Dexter on Showtime

I was a little put off by some plot contrivances, but mostly really enjoyed the show. I'll see what arrangebittorrentments I can make to see the second season, too.

Based on a series of books, right? Anyone read those?

Yeah, it basically followed the first book quite faithfully but from what I hear they are going to diverge quite a bit from the second book in the series in the second season.

I've been wondering what they're going to do with the second series - I haven't read the books, but

SPOILERS

if icetruck is dead, and all the childhood/father exposition is out, the only real option they have is to have his girlfriend or coworkers slooowly figure out that he is actually a killer while he kills more. Hopefully they'll surprise me though

They're starting this on TV in the UK. Perhaps I will watch it, to fill the empty hours till my real shows start again.

How he made himself increase so much in attractiveness between SFU and Dexter I will never know.

accentmonkey, you must watch it.

I started watching Dexter the day I finished watching SFU without knowing Michael C Hall was in both.

Dexter started off quite nicely but it let me down from the third episode onwards. It felt rather obvious who the icetruck killer was from quite early on and the whole backstory of Dexter + icetruck guy really was a bit too much over the top for my liking. Fancy that, the two of them becoming killers. Also, I kept wondering all throughout the series if the deaths of people Dexter killed were actually noticed by anyone. Not that that actually needed to be dealt with, but you know it had me wondering. All in all, Dexter was OK-ish but i probably wont watch the 2nd series unless im really bored.

It's pretty lifeless and stretched a quick read way too far.

I was hoping, initially, that the series would take the general idea and run with it, him killing bad guys in a monster-of-the-week-stylee instead of following one case.

i loved all the characters in this show, except maybe for dex.

Really enjoyed this show; I'm sure there was another thread.

i liked him a lot but all the supporting characters were so awful.

haha i just noticed what ? said.

They are reshowing episodes on Showtime on Sundays as well as on FXUK for anyone interested.

I really liked the show, very Freudian.

The first two episodes of the season 2 just leaked. Check your favorite torrent site.

i've been really enjoying this online - i'm about 5 eps in so far and contrary to the above spiler (dammit!) i have no idea who icetruck is yet. am i being a fuckwit?

spOiler argh.

oh well i never guessed *that*...

accentmonkey, you must watch it.

And so I did. It just finished in the UK last week.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. If you look at it objectively, I suppose you could say that it seems obvious who the killer was, but the whole thing was so much fun and so kind of different that it didn't really matter.

any news on series two?

The first few episodes leaked online (probably from a critic's screener) a month or two ago. Looks like the focus has shifted to the cops looking for Dexter (although they don't know it). And Dex has lost his killing mojo... Plus the ex-Marine cop (the one who intuits something's up with him) is not letting him out of sight.

that leaves me STOKED. excellent news.

Michael C. Hall of "Dexter"
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just started watching this and am not sure how I feel about it; it certainly isn't up to, say, SFU or Sopranos (or even Weeds) standards; and there is something distancing about it. I guess this is the result of having a sociopath as your main character; it's not so much a 'problem' as 'the point', I guess. But I'm more annoyed by the boss character and his sister who are both annoying as all hell.

My god, this show is garbage.

i likes it!

I enjoy this way more than I enjoyed post-season 2 SFU. What a fucking endless parade of direness that was.

Ya, i got bored of SFU pretty quickly - but think I enjoyed the 2nd season of Dexter even more than the 1st. It's no Wire or anything but still easy to like imho.

I still REALLY enjoy this show.

What is SFU?

Six Feet Under.

its not as good as dexter's laboratory was on nick

I wasted so much time trying to convince myself SFU was any good. FUSFU

Dexter is great. Especially season two. I've never been as thrilled/stressed about an episode of TV as I was during season 2, episode... I think 9. Amazing, amazing episode of a great show.

*high fives*

Yeah, I like this show, too. Michael C. Hall is great, his sister is good, Angel is also really good. Matsuda is great, too. Nothing too heavy or "dire" like SFU...just a good, sometimes action-filled, hour of television. Occasionally, with tits!

Now, you want to talk about lame Showtime series, lets discuss "Brotherhood"...what a shitty, shitty show.

so will episodes have to be heavily edited for cbs?

Prolly for some language, for some of the gore, and for some content.

Not terribly, but probably similar to how much A&E had to edit the Sopranos

I also like that the people who make Dexter have the taste in titties as I do.

I also like that the people who make Dexter have the taste in titties as I do.

Crazy as she was, she was hot as hell.

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I just finished watching both seasons. I really like it. some of the actors are annoying but Michael C. Hall is awes and the sister's grown on me.

Also best opening credits sequence ever? It's so perfect for the show.

Anyone else watching season 3?

Well I watched season 2 this summer even though I didnt really like season 1. But I had nothing else to watch. Anyways, season 2 wasa a bit better than se1, but that's faint praise. I probably wont watch it as it airs and may give it a go next summer if I hear good stuff about it.

yeah it's a fairly bodgy show, but I found the first two seasons engaging enough.

Some bits I do find engaging too. For one I really like Michael C. Hall. But it's the whole that kind of bugs me. Everything that happens always seems a bit obvious and you usually see plot twists coming a few episodes before they actually do. Also, seeing as they got rid of Doakes, it doesnt feel like there's too much counterweight to Dexter. Even though I'm sure they'll find something.

like this show a lot - yes you do see plot twists coming a mile away but it's usually pretty funny and I really really like the Dexter character. Maybe that's a weakness though. I feel as if Dexter should be a bit more unlikeable than he is but he's not, not even when he was being a complete idiot last season with Lila and Doakes. mostly he just comes off as trying too hard.

the female characters on the other hand... ugh. They can't seem to write one who isn't irritating as fuck - Maria, Rita and Deb have grown on me but they still can be pretty annoying in their own ways. see also the IA chick who's currently hassling Deb.

Nobody in this show has any friends. Deb has to tell Dex about her sex life because she doesn't have any friends. It's as though they all live in a great microcosm.

love this show immensely. esp opening sequence. puurffect.

Just caught up with the show this summer, tore through it pretty fast. Season 1 was probably the best, and season 2 was probably just a little bit less good, but Doakes' angle and, surprisingly, Lila, was pretty entertaining. Season 3 OTOH was just slightly above mediocre - I place the blame largely on Jimmy Smits for being so one-note, but even so, the writers didn't really come up with anything really compelling towards the end like they did for the first two seasons. I've definitely grown to like the cast a lot, though Hall and Benz were pretty excellent from the beginning.

Also, super lame DVD extra alert - on the last season 3 disc, instead of including cast interviews, they put on two episodes of The United States of Tara. They actually weren't bad, but you actually had to put the disc into a computer so it led you to a WEBSITE to watch a streaming flash clip of the interviews, lazily edited. Pff.

Definitely enjoy the show, but I almost can't believe they're managed to stretch the premise out to (now) a fourth season.

(and yes, it quite possibly is the best opening sequence ever)

I haven't seen Season 3 yet ... it should be out on DVD soon. I loved the first two seasons ... I think I even cried a couple times.

but then I also cried when Chris Keller fell off the balcony in the final episode of Oz, so I guess I have some weird sympathy for sociopaths.

was really turned off to this show by the first ep (too grim? i dunno), then i gave it another chance & loved the hell out of the first season. never got around to watching the 2nd, though i'd like to check it out. i guess the books its based on are not so good?

never read the books but they're pretty popular in their own right and from some of the plot spoilers, it seems that they go in a slightly darker direction than the series.

season 3 was pretty terrible imo but i'm looking forward to season 4 because John Lithgow as a serial killer is just abt the greatest idea ever (though maybe they should've gone with Kelsey Grammer).

Kinda annoyed with myself for watching the pre-air of s04e01 i wont see a new ep for over a month

i mentally put this show in the same category as house, m.d. in that (a) both shows have a conventionally unlikeable and mentally unbalanced title character; and (b) both shows are dramas that are funnier than most so-called comedies.

Weird, I thought season 3 was the best one of the bunch.

Just finished the first disc of season 3, and it took me a couple episodes to get back into it. I liked 1&2 quite a bit. It's such an over-the-top cartoony show but once I accept that it gets much more enjoyable.

Also it kind of freaks me out when Dexter's voiceover says things about his personality that fit me pretty exactly, as I am not a murderous sociopath. I just really like to be quiet and alone sometimes.

Am about 5 episodes into season 3 ... kinda a let down from the previous two, though the last one is pretty hard to top. I recently watched that movie Obsessed where Idris Elba is stalked by a psycho white temp, and she just did not compare to Lila.

I have caught this series and I find it addictive. Michael C. Hall is a captivating actor.
What do you all think?

Everyone will disagree with me, but season 3 > 1 > 2. The Miguel character just kept cracking me up the whole season. Hilarious.

Could not stand Lila. Or Doaks.

I'm amazed how I fall for the will-Dexter-be-caught? dance every fucking time.

i like it too -- though i'm definitely glad they resolved this thing within two episodes instead of stretching it out. i'm sure we'll get more of these things as the season goes on, though. definitely getting a better vibe from this, so far, than season 3.

i'm not in love with the dad-hallucinations (either last season, or in their increased usage, this season)

yeah, they're definitely not nearly as good as the more comic book-origin style flashbacks from season 1 and 2

This is getting pretty bad imo. Oh no, Im really worried about guys from the neighbourhood catching me sneaking around and being suspicious and shit because Im a serial killer! So I should obvs sneak around the neighbourhood in a creepy mask and break in to someones house and wear my serial killer outfit. Duh.

Honestly kind of feel this show would be more interesting right now if it was just Lundy and the cops going after John Lithgow, have the show be about him or something. Getting irritated at what an emotional retard they keep making Dexter, like at the start he was supposed to be a high functioning cold and calculating serial killer - he should know the things to say to people because he has it figured out, even if its just an act. Instead its like some awkward social comedy shit and for no real reason. I know hes supposed to be struggling right now but I feel its a little aimless and its no good if you're just hoping he'll get drawn in to mystery of this serial killer rather than dealing with some mundane shit.

I think you are missing the point. Yes, Dexter is losing his mojo, suburban life is interfering with his abilities, that has been apparent since the first episode of the season. The married life, the kids, those concerns are clouding his judgment. He sneaks around the neighborhood (not in a serial killer outfit, but a black one for the dark, and a mask so the kid can't tell who he is) because is trying to secure his privacy in the community. He makes mistakes that he wouldn't have made before because his priority is keeping his home life safe, keeping his family out of his affairs, not catching bad guys. I think after three seasons of Dexter beating the odds, the show is allowed a small suspension of disbelief (it's only the 3rd episode of the season). IMO this continues to be the best written show on television.

er....I meant that his priority is keeping his home life safe and keeping his family out of his affairs, not catching bad guys.

I dont think I'm missing the point, I just think it's stupid and he's not supposed to be that stupid. Kind of a stupid thing to risk, getting chased round the neighbourhood by all your neighbours, to secure yr own privacy surely. He wears the same clothes and gloves etc he uses for his killings, just adds a mask on top. Why risk getting caught like that, when it's obvious yr doing something shady when you could actually just sneak around under the pretence of neighbourhood watch? Serial killer 101 surely. His mistakes may well be legitimate because of what you say, I just dont think they're particularly entertaining and the subplots are slightly tiresome. They always have him struggle with things when it suits them because of the function of the show, he has to be more emotional than he might, which has always irked me a little.

Dont think it's ever been the greatest written show tho.

Sorry if Im tired and not much sense is getting through here, trying to avoid anything getting monstrously long

dexter is tired from babies and concussions

Even so it's still kind of weak. I read a review which nailed it, which said something like: when did this become an episode of Desperate Housewives? This is the "edgy" shit we're getting now? Especially thinking back to the "killer of the week" stuff from the first two seasons.

That said, Lithgow is great, and those parts of the story are still really entertaining. I'm wondering how they're gonna stretch out his third kill into nine episodes, and if it's at all possible that Lundy will survive this (too bad because his interactions with Dexter are still fun to watch). And because of this side, I'm pretty sure it'll still be good and better than last year, at the very least.

Deb. ;_; she's so horribly fucked-up, poor thing.

Getting irritated at what an emotional retard they keep making Dexter, like at the start he was supposed to be a high functioning cold and calculating serial killer - he should know the things to say to people because he has it figured out, even if its just an act.

I hate it when they do this too because they seem to pick and choose at random which parts of everyday interaction Dexter's good at, and which parts he isn't and it's never a consistent thing - he can flirt with trigger-happy cop just fine but small talk with the neighbours? Awkward!

the only things saving his character imo are Michael C Hall's performance (which remains compellingly sad and funny and creepy all at once) and the fact that they've made Rita even dumber than Dexter. Seriously, he might as well come out and tell her he's a serial killer - don't see how that's much worse than all the other lies she's caught him in and the lame excuses he gives her that she somehow continues to believe in (ok this week maybe not so much, but come on you know they're just making us think his marriage is in jeopardy when it really isn't).

Contrary to that episode with the community vandal, the last two episodes have really gotten back to form - especially the one with the lady cop who murdered her family, it was a throwback to the earlier seasons, really entertaining. This past episode was pretty good too, though I agree somewhat that the whole episode was just waiting for the twist at the end, I really liked Carpenter's performance, and that twist WAS good (I've really been wondering how they can keep the Trinity storyline going if he only kills three people and moves on, when we have half the season left...)

You're right about the weird confusion regarding Dexter's interaction skills, and part of why that particular neighborhood episode was so bad. I actually somewhat liked this in this week's episode though - there's definite ambiguity, on a broad level, on how much Dexter's actually feeling or just playing out the motions in reacting to everyone - is he actually becoming more of a real person, or getting worse and unsure at faking his persona due to this emotional reaction? Is it actually an emotional reaction? Not sure if this the writers have a sure grasp on this, but I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt in this case, and the performance is really good in any case.

Lithgow continues to be fantastic, too.

Guys, this weekend's episode had the single most terrifying moment I have seen on Dexter.

worse than nude lithgow?

Terrifying in a different way.

Agreed. Best episode of the season so far.

Episode was fantastic. Probably the most terror we've seen in the show in ages, if ever, like Mordy says. I'm initially having a dreadful reaction to the huge twist in the last scene, but let's see how that plays out...

Yeah I thought this was the best episode in ages until the very last scene too.

They might be overdoing the last-minute plot twists this season a bit - there seems to be one every couple of episodes now.

Is there a way to watch this online?

god john lithgow is creepy. this show has gotten so much better since the awful start of the season.

in other news, deb still can't catch a break. girl seriously needs a happy storyline. although knowing this show, that prob means she's gonna end up with quinn. :/

her performance has definitely been the best since the first season, though! i am afraid they're going for her hooking up w/quinn as you say, though. still - such a great season.

Yeah. Definitely better than the last two seasons.

I can't believe it's over this Sunday.

fucking FUCK. devastating finale.

OK, I did not see that coming at all. HFS

: o

wow ;_;

really really did not see that coming. damn.

The final is indeed awesome, fucked up, kinda inevitable and fitting.

Apparently he has Hodgkins but is in recovery. (My mom had nit too. It has a very high recovery rate.)

After watching the whole season, I believe I have traced the shark jump moment to when...

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SPOILER SPOILER Lundy gets killed. SPOILER
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huh - to me that's exactly when the season turned around and got good!

I felt like taking that tension out of the show just deflated all of the subplots. it was a great moment, but the result was that it flattened everything out. there were so many uninteresting and unrelated subplots pursued after that episode, like they just didn't have enough story to fill up 8 more episodes. every time they showed that reporter, I cringed and rolled my eyes. the Laguerta/Batista story was second rate melodrama. I can only hope that the crazy events in the finale lead to a more interesting show as opposed to a more dramatic one.

MORE SPOILERS FOLLOW...

My idea for the next season would be to skip forward about five or ten years, with Dex an addict in recovery, raising his kid (assuming the other two kids just went to the mom or the ex's parents) and faced with something either too sweet to pass up, or being toyed with by some evil genius.

Do people who don't want ***SPOILERS*** actually read the thread?

The will-Deb-find-out? twist will probably be next season's long arc, with the usual killings thrown in. Actually, with the S3 ending it'll be more of a will-the-department-find-out arc.

Yeah, it's been a month - people who haven't caught up by now are probably going to catch it on DVD. Who's foolish enough to jump onto a forum thread after the show airs, not expecting spoilers? Beforehand I can understand, but no more than a day after it airs.

While I appreciate the intent of the finale (to reboot Dexter a bit since he'd gotten far too soft and humanized) I'm worried that the next season will have lots of boring custody battles with his mother-in-law, Quinn being a third-rate Doakes, and so on. I'll be shocked if they save Deb figuring out Dexter's secret before the real end of the show, and I think there's at least two seasons left. Also, one of the original showrunners immediately left after the finale, despite Dexter getting record ratings - that doesn't give me a lot of hope.

This show by its very premise has been getting stretched thinner and thinner every season, and it really should end sooner than later, but it won't due to the ratings. I will give it to them, though, I thought this was the best season since the first, mostly thanks to Lithgow.

I hope they go with Dexter going through the five stages of grief but skipping straight to ANGER, 5 kills a night kinda thing.

I was always disappointed when they went from him explicitly torturing and carving up his victims to a simple, single stab wound to the chest - it seemed like such an obvious cop-out, a way to make his (no matter the justification, still wretched and disgusting) executions more palatable. Hopefully they'll use this opportunity to get back to that Dexter.

There was a scene where Dexter gets all protective of his family and literally growl/yells at someone (can't remember who - prob Lithgow) like Mel Gibson, was one of the worst moments not only of this show but possibly of Michael C. Hall's acting career. I laughed out loud and said "fuck this show" under my breath when I saw it. You can feel the writers trying to make people care more about Dexter, and what better way than to make him more of a masculine bad-ass, protecting his domain, punching out dudes who kissed his wife, toning down his sadism, and blah blah blah. For a dude without feelings he was an emotional wreck in seasons 3 and 4, but it bugged me most of all in S4.

You know, I actually don't disagree with you on any of those points. It just didn't bother me that much because I was captivated enough by the main plot. By contrast, Jimmy Smits being unbelievably terrible last year just made all the softening trends worse and more noticeable, though they went further with it this year. Maybe I bought it more because Dexter having his first child born was a slightly more believable cause of his attitudes changing than having a goofy serial killer buddy. Inherently though, I don't have a problem with the idea that he might have emotions after all, or that he's discovering them now, since that's how Season 1 ended. S4 does put up a statement that says: Dexter can't be the stone cold serial killer he once was, or he'll be like Trinity, but I don't know if that HAS to be true for this show (or if it's even true for all the real serial killers that the Trinity character was inspired by).

I remember liking that scene where he punched out his neighbor, since there's the possibility that he didn't do it out of real anger but only because that's what he believed Dexter Morgan, family man, should have done. Did he realize that his wife was watching and did he do it for her benefit? I'm not sure, but it was played and acted in an ambiguous way, I thought. Maybe I'm wrong on this, though.

To me the low point of the season was Dexter's confrontation with the neighborhood vandal, after getting chased down by an angry neighborhood watch. I know I already mentioned this a few months ago, but man - I can't believe anyone in the writer's room actually thought that was a good idea.

Maybe I bought it more because Dexter having his first child born was a slightly more believable cause of his attitudes changing than having a goofy serial killer buddy.

That is a good point. I also agree with you about the neighborhood vandal thing. I felt like they could have mined that whole story line for comic relief - a lot of missed opportunities there.

This is another big problem I am having with this show lately: It's just not as funny as it was. One of the reasons I put up with a lot of the sloppy writing surrounding the police work (DNA tests can be done at someone's desk in 15 minutes, etc), and lot of the less plausible plotlines, was because I didn't take this show very seriously on a dramatic level. Yes, it was suspenseful, but it was also a fun black comedy in a slightly cartoonish world. When you show me an extended shot of Deb hunched over and wracked with grieving sobs, and make me care on that level, then I am going to start holding up the rest of the show to a higher standard, too. I noticed toward the middle of S4, I started getting really annoyed by the some of the shitty writing that I had always let slide in previous seasons.

OH MY GOD THAT ENDING

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

yeah this show was better when the main character had no emotions - i thought that was kind of the point.

they still know how to pile on the tension thought jeeeeeeeeeeeez

also what is up with that reporter chick taking her clothes off

i'd trade all her sex scenes for one LaGuerta :P

Season 5 starting Sunday!

At the end of S4, I was convinced the show had totally jumped the shark. I made fun of the last 5 episodes out loud. But I'll be damned if I am not ready to dive back into the world of Dexter again. Really excited about it, actually.

After seeing the preview trailer, Quinn seeming to have an even more prominent role was kinda killing my interest, but whatever, I'm on board

surprised and a bit sad that dexter hasn't had anywhere near the ilx chatter that mad men, sopranos et al have had

mainly cause dexter isn't anywhere near as good as those shows imo.

at least this show has a thread. Unlike Chuck, an awesome show that no one here watches. :(

yeah dexter's not in the same league as those other shows, but it's still pretty fun + ridiculous

mmm yeah i guess, i love em all though, just figured dexter would be the kind of show to get a lot of chatter as its all daft plot twists and big cliffhangers. anyway yeah can't wait to see this new series. suffered a modern-media-consumer crisis during s4 when i was downloading the eps from TPB last month, absent-mindedly scanning the comments to see if it was legit and reading a post by some utter dick revealing the big spoiler in the final episode. will. not. let. this. happen. again!

i find Dexter to be infinitely more enjoyable than Mad Men (which i find to be VERY boring -- albeit well-done). that just comes down to taste (Mad Men probably IS the better show in terms of plot, scripts, acting, etc.).

and whoever wondered aloud why "Chuck" doesn't have an ILX thread and deserving same ... 1000% OTM.

Near the end of the first season - love Michael C Hall, like the character of Dexter, not so sure about the show surrounding him. The general standard of acting isn't very high (particularly his sister, ugh), some of the storylines are glaringly unbelievable, and others are strangely banal.

My housemate says season 2 is shit, should I listen to him and not bother with it?

haha Deb gets quoted a *lot* in our house. They don't even have to be real Deb quotes. "No fucking shit, Dexter, God!" She's so terrible and vulgar...at first I hated it & now I think it's great.

That time when she was wearing a dress and said something like "I feel like a tranny," I think that was the ultimate 'wtf Deb' moment for me. Among a very great number to choose from!

Watch all seasons as there's stuff that happens in each that's carried over to the next.
I didn't think any season was shit, enjoyed them all.

Agree with Abbott on the deb likingness, she grows on you.

I still need to watch season 4, esp. as I love Lithgow a lot!

4 + 1 are the best. 3 is the worst. 2 is ok, imo.

Thanks to this show, every time I see palm tree trimmings lying around in the parking lot of my apartment complex (about once a week), the little kid part of my brain that believed in ghost stories gets creeped out a bit.

1 was great because it was something new, 4 was the better season, so much going on and really dark.
Lithgow won an award for his part didn't he?

I keep unfavourably comparing it to Breaking Bad in my head, which is really unfair as there are only really superficial similarities.

Not seen breaking bad, is it worth getting into?

It is incredible. First season is just good, then it becomes one of the best things ever in S2.

oh hell yes.

It does the protagonist with a double life thing with way more tension and psychological veracity than Dexter.

Great, i've been wanting something to get into since watching all the Dexters and seasons of other stuff.

Thanks :)

See you on the BB thread.

I'm probably in the minority in that I really liked season 3. It bordered on absurd, which I quite enjoy.

I just found the central antagonist/conflict in season 3 forced + inexplicable. (SPOILER especially as it required us to believe in the existence of someone psychopathic enough to have no problem with what Dexter does and want to learn how to do it himself (!!!) but who somehow kept out of trouble and led a successful political life before now)

Hahaha Jimmy Smits, I forgot all about that character until your post. "Dexter, I want you to keep this on the down low, ok my friend? I am with you one hundred percent on ACTUALLY DOING JUSTICE, brother of mine! My wife you and I are making mango salsa together."

My wife thinks you and I

golfing, killing, fishing, killing...so OTT

I kind of loved it.

It was so goofy! I enjoyed it, though.

Smits was soooooo bad.

s3 was such a letdown after the previous two awesome seasons. pretty much all prado's fault too.

first episode of s5 the other night, so dark and depressing. esp when you recall e1 of s4 was all brady bunch family chuckles, with even the title sequence amended to reflect dexter's new homelife.

i try to avoid all the "this particular episode of this particular season was weak" that comes with watching tv shows week on week rather than the cohesive whole/boxsets thing (the mad men thread often becomes unreadable with people pointlessly banging on about this shite) but s5 looks set to be great. particularly loved the nods to six feet under in the funeral parlour scene - it's been a while since i watched SFU, was it the actual same funeral home? and did dexter really use the same david lines or am i misremembering? loved that bit anyway

disappointing premiere. although i was happy when he went bat shit on the dude in the shitter.

I liked the season 1 finale a lot - was worried Rudi would escape to become a recurring nemesis, but then the actual resolution was surprisingly affecting. Also enjoyed Dex's imaginary victory parade, and Debs chewing out that muscly cop who looks like an action figure.

I thought the premiere was a bit of a let-down, too. I really was sort of hoping they would just jump like 2 years into the future as Dex gets the killing urge again or something. But it appears that they are just going to deal with the fallout of the s4 finale all season. This show is at its best when it is funny.

Hopefully the fallout from the finale is contained as much as possible in this episode, because man was I bored by it. It's obvious Quinn will not actually expose Dexter, so why are they even bothering with this angle? I really was hoping he would sail away on that boat.

haha yeah same here.

was surprised by season one and thought the show had potential but subsequent seasons have generally disappointed me (if still generally entertained me). i thought lithgow was a good bad guy last season which helped and weirdly somehow deb has become the closest thing to a compelling non-dexter regular on the show (besides her and matsuka i really have no use for the other characters at all - less interesting the more they're given to do). show clearly has no larger plan behind it, i can't imagine whoever's running it now could tell you where/what the show will be in two years whereas w/ breaking bad, mad men and the wire, sopranos, deadwood before that you knew there was a definite roadmap in place.

I'm finding Dexter's sideburns in S2 very distracting.

im thinking he's wearing a toupee since he's recovering from cancer

in this season...oops.

And pretending to be a drug addict is a TERRIBLE plan.

Sorry, should probably stop liveblogging my several seasons behind viewing.

I find dexters overly pink lips distracting. always want to apply chapstick when I watch..

I really was sort of hoping they would just jump like 2 years into the future

can't think of anything worse. i think the writers have handled it perfectly, the show has moved on in a big way from the old "one lolkill a week!" mode, returning to that after such a huge event would have made the show a silly pastiche of what it was. it's a welcome change to make it much less jokey and frivolous, more about him dealing with raw grief.

also this was predicted at the end of s3 (blood on wedding dress) so 'no larger plan' crit is kinda bs, esp after only seeing the opening episode of a show that generally takes a while to reveal that season's plot arc

is it posted on this thread that michael hall and jennifer carpenter are married.

new antagonist might work out pretty well this season imo - love the way he was quickly moved from "oh yawn another gf killing chump that dexter will chop up" to full on sinister uh oh

Mickey mouse "your mom is dead" scene was one of the greatest things this show has ever done

I agree with the Mickey Mouse scene. So far the rest of this season has done nothing for me, though.

i find it kinda fascinating how much i enjoy deb now (although she is obv fucked up and crazy in lotsa ways) vs wishing she was offscreen for lots of the previous seasons.

also plz for the love of god cut out the goddamn la guerta/angel romance drama ugh. moments like those are the ones where i feel like the show has kinda lost its place a little - NO ONE is tuning into dexter to see if those two are going to make it work or for any quinn/deb relationship dealings and feelings.

also, am i the only one that thought that much of season 4 was spent establishing what a fucked up awful person rita is?

yeah 'blood on the wedding dress' isn't exactly david simon level foreshadowing or plot building sorry.

It's obvious Quinn will not actually expose Dexter, so why are they even bothering with this angle?

so that dexter has a good reason to kill him later in the season?

eh, it's not like they're even really bothering with that anymore - i mean, he killed that guy at the station being an incredible asshole, essentially

that annoyed me b/c harry was all "good job!"

Quinn needs to die sooner rather than later. I hate the actor and character so much I want to leave the room every time he shows up on screen.

Now, usually, I don't do this but uh....go head' on and break 'em off wit a lil' preview of the remix....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-HD2xXo-lw

complaining that dexter isn't following the established lofty script traditions of the wire is kinda missing the point imo. dexter is basically a pulpy noiry soap opera, never saw it as aiming to make Serious Points. it's like moaning that a batman comic doesn't have the scope of war & peace.

tho when the wire borrows from dexter (mcnulty becomes a quasi-moiderer!) it becomes pretty much unwatchable.

the problem with Dexter is when it tries to deviate from pulpy noiry soap opera into serious drama.

the show also totally lost its sense of humor somewhere along the way. going back and watching the first season, it strikes me how funny it was up until the end game in the last few episodes when suspense takes over.

tbf, it seems like in some ways they're trying to get back to that era... a lot more Dexter quips to the audience than we've gotten in a while, and this Julia Stiles thing could be fun/interesting, though I don't know where they're taking this. I expected her to be unintentionally hilarious when I heard that she was cast.

(still disappointed with the single-stroke kills, though!)

also i hope the kids stay gone, but i'm sure they'll come back. the nanny stuff already smells like a bad storyline

I finally saw season 4 of this and it was good but it also drove me bonkers. Dexter has *so* *many* chances to kill John Lithgow, and he didn't, and fucked up stuff kept happening to people as a result (murders, kid getting kidnapped, etc.). Additionally, in the past a lot of the people he killed escaped the law/fell through the system's cracks and that's why Dexter felt he had to step in and kill them. Here, everyone knew John Lithgow was the killer. I think it was 100% guaranteed that if the Miami police got him, he'd get convicted & get a sentence he deserved. Not only that, but the *hundreds* of families who lost loved ones because of this dude would love to see this guy caught and convicted. They all deserve the emotional release/closure of seeing the case solved, but they're all robbed of it because of Dexter. Only Dexter gets that release! In sum, he was being totally selfish and crazy all season. Also, I wish they'd get rid of imaginary Harry because he had really worn out his purpose as a foil.

I know this is all fiction but it really made me mad!

I know Dexter kills people because he likes murdering, and the vigilante justice thing is a front to make it acceptable, but still, fuck!

sometimes i wish harry would morph into ajax.

so whats the deal with Lumen? Serial serial killer hanger-on-er?

she's dexter new girlfriend/enabler, duh

they are totally wasting this baby thing

I get that dexter isn't the wire but this thing just seems adrift

yeah, my hopes are middling

i dread the inevitable "twist" that the nanny or julia stiles will have been a serial killer ALL ALONG

bingo...you know thats coming. after dexter kills quinn of course. And whats the deal with Maria and her famous blowjobs?

don't get ahead of yourself, it's next season when she turns out to be the BJ killer and dexter has to snuff his own boss

haha. everytime i hear about her bj's i picture her giving one and her giant bulgie eyes popping out like large marge.

turns me on.

iltmi is that way

this show is losing me

seriously though what is the big deal about marias blowjobs? are they trying to say she blew her way to Lt.??

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3122/2837944760_66ded6c588_o.jpg

BORING

"I would rather put a campfire out with my face."

lol it's amazing how much I've come around to Deb since the first season.

quinn though... ugh. the actor played a similarly skeezy character on gossip girl - dude makes my skin crawl.

i keep thinking he's the secret son of ray liotta.

I just finished Season 4 today and basically had the same reaction as Abbott, I assumed I'd dig it more than 3 cuz Lithgow >>>>>> Smits, but I actually found Dexter's dancing with Smits for a whole season a lot more entertaining/gradually rewarding. Was pretty underwhelmed when he finally got around to putting JL on the table.

Love that Batista's shield looks like a heart in that cartoon, apt.

also did they ever really explain why/how Lithgow had a kid before his current family?

creeping feeling of worry/dread that julia stiles is going to repeat the shitty shitty smits plot arc. which will get real boring real fucking fast

nope they left that entire story about lithgows first kid out. WTF.

also did they ever really explain why/how Lithgow had a kid before his current family?

― da croupier, Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:21 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Don't you know how babies are made?

Yes, through writer contrivance. I just missed it if they established that he had a previous fake happy family before his current one or what.

He seemed so obsessed with family values and having a perfect family that it rang false to me that he would father a child with some woman (or wife?) and then leave.

Seriously, couldn't they have cut a few "I'm disappointed in you, Dexter" scenes with his dad to detail Trinity's backstory? Especially if they're going to make his bastard/abandoned/whothefuckknows daughter such an integral part of the season? It's funny this is the season that got all of the attention/accolades when it easily felt like the sloppiest.

That said, I will never complain about soulful romantic interludes with Sgt. Batista

im a wee bit tired of the batista laguerta shit

whoa, what happened to Peter Weller? i like where that's going though!

man when the writers on this show suck, they suck hard.

ie - the whole scene close on internal affairs dude saying "so hey whats all this i hear about how awesome ur blowjobs are" *wink wink* to set up the "suprise" IA bust in the hotel room. how exactly was that imaginary conversation supposed to go, you lazy chumps?

or the whole convenient ankle bracelet thing that obv makes it impossible for dude to have gone to whathisnames house, but apparently does absolutely nothing when dex drugs him and drags him off to the middle of the woods to slice and dice.

i thought the idea was that he would be tracked via the ankle bracelet as well, since he was out of the bridge area (bringing the police straight to them), hence the quick return

What do you guys think about Julia Stiles as season 5's companion?

i think julia stiles sux. she conveys the same "inflection" in her voice whether she is upset, angry..what ever. dexter and companions dont go so smooth...see smits.

yeah i agree, dexter doesn't do 'buddy seasons' so well

This is getting ridic even for dexter! The double body crime scene fabricated in 30 second? Ugh!

You know a show is good when the hardcore original fans start to hate on it, happens everytime, just like with a band.

^ apparently has Attack of The Clones running silently while listening to Weezer's Hurley

That said, I kinda loved the Smits season. maybe I'd been prepped by all the criticism, but it was nice to have Smits actually playing a guy we're supposed to find insufferable and annoying, as opposed to some sexy Supreme Court Justice turned sexy renegade lawyer nonsense.

he was annoying as fuck.

i don't think this current season is terrible by any measure and probably better than 2+3 (4 + 1 still being reigning champs + especially 4).

he was annoying as fuck.

It seemed like he was inviting Dexter over to dinner more nights of the week than not! Watching Dexter react to that kind of overbearing behavior was pretty awesome imo. Plus they kinda mapped out his character a lot more than they did Trinity, while still leaving some mystery as to just how crazy he was.

although i did love dexters reaction when lumen yelled "fuck you" at him.

I am always surprised by the hate for the Smits season from hardcore Dexter fans. I thought he was great, hilarious, and over the top in a good way. Loved the way he'd yell "Ellen WOLFE!" And he and Dexter's rooftop confrontation was awesome.

i think julia stiles sux. she conveys the same "inflection" in her voice whether she is upset, angry..

Agreed. Her acting in this season so far is pretty tone-deaf - almost as if she's playing the Kristen Wiig parody version of her character.

yeah she's not good. unfortunately, she's not hamming it up enough to be amusing, either, which is the way to go on Dexter.

just really boring this season.

I just watched this week's episode - not amazing, but at least entertaining in a traditional Dexter action episode. Matsuka had a great moment.

lol'd hard at: "He doesn't need Saint Bridget. He has Father Dexter."

"shit a brick and fuck me with it."

these words were actually spoken. oh, deb.

the dialogue in this show is really so bad it's good

why do they keep doing dexter and a buddy seasons...CUT THE SHIT ALREADY.

I have to admit I'm a LOT more amused by their romantic screwball team-up than everything Smits. Now that things are happening again in the show it's a lot more tolerable.

Objectively, I don't feel like this show has gotten a lot worse, but the more I watch of this season the more I hate all of it retroactively. I am even turning on characters I once liked, like Deb. It's like I got so pissed at how shitty season four was that it poisoned the whole Dexter universe for me.

baffled, confused and annoyed by the way the writers made laguerta into a sympathetic character then all of a sudden she becomes an incompetent corrupt hateful dick. and convinces the up-and-coming hispanic female cop to join her in her scheme to screw over deb. feels weird, racist and sexist all in one.

i think the scheme was less about screwing over deb and more about saving her own ass.

But it's still a weird turnaround for LaGuerta's character... especially after all the season 3 time spent with her and the defense attorney.

deb is all time most hated for me. awful actress and awful writing.

predict lumen kills robocop and has to flee the state, taking the heat off dexter. I hope she gets killed though.

i stopped watching this a few weeks back - should i bother catching up or just leave it be?

looks like next week's ep could be good. at least more thrilling.

yeah i dont care for deb either.

y'all crazy, Deb is the greatest.

Really fucked up. Kinda pretty too.

Anyone catch the Dylan reference ("I'll Keep It With Mine") in the season closer last night?

Not as explosive as last year's, but I was satisfied.

Enjoyed it, but it all seemed to be rapped up pretty quickly.
Would've preferred 90 min episode?

i thought it was kind of a let down after all the build up. no twist at the end! boo.

wiki says 'as of december 2, 2010 the show has been renewed for a sixth season' so it almost seems like this might have been a series finale episode at first? which makes sense since it was all 'here's what happens to every character on the show' for the last 5 min. happy couples and children everywhere!

Michael C. Hall on Pinfield's radio show, talking about seeing Monster Magnet in NYC in the '90s and more...

http://www.1019rxp.com/pinfield/

my favorite part was when lumen was all like "I'm so sorry dexter but my contract is up so now I have to go"

that was a terrible ending to a terrible season.

that was a terrible ending to a terrible season.

OTM. I'm taking the "here's what happens to every character on the show for the last 5 min. happy couples and children everywhere" as the show's finale and am jumping off. I'm annoyed that the all the elements of this season that I found interesting: the santaria-inspired occult murders and Peter Weller's sleazy cop were basically ignored or dispatched conveniently away.

And perhaps inspired by season 5's suckitude: Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Carpenter file for divorce

i never watched the show before this season and i loved it a lot fwiw

there was a lot of bad writing in this season but i wouldnt go as far to call the whole thing 'terrible'. definitely picked up towards the end but i can't help feeling the writers just got damn lazy this time round.

things like the whole 'laguerta bad guy.. now good guy.. back to bad guy' lame subplot. not even in a 'this is how human life actually is' way, it was real black & white good/bad that got confusing and annoying as the series went on. dexter isn't very good at portraying shades of gray anyway.

other things from last night: that 'i'll keep it with mine' line stuck out a mile, i took it as a nico reference, what's the bob dylan thing?

dexter's car crash was unnecessary. needless tv schlock. also why didn't his sister spot his crashed car, and how did he manage to sort it out in less than an hour? the writers are really pushing it with convenient plot devices like that hanging butcher's curtain separating dexter and his sis. my heart sinks every time they resort to this, and they did it a LOT this time round.

don't want to grumble too much, i did enjoy the season overall but the writers need a kick up the arse. not quite as good as s4 but at least it topped that bloody awful jimmy smits series.

@NI, Bob Dylan wrote and recorded I'll Keep It With Mine, Nico covered it. Though Dylan's version wasn't released until '85 or so.

hopefully next season will get dexter without a "buddy".

xp yeah i know that! i meant are dylan refs a recurring thing in dexter?

should be some nice tense scenes with his sister wife ex next season?

maybe he'll kill her. i cant stand her.

I still found this season more enjoyable than the third one, and it did start to get a little more exciting, at least, in the second half. I was definitely surprised how upbeat the end generally was, even with Dexter losing Lumen. The show's in no danger of cancellation, from what I understand, the overall ratings this season have been the show's highest.

I guess be careful what you wish for; I was hoping for a return to the darker Dexter of the first couple of seasons, and this season was undoubtedly grim - even to the point where I was getting really tired of all the rape and torture down the stretch - but it really didn't do it for me, particularly because they've just gone in the direction that Dexter is completely justified to kill these monsters who are way worse than him.

OK, finally watching Season 5 (and avoiding reading anything above this for now). The scene where Dexter has posed a man in plastic wrap next to a guy who was shot and Masuka gives his interpretation of events as it flips to Dexter's voiceover is some of the funniest shit in the series, even if this season is lacking a little

I liked that that too, but the idea that the department would take Masuka's off the cuff analysis as a given and not investigate was a little too much suspension of disbelief, even for Dexter.

I couldn't get through season 2. Michael C Hall is great, but the stories were kind of stupid and I didn't care for any of the supporting characters.

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I just finished watching this. Although it still had some of my favourite things about Dexter (like the campy Masuka stuff, Deb, grotesque baddies) they are getting so sloppy. Dexter used to have his code and it p much made sure he wouldn't get caught and now he's whacking ppl left and right, like the gas station guy, leaving evidence everywhere, taking Lumen to clean up that attic so she can drop hair everywhere; no-one in the police questions or looks into anything - all of that was at least attempted to be taken care of or explained in the earlier seasons. Sticking to the code was the one thing that provided any kind of suspense over whether he'd be caught, if he can just casually kill someone and hurry away whenever he feels like it then there's zero suspense.

And yeah that car crash was the biggest shark-jump moment ever. AND yeah he's still terrible at the basic human stuff he was meant to have learned at the start of s1 like even HUGGING HIS KIDS when telling them their mum had died. I hate that they can't get it straight as to when he's meant to be good at this stuff. And is the Kyle Butler stuff gonna come back? Quinn was pretty close with that photo & the kid.

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Anyway there's a s6 trailer on the Showtime site, looks like the same old silly nonsense but with maybe a new blonde.

welcome back, dexter

Sooo, I downloaded the episodes from this season.

A few loose ends, but I think it's fairly promising. Mos Def's character is pretty good, the casting for the serial killers is good but there hasn't been a ton of development yet, and wtf @ Masuka's intern.

haven't seen last night's yet but i thought the first few sucked and then the last 2 weeks things started to pick up and head in a more interesting direction.

I made the mistake of going on the AV threads for the last few episodes and HO BOY it looks like there is one massive SMDH RMDE sharkjump (possibly) in store. I don't want to spoiler it here though.
The writing has really gone to shit in this show though, and they've become just gobsmackingly lazy with when Dex is supposed to be intuitive to other people's behaviour or completely aspie. Mos Def best thing about this season so far (and CHanks makes me chuckle whenever he's on screen).

Pretty much my take on it, too. There's not much depth going on to the characters and the departures that were entertaining to me because they seemed out of place in previous seasons and actually funny are just being thrown in. Quinn going wild and Angel kind of tagging along?

haven't seen this or six feet under - they both look crap - but the guy is good in gamer

just a few episodes into season 2. that CANNOT be British girl's real accent (even if she is British). Fucking irritating me.

also turning up the saturation way high is quite enjoyable

Okay, still playing catch-up on this show. Haven't read this thread, wanting to avoid spoilers, but just finished Season 4 last night. Holy shit. Devastating.

One of my favourite shows ever. (Then again I have a ton of faves, so that's not saying much. lol)

I was surprised how much I liked Lithgow as a creepy killer, but could've used less naked scenes.

Right now I think I'd rank the first four seasons as 1 > 4 > 2 > 3

Warning: it gets mildly shit then UNBELIEVABLY FUCKING TERRIBLE in the next two seasons. 1-4 are classic imo. I thought I'd have been all over this thread with my complete bewilderment at the direction this show took and the goodwill they spunked away, but I guess I vented elsewhere.

Anyone watched 1st episode of season 7 yet?

maybe speaking too soon but this show has somehow become decent again

I skipped last season, got back in when Deb finds out what's going on. So far so good, but I'm kinda burned out on psychotic Russian gangsters

yeah, I'm watching the deb stuff and skipping all the other guff

deb vs. carrie on homeland for the crazy overacting title.

the russian gangsters are like characters from 24.

I'm an episode behind, but by the end of the season we're going to find out that Hannah really hasn't killed anyone since her time with Wayne and she's going to bail out Dexter by killing again, right?

catch up!

Watching the newest right now! Bodycount +1, but I'm still counting it as defending Dexter

"What's a booty call?"

aww Dexter

OK, caught up, that really threw all the monkeywrenches in the works

haha I just marathoned season 6 and am catching up on this season too. season 6 was absolutely terrible but this one has been surprisingly good so far. Love the killers this season - I always liked Yvonne Strahovski (who plays Hannah) when she was on Chuck, and the guy who plays Isaac is great.

Decided to catch up because someone told me Deb found out about Dexter, but looooool I hadn't realised they went for the whole incest angle (about two seasons too late imo but way to go, writers, for trolling all the Dex/Deb shippers). poor deb. still so very fucked up.

He's adopted!

I can't friggin believe Dexter fell for this shit

this season started out decently, got pretty good halfway, then immediately went back to being shitty. :/

though it did accomplish something I never thought possible - I now love deb and hate dexter.

Next season is going to be the last, is it not?
Kinda enjoyed this season, blonde girl may pop up again in the next one as i doubt she's finished with deb...

next season should be the last because everyone in miami should be dead already

Anyone watching the last season? Was tempted to watch because of Charlotte Rampling, but really I can't be bothered.

I'm still on board, gotta see the conclusion, but this season hasn't grabbed me yet. The Rampling character is interesting, she knew Dexter's father and counseled him about "what to do with the boy," so that aspect is good. This season's long arc killer hasn't developed into much yet.

just finished S7. Couldn't get worse than S6 and I liked the angle they took (not the gangsters or fire guy because what was that) although the last few eps were back to usual 'is this finished yet'. I like how they've abandoned the idea of anyone doing any actual police work ever.

Is anybody still watching this? I just read a review that called it the worst final season of TV ever.

I gave up awhile ago - but now I want to see it in a car crash kind of way.

Not me. Gave up early last season when I realized literally the ONLY thing I enjoyed about it was ogling Dexter's crazy killer gardener girlfriend. The season before that with the "doomsday" plot was also basically some of the worst TV I've ever intentionally watched.

halfway through doomsday was where i checked out, it was bad even before that but holy shit

I think much of the love that Michael Hall gained from 6 Feet Under has evaporated after 8 seasons of this garbage. How it has lasted this long I do not know.

Anybody watch the the last episode? They should have left it when hannah and harrison went for ice-cream...

wow people were not kidding about how bad that finale was. Holy shit, was it bad.

It didn’t help that I just watched a couple of episodes from season 1 on TV the other day, and it was already depressing to see how much the tone of the entire show had changed. Earlier seasons were a lot funnier, a lot darker and more cynical. Dexter felt like a proper anti-hero, as terrifying as the psychopaths he killed. What the actual fuck.

Anyway, anyone seriously considering taking on this show, stop at season 4. Really.

otm

the av club's reviewer went so far as to vow to not even recommend the first two years to anyone, in case they keep watching

i saw it out but it was completely terrible by the end.

Also, poor Deb. Fucked up til the end.

my curiosity remained (despite everything) until i heard she fell in love with her brother. that sent me on my way quicksticks.

i took it with a pinch of nacl and foolishly persisted.

Sadly, there wasn't even much car crash quality to this season until the finale, it was very by-the-numbers before that. The first episode was promising but it got bad quickly. I liked Charlotte Rampling's character until the writers couldn't decide if she was supposed to show Dexter that he's good or that he's not good. The finale is where it gets ridiculous but only near the end. Watch just that if you want a laugh.

my curiosity remained (despite everything) until i heard she fell in love with her brother

I skipped the doomsday season but I read about this in a review and it was what got me intrigued in the show again! But they didn't do anything with it. This show needed to be more over-the-top if anything.

From reddit, but I'm been laughing about this since last night (SPOILERS I guess):

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
6. Lumberjack

looool

but he's ok

*removes bookmark from thread*

After which season should the television series DEXTER have been cancelled?

Dexter Producer: Showtime Wouldn’t Let Us Kill Dexter

The Dexter series finale enraged many fans for many reasons; chief among them was the fact that Dexter lived — and became a logger? — despite having driven his boat into a hurricane. "How about that finale?" said Dexter producer John Goldwyn at the NYFF premiere of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty this weekend, when we asked how the writers decided on that ending. "They won't let us kill him," he told us. "Showtime was very clear about that. When we told them the arc for the last season, they just said, 'Just to be clear, he's going to live.' There were a lot of endings discussed because it was a very interesting problem to solve, to bring it to a close. People have a relationship with Dexter, even if it doesn't have the size and the ferocity of the fan base for Breaking Bad. But it has a very core loyal following." Yes, and a mostly disappointed one.

Inevitable. The IP must be fed

‘Dexter’: Showtime Revives Serial Killer Drama As Limited Series, Michael C. Hall & Clyde Phillips Return
https://deadline.com/2020/10/dexter-showtime-reboot-limited-michael-c-hall-clyde-phillips-1234597514/

I guess that's why Showtime wouldn't let them kill him. Can't imagine a revival not sucking

Boooooooooo. Why

Maybe they got tired of seeing the show reduced to a footnote for one of the worst series finales of all time.

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!