Dexter

May 7th, 2008

Having just watched the penultimate episode of Dexter season 1, I have only two things to say:

  1. Is season 2 out on DVD yet? I can’t possibly wait the several months it’ll take ITV to get round to showing it.1
  2. There will be blood. Oh yes.

If 2007 was the year of Heroes and Friday Night Lights, 2008 is almost certainly going down as the year of Dexter.

  1. While I’m on the subject, when are ITV going to get round to broadcasting Friday Night Lights season 2? I know there’s one honking great miscalculation of a melodramatic subplot that would have been better suited to a daytime soap, but I’d like the chance to form my own judgement. ↩

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2 Responses to “Dexter”

  1. bea Says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 9:52 am

    I’d been meaning to ask you what you think of Dexter…I’m absolutely loving it. I had to go online to check that this week’s ep wasn’t the last one of the season as it had the classic cliffhanger. I very probably will succumb to getting season 2 before it shows on ITV as well, I can barely wait for the weekly episodes as it is at the moment.

  2. John Says:
    May 9th, 2008 at 7:24 pm

    If they had made this week’s episode a season-ending cliffhanger I’d have gone on a killing spree, starting with the show’s producers. I’ve been completely paranoid about spoilers, so I don’t know to what extent the various plotlines get tied up next week, but I’m guessing that at least one or two of the recurring cast members aren’t going to make it out alive.

    I wonder if we’re going to get an explanation as to why the ice-truck killer latched on to Dexter. Is there some as yet unexplored connection between them (through Dexter’s blood relatives perhaps, or maybe a relative of the ice-truck killer being one of Dexter’s victims?) or was it just a case of one skilled artisan noticing the other’s work and tracking him down?

    One of my favourite aspects of the show is the way that the writers resist the temptation to spell things out. For example, early on when Dexter found that he’d been left a ‘gift’ in his fridge, and when those photos of his old haunts started showing up, the first thing that I thought was that Dexter’s sister would probably be a target for the ice-truck killer. As far as I can remember, Dexter gave absolutely no sign that it ever occurred to him that if he was being watched by a serial killer who preyed on women his one surviving close relative might also be at risk: he just treated the whole thing as a game, as something that was all about him. For me, that just underlined how far he’s pretending to have empathy towards others, even with his sister.

    What other imports have you been liking on TV? Did you ever watch Friday Night Lights? I adore that show.

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