Oh no, we just realized something: There’s only one week left in our Top 100 Everything of 2011 countdown! It’s been so much fun, maybe we should do this all year long in 2012? Let’s see, 52 weeks in a year, 50 items a week, that’s… TV.com’s Top 2,600 Everything! Consider it done. J/K, it will NOT be done, but even if it were done, Whitney probably still wouldn’t make the list. We’ll be posting 10 items each weekday through December 30, so check back often to see what made the cut! 50.
Dexter
This season of Dexter promised to provide an exploration of faith and the potential pitfalls of giving yourself over to a higher authority. But after 12 episodes of muddled, incoherent references to religion, it became clear that only one religious element would be given any serious exploration: redemption. And not for the characters; for this season . Would such a consistently sub-par Season 6 have any redeeming qualities?
Reuters – (Spoiler warning: discloses what happens in season finale) “Dexter” is a show obsessed with blood. So maybe fans shouldn’t have been so surprised — to say nothing of shocked, baffled, and repulsed — by the so-called “incest” storyline between siblings Dexter and Deborah Morgan this season.
This week’s episode of Dexter was titled “Talk to the Hand,” which, even though it’s obviously supposed to refer to a severed hand, is still basically Level-1 punnery. Used ironically or not, that phrase is about as hacky as possible, so it’s a truly fitting title for a Season 6 episode. Look, I’m kind of tired of pointing out that this season is terrible. I’m tired of it, and you’re especially tired of it. Let’s just accept it as fact and move on
Life is funny. One day you’re tracking Miami’s most notorious Christian extremist, and the next day you realize he’s been dead in a freezer for the past three years. Poor Dexter! Dexter’s really had a bad couple of weeks, you guys. This season promised to be an exploration into the nature of faith, and in particular the effects it may have on Dexter’s Dark Passenger, but instead it’s turned into a ten-episode (so far) testament that maybe Dexter needs a new hobby?
“I know what I’m doing.” —Dexter Morgan. This statement should have been true—no, would have been true—if this were a better season of Dexter . Dexter Morgan’s sickly superior pathology has always been the focus of this series—his killer instinct, his heightened senses, his ability to remain several steps ahead of his co-workers, targets, and we the viewers. That’s the Dexter we tune in for: a guy who operates at the top of his game. Unfortunately, this is Season 6, a season that until this point I’d feared was >
Last week’s announcement that Dexter has been renewed for Seasons 7 and 8 was widely celebrated by the series’ massive fan base, as well as, presumably, Michael C. Hall ‘s accountant. But for those of us who’ve had serious reservations about the quality of the current season, it begged the question: What exactly keeps us so hooked on this show? The stakes have never been so low: In its entire run so far,…
I know, I know, it’s Monday, but here’s one thing we can look forward to: a whole week of new Open Caption contests. But first, here are the winners from this weekend’s contest : From curriea : Brian: Who’s in all of these bags? Dexter: The writers of Seasons 3 and 5. From Geek_Queen : Is this the cover art for the new Pink Floyd/ Dexter album, “Dark Side of the Room”? >
Of all the ways Dexter ‘ s attempted to refresh its formula over the years, few things work as well as a simple change of venue. Don’t get me wrong, bright and shiny Miami’s an inspired setting for a show about inner darkness, but after six seasons the turquoise horizons and wafting Latin rhythms have grown slightly tired. While the appropriately titled “Nebraska” took a major turn into self-mythologizing territory by bringing back two familiar faces from past seasons, the newer, dustier visuals of Nebraska were just straight-up refreshing .
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