Dexter

By Myles I spent part of last week finishing up the fifth season of Six Feet Under, which has long been half finished after a lengthy marathon session of the entire series just proved dire last summer, resulting in “Depressive Melodrama Burnout” (DMB, for short). Returning to that show was a remind...

By linoleumbored How is Rita going to react after seeing Dexter bust out the neighbor's security lights? Is Deb and Anton's relationship going to suffer with Lundy in town? Is something going to happen between Deb and Lundy?Will the Trinity killer find his next victim before Deb and Lundy catch up with him...

By linoleumbored With Harry by his side, Dexter is able to remember his computer password (which, simply enough, is "Harry").As Dexter crawls into the house at night, Harry tells Dexter that he got lucky this time with the whole "Benny Gomez" problem,but he won't be so lucky in the future unless he sets his p...

By Danny Gallagher His issue isn't with Benz's performance, but he said he feels "dubious" about the fixes that have to be made to Dexter and Rita's relationship. All this talk of working out issues could turn an edgy show about a body chopping serial killer into an episode of The View with less screaming and vi...

By Danny Gallagher In Dexter's case, it's giving America's most squeezably soft serial killer an opponent truly worthy of his skills and talent without boring the audience or completely overpowering or outing him. In other words, keep the shark in the cage so you don't even have the inkling of an opportunit...

By Myles Even the rest of the episode, with Dexter free to spend time outside of the home environment, was elevated to some degree. I’ve found the LaGuerta/Batista love affair stuff kind of uninteresting so far, and while it didn’t suddenly become compelling here it at least became relevant as bot...

By rachaeljames The Cliff Notes: I thought it was a solid episode.. possibly my favorite of the 3 so far this season. I read somewhere that the writers think that this may end up being the best season they’ve had. I don’t know that I agree with that.. I agree that the Trinity Killer may end up being the best “villain” t...

By Danny Gallagher But while watching that iconic opening of Dexter's mourning routine, I noticed the credit to Jeff Lindsay, the author of the first Dexter novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter on which the whole show is based. I picked it up in the library and even though I knew most of what happened from the show's fi...

By theTVaddict What Works: DEXTER: THE VIDEO GAME is visually stunning (ranking right up there with the best looking games in the App Store), fantastic sounding (courtesy of a soundtrack ripped directly from the Showtime series), and affordably priced at $3.99 (also known as far less than our daily Sta...

By theTVaddict What Works: DEXTER: THE VIDEO GAME is visually stunning (ranking right up there with the best looking games in the App Store), fantastic sounding (courtesy of a soundtrack ripped directly from the Showtime series), and affordably priced at $3.99 (also known as far less than our daily Sta...

By emilydryden It’s about a serial killer who is a blood splatter specialist for the Miami police. Dexter is the like-able villain. He’s averages one murder per episode, but somehow you still want him to succeed. The writers cleverly created a villain with a code of honor that keeps him killing only other ki...

By Michael objected because, in the words of its president, Timothy Winter: “The biggest problem with the series is something that no amount of editing can get  around: the series compels viewers to empathize with a serial killer, to root for him to prevail, to hope he doesn’t get discovered.”

By levinson.paul@gmail.com (Paul Levinson) 2. Super-agent serial-killer hunter Frank Lundy is back. Debra has feelings for him, even though she's in a relationship with Anton, and Lundy has feelings for Debra. Watch for some real surprises here... Season 4 of Dexter premieres on Showtime September 27, at 9pm. Reviews of Season 2: Dexter's Back: A Preview and Dexter Meets Heroes and 6. Dexter and De-Lila-h and 7. Best Line About Dexter - from Lila and 8. How Will Dexter Get Out of This? and The Plot Gets Tighter and Sharper and Dex, Doakes, and Harry and Deb's Belief Saves Dex and All's ... Well See also about Season 1: First Place to Dexter 6-min podcast review of Dexter The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

By Emily Dexter season one gave us the search for the Ice Truck Killer and the truth about Dexter’s troubled childhood. Season two gave us the search for the Bay Harbor Butcher and one crazy chick named Lila. And season three gave us the search for the Skinner, the evolution of Dexter’s human relation...

By Emily Dexter Deliberately Dissecting Dexter: A Review of Jeff Lindsay’s Book Series – My review of the book series upon which the tv series is basedIdentify with Dexter – Looking for more Dexter-related posts to hold you over until the September 27 season four premiere? Here’s a whole blog dev...

By panhistoria One huge mistake: his sister Debra finds out he’s a killer in the beginning of the first book, but she loves him anyway in the second book. Where is the alienation that so defines the character? Doakes gets all his limbs cut off but clumps into the office anyway? Was that mean to be humorous? An...

By Emily I love the alliteration of Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter book series’ titles. Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Dearly Devoted Dexter. Dexter in the Dark. Dexter by Design. They all have a nice ring to them, and are in keeping with Dexter Morgan’s cleverness and dry sense of humor. I also happen to love the books t...

By Jean One of the few good things about being sick is that I get to watch a lot of TV when I’m not sleeping off my sickness. I recently started watching Dexter, which actually isn’t that good an idea when you’re already ill considering the content of the show. I do enjoy the black humour and deep irony, a...

By Myles Lithgow will play Walter Simmons, an unassuming, mild-mannered suburbanite who has been living a dual life as one of America’s most prolific and deadliest serial killers.  Dubbed the “Trinity Killer” because of his proclivity to kill in three’s, he relocates to Miami after being track...

By thekoolaidmom Dexter in the Darkby Jeff Lindsay, pages 5-7 Scene from Showtime’s Dexter(the show is rated TVMA, and this clip is at least TV-14): Title: Dexter in the Dark Author: Jeff Lindsay Paperback: 302 pages Publisher:  First Vintage Crime

By Russ Crandall I was super sick last weekend, which afforded my wife and I the perfect opportunity to sit down and watch the third season of Dexter, a cop/serial killer drama that runs on Showtime. We watched the first two seasons sometime last year, and found them to be real nail-biters, and I was particul...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) I am shocked that Doakes is dead. I wasn't sure that he would die, and I never imagined that Lila would be the one to kill him. Clever writing. Great performance from Lauren Vélez in the aftermath of the death/discovery, too. But the episode belongs to Jaime Murray as the evil Lila. Poor Lila. At different parts of the season I liked her and loathed her. In the end, there was almost nothing to sympathise with. She went after Rita's children for Frak's sake!! No sympathy left for her after that. It's been a great season. Better than the first. What's next for Dexter? Highlight? Dexter (great conclusion) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog One Year Ago   [read the full post]

By Steven Rubio It's interesting, living with a big Dexter fan. You see, Robin watches a lot of stuff she would happily agree is junk, or, as she usually puts it, "just TV." There are shows she takes more seriously ... all of the Stargates come to mind ... it's not that she has no sense of the variety of value. She's just n...

By Myles And, really, that’s what every supporting character became: Deb’s storyline became about balancing work and life, just as Dexter balances life and killing; Batista became about finding yourself in dark places and being able to lift yourself out, just like with Dexter and his relation...

By Paul Levinson(levinson.paul@gmail.com) 1. Dexter and Rita getting married. Yes, there was a little blood at the end on Rita's white dress, but that was more symbolic than indicative of anything immediately dangerous. 3. Angel coming clean with LaGuerta about how his need for human contact led him to a prostitute, who has become the love of his life, that's ok with LaGuerta, too (which does make sense). 4. Dexter forgiving his father. 5. The two bad guys, Ramon and King the skinner, successfully vanquished. See also Double Surprise ... Psychotic Law vs. Sociopath Science ... The Bright, Elusive Butterfly of Dexter ... The True Nature of Miguel ... Si Se Puede on Dexter ... and Dexter 3: Sneak Preview Review The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Dexter. Season 2, Episode 11. "Left Turn Ahead" A melancholy and unsatisfying episode of Showtime's drama about a likable serial killer. It's a gloomy ride as Dexter puts his affairs in order and prepares to hand himself over to the police for his crimes. In the end he changes his mind after a conversation with his sister. And it's a pretty unconvincing turn of events. Seems like the writers painted themselves with this story and didn't know how to get out of it. A short, flippant comment from Debra is a weak solution. Had it been Rita and the kids (particularly the kids) I might have bought it. This? Not so much. Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 8. "Double Booked" Burn Notice breaks from formula and delivers one of it's most enjoyable episodes.   [read the full post]

By Paul Levinson(levinson.paul@gmail.com) The showdown on Showtime is coming to a boil, as Dexter and Miguel up the ante in the past two episodes of Dexter, 3.9 and 3.10. This happened because bigmouth Rita told Miguel's wife. Not that I have anything really against Rita, or I'm rooting for Miguel - certainly not, I'm in Dexter's corner - but, truthfully, I never thought Rita was right for Dexter (I was liking Lila a lot more last year), and I guess, yeah, I wouldn't mind if Rita were out of the picture. See also Double Surprise ... The Bright, Elusive Butterfly of Dexter ... The True Nature of Miguel ... Si Se Puede on Dexter ... and Dexter 3: Sneak Preview Review And here's a little peek at what's in store for Dexter ... The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Dexter. Season 2, Episode 10. "There's Something About Harry" There's a lot of great stuff in this episode, but all I wanted to see was Dexter and Doakes. How can the show get out of this? I mean, Dexter likes Doakes. He can't actually kill him and still be our hero? Can he? At the mid-way point the episode makes you think that Dexter has actually decided to do the deed. But it proves to be - yet another - red-herring. The show has gotten really good at doing these. Almost as exciting as the Doakes storyline: Lila. She drugs herself and passes out while on a date with Angel. To what? Frame him? Can't wait to see where this goes and what Dexter does about it...   [read the full post]

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) Then, before I have time to process that development, Dexter and Doakes are locked in a pitch battle to the death (which, of course, it isn't) with one of them getting shot and Doakes - finally - confronting Dexter about his murderous ways. It's amazing. In the midst of a crazy, wonderful, OTT plot development about a serial killer covering his tracks this is still a show about a ordinary guy trying to navigate the pitfalls of everyday life. Which is what makes it such a great television series. Highlight? Dexter (shocking developments) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Paul Levinson) It's easy to forget, amidst the fascinating ethical quandaries in Dexter's complex character - a serial killer we can love? - that Dexter the television show is also a first-class, tip-top mystery show. We have moved from the identity of Dexter's nemesis in the first year, to what Lila was really capable of in the second year, to ... Which means, what? That Miguel did not really want Dexter to kill her? Well, then why did he go through that charade? Because he is really out to nab Dexter after all, and Ellen is cooperating in this pursuit? Pretty dangerous game - let's say Dexter had gone off on his own and killed her? See also The True Nature of Miguel ... Si Se Puede on Dexter ... and Dexter 3: Sneak Preview Review The Plot to Save Socrates   [read the full post]

By Debra McDuffee S03E08) OK, so I am sitting here, trying to figure out how I can actually write a review of this episode of Dexter when the bloody preview left nothing from next week's episode a surprise. WTF, Showtime? So, let's move past that huge spoiler that is next week's coming attractions and talk abo...

By podcast@mail2tv.com (RikerDonegal) 05.30 Dexter 06.30 Burn Notice 09.00 The Office 09.30 Corner Gas Dexter. Season 2, Episode 8. "Morning Comes" Another superb episode, with a fair amount of twists and turns. The biggest shock in the episode (and there are many) has to be the sight of Doakes finding Dexter's hidden stash of blood samples. Blood taken from his victims. That's a real what-the-frak-happens-next moment. Dexter (quickly) realises that he cannot trust Lila and brings their relationship to an ending (after she breaks into Rita's house). It's a show about a serial killer and his new girlfriend is the scary character in it. Highlight? Dexter (What the frak happens next?) Yet Another TV Review Podcast Yet Another TV Review Book Yet Another Film Review Blog   [read the full post]

By noreply@blogger.com (Paul Levinson) I knew there was something else, something more, about Miguel on Dexter - something more than his being another brilliant guy in law enforcement who might come after Dexter. And now, in the third season, it turns out that Miguel, well played by Jimmy Smits, is not just a DA with a passion for getting bad guys - he's a DA with the same kind of passion as Dexter. But this raises at least one big question: Dexter survived in the first two seasons by killing the two people who were so much like him. Will Dexter have to do the same with Miguel? See also Dexter 3: Sneak Preview Review The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

Watching Dexter recite the words of another murderer to convince Rita to marry him - and her children to be on board with the prospect - was simply one of the best scenes of the series two-and-a-bit season life so far. As a viewer, I was conflicted - I was happy for Rita and the kids because they w...

By Richard Finally, some good news from television! At least, we think it's good news. Showtime has renewed their serial killer with a heart of gold drama Dexter for another two seasons. The show has been a ratings boon for the premium cable network, which continues to fortify its stable of original se...

By Daniel Nasserian I will write a more in-depth review after the next few episodes air but for now leave a comment and let us know what you think of "Dexter" season 3 so far and any predictions of how you think the season will progress. We will choose the best comments to receive some official "Dexter" gear includ...

By stargirl1013 Dexter’s world is soon turned upside down when another serial killer (“Tamiami Butcher”) is on the lose terrorising Miami’s prostitutes, killing them in ways that only Dexter wishes he had thought of himself; no blood, none at all.  This ‘artistic’ and playful style impresses Dexter an...

By Alan Sepinwall(noreply@blogger.com) • With Doakes' unfortunate passing, it makes sense that Angel would wind up as the new sergeant, though all of LaGuerta's talk about the responsibilities of that rank never seemed to apply to how Doakes carried himself. Taking Doakes' place as a body in the squad, meanwhile, is Desmond Har...

By Jason the TVaholic Show: Dexter (Showtime) Overall, Dexter is your best bet on Sunday nights. If you don’t have Showtime, then you need to find someone that does. It’s shows like Dexter that has jettisoned Showtime past HBO in the rankings of the premium cable networks.

By Paul Levinson(noreply@blogger.com) First, Jimmy Smits is on the show as an Assistant DA with a complex psyche and family including brothers. He plays great against Michael C. Hall's Dexter Morgan, who in this season also begins thinking more of family - not his father's and his, which is never far from his mind, but his own. See also Dexter's Back: A Preview and Dexter Meets Heroes and 6. Dexter and De-Lila-h and 7. Best Line About Dexter - from Lila and 8. How Will Dexter Get Out of This? and The Plot Gets Tighter and Sharper and Dex, Doakes, and Harry and Deb's Belief Saves Dex and Dexter 2 Superb Finale The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

By Tempo The Peabody Award winners were announced today, and the list of honorees for this prestigious award is once again chock full of excellence. 67th Annual Peabody Awards Winners Announced Brian Williams to host Awards Ceremony on June 16 at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel

By Alan Sepinwall CBS made it official: Bowdlerized versions of "Dexter" will air on the Eye beginning Sunday, Feb. 17. As I wrote back when Les Moonves first suggested the idea, I don't think it's going to be that hard to get the show down to broadcast standards. You'll have to change some of Deb and Masuka's dia...

By Myles But, in the end, it boils down to this: Michael C. Hall needs to be nominated for an Emmy next year. With a limited field thanks to the Writers' strike and a series of knockout performances yet again, Hall stands as a favourite to take a category now lacking in Tony Soprano. The added exposure of a...

By Paul Levinson I was delighted to find out the following today, in the Golden Globe Nominations announced for television ... Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Drama Michael C Hall, Dexter Johnathan Rhys Meyers, The Tudors Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series - Comedy or Musical David Duchovny, Californication The face of television is changing, and very much for the better. Cable shows have three out of five nominations in several major Golden Globe television categories. And Showtime is clearly giving HBO a run for its money. All of this is great for the viewer. I'll be writing more about these trends soon. The Plot to Save Socrates more about The Plot to Save Socrates...   [read the full post]

By Tempo There were several other rewarding strands that were layered through the second season: Dexter’s cat-and-mouse game with not only his own colleagues but also with a crafty FBI agent, Frank Lundy (well played by Keith Carradine); an even more suspenseful game of evasion and denial with...

By Paul Levinson They'd find Doakes, who knows Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher, and Lila - who, according to the coming attractions, is informed of Dexter's true inner demon by Daokes. She looks horrified in the clip - but will this revelation make her hate Dexter, or be drawn to him, even more? I'm betting Dexter survives (easy bet) and Doakes and Lila do not. I don't see how Doakes can live, and Dexter can continue, if Dexter does not want to confess ... And Lila - much as I'd like to see her on the show next year, I think she's coming to the end of her rope.... See also Dexter's Back: A Preview and Dexter Meets Heroes and 6. Dexter and De-Lila-h and 7. Best Line About Dexter - from Lila and 8. How Will Dexter Get Out of This? and The Plot Gets Tighter and Sharper and Dex, Doakes, and H...   [read the full post]

By Ray Ellis There was a time—mostly during Season One—when Dexter could do no wrong. He was a Merry Prankster of Mayhem, deftly darting between the pastel hues of a cartoon Miami by day, and its opaquely sinister washes by night. Sure, he was a serial killer, but he only killed really bad people the law co...

By Jason the TVaholic Show: Dexter (Showtime) Episode: “It’s Alive!” - Season Premiere (Season 2) Premiere Date: Sunday, September 30th, 2007 Rating: 4 out of 4 stars Quick Synopsis: Dexter hasn’t recently, Debra is still messed up and Rita is conflicted.

By Tempo From the start (my original review is here), “Dexter,” which is based on the novels of Jeff Lindsay, was an unexpectedly compelling creation. You’d think a show about a serial killer would be dark and downbeat, but in its first few episodes, “Dexter” offered a unique blend of black comedy a...

By Literary Feline Do I dare admit that there were several moments during my reading of Dearly Devoted Dexter when I was laughing out loud? The novel is full of dark humor, however, the subject matter can be disturbing at times. Jeff Lindsay’s character Dexter Morgan is witty and charming. Dexter is a likeable...