Isn't this Dexter?

Laugerta drop dead with someone else (with a past that I forget). It was set up he killed her. Plus she was told over and over Dexter had nothing to do with it. Also they said they knew how it would ending for 2 years so they had to find a way to get there.

This is a pretty good show if you don't take is so serious. Maybe it's just me but it seems people hate just to hate.

Episode was entertaining, Like this new Vogel character. Preview also looks sick if all that happens in one episode

Def seems they were hinting at it being dexter, but going by prev seasons his short fuse/sloppiness seems to indicate that he's not killed in a while

Ep was fine. Babysitter was outstanding. Rest of season looks like it'll be at least fairly wicked, if not actually intriguing.

of course melon ball killer isn't dexter

Sigh, cant stand the actress who plays Deb overacting.
New brain old lady seems interesting.
Looks like Angel might catch up to him too somehow. Will probably wonder why he broke Laguerta's vase and that will make him start believing Laguerta's theory.
+1 on the babysitter being outstanding. After a whole season of waiting, they finally delivered a scene of her naked
Books spoiler: I'll use spoiler tags even though the show has nothing to do with the books anymore

Pretty bad episode imo. Deb is annoying the sh- out of me. Last minute reveal saved the episode, and may very well save the whole season. Could be interesting.

should be better than last few seasons.
Doesnt mean much, but ill tune in.

lol wat?

You think they just threw that out there at the end of the episode without explaining it in the next? -.-

Wasn't expecting much, started terrible but then the scenes with Rampling worked imo.
The thing is that it is hard to root for any character on the show right now.
I also found product placement quite distracting in this episode.

pretty terrible, i've been fooled often enough by this shows previews and end of episode / season cliffhangers not to be sucked in this time into thinking this season will be anything other than bad.

This

No. I don't.

Lest I forgot



NAILED IT!!

yeah, that was pretty ******ed.

highlight of the episode obv the actress who plays batista's sister.

like a harrison who actually interacts with his father. those twins from season 4-7 were annoying.

Easily the best moment of the episode.

It was bad. Not quite season 6 bad but still damn bad. And yet... I kinda enjoyed it anyway. Maybe it's because it's summer so there's so little TV on or maybe I've just gone insane.

The Good:

****ing password


The Bad:

Awful (or if not awful then at least far too obvious/uninspired/clichéd) scene-to-scene writing, especially how they handle exposition. We all know that they're terrible at this and they were on good form this episode. Batista's speech at the funeral explaining how he became a cop again was a particular highlight.

Awful writing from a more holistic viewpoint. They've taken away what was appealing about Dexter's character. He's supposed to be like a wolf in sheep's clothing and that's what's interesting. The first two seasons showed that this alone was enough, and that merely the risk of getting found out was exciting enough. Instead they've just tried to make him normal but flawed like a sheep in wolf's clothing in sheep's clothing. Like, if he tries enough and just believes himself or finds religion (season 6) or love (season 5) or understanding (season 7) then he can shed his dark passenger and become a real boy, for the sake of his son! Yay! Nope. Not buying it. Definitely not. Don't care. They're definitely overreaching and they've committed a cardinal sin of television writing: they've defied their own premise. They broke their code. As soon as you break your code your days are numbered and you're forced into either being downright terrible or self parody (or seemingly more and more frequently, both). Dexter can't be a deep emotional character. You can't change that, the premise is what the premise is. If you wanted a 'deep' character then you should've come up with a different premise, not tried to shoehorn one into this premise.

Lack of follow-through: The mark of a good long running serial (and I mean specifically serials, rather than procedurals or shows that have significant parts of both like The X-Files. Yes this has had some procedural elements but not many.) is have everything constantly escalate (escalation is key, without escalation your show will be boring, guaranteed) without either running out of steam or it seeming implausible. Often that means more or less 'resetting' at the end of a major arc or season or whatever. At the end of the first season they did a good job of this, of bringing everything to a head and then making it seem at least somewhat believable when things went back to normal and then having it escalate again for another great season. This season, and in the last couple, they've not done a good job of this at all. They just ignore what has gone previously. They're writing without much logic or a plan.

Lazy writing techniques. Specifically: Arbitrary introduction of major characters (in this case the psychology woman). Don't know how to write the season? I know, why don't we just introduce another character that will solve all of our writing problems? Great! Now, who wants to clock off and grab some pizza? We don't care about the character and so her playing a large part in the resolution of the show is unsatisfying. Remember how great Doakes was? What if in season two he had just been some random who was introduced? It wouldn't nearly have been as good. Any characters that aren't playing a dramatic function shouldn't be there, they could and should have given her function to an existing character. After the end of last season someone should be able to figure it out so why they didn't do this, having everyone else act like oblivious morons, and introduced an unnecessary character, is mindboggling.

I'm sure I can come up with a lot more to go under the bad but I doubt many people are still reading at this point.


The Ugly:

Def not the babysitter

babysitter stole the ep

i feel sad and proud of Batista for abandoning his dream of owning a restaurant for returning to Miami metro and catching bad guys

Just awful...especially the scene where they are all standing side-by-side talking about LaGuerta in front of her bench. That was some awful writing/directing/acting all around.

Blah.

haha that was one of the all time worst written scenes.

Although i did genuinely lol at Batista's catching bad guys line. The combination of it's awfulness and his delivery of it was too good.

The old lady intrigues me. Wonder if the father consulted her on Dexter? Or could she be a serial killer herself?

A neurologist serial killer taking parts of human brains? Yeah, that doesn't really make sense. It's probably Dexter's son.

Some really terrible dialogue in there. "It's been six months...you're having a hard time dealing with this" was the worst. Didn't hate it after seeing the last few scenes, but for the first 45mins I was bored as ****.

Best part of a boring episode.

lol @ this thread title, wp.

Password scene was ridiculous, babysitter scene was awesome.