I liked it. Good start to the season closing out 4 and moving to the substance of 5.

People seem to have this weird impression that the show is some hammer style B horror film where its a series of murder scenes and nothing linking them together.

As for this season, we are barely into it and we have had Dexter kill one guy, set up less family stuff, Quinn on the trail of Dexter, some Mexican murder cult, a classic serial killer to stalk and we are just two episodes in. You are being ridiculous to judge it right now since the entire pace is clearly going to shift after the first two episodes.

This season has moved the story along as fast than any previous season, especially if you ignore the Rita funeral ep.

People called for them to write out Rita and the kids, they do, they still ****ing complain. They werent going to have it over and done with in 20 minutes and then Dexter just goes on a kill rampage for the following 11.5 episodes. These three characters have been in the show since the very beginning and they deserved a proper send off and i thought they handled it quite well.

Harrison.

She hasn't been in any of the main "This season on Dexter" previews, has she? I don't think there's even been any of her footage yet. I kinda like that. She could end up someone pretty freakin interesting.

^ what Phil said. EVERY season has had those couple "setup" episodes, following a great finish.

The opinion that most characters minus Dex are boring isn't news to anyone. It isn't new information. I wish people would stop complaining and actually discuss the show.

But ****ty non-Dexter characters are like 60% of the show!

puke. Bathroom scene was god awful. No more Astor please

it was a little slow but enjoyed the last episode

Lot of over-reaction against this season ITT. They have to take a couple of eps to write out the kids and set up storylines for the new season.

Kids these days, no friggin patience.

yeah. im real excited for the rest of the season now that the kids are prob gone. the girl kid was real bad the past episode. but u cant really expect a enjoyable scene from that situation. but they did the correct thing and wrapped it up(a little too long on it but whatever).

Pretty much my thoughts exactly. I know I'm going to be letdown by this show.

Am I the only one that is cringing at the thought of them making Quinn/Dexter just a watered down Doakes/Dexter. It really looks like its headed that way and I hope I'm wrong because it'd be beyond lame for them to be repeating plots like that after only 5 seasons.

Preach it!

I disagree. I don't think people are over-reacting so much as that they are being disappointed by what stories appear to be developing. I already mentioned the Doakes/Quinn parallel. People overwhelmingly dont want to see more mundane BS with Angel/La Guerta which is obviously going to be a weak subplot thats brought up over the course of the season. etc. etc.

I'm sure the season will turn out great, but theres just no way I expect it to draw me in the way every other season has.

I'm shocked at ppl saying this was the worst hour of television ever. Even if it's greatly exaggerated it's still bs. In my book it was a solid ep for #2, setting things up for following action and storylines.

Astor's not exactly great, agreed, but the lines they give them make her look a lot worse. Cody, o.t.o.h., has done a good job.

Angle-Laguerta sideplot is godaaaawful.

How Dex spotted the blood was pretty lol imo. As if he had superman's vision; and why would he initially get so wound up over it anyway.

No-one mentioned the new female cop. Smoookingg hot! Hopefully there'll be more gang murders so she'll stick around.

At times Dex looks like they made Ken doll after him. Pastel overdose!

Haven't watched through all the previews but I'm not excited about JStiles. Hopefully they put her in good use. Maybe a chilling female villain? If they can pull that off...

Edit: How did the FBI get interested about Kyle Butler? I mean I guess they interviewed Trinity's family and he was mentioned for a reason or another but seems like it was forced and rushed into the storyline, in terms of it possibly having something to do with Trinity killings or whatever.
Also, was Rita's murder at all consistent with one of Trinity's #3 pattern? All I remember was that he killed women in bathtubs but there was obviously more to the details etc, does Rita's murder stick out much in that context?

I'm confused at this episode too, shouldn't Dexter be on the LAM right now? It was so obvious at the end of the last season that he was involved in some of these murders

Man is Dexter lucky that the dead animal guy didn't notice Dexter's car tailing him down a deserted dirt path and that the guy didn't make a U-turn after dumping the body.

Dexter left the swamp before Fowler did because Deb called him to tell him Astor and Cody were missing.

The hair collector left instantly.

Steven Seagal cop-vision!

^^^agree 100%

i think this show is genius and many levels ahead of lost.

i dont understand how you people dislike so many eps / entire seasons... yet you continue to watch?

No, Fowler drops off the "drum" and then leaves, and Dexter moves towards the lake and is like more dead animals I suppose, and then Deb calls him.

Always wondered about the Dexter chasing scenes, it has always seemed a bit unrealistic to me. It was ridiculous in Season 3, when Dexter follows Miguel around and he's ridiculously close to him, and Miguel knows exactly what car Dexter has, and also that he's prolly looking for him (iirc), but Dexter still gets away with chasing him (same w/him chasing Miguel's brother.)

But I mean in this situation its completely ******ed given that Fowler is prolly going to be on high alert since he is a serial killer as well (presumably) and even if not, he makes a turn into like the smallest place possible, and Dexter goes with him, and he still doesn't notice.

/end nitty rant

And the path to the swamp was one-way.

I think Quinn will hunt Dex obv but then Dex finds out that Quinn is actually killer and takes him out. I've noticed that Quinn is always pretty emotionless, similar to Dexter really.

Very nitty lol, if you were to taking everything in Dexter seriously he would have been found out in season 1 lol.

I noticed the follow scene was silly. I dont care. Its TV.

If they had an IQ test on watching TV then they wouldnt have to dumb down these kind of scenes.

so his attraction to deb and every other woman hes banged on the show is just a guise? could be. quinn is an interesting character.