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Bigger spoilers than you can handle lurk bellow. As anyone will know who has read my two previous posts on Dexter’s fourth season, Family, Suburbia, and Killing for Two and Road Kill, or The Jumping of the Snark, my attitude toward season four is veering dangerously close to the double-yellow line of disappointment. And now [...]
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Insert spoiler warning here. 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 [...]
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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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