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I wonder what Dexter would do to the Anti mask covidiots
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Dexter will neither be in Oregon, nor Miami come the new season.
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Jan 16, 2021 18:27
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didn't MCH have increasing involvement in production and direction as the series progressed, suspiciously corresponding with dexter's evolution into an invincible superhero and the sheer drop in overall quality?
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Jan 19, 2021 18:06
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Wasn't the shows core problem that MCH's ,at the time, enormously inflated contract in combination with the usual later season cuts starved the production? Off the top of my head later seasons recycled: OST Plot beats Dialogue Sets Until the show was virtually a pastiche of itself.
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Jan 19, 2021 19:45
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Like how starved is a production for money when this made it into the final cut: https://i.imgur.com/R0ievbn.mp4
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Jan 19, 2021 20:37
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I never finished Dexter and feel pretty good about the decision. If I rewatch what's the recommended stopping point?
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Jan 21, 2021 03:33
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Dignity Van Houten posted:I never finished Dexter and feel pretty good about the decision. If I rewatch what's the recommended stopping point? s2 or s4. Everyone loves Lithgow in s4 but the rest of that season was hot loving garbage that he could barely salvage. Definitely a sign of things to come.
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Jan 21, 2021 03:49
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Dignity Van Houten posted:I never finished Dexter and feel pretty good about the decision. If I rewatch what's the recommended stopping point? Season 2, unless you are a serious glutton for punishment or you want to understand the memes in this thread specifically.
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Jan 21, 2021 07:26
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:s2 or s4. Yeah, my "I'm gonna watch Dexter from start to finish!" project crashed hard in season 6, and it was a real slog long before that.
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Jan 21, 2021 11:37
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:s2 or s4. The show has always been campy, no one can argue against that. At least the Trinity season pretended (better than anything past it) to have real stakes. Plus that Thanksgiving dinner was tense as gently caress.
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Jan 21, 2021 12:50
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The end of season 5 was the first specific point I remember people turning on the show. S5 is...ok but the commitment to leading it absolutely nowhere in the finale is where it becomes officially a Bad Show.
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Jan 21, 2021 13:13
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Yeah, watch Seasons 1, 2 and 4. They're the only good ones (and Season 4 doesn't suck, IMO).
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Jan 21, 2021 13:17
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Dignity Van Houten posted:I never finished Dexter and feel pretty good about the decision. If I rewatch what's the recommended stopping point? I'm being incredibly generous. I recommend you don't stop and live post.
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Jan 21, 2021 13:25
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Slamhound posted:
This is actually the best answer, really.
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Jan 21, 2021 13:31
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the miguel prado season is a sneak preview of all the truly stupid poo poo they end up doing in later seasons it’s phenomenal
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Jan 21, 2021 13:32
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Thinking about the time Dexter kidnapped, murdered, and carried a corpse from an international airport.
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Jan 21, 2021 13:42
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Declan MacManus posted:the miguel prado season is a sneak preview of all the truly stupid poo poo they end up doing in later seasons Season 3 was Freebo and the black SUV, right? Hmmm... Season 1: Campy and fun Season 2: Even more true Season 3: Black SUV Season 4: We want more Season 5: Dexter's still alive?! Season 6: Narrator tricks Season 7: A Bench from Heaven Season 8: We all hate
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Jan 21, 2021 13:42
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Season 3 was Freebo and the black SUV, right? Season 3 was Chicky Hines.
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Jan 21, 2021 14:18
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Slamhound posted:Season 3 was Chicky Hines. Yeah, but that doesn't rhyme. And I was kind of bummed when I found out that I couldn't put "Season 6: Old PI Tricks"
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Jan 21, 2021 15:08
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Remember when that last bad guy put spyware on someone's computer and Dexter was like "he tunneled into her computer... but tunnels work both ways" then he just typed something and reversed the spyware connection so so that he was spying on him instead
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Jan 21, 2021 16:33
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I kind of liked season 7 tbh. But the problem was that it was all rise for a huge final season payoff that never happened.
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Jan 21, 2021 16:36
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massive spider posted:The end of season 5 was the first specific point I remember people turning on the show. S5 is...ok but the commitment to leading it absolutely nowhere in the finale is where it becomes officially a Bad Show. Yeah, that's the exact moment when the show becomes irredeemable. They had the perfect opportunity to change up the status quo and do something interesting which they'd spent basically the entire season building to and then spat in your face and said 'gently caress you, status quo forever'. But then again, when they did go through with it in season 7 it was an abysmal failure so maybe there truly was no hope. I did enjoy season 5 up to that point though and I think that if you can make it to the end of that it's the best endpoint. Going farther than that is just masochism. Also I did do a partial rewatch a few months ago and tbh a lot of the aggressively terrible subplots existed even in seasons 3 and 4, which surprised me. Especially season 4 was disappointing. Everyone remembers Lithgow being so great from that season but what they don't remember is every other character being dreadful. I'm pretty sure that every characters plot outside of Dexter vs Trinity is terrible that season.
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Jan 21, 2021 21:24
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Yeah I think it was because season 3 sucked and season 4 was a lot better that it's viewed as such. But better than garbage isn't that high of a bar objectively. Lithgow was pretty good though can't take that away.
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Jan 21, 2021 22:48
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Well, Clancy Brown has been cast as the villain. I feel like there are some Mr. Krabs jokes in the future. Especially if Dexter ends up killing him with a hammer. Someone can take the scene where he kills him and intercut it with when Dexter was smashing up crabs in the pilot.
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Jan 21, 2021 22:52
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How do you have a season like the Trinity killer and then almost all characters just lose their motivation afterwards?
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i remember the going recommendation in the old thread was that if you are gonna watch up to season 4, watch the season 5 premier and then pretend that's the series finale
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Jan 21, 2021 22:53
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Clancy Brown should just play The Kurgan with zero changes to his character.
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Jan 21, 2021 23:59
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Dexter vs. Lex Luthor? Has potential.
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Jan 22, 2021 20:33
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Season 3 was somehow the first one I saw
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Jan 23, 2021 02:20
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First season I was in it for the concept, and it was good. Second I was in because I wanted to see what happened next, and it was alright. Third I was almost tuned out but was still watching for loyalty I guess. Then the show fell into a pattern where they'd cast a prominent actor I liked, so I'd watch just for that. Season 4 was "Oh, I like John Lithgow, I'll watch it." and then it was a much better season. Season 5 was "Oh, I like Jonny Lee Miller and Peter Weller, I'll watch it." and it was much less good. Season 6 was "Oh, I like Edward James Olmos, I'll watch it." and it still somehow managed to suck. I stopped there. I might have watched the first episode of S7 just to see how the cliffhanger was resolved, but I don't think I went any further than that. Good acting couldn't outpace the bad writing.
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Jan 23, 2021 02:43
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sticklefifer posted:First season I was in it for the concept, and it was good. Second I was in because I wanted to see what happened next, and it was alright. Third I was almost tuned out but was still watching for loyalty I guess. Then the show fell into a pattern where they'd cast a prominent actor I liked, so I'd watch just for that. Season 4 was "Oh, I like John Lithgow, I'll watch it." and then it was a much better season. Season 5 was "Oh, I like Jonny Lee Miller and Peter Weller, I'll watch it." and it was much less good. Season 6 was "Oh, I like Edward James Olmos, I'll watch it." and it still somehow managed to suck. I stopped there. I might have watched the first episode of S7 just to see how the cliffhanger was resolved, but I don't think I went any further than that. Good acting couldn't outpace the bad writing. The other guest stars that you missed out on were the dude who was in Spartacus (?) as a mobster in s7 (edit: Ray Stevenson as Sirko), and Charlotte Rampling in s8. Psychopath, psychopath, psychopath!
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Jan 23, 2021 03:17
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https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1352788077262090241?s=20
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Jan 23, 2021 04:10
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I said this before but I’ll say it again. Stop watching after season 4. Lithgow was amazing. As mentioned above, I literally ran into him after the season aired at a local deli place. He scared the poo poo out of me after that season. And to turn around after getting my chicken salad (which I didn’t use a knife to cut), and run into him was terrifying. He’s a huge man and I’m tall but his presence was incredible. Gone was the dad from Harry and the Hendersons. He’s a genius. And again, stop after season 4.
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Jan 23, 2021 23:43
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Season 5 starts with promise as Zero Cool verbalizes Dexters inner monologue right to his face, but that stop quickly and as has been said, ends up going nowhere. The season 4 finale is the perfect place to stop.
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Jan 27, 2021 06:15
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IMO it's worth watching the first ep of S5 for the Mickey Mouse scene, but not one step further
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sticklefifer posted:First season I was in it for the concept, and it was good. Second I was in because I wanted to see what happened next, and it was alright. Third I was almost tuned out but was still watching for loyalty I guess. Then the show fell into a pattern where they'd cast a prominent actor I liked, so I'd watch just for that. Season 4 was "Oh, I like John Lithgow, I'll watch it." and then it was a much better season. Season 5 was "Oh, I like Jonny Lee Miller and Peter Weller, I'll watch it." and it was much less good. Season 6 was "Oh, I like Edward James Olmos, I'll watch it." and it still somehow managed to suck. I think this sums up how a lot of people watched the show, they came for the niche concept and stayed for good performances or at the very least, recognizable names with a lot of promise. That's probably a big part of why people were so forgiving despite the show's many flaws, which were always there but easy to ignore initially. I only really noticed them upon rewatching part of the show after it had ended. So, I know I've said this before, but once more: the last season retroactively ruined the entire show. After seeing that whole train wreck of a season, the bad parts seemed so much more prominent, where before they were easy to ignore or just chuckle at and move past. I think my rewatches usually ended a few episodes into season six (I actually kinda liked how it started, with the whole "killer of the week" thing, before the god awful main plot got going - it was dumb, but at least it was fun), so if I had to recommend to someone where to stop, I'd say the finale of four, or five I guess if you can stomach how meandering it gets. But really, aside from John Lithgow's amazing performance in four, the show doesn't have much more to offer past season two, so that also works as a stopping point. That being said, I thought seasons one and two formed a pretty good story arc, which is why I'm cautiously optimistic about this since it's supposed to just be ten more episodes and nothing more past that. And hey, even if it does suck, at least I'll get some laughs from this thread.
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Jan 29, 2021 05:44
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JaddaCaddra posted:I think my rewatches usually ended a few episodes into season six I am now extremely curious how many times you have watched the first five seasons of Dexter.
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Jan 29, 2021 06:40
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tk posted:I am now extremely curious how many times you have watched the first five seasons of Dexter. Actually watching? Just twice, one time being my initial watch and the other time being the rewatch a few months after the show ended to see if I could still enjoy that at least. But a couple of times in mid 2014 when I got tired of all my background noise stuff and didn't feel like watching something new, I put it on because it was the only familiar thing I hadn't worn out, and I usually don't like playing stuff I haven't seen just to fill the air. I didn't really watch it at that time so much as I tuned it out and very occasionally looked up from my computer to see what was going on, so calling those rewatches was a bit disingenuous on my part. But the fact that the last few seasons are so bad I couldn't even stand to have them on just to ignore them is probably an even better indicator of just how terrible they were.
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Jan 29, 2021 07:39
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I've never re-watched any of the seasons but 1 and 2. Mostly because I had them on DVD.
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Jan 29, 2021 13:32
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More cast added: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/dexter-enlists-jamie-chung-oscar-wahlberg-exclusive Jamie Chung is a great addition. Story looks like Dexter is in upstate New York, and gets pulled into local town issues. Probably battling with his desire to murder people along the way,
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What If the 70's Hulk tv show, but Dexter, and ever episode ends with sad music playing as he drags a black trashbag full of body parts along the highway towards the next town.
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