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!” [...]
by Bill Ward on December 17, 2008
in Film & TV
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 [...]
by Bill Ward on November 17, 2008
in Film & TV
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. [...]
by Bill Ward on October 20, 2008
in Film & TV
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 [...]