what was wrong with him experimenting with a buddy to work with him? Every season seems to roam around the idea of him and the ethics of his work. The game of leverage he played with Miguel was great. I think 1-3 and that order for me. classic Dexter <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/IMWKgu0_Qxg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
one of the strongest scenes of the show in my opinion, sorry for my 3rd season gasm <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/qyx_xDTIbWA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
I've enjoyed the whole series very much. The only thing I don't like is Tootie's/Kim Fields' character. She is like nails on a chalkboard to me, from the writing to the acting.
Don't apologize! I'm with you. Season 3 was also my favorite. Jimmy Smits was great and we got to watch some growth with Dexter's character as he explored friendship. My rankings with tiers: ---GREAT--- Season 3 Season 2 (I miss Doakes!) Season 1 ---GOOD--- Season 4 ---BAD--- Season 5 ---LOL-FEST--- Season 6
Count me and my wife in on the season 3 love, which is the favorite for both of us. I loved Dexter trying to find true friendship with Miguel before they descended into their cat and mouse game where Miguel wound up strapped to a bed with seran wrap. He also tried to balance having a family with his dark passenger. Season 4 for me was the real weak sauce season. Yes, the ending was shocking and memorable, but the whole journey was pretty boring. Trinity was a pretty lame character in my book. It was like the whole season was nothing but a setup for Rita's murder. I haven't seen season 6 yet. We're having a marathon session in a few weeks when my wife's quarter of teaching ends. I'd rate them 3,2,1,5,4 so far.
I started one week ago with Dexter and finished season 6 yesterday, talk about a marathon. :grin: Will be pretty hard to now always wait weeks for the next episodes and sit out the season breaks or the gap from season 7 to 8, was used to watching 6+ episodes per day.
Holidays right now and I have no life atm, so don't judge me. :grin: Think I nearly watched one season per day this past week, been a sick run.
No show has more lulls (moments that bore me) more than breaking bad. i think its over rated in my opinion. i find it hard to find myself glued to the screen. But breaking bad often has good starts and endings to the episodes but the middle is lacking something. Dexter is an overall better show in my opinion.
Last two seasons were definitely let downs after season 4, but this is still an awesome show! My top three for sure. Really hope this season picks up.
For me, I'd rank the Seasons as follows: 1. Season 1 - Quite possibly my favorite season of television from any show out there. The Ice Truck Killer storyline was so interesting and creepy, with a couple great twists towards the middle and end. Just an awesome, suspenseful mystery. 10/10 2. Season 4 - Lithgow's performance makes this season. Undeniably creepy and morbid, as well as the best twist of the entire season with the season's final scene. Probably the majority vote of best season so far, and it just misses for me. 10/10 3. Season 2 - Lila was incredibly annoying, but an awesome season overall. Last 4-5 episodes were all fantastic and nerve-wrecking. Only thing that bothered me was the fact that everything works out a little too conveniently for Dexter (an issue that arises in just about every season), and it makes for a somewhat unbelievable outcome. 8/10 4. Season 6 - Obviously this was not met with great reviews, and many people hated this season, and while I didn't think it was great, I thought the Doomsday Killer was really strange and creepy, and his kills/tableaus were all pretty jarring. The thing that really saved this season for me was the final scene. It throws the show in a crazy new direction, making Season 7 really interesting. 7/10 5. Season 5 - I liked Lumen a lot, and I thought she was essentially an upgrade from Rita. She seemed more naturally fit for Dexter and I wish they kept her around. As for the Jordan Price storyline, it was okay, and it was fun seeing Dexter going around picking off each person involved in the rape crimes one by one. Sadly though, they didn't provide much backstory with the criminals, so it didn't really give you a great idea of what Dexter and Lumen were dealing with. Still very solid though. 7/10 6. Season 3 - Weakest season in my opinion. It definitely suffered from having to live up to the immense hype that Season 1 and 2 created, so a dropoff was expected, but it just didn't have the same suspense and creepiness that makes Dexter great. The Skinner storyline was forgettable, and while it was definitely smart of them to throw the show in a new direction and allow Dexter to experiment with friendship and such, it wasn't handled well in my opinion and didn't have the flare that Season 1 and 2 had. Still definitely watchable and entertaining though, as Dexter always is. 6/10
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...nd_sgt_doakes_on_dexter_are_eerily_alike.html The Eerie Similarities Between Christopher Dorner and Dexter’s James Doakes Spoiler The Eerie Similarities Between Christopher Dorner and Dexter’s James Doakes By Katy Waldman | Posted Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, at 5:27 PM ET Michael C. Hall and Erik King on Dexter Showtime As the Chris Dorner saga burnt down to its strange conclusion Tuesday evening, most people watching the events on TV presumably felt sad, shocked, or repulsed. A few—crime procedural nerds, Michael C. Hall fans—may have also felt a twinge of recognition. Dorner’s story, or what we know of it so far, bears striking similarities to the Sgt. Doakes plotline from the Showtime series Dexter. (Spoilers for the first two seasons of the show are ahead.) There’s no equivalence, obviously, between a real-life tragedy and a network fantasy that treats death as glamorous and serial killers as cuddly. But the scenarios echo each other in uncanny ways. In Season 2 of Dexter, Army ranger-turned-cop James Doakes (Erik King) is accused of murdering a long list of Miamians; he winds up in a cabin in the Everglades, which becomes his gravesite when it dissolves in flames. Police (erroneously) close their marquee case, that of the Bay Harbor Butcher, after IDing Doakes’ incinerated torso. Now we have Chris Dorner, Navy reservist-turned-cop, accused of murdering three people, holed up in a bungalow in the woods that explodes under mysterious circumstances, also leaving behind nothing but charred remains. One of the obvious differences between fiction and reality: On Dexter, we knew exactly what happened. We knew Doakes was innocent, that femme fatale Lila torched the hideout after dousing it in lighter fluid, that Dexter himself committed the original murders. We knew Doakes only ended up in the fateful cabin because he was tracking the show’s anti-hero. Despite the injustice of it, we even appreciated the neatness with which the season tied up its loose ends. It certainly looks like Dorner killed the daughter of an LAPD officer and her fiancé and shot at two Riverside cops. (We can even speculate that he was the one to start the blaze, perhaps to die in a storm of glory.) But for now, we don’t know for sure. That flickering uncertainty is one of the many, many reasons that crime-and-punishment tales prove far less satisfying—and far more disturbing—in real life.
Season 1-4 remain some of the best television I have come across. If it stopped there, it would have easily been a Top 5 show of all time for me. I hope this spinoff thing they're doing is worth a damn. I don't want to relive more lumberjack nonsense.
I like some of the quirky part of the show, when Dexter try to do the little things to fit in and appear normal. Watching a sad movie on Date night.
