maybe christine gave quinn aids, and now he passed it on to deb, and they'll both die

I can't complain too much about the first two eps, they were kind of necessary, hopefully it's all wrapped up now though.

Still waiting for

Yeah it seems like they just wrote her and Cody out of the show last night for good. Those exits were very final to me.

I didn't like the episode. A lot of the writing seemed off, even Hall's VO. Also it had these terrible cliche touches, like the harp music when Dexter saw the blood in the moving truck. It reminded me of Wayne and Garth going "didldldldoo, dididldldlddoo," in flashback mode.

But on the plus side, Shawn Hatosy is now in the show and that guy is awesome.

yea those close-ups of the blood in the moving van were just weird. oh and isn't it convenient he stumbled onto another serial killer.

Was laughing at this yesterday, hilariously bush league from Showtime, who edits/directs this episode and thinks this looks good in 2010?

I was going to mention something about how there's apparently a million serial killers and missing persons in Miami every year but apparently 700k people go "missing" every year just in the United States so I guess its not that rare.

not convinced someone didn't do that just for fun or to see if it would make it on to the show.

second point seems like a somewhat unavoidable weak point of the premise. how many convincing ways can one find serial killers? they've used many angles from inside law enforcement, like failed court cases due to lack of evidence or dead witnesses. it would get stale to keep repeating these i guess, though spotting blood in a moving truck seems pretty low on the list.

I'm not that excited for this season because Quinn is just a sickly, half-assed Doakes.

yea he looks like he lost a ton of weight. i'm still waiting to see when julia styles will be in an episode.

I don't think the we've seen the last of Astor and Cody at all, I've been waiting for Dexter to win Astor back by telling her that his mother was murdered too. Also the whole thing with Cody not being separated from his sister was lol because obv their leaving a brother behind by going with the grandparents.

I don't know. Keeping Astor/Cody around is seemingly not in the best interest of the show so I guess I hope they're gone - but that was such a lol bad way to write them off.

Still don't care about Quinn/Deb, and I care even less about LaGuerta's secret stash of money.

I didn't like the first episode, but I think this one was pretty good. A very nice transition to what is hopefully going to be a fast paced season. But maybe I was just in a good "watching mood".

i agree with kneeco. thinking about it more there are other good reasons to think this, too. harry's comments about dexter and the kids needing each other and even dexter saying that he is a better father when he is a better killer (hasn't had a chance to be a good killer yet). what's the point in dexter coming to grips with being a single father if the children are now gone? i'd be very surprised if they were just off the show now, even though i was excited when everyone was saying they were gone.

and quinn is just disgusting looking.

Final scene was perfect!

People here seem to forget that Dexter does not always kill someone every episode. The stalk/chase portion of the kill is usually better than the kill itself (for the relatively non-minor characters).

This new serial killer looks creepy as hell, and I'm very excited to see how he and Dexter square off. The old formula of "gather evidence, inject with needle, and kill all in the same episode!!!!!!" was kind of getting stale anyhow.

For those complaining about how he happened to run into yet another serial killer-- come on. With all of the bs that has happened to Dexter and his family (ice truck killer with deb, trinity killing his wife, etc etc) you would think someone would at least notice how much crazy **** happens to their family. But it's a fictional TV show and at the end of the day you have to suspend at least a bit of disbelief.

Quinn/Deb lame as hell, La Guarta/other guy lame as hell, Astor/Cody lame as hell-- standard.

Yeah that was so ridiculous. I was commenting on it after they did it twice in a row, and then it happened a third time. It seems like something from like an animated children's mystery about wizards.


Another thing I noticed - possibly longest "previously on" ever?

dexter killed a guy like 2 minutes into season 3, how is that slow?

The show has been doing this for FIVE SEASONS now. And it still annoys you?

I don't think it's ever stood out as much as it did with the blood in the truck

If you can't suspend disbelief though this show is already absurd that Dex wouldn't get caught...
I do think though we have reached the point in the series with if this was a movie, the dark passenger would start to become a hard pill to swallow for those around Dex and it would be moving towards the electric chair...
Every great series seems to go a season or two too long, not sure it would be economic other wise...
I accept that..I think we have reached that point in this one though..I would love it to only go 6 seasons, but this is the plateau I suspect in the series...I've totally lowered my exceptions for this season...To me they hinted at the dark passengers unraveling in the season 5 previews. Won't get me down if this season and 6 are not as good as the earlier ones, but the final season is practically impossible to **** up.
Assuming the final scene is Dex getting the electric chair...If the final scene is Dex not getting caught, this is as good as "Lost" to me..
I didn't even finish watching the episode it was so dull...

the one good thing for him, he's already right by his boat. he can just get the body in the boat and clean the bathroom. he's probably going to have to kill the attendant as well though.

thats the whole point of the show. Dexter has been blanketed by the family for the last two years so he has some buffer. When it's up to him to figure it out, he has no shot. It's no different than the speech he gave rita when he asked her to marry him, fortunately for him, he mimicked the right person.

the funeral director said sorry for you loss in the same context, so dexter used it, not realizing how bad it sounds in his context.

This is total nitpicking IMO...Like what actress would be better for astror?
Dakota Fanning would be amazing for this subject matter but she is a few years too old and they couldn't have got her anyway at the start.

Just because he kills someone doesn't mean its fast. I was talking about it taking awhile to get into the main plot points

People bitching about Astor's acting need to direct their anger towards the writers for giving her so many lines. Child actor gonna child actor imo

So far this is the worst season by far. I could care less about the stupid kids. Hopefully the writers throw us a curve ball and they all die in a house fire so the show can get back to being awesome.

I think it is a more interesting question though if you can really do this stuff past 5 seasons?
IMO Lost and the Sopranos would be untouchable condensed into 5 seasons...but the network would have to end it at the series height..I think Breaking Bad will smoke Dexter in the long run because I can't see it going past 5 seasons...

can't wait for http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnMlsWm-Mfg

will be interesting to see what part she plays