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.

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!