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We are eight episodes into season 4 and I’m getting sort of an uncomfortable sensation, the kind of thing I’d prefer not to notice — like I just stupidly sat in a puddle of rainwater and was hoping in the few seconds it took for it to soak through to my drawers [...]
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As I did with the previous season of Dexter, I’ve decided to write about season four in three chunks, one blog post to follow each fourth episode — thematically an appropriate place as a season of Dexter generally follows a three act structure. Which means, of course, each fourth episode is going to offer some [...]
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It’s been a few years now since the premiere of Dexter, and I’ve yet to rewatch any episodes. Given the popularity of my Dexter Season 3 posts, and with the fourth season on the horizon, I thought it would be a nice idea to revisit the first and second seasons and give my impressions of [...]
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I will always like John Lithgow for one thing above all — The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai. So my first thought upon hearing that he was joining the cast of Dexter for the fourth season wasn’t “oh great, the guest star thing is formula now,” it was, in fact, “laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!” [...]
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The Season 3 finale of Dexter managed to wrap everything up neatly, if a bit hurriedly, concluding with a big, happy wedding scene and the same words the season opened with: “Life is good.” Dexter has grown into a new role, the supporting cast have all had their own personal triumphs, and the dangers set [...]
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This weekend the third season of Dexter hit the three-quarter mark — a good time to pause, take stock, and blog. I talked a bit about my impressions of the first four episodes a month ago in a post called Dexter Season 3: Still to Die For, and today’s post is of a similar kind.
Firstly, [...]
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Since the demise of my beloved Deadwood (shot in the back at Nuttall’s No. 10 Saloon), there isn’t a whole lot to get me excited on television anymore, with two exceptions. Mad Men, a stylish and anthropologically fascinating show about a Madison Avenue ad agency on AMC, and Dexter, a police procedural/serial killer thriller/fish-out-of-water black-comedy-drama [...]
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