I am even turning on characters I once liked, like Deb. It's like I got so pissed at how shitty season four was that it poisoned the whole Dexter universe for me.

baffled, confused and annoyed by the way the writers made laguerta into a sympathetic character then all of a sudden she becomes an incompetent corrupt hateful dick. and convinces the up-and-coming hispanic female cop to join her in her scheme to screw over deb. feels weird, racist and sexist all in one.

i think the scheme was less about screwing over deb and more about saving her own ass.

But it's still a weird turnaround for LaGuerta's character... especially after all the season 3 time spent with her and the defense attorney.

deb is all time most hated for me. awful actress and awful writing.

predict lumen kills robocop and has to flee the state, taking the heat off dexter. I hope she gets killed though.

i stopped watching this a few weeks back - should i bother catching up or just leave it be?

looks like next week's ep could be good. at least more thrilling.

yeah i dont care for deb either.

y'all crazy, Deb is the greatest.

Really fucked up. Kinda pretty too.

Anyone catch the Dylan reference ("I'll Keep It With Mine") in the season closer last night?

Not as explosive as last year's, but I was satisfied.

Enjoyed it, but it all seemed to be rapped up pretty quickly.
Would've preferred 90 min episode?

i thought it was kind of a let down after all the build up. no twist at the end! boo.

wiki says 'as of december 2, 2010 the show has been renewed for a sixth season' so it almost seems like this might have been a series finale episode at first? which makes sense since it was all 'here's what happens to every character on the show' for the last 5 min. happy couples and children everywhere!

Michael C. Hall on Pinfield's radio show, talking about seeing Monster Magnet in NYC in the '90s and more...

http://www.1019rxp.com/pinfield/

my favorite part was when lumen was all like "I'm so sorry dexter but my contract is up so now I have to go"

that was a terrible ending to a terrible season.

that was a terrible ending to a terrible season.

OTM. I'm taking the "here's what happens to every character on the show for the last 5 min. happy couples and children everywhere" as the show's finale and am jumping off. I'm annoyed that the all the elements of this season that I found interesting: the santaria-inspired occult murders and Peter Weller's sleazy cop were basically ignored or dispatched conveniently away.

And perhaps inspired by season 5's suckitude: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter file for divorce

i never watched the show before this season and i loved it a lot fwiw

there was a lot of bad writing in this season but i wouldnt go as far to call the whole thing 'terrible'. definitely picked up towards the end but i can't help feeling the writers just got damn lazy this time round.

things like the whole 'laguerta bad guy.. now good guy.. back to bad guy' lame subplot. not even in a 'this is how human life actually is' way, it was real black & white good/bad that got confusing and annoying as the series went on. dexter isn't very good at portraying shades of gray anyway.

other things from last night: that 'i'll keep it with mine' line stuck out a mile, i took it as a nico reference, what's the bob dylan thing?

dexter's car crash was unnecessary. needless tv schlock. also why didn't his sister spot his crashed car, and how did he manage to sort it out in less than an hour? the writers are really pushing it with convenient plot devices like that hanging butcher's curtain separating dexter and his sis. my heart sinks every time they resort to this, and they did it a LOT this time round.

don't want to grumble too much, i did enjoy the season overall but the writers need a kick up the arse. not quite as good as s4 but at least it topped that bloody awful jimmy smits series.

@NI, Bob Dylan wrote and recorded I'll Keep It With Mine, Nico covered it. Though Dylan's version wasn't released until '85 or so.

hopefully next season will get dexter without a "buddy".

xp yeah i know that! i meant are dylan refs a recurring thing in dexter?

should be some nice tense scenes with his sister wife ex next season?