Dexter (Season 8)

[JayBee74]

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Really good stuff. Only 4 to go!!

[AussieChiefsFan]

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Boy oh boy was that a good episode.

I can't wait to see what happens with Hannah staying or not. Finding out who really killed Cassie, and who in the hell took a piece out of Zach's head. Damn that was a creepy moment.


This next episode should be just as good as yesterday's, if not even better.

[cubsball899]

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you guys liked the episode,or just the twist at the end? every episode these days feels like i'm watching a soap opera... instead of a edge-of-your-seat drama with dark irony/humor.

[BlueNGold]

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you guys liked the episode,or just the twist at the end? every episode these days feels like i'm watching a soap opera... instead of a edge-of-your-seat drama with dark irony/humor.

I liked the entire episode. I was actually entertained and intrigued from start to finish, unlike the past few episodes where I found myself wondering "what the **** are they doing here?" multiple times.

I credit a lot of my liking of this past episode to Hannah. To me she instantly improves the show just because of the dynamic she brings. I enjoy her scenes with Dexter (loved the talk they had on the beach, referencing Dexter's inner monologue and what also seemed like a shout out to the book's habit of making alliterative phrases) and the <strike>love</strike> triangle between her, Deb and Dexter brings a nice intensity to things. Also, even with her character being seemingly firmly established, there's still that feeling of the unknown with her. She's a wild card, basically.

Aside from that, I liked the episode because things were moving at a good pace and pieces seemed to finally be falling into place. I've already probably overstated to this point that this isn't the way I imagined the season turning out so far, and I'm disappointed it hasn't gone that way, but this last episode made me a little more open to whatever it is they are doing.

They have definitely been lacking the "edge-of-your-seat drama", which is one of my biggest complaints, but I thought the dark humor was there tenfold last episode. The whole dinner with serial killers, and the first Dexter/Zach/Hannah scene, where it was almost played like a mother and father caught their son doing something bad and had to punish him were perfect examples of that.

[The 24th Letter]

you guys liked the episode,or just the twist at the end? every episode these days feels like i'm watching a soap opera... instead of a edge-of-your-seat drama with dark irony/humor.

They don't have the "pit in your stomach" feel that last season had. That whole season was just tense.

I still enjoyed it though, maybe because I know a sh** storm is coming and they are just getting all their ducks in a row..

[stlpimpmonsta]

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Damn who ever guess the killer was doc's son nailed it.

[XxJustAguessxX]

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Damn who ever guess the killer was doc's son nailed it.

Hell yeah, something tells me that someone told him, too good of a guess.

[SlimKibbles]

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Hell yeah, something tells me that someone told him, too good of a guess.

I don't believe so. If you think about it all, the theory made sense prior to tonight's episode. Honestly after last week's episode, it made a lot of sense after what Dr. Vogel said at dinner.

I'm not sure my patience will last these next three weeks. I want to see right now how all of this ends! Lot of moving pieces.

[XxJustAguessxX]

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I don't believe so. If you think about it all, the theory made sense prior to tonight's episode. Honestly after last week's episode, it made a lot of sense after what Dr. Vogel said at dinner.

I'm not sure my patience will last these next three weeks. I want to see right now how all of this ends! Lot of moving pieces.

Yeah dex is tripping tho, didnt snoop tell us, "we don't love these ho*s" lol, he needs to get rid of her.

[Blitz1942]

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Called it.

Damn who ever guess the killer was doc's son nailed it.

Hell yeah, something tells me that someone told him, too good of a guess.

Honestly, wasn't told a thing. Was just thinking outside the box.

Spoiler

They weren't going to introduce an entirely new character to be the Brain Surgeon this late in the season. The only new characters we really had left at the end of last week were Masuka's daughter, Vogel, and Oliver. Vogel was too obvious a choice, but had to have some connection with the killer, so I came up with the "Oliver is Vogel's son" theory purely based off their accents and the dinner conversation. It was obvious that someone in Vogel's family was a psychopath just based on the dinner conversation, so I ran with it. Plus, as I said in my theory post, family has been a big part of Dexter from the beginning, especially having a character introduced early ending up related to the killer (Dexter & Brian in season 1, the reporter & Trinity in season 4)

[BlueNGold]

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Hell yeah, something tells me that someone told him, too good of a guess.

Apparently there has been spoilers (and more specifically series finale spoilers) floating around the internet but it's not like it was that unpredictable. This reveal might not have been as predictable as season 6, but it still comes pretty close if you ask me. Even I've guessed quite a few things correctly this season and I don't even watch the previews, and obviously the last thing I'd want to do is read spoilers for a show I've invested how many years in to watching.

As for this episode, I didn't think it was all that great and now we have to wait two weeks for the next episode to see where things go.

BTW, who was the guy playing the Federal Marshall? I know I've seen him in something before but I couldn't figure it out and it was bothering me half the episode, lol.

[DrJones]

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BTW, who was the guy playing the Federal Marshall? I know I've seen him in something before but I couldn't figure it out and it was bothering me half the episode, lol.

Lem from The Shield.

[BlueNGold]

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Lem from The Shield.

I've never seen The Shield so it's something else I'm thinking of.

Anyways, this review of the last episode pretty much hits the nail on the head.

(Just a warning, there's a spoiler in the link for Season 3 of Breaking Bad after what I quoted)

After reading one of last week’s comments, I decided to catch up on Sundance Channel’s The Writers’ Room, which features candid conversations with the writing teams behind television’s most daring, clever, observantly written shows…and also there’s an episode about Dexter. Watching the Dexter writing team discuss the show confirmed all my worst fears about the thought process that goes into creating this world, and gave me a new framework for understanding why this show never reached its full potential.

The former conventional wisdom around Dexter’s difficulty hitting its stride was that it was a victim of its success, and because it was such a draw for Showtime, the network held its creative team hostage, never allowing the writers to start thinking ahead to a satisfying ending. At the beginning of season 7, when Showtime’s executives began suggesting the end was near, the episodes seemed to bear out that theory. But by that season’s end, it became clear what the real problem was, and it was confirmed by The Writers’ Room. Scott Buck and his team are too enamored of the character to create a compelling show around him.

Dexter’s writers go to unbelievable lengths to keep Dexter suspended above everything else because they see him as a superhero, a man who has bravely taken responsibility for vanquishing evil in the world, and whose only real flaw is his need for human connection. Essentially, they think of Dexter as a low-tech, plain-clothed version of Christopher Nolan’s Batman, charged with a vital duty he’s too heroic to abandon, and forced to carry the weight of the chaos it causes around him.

But the problem is that Dexter is never forced to carry any of that weight.

[jeremym480]

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Lem from The Shield.

He was also on Son's of Anarchy.

[BlueNGold]

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That's the one.