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Dexter: season 4, episode 8
"Road Kill"
November 16, 2009 - 05:11a.m.
"Road Kill" is as close a look as Dexter has ever given us at another character through Dexter's eyes. It's an unblinking glimpse into the dark heart of Arthur Mitchell, and while it's still not quite Dexter ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 7
"Slack Tide"
November 9, 2009 - 12:11a.m.
"Slack Tide" is such a holding pattern type of episode that the very name of the episode seems to suggest that's the kind of episode it's going to be. Slack tide, Dexter informs us, is the tide that ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 6
"If I Had a Hammer"
November 2, 2009 - 03:11a.m.
There’s a pretty great scene toward the end of “If I Had a Hammer,” and it’s great precisely because it strips away a lot of the bullshit that the show sometimes leans too heavily on. Rita has dragged ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 5
"Dirty Harry"
October 26, 2009 - 12:10a.m.
If we’re being honest, I found the first three-quarters or so of “Dirty Harry” pretty rote, since the episode was inevitably heading to a foregone conclusion that couldn’t end in the confrontation it seemed to be pointing toward ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 4
"Dex Takes a Holiday"
October 18, 2009 - 09:10p.m.
One of the things I’ve always liked best about Dexter is how it seems to be in conversation with other crime procedurals. The characters on those shows are often emotionless automatons who go about their work in such a ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 3
"Blinded by the Light"
October 11, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
Character growth is the hardest thing to finagle on a TV show. You, obviously, want your characters to grow and change in some way or another, but you want that change to simultaneously feel organic and earned, not forced. It ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 2
"Remains to be Seen"
October 4, 2009 - 10:10p.m.
Dexter is rarely better than when it puts Dexter in the midst of a situation where he’s having to improvise a solution to escape imminent capture. One of the best episodes of the first season centered on this idea ...
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Dexter: season 4, episode 1
"Living the Dream"
September 27, 2009 - 10:09p.m.
I think I’d like Dexter to announce that its (already picked up) fifth season is going to be its final one. For all of the show’s virtues, at this point, it’s become incredibly obvious that the show ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 12
"Do You Take Dexter Morgan?"
December 14, 2008 - 11:12p.m.
“I promise to be the very best husband and father I can be.” —Dexter to Maria, at the wedding
“A completely, utterly honest vow.” —Dexter, via voiceover
This is going to sound like an insult, but I mean it as ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 11
"I Had A Dream"
December 8, 2008 - 11:12a.m.
First things first: the bad news is your trusty guide through all things Dexter, Scott Tobias, couldn't be with you for last night's episode. In his stead, he has entrusted me to recap for you the Matsuka F-plots ... -
Dexter: season 3, episode 10
"Go Your Own Way"
November 30, 2008 - 10:11p.m.
Okay, since I’m late to weigh in and there’s already some great discussion of the episode down in the comments below, I’ll register my thoughts on “Go Your Own Way” in the bullet points:
• First thought: Wow ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 9
"About Last Night"
November 24, 2008 - 12:11a.m.
Well, so much for the theory that Ellen Wolf was inviting a friendly face into her house.
To use the parlance of our times, it would appear that Miguel has “gone rogue.” His friendship with Dexter, we discover in this ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 8
"The Damage A Man Can Do"
November 16, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
“I’m going to put together a starter kit for you.”
Awesome. It was inevitable that Dexter, having opened the door to his new BFF Miguel, would draw him further inside his twisted little world, but it’s still astonishing ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 7
"Easy As Pie"
November 9, 2008 - 08:11p.m.
By nature of his extracurricular activities, Dexter is a loner. But that doesn’t mean he wants to be. He’s always been desperate to share his secret with somebody who might understand, which is why he tends to monologue ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 6
"Sí Se Puede"
November 2, 2008 - 11:11p.m.
There’s a reason this show isn’t called Miami Metro.
It’s a little hard not to sound like a skipping record when reviewing this show every week, but the equation applies nearly 100% of the time: The more ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 5
"Turning Biminese"
October 26, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
Oddly enough, for some reason it never occurred to me that Dexter, by asking Rita to marry him, would eventually have to move in with her and the kids. And you know what? I’m not sure it occurred to ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 4
"All In The Family"
October 19, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
From Season One, Episode One, we’ve known that Rita’s presence in Dexter’s life has been about keeping up the appearance of being a normal guy, which is a necessary cover for a serial killer to have. Much ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 3
"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
October 12, 2008 - 10:10p.m.
The main thing I like about Dexter is how committed the show is to going deep inside Dexter’s head and learning more about the nature of his psychosis and the conflicting impulses that are at war within him all ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 2
"Finding Freebo"
October 5, 2008 - 09:10p.m.
Last week, a couple of commenters took me to task for not spending any time on the big development dropped at the end of the episode: Rita is pregnant. But, my friends, this weekly recapping is a marathon, not a ...
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Dexter: season 3, episode 1
"Our Father"
September 28, 2008 - 08:09p.m.
When we last saw our darkly, dreaming Dexter, he had successfully untangled himself from a heap of trouble—partly because of his own diabolical genius, partly because circumstances twisted in his favor. His bodies surfaced, prompting a massive investigation into ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 12
"The British Invasion"
December 16, 2007 - 09:12p.m.
My first thought: What a cheat! My second thought: Maybe not.
The question of what Dexter was going to do about Doakes, a decent and innocent man, was one I think the finale should have answered directly. If Dexter’s ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 11
"Left Turn Ahead"
December 9, 2007 - 09:12p.m.
The key exchange of tonight’s episode took place between Dexter and Angel at a bar, as the two commiserated over batshit Lila’s attempt to win Dexter back by framing Angel for rape:
Dexter: “If I got to choose ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 10
"There's Something About Harry"
December 2, 2007 - 10:12p.m.
If nothing else, this season of Dexter has been all about our hero’s capacity for self-delusion. We hear his thoughts via voiceover, but they’re often unreliable, partly because he doesn’t know who he is and partly because ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 9
"Resistance Is Futile"
November 25, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
On last week’s message board, after I enthused about Dexter powering into its third act, reader “anon” cautioned:
Unlike you, I'm not a fan of the third act shift. The need to bring things to a head and ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 8
"Morning Comes"
November 18, 2007 - 09:11p.m.
“What more could a rededicated serial killer ask for?”
Indeed. Though I’ve long since dropped my initial regret over Dexter having not killed his sister at the end of Season One, I think my concerns were legitimate; at the ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 7
"That Night, A Forest Grew"
November 11, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Welcome to Showtime.
Granted, the network has evolved into a legitimate purveyor of thoughtful, provocative entertainments like Weeds, Brotherhood, and Dexter, but the rampant T&A throughout the beginning of this episode—all courtesy of Jamie Murray’s gleefully uninhibited ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 6
"Dex, Lies, And Videotape"
November 4, 2007 - 10:11p.m.
Hi, this is Dexter. I’m not here right now, but if you’d like to leave a long-winded and flagrantly inappropriate message after the beep, I’ll get back to you just as quick as a lick.
*beeeep*
“Hey ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 5
"The Dark Defender"
October 28, 2007 - 10:10p.m.
Wow. Where to start? Some big revelations tonight, starting again on that fateful day at the shipyard, which is the psychological gift that keeps on giving. First we learn of the long-lost brother that wasn’t saved by Harry, now ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 4
"See-Through"
October 21, 2007 - 09:10p.m.
The Bay Harbor Butcher: Scourge of the city or avenging force for good?
As news of the connection between the BHB’s victims comes to light, the question was bound to become a talking point. How much should the city ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 3
"An Inconvenient Lie"
October 14, 2007 - 09:10p.m.
“Nothing stays buried. Perhaps not even me.”
As Dexter’s grisly handiwork continues to surface from the ocean floor, his sense of self is starting to emerge as well, and it’s a destabilizing development for him. In “An Inconvenient ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 2
"Waiting To Exhale"
October 7, 2007 - 09:10p.m.
Oh, so that’s why they hired Michael C. Hall.
** SPOILERS FOLLOW AFTER THE JUMP **
After the reckoning of last season’s finale, in which Dexter’s put down his brother, and the first episode of this one, in which ...
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Dexter: season 2, episode 1
"It's Alive"
September 30, 2007 - 08:09p.m.
Dexter should have killed his sister.
There you go. That’s where I stand. I feel like I have to be upfront about my feelings as we head into Season Two and see if the show can write itself out ...
