Thread 212510003

Just started marathoning this

What is the season I should stop watching it before it turns to boring slop? Usually when people tell you to drop a show after a current season they are right

>>212510003 (OP)
1, 2, 4, done.

>>212510003 (OP)
Season 4 is the last good season, the writing staff changed entirely for season 5 onward and it's very obvious. The final season is notorious for just how bad it was.
Do yourself a favor and stop when you finish season 4.

>>212510003 (OP)
i just follow my own instincts. its rare for me to see a show all the way through.
once you stop enjoying it, isnt that enough?

>>212510003 (OP)
Seasons 1,2,4 are the peak. Season 3 is alright but suffers from a writers strike that was going on. After that the main writer left and it pretty much turns into capeshit with the overall story slowing to a crawl so Dexter can fight supervillains every season.

Even the later seasons are alright though.

stop after season 4, make up your own headcanon of what happened to dexters life afterwards and proceed to watch New Blood to get ready for the newest season. I'd even argue that you could skip season 3 but some people enjoy the characters in that season

fuck, dex i'm so fucking horny for your psychopathic stepbro cock

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>>212510069
>>212510065
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>>212510055
thank you dexterbros

>>212510069
S3 is enjoyable if only for Jimmy Smits being his best friend and them doing bro shit together for a while.

>>212510069
season 3 suffers from jimmy smitts being completely fucking awful.

>>212510003 (OP)
Like the others said, it peaks at seasons 1, 2 and 4. Season 5 was actually pretty good, on par with 3 in my opinion. 6 was mediocre and 7 was dogshit.

That being said, you should try to push through all of it, because New Blood was decent until the end, and Original Sin is excellent. Resurrections is going to be kino I can feel it

If you really like the show even the later seasons are decent. It heavily leans in to the formula that season 4 starts; one new "big bad" every season. played by a mildly famous guest star.

>Season 5 is a motivational speaker who leads a rape cult
>Season 6 is a religious killer
>Season 7 is a Ukranian crime lord
>Season 8 is basically a mirror of Dexter but evil
>New Blood is a guy who kidnaps women and locks them in his basement

>>212510141
I haven't watched it in probably a decade at this point but I remember really liking the season where Ray Stevenson is the antagonist.

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>>212510125
The duality of man.

>>212510141
>5 was actually pretty good, on par with 3
so unbelievably god awful? i really tried to watch season 3 but its like 3 episodes before jimmy smitts is going
>HEY DEXTER BRO LETS GO KILL PEOPLE BRO I DON'T LIKE THIS GUY LETS KILL HIM

>>212510141
>>212510176
My memory is vague on those last seasons (they weren't memorable I guess) but I remember a really terrible season wirh Edward James Olmos. The final season will always be in my memory for just how absolutely terrible it was.

>>212510255
Season 3 makes more sense when you realize that Miguel figured out what Dexter was the second he caught him accessing the criminal database, and that he's playing dumb to try and coax info out of Dexter because he wants his own personal hitman

>>212510315
then you have to deal with the fact dexter doesn't realize that for nine more episodes, at least.

>>212510297
Yeah, season 6 has Edward James Olmos and Colin Hanks as a religious themed "Doomsday Killer". The worst part though was Mos Def playing a street preacher who has Dexter question if God is real.

>>212510315
Wait, people didn't get that? It was even made as obvious as possible with the bloodied shirt being a gift pretty early on and Dexter testing it much later on.

>>212510351
>worst part though was Mos Def playing a street preacher who has Dexter question if God is real
Fuck I didn't even remember that, that sounds beyond awful. Absolute waste of talent since Olmos is a good actor.

This shit turns into an anime so fucking quick

>>212510359
everyone got it 9-11 episodes before dexter does, which is why the season is so insufferable.

>>212510378
olmos' main talent is wasting his talent. his name is literally "almost."

The worst thing about the season 5 writer change is that after that show pretty much completely loses it sense of humor. Dexter stops being witty and pretty much all of his inner monologues. are nothing but him just repeating whatever is happening on screen.

>>212510387
I guess. I just liked it for them being bros and for Jimmy Smits in general. Overall a pretty weak season but it's better than season 5 and beyond.

>>212510415
Miami Vice was kino and I'm tired of pretending it's not.

>>212510480
>Miami Vice was movie

>>212510511
>being this new

>>212510630
you got it backwards. i'm old enough to know why jeets are using a synonym for "movie" as "good."

>>212510511
Kino translates to Cinema, which itself can be used as an adjective to describe something as being artistic and well done.

>>212510667
the russian band?

>>212510668
no, it just means movie. it was coined making fun of an autistic person who wanted /tv/ to adopt quality based distinctions between various synonyms for movie. like film was better than motion picture and some shit.

then ESLs flooded the site and thought it was serious.

>>212510711
i'm not sure it's considered serious, it's just a meme, like how "kek" formed because K and L are next to each other on the keyboard.

>>212510734
kek is from world of warcraft. when a horde player said "lol" at an alliance player, it was filtered to kek. this predates 4chan.

Series hits its high at the end of season 2. No need to go on after that.

>>212510778
well fuck. i never played wow so i guess i missed it. though come to think of it, didnt 4chan also make a filter for a while that did that?

>>212510003 (OP)
Maybe watch like season 1. It gets really repetive and awful.

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>>212510668
the deeper lore is that Kino means movie or movie theater in german

>>212510711
>only 36% of Indians have internet access

>>212510828
there's been dozens of wordfilters on 4chan. wapanese getting filtered to weeabo being the gold standard.

>>212510895
i think it slowed down after gookmoot took over, along with special occasions that take up the entire site obnoxiously like puddi or when that fight the power shit from house.

>>212510925
hiroshima did implement the desu, senpai, onions, and a fourth i can't remember because I'm not a nigger

>>212510946
still, that all happened at once and never happened again. even that was implemented about 5 or 6 years ago now.

>>212510946
>>212510925
oh right, its desu, baka, onions, and senpai

>>212511006
probably just because none of them took hold or changed anything. weeb is now common vernacular specifically because it was a word filter.

>>212511024
i havent seen anyone say senpai in a very long time now, that word just seemed to vanish from the modern vocabulary overnight.

>>212510668
>>212510711
kino is also a great Cabaret Voltaire track

>>212510873
Just think how horrible social media is going to be when we hit the 50% tipping point

>>212511059
whereas people actively fight the filter to call things soi

oh right, there's basedjack too, which has like a dozen triggers.

>>212511093
At that point it might be easier to learn Mandarin or Korean and just hang out on their internet, they basically post shit like it was still the mid 2000s.

>>212511093
Uhhhh... anon

>>212511156
yeah I'm not going to do that just for them to hit me with
>you learned my language to post on my websites to try to mock me because you couldn't get jeets to stay off yours

>>212511215
Jeets will come for the Chinese side soon, Xi is getting really close with Modi now and they're going to be shipping about half a million over there soon.
The safest internet is still mostly Korea or maybe German internet, they post some pretty funny schizo shit and love racism (especially the Koreans).

>>212511263
india only matters as much as it does because the west needs somewhat "skilled" labor. china only matters because the west needs a steady supply of cheap garbage. remove the west from the equation and both countries go back to being "developing" shitholes with a tenth of the population within a year.

>>212511318
True enough. I'd rather rely on Korea or Thailand or something for all our shit, at least they're small enough to not gain massive egos and don't go apeshit for capeshit slop like China does.

>>212511364
you're a few years out of date bro. china is no longer considered a worthwhile film market.

>>212511390
Who is now then? They're still churning out capeslop at a record rate and Western audiences have been tired for that for a while now.

>>212510387
I personally found it genius. It does the whole ‘transactional relationship’ thingo better than The White Lotus.
Dexter is using Miguel to fill the bro shaped hole in his heart and blend in. Miguel is using Dexter as his fixer. The friendship is real but where is the line?

The tension builds and builds until they get to that rooftop and then it’s PURE KINO

Fucking love Season 3 man, Jimmy Smits almost got stabbed by a real knife not a prop knife!

>>212511437
>season 3 of dexter is better than white lotus

jesus i wish someone had said that before I watched two completely worthless seasons of that absolute trash. shit it might've been three.

>>212511435
you mean all the stuff they're yelling at audiences for not seeing?

>>212511437
This dude gets it.

Here's the kid I was tellin you about

I've been watching it for the first time as well; I'm a few episodes into season 5 and it's still fun. I've heard that it gets really bad, but I'm too invested to drop it.

>>212510141
>New Blood was decent until the end, and Original Sin is excellent
That's good to hear.

>>212511970
Always got me that they just put a wig on him and didn't do anything else kek.

>>212510055
Coño, are you kidding me? season 3 is a must watch because of all the Miguel kino. however, anon should just skip all of that Anton/Deb bullshit, it's a waste of time. also, season 7 is decent thanks to Ray Stevenson (RIP).

>>212510003 (OP)
compared to everything put out today every single season of the original Dexter ranges from pure kino to just enjoyable
at the time we were spoiled with much better quality than what we have now and in comparison to that the later seasons of Dexter fall off
but compared to today, every season is either great or just fine, there is no need to skip anything or stop early
rewatched the whole thing recently with fresh eyes

>>212511970
soulful formulaic low budget 2000's TV show

they don't make them like that

SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKA

>>212510003 (OP)

>TOP TIER, RE-WATCHABLE
s1, s2, s3, s4

>MEH TIER, NOT RE-WATCHABLE
s6, s7, new blood

>SHIT TIER, BARELY WATCHABLE
s5, s8, original sin

>>212510055
FPBP

>>212511437
The issue is it requires Dexter to be a retard and not pick up on the fact he’s being manipulated when it’s obvious immediately. It’s one of the more egregious and early examples of a plotline that could’ve been resolved in one episode being stretched to a season.

>>212514522
>ranges from pure movie

i wish i could watch dexter for the first time again

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>>212511970
ikr. Casting a younger actor that doesn't even resemble him would've been a better choice

>>212516464
go back

The first half of the show is considered the best. People convince themselves that the second half is shit, when it's not, just not as high quality. The only shit season is the end of 8 (and really only the last episode)

someone post the treadmill scene

>>212516549
>and really only the last episode
*enters the chat*

>>212510003 (OP)
Watch all of it you fag. Don't watch passed the original show though.

>>212516666
Quads of truth

>>212510055
3 was decent too imo

>>212510075
>make up your own headcanon of what happened to dexters life afterwards and proceed to watch New Blood

should have stopped afterwards considering they are retconning New Blood ending anyway

>>212516666
Checked

>>212510003 (OP)
When Deb has fucked half the cast, stop before she gets to the other half.

That's where any show turns to shit.

>>212510082
I didn't watch New Blood, did she keep trying to fuck Dexter when she was a ghost?

>>212510003 (OP)
>Usually when people tell you to drop a show after a current season they are right

Usually they are too late. Watch season 1 and drop it. You are probably going to want to keep watching because season 1 was pretty damn good but the show becomes derivative after it. Just repeating the same formula over and over without any real character progression to speak of.

If you still need your fix consider reading the books instead.

>>212516666

Calm down super Satan...

>>212510003 (OP)
What's the point wasting time getting invested in something you won't finish

Literal NPC brain

>>212510003 (OP)
season 4 isn't even that good and people just think about the John Lithgow scenes

>>212516526
I can’t, the site I came from doesn’t exist anymore due to “people” like (you)

>torrent all seasons of dexter
>don't seed
it's always there... my dark passenger...

>>212510003 (OP)
Season 7 is good, 8 has it's moments.
5 and 6 are weak.
New Blood is good until the end but Resurrection should fix that... maybe

Just watch it all because it's better than 90% of TV anyway.

>>212516868
No, because Dex's idea of Deb didn't include the attraction from her.
However, New Blood includes a different actress/character who seems to have been cast because she creates the illusion of Deb still being alive and a part of the main cast
>tall, strong jaw, long straight hair, cop, aggressive and persistent about everything, someone straight up tells her she reminds them of Deb
And she actually does fuck Dexter.

>>212516948
Yes you finish at season 4 where show should have ended

>>212510141
>7 was dogshit
your opinion is dogshit, 7 is the best season of the second half

My official headcanon of Dexter is as follows

>don't watch the last episode of season 1, ice truck killer gets away
>don't watch the last episode of season 2, doakes gets away and flees to Cuba
>skip season 3
>watch season 4 in full
>HARD SKIP to season 7, except don't watch the last episode of season 7, pretend LaGuerta dies offscreen somehow
>after that the rest of the show isn't canon

I watch all of it because I love all of it

sex with deb

>>212519313
So it’s the corn husks filled with shit that you can tell yourself is undigested corn?

s1>s2>s7>s3=s4>New Blood>Original Sin>s5>s6>28

Decent lookalike for the coomers ITT

>>212519314
dangerously based

>>212516450
>The issue is it requires Dexter to be a retard
He is retarded

>>212517055
this, it doesn't hold up on rewatches because you already know what's coming. I feel the initial shock of that elevated it in peoples minds but it's really not on the level of seasons 1 or 2. Lithgow is still great to watch though

>>212522188
I just rewatched New Blood in preparation for Resurrection and found it held up fine or was actually better than the first time, knowing that the ending has been retconned and New Blood is now just a chapter of the show instead of trying to conclude it

>>212523224
yeah I'm still shocked that new blood is rated lower than original sin

>>212519314
MIGUEL!!!!!

>>212516630
vogel was honestly such a terrible idea, the performance wasn't even bad or anything but it just shits all over Harry's character (ironically by trying to redeem him somewhat) and was totally unnecessary

>>212525705
agree, not the fault of the actress, but the character was such forced retarded bullshit that it made the entire season unbearable

>>212525886
it sucks because they had the perfect set up from season 7 with laguertas investigation then they just completely drop with the retarded 6 month time skip and pretend it never happened, as if her mysteriously dying wouldn't be suspicious as shit

>>212510082
Fucking love this bizarre looking crazy as bitch

>>212525972
agree, it pissed me off, too
and that fucking laguerta bench, man

>>212510003 (OP)
It's worth watching all the way through just so you get an idea of how badly the writers dropped the ball. Season 7 is one of the worst things ever put to television and it's just something you have to experience first hand to really appreciate it.

>>212516450
>The issue is it requires Dexter to be a retard
My dude have we watched the same show? Dexter IS a retard

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>>212521948
There’s a huge difference between “I’m socially retarded” and “I can’t tell this person is manipulating me for personal gain after he gains personally from manipulating me”.

>>212527494
No, I'm not saying he's socially retarded, I'm saying he's RETARDED
Dexter would've been caught on season 02 in any realistic scenario, he's a COMPLETE MORON

>>212510381
>turns into an anime
wat

>>212510086
Id say either stop after 2 or 5 those are the major quality changes. 6 onwards is a totally different mess of a show.

>>212510351
Most deaf easily makes s6 the worst season. Retarded nigger cant act and the season plays dexter as if hes never heard of the concept or religion

>>212526090
this, plus it really makes you appreciate how amazing the first two seasons were

>>212510055
I always wondered why i could never get past season 5 on multiple watches. This clears everything up.

nothing ever tops the season 1 ending. Literally perfection

>writer of the book series makes own good book which becomes the template for every season of the show
>his actual sequel books have Dexter posses by a demon who becomes a physical entity once Dexter has killed enough and Dexter must fight him
>After the series is successful the author goes back and writes more grounded sequels in the style of the show
>they sell well
>he won’t sell the rights to paramount
>paramount keeps making new installments to keep the rights from reverting to the author’s control

>>212532769
kwab

>>212513787
This is all true. Also season 5 isn't very good but Johnny Lee Miller is kino as Jordan Chase. He's just not in it enough to really make it worth it.

why was scott such an ungrateful cunt?

Times when you were dark passanger?

Once Doakes is off the show stop watching. He was the only character that actually challenged Dexter and played off him well. After that it's fucking cartoonish.

>>212535420
>rip a nasty ass fart in the car
>insist it wasn't me and frame the black guy riding shotgun

>>212535420
>This is justified I say as I eat a hamburger, made out of pain and suffering, i am what I eat, I reap what I sow,
>Survival of the fittest i say out loud, as my fat gut hangs out

stop at the end of season 4 or end of season 5. a lot of people dunk on season 5 but it's decent and I found its conclusion to be very fitting. do NOT proceed past season 5.

>>212510003 (OP)
It's never good at all

>>212536896
nigger