Even though the finale of Season 5 was quite pathetic, the season overall was entertaining enough not to just constantly complain about it. It had a few interesting characters at least and some decent plots overall. Season 6 on the other hand…horrible.
From the very first episode this year we were in trouble. Knowing that they basically showed us with the Season 5 finale that the show was just going to reboot itself every year with Dexter never having any real scares this season may have already been doomed. I’ve never read any of the books on my kindle ebooks, but I can’t imagine they are this played out. It still didn’t have to suck this bad though did it?
The writing this year is bad even for Dexter. IF you watch shows like Breaking Bad, Boardwalk Empire, etc. and take TV serious enough to want great dramas like The Sopranos and Six Feet Under you have already decided that Dexter doesn’t fall into the same realm. You just watch it with a bit of that in mind and still try to enjoy it on a less serious level of quality.
This season is just so cringeworthy. The dialog in the last episode made me laugh out loud when it wasn’t intended several times. Especially all the interactions with Travis and Dexter, or his blog, or Travis and anyone. All his lines seemed to have been written for a comic book. Short and very cheesy. I was a big fan of Hanks in the comedy show that got cancelled last year on Fox called The Good Guys, but Dexter is making him look bad. HE really has nothing to work with so I can’t blame him all that much.
This is the least I have cared about the major prey of Dexter in a season. Travis is nothing but forgettable, and these Doomsday killings are a laughable cliched plot that we’ve seen hundreds of times before. The “twist” of Gellar being dead was figured out by most people I know that watch the show by the 2nd, or 3rd episode. I mean a guy walking around town when his face is plastered all over the front page and standing next it? Never touching anything? Come on people you ahd to know this was coming.
The show got 2 more season already too. At least it has an end date now. Maybe they can finally make a non-filler season next year instead of trying to do it every year and forgetting everything that happened before.
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