Season 5 isn't as bad as people made it out to be. I was told the show was unwatchable past season 4, but I'm enjoying season 5.

Rita death shocked me. I was paying so little attention I had to piece together that trinity in fact did kill her, I legit thought it was a mystery for a moment before realizing it happened end of last season

>>213637602
I actually thought it was the neighbour at first, there's nothing in the season 4 finale pointing out at it

on my first watch through I thought season 5 was better than 6. When I rewatched it this year I thought 6 was better than 5 and both were just kind of alright but not bad. The only truly garbage season is 8

Six is better.

sex with deb

>>213637602
>>213638313
Retardbros... Cunt Man literally spells it out...

>>213638313

>>213637541 (OP)
I'll defend season 5 to death, it just has the problem of immediately following season 4 having to do a ton of work to establish a new baseline and overcome the comparison to what almost everyone considers the best season of the show. The villain of the season is far better than 3, 6, 7 and 8, Lumen was more interesting than Hannah in the later seasons or the British pyro chick from season 2. On top of that, the season almost manages to make Quinn or whatever his name is interesting when he is investigating Dexter.

I like 5 and 6 more than 2 and 3.
4>1>resurrection (so far)>6>5>2>original sin>3>7>8>new blood

>>213637602
>>213638313
>doesnt watch the show
>doesnt understand whats happening
you are the current day audience ruining entertainment

just starting 5, imo 3 has been the worst season

>>213638313
you dont think he'd head to dexters actual home after landing at debs?

>>213637602
I'm glad I didn't get spoiled this, being confused as to why the house is so messy and then Ritas phone is suddenly there too when she was supposed to be gone was kino. Watched the first 5-10 mins of s5e1 immediately because I couldn't end it there

dexter punches a guy on his left side and says "that's your liver"
great season

>deb fucks her partner in her brothers house just days after his wife was murdered

>>213638431
i bet she gives amazing blowjobs

>>213640024
LaGuerta is the official blowjob queen of Miami.

>>213640229
Im rewatching the show now, watched it when it aired. I remember thinking people like lundy and laguerta looked really old but now lundy looks younger than my parents and I think laguerta is kind of hot and if I dated s1 laguerta it wouldnt even be that weird as she was barely a decade older than I am right now.

>>213640229

>>213639932
and then pretends it never happened for a while lmao

>>213639696
I'm sorry I didn't know I needed a PhD to understand a TV show they should say that kind of stuff in the first episode

>>213637541 (OP)
Season 5 was terrible. Boring bad guys and the hit blonde talks too much.

>>213641178
*hot

>>213637541 (OP)
its terrrible . dexter gets way too lucky . jordan should have unironically won. dexter won by pure luck .

>>213641263
and stabbing him in the foot

>>213641147
>shows you man doing murder in bathtub
>shows woman dead in bathtub
>bathman is current seasons villan and knows the identity of Dexter
>"erm akshually you need phd"
You are retarded.

>>213639453
Holy shit taste.

I'm actually amazed reading these threads, because Dexter has never been anything but peak brainlet-friendly media and we still have people who somehow manage to be confused.
I mean, at some point the show gives up entirely and just spells out everything that happens through Dexter's inner monologue or through Harry.

>>213640024
what makes you think that?

>>213640229
glad that you noticed

>>213641694
These retards are the exact reason everything repeats the plot 54 times per movie, at most 5 minutes after the last plot dump.

>>213639453
this might be the most unhinged take I've seen

>>213641703
she's just got that prime bj mouth

>>213641147
Are you that fabled 'modern audience' that's always used as the excuse whenever a show or film both have to spell out everything literally, but have to repeat doing it too? You are why shows sometimes have fucking flashbacks to an event that happened 10 minutes ago in an episode to keep audiences from being confused how a character knew something or how they figured something out.

>>213638431
couldn't refuse but I got a feeling that her long and thin torso is somewhat awkward to handle

>>213641585
>>213641767
be honest, what is your phd in?

>>213641797
None, I didn't even finish my country's equivalent to highschool.

>>213638431
This but Original Sin fat assed Deb

>>213640229
I have a thing for latina mamis with fat asses and zesty attitudes. I bet she gives the best BJs and could snap your dick in half with her pelvis.

>>213641900
based. she had perfect thighs.

S6 is worse but still watchable and everyone clumps S5&6 together. It's worth pushing through for S7 which gets good in a really strange way. S8 was the only that was truly awful.

>>213641941
>>213641900
>Deb
My IQ is too high for Deb.

Resurrection is so damn boring. The midget is a boring villain and so is his gay little club of serial killers.
I don't understand the hype around it. Same as I didn't understand the hype around Original Sin.
Either I've gotten too jaded or everybody else has lowered their standards.

>>213641982
imdb is worthless for this shit because there's a recency bias for virtually everything, and the majority of the userbase are crusty boomers and Indians.

Also it's hilarious that the season 2 finale has a 9.2, number is inflated because it's a finale and finales must be important. It's such a terrible, terrible episode like by far the worst one that season and its highly ranked because "wow conclusion to the story omg :O"

>>213642133
probably a combination of both. I think resurrection is fun, I don't think it's a return to the quality of seasons 1 and 2, though it's a little hard to judge with them being from diffent eras of television.

>>213642133
Normies hype it up because it ticks every surface level box they crave. It’s got anover polished, hyper produced sheen. Every scene HAS to be crammed with recognizable A listers, constant fan service to make them feel clever for catching obvious references, and endless hand holding so they never get lost. Even the “twists” are telegraphed a mile away, but they’re predictable in the exact way that makes casual viewers feel like they’re in on something big. Fuck normalfags

>>213641147
You're so stupid you don't deserve to live. Kill yourself, NOW

>>213641982
>S7 which gets good
I'd say first 5 episodes of S7 were absolute peak and I would've considered it a S1-S4 quality if things stayed that way.
>Deb finding out Dexter is a serial killer and fallout from it
>Isaak is a really cool villain. The episode where he kills cartel members and has a conversation with Dexter is probably the most memorable parts of the entire season
>Ray Speltzer was a really cool villain of the week
Then Dexter falls for Hannah and becomes a total simp to the point that I was tempted to skip his scenes of talking about how much he loves her.
Then they kill Isaak off mid-season.
Then the season starts really meandering and I just couldn't care less about Hannah or Laguerta being poor man's Doakes.
Then Dexter gets saved from making a difficult moral choice again. While we're at it, I didn't find Carpenter's acting in that scene all that amazing. Remember everybody sucking it off at the time.

>>213642133
the expectations were so fucking low, the trailer alluded to something entirely different, so we're kinda glad it's watchable

>>213638431
gross

>>213642288
hannah should have died in the courtroom in season 7. She should have had her friend smuggle in poison to kill herself to avoid jail instead of the goofy hannibal lector shit we got. And yeah, those first couple hannah centered episodes are kind of a slog to get through, though I did like the end again. Even though laguerta couldn't stack up to doakes, her and matthews playing off each other was great

>>213642324
great plan to completey mislead with the trailer tbqh, it made it seem so unbelievably stupid

>>213642133
you're just jaded looking for the worse
if you do the same thing for og dexter you'd think the same

>>213642249
I can't figure out how :^(

>>213638391
>HELLO WHORE

>>213642133
The midget and the serial killer club are kinda lame. I dislike the concept and the execution/portrayal of the other killers. It's been so long since I've watched OG Dexter but I felt the killers were more believable there.
But the rest of the show is good. Also it'll probably gonna get better when the police/midget are onto him.

i don't know why they cast the serial killer collector guy as a midget. it adds absolutely nothing to his characterisation or the plot. they went out of their way to cast a midget... for no real point

>>213645203
>it adds absolutely nothing to his characterisation or the plot.
true, but only so far ... maybe they have some cool spin on it prepared

>>213645203
Peter Dinklage is a very good actor.

>>213645203
>what is diversity quota
Would you rather he was indian or a black?

>>213645471
God forbid it is a huWhite man. The midget with a stronk woman bodyguard is just so stupid.

>>213645248
i hope this

>>213645448
he is, i agree

>>213645471
i would most prefer an actor who suits the characterisation

>>213637541 (OP)
You just have shit taste

>>213645448
So?
Does that mean Denzel Washington should play Howard Hughes in a biopic simply because he is good at playing make believe and pretending?

>>213645203
Thats how it should be though? You pick an actor not because of their traits but because they can act. Fanboy happens to be a midget, its not the focus.

>>213645203
I laughed when the reporter said he must have had large bootstraps to pull himself up by

>>213645710
no, you do pick an actor because of his traits, it's what gave jim carrey a career

>>213637541 (OP)
I just looked it up and completely forgot there was a season 7 and 8, god this show goes off the rails. I think it pretty much goes 1>2>4>3>6>5>the rest.

>>213638391
6 is the worst. Even worse than 8

>>213646476
I dunno, man. Two words: MUH HANNAH
No self-respecting man should let pussy occupy this much space in his head. It's kinda pathetic. And as much as I hated her in season 7, at least there was some tension that she might become Dexter's enemy because of her rivalry with Deb. By season 8 the writers completely given up on the "is she a friend or foe" kind of suspense and wrote her as a perfect and totally cool self-insert for female audiences.
Plus season 6 is at least funny to laugh at. Season 8 is straight-up boring, I don't think any season in the show drags this much.

Also season 6' filler episode was Nebraska which is proto-Resurrection in a way, a dumb but ultimately inoffensive piece of fanservice memberberries.
Season 8's filler episode was some straight-up CW soap cringe about Hannah's jealous millionaire husband

>>213646551
>>213646643
Who the fuck is Hannah? I haven't started season 6 yet, are they seriously dropping Lumen? Why? This made me angry, not because of the spoilers but because of how retarded it is to drop Lumen so quickly. Makes the whole season 5 pointless.

>>213647014
Just keep watching. Also leave this thread, what are you doing.

>>213647014
hannah is asstor's evil alter ego

>>213646182
By traits I meant race, height, that shit not their ability to act or jims plasticity

1>2>7>3>4>OS>R>NB>6>5>8

>everyone shitting on Season 3
Miguel was the man, they shouldn't have killed him off

>>213641147
You don't you fucking retard, why are you even on /tv/? Wait a minute...

>>213647253
michael clarke duncan, richard kiel, carel struycken, verne troyer, etc. actors certainly are cast specifically because of their traits - it's an integral part of characterisation

>>213637541 (OP)
Is this the Ray Stevenson season? Its decent but you sorta get the feeling that this is the start of the quality going downhill

>>213647557
7 is the ray stevenson season

>>213647536
You misunderstand, they didnt cast midget FOR A MIDGET, they cast him for a dude who IS a midget because the actor is. So far the fact he is the size of a 5yo hasnt mattered.

>>213647599
I always mix it up because I felt the quality was gradually decreasing, I liked the Ray Stevenson parts so my mind must have cemented it as the start of gradual decline after season 4

>>213647699
yeah it was weird because it was kind of like a mini revival, definitely the best of the latter half of the series. Shame it didn't signal an actual course correction and 8 just went right back down the shitter

any season >>>>>>>>> dog shit >>>>>>>>>> dr. vogel

>>213638391
6 was when i was mentally done with the show.

>>213647999
based, that shit was so retarded. I'm so happy phillips had said he's mever going to even acknowledge it

>>213637541 (OP)
5 is as good as 3 is, which is to say its better than season 6 and 8.

>>213647675
>build character around actor
>do nothing with his attributes to make either the actor or his character make sense being in the show

>>213637541 (OP)
It's popcorn television. You can tell the writing is substantially worse than previous seasons. I'm guessing there were different writers.
>>213638313
She is literally killed in the exact same way Trinity kills his victims, anon...

>>213641797
It's ok to be stupid, bro. The problem is in your kind demanding that shows handhold them and ruining it for the rest of us.

>>213646476
8 is objectively one of the worst seasons in television history. 6 is at least watchable.

>>213637541 (OP)
People just used to have much higher standards in the golden age of television compared to today. But someone who is used to modern slop can look back on anything mid from the before times and enjoy it all. I envy them.

>>213648489
imo it's not even stupidity, they simply don't care
when they watch a show they barely pay attention, do other shit all the time, skip entire scenes, talk on the phone, etc

>>213648867
>if you don't treat shows like school exams you're dumb
Sorry, did you want a report on the whole season 4 of Dexter? A powerpoint presentation? It's a tv show, mte.

>>213649004
>reading comprehension
oops, i was wrong, you're literally retarded

>>213639453
wtf?

i've always maintained this but with regards to the main show, the season rankings are literally in order. the show gets progressively worse every season.
1>2>3>4 so on and so forth.

Original Sin was fine, i'd say it was better than 5
New Blood was fine until the last few episodes, I think it'd better than 5 too, worse than Original Sin.
Resurrection is too early to tell so I wont rank it.

>>213649031
I'm sorry I don't take tv shows like homework requiring my full attention

>>213649045
>Original Sin was fine
No. It's fucking trash and I'm tired of it getting sucked off.

>>213649072
It has major problems, but I think season 5 is worse. It's been awhile since I watched the show so I can accept being wrong.

Honestly the last 3 seasons were so fucking bad they just kind of blend together.

>>213648544
8 starts out with titties though

>>213649126
Original Sin is almost as bad as season 8.
Genuinely.

>>213649060
I'm with that other anon, holy shit you're actually retarded, I'm sorry bro. Let me guess, you can't visualize things inside your head either or use internal monologue?

>>213649060
let's try again:
you don't miss shit in the show because you're stupid but because you barely pay attention

understand now, you fucking idiot?

>>213649153
It really shit the bed with making the villain the cop guy. You would think it'd get mentioned in Dexter season 2.

But I liked what they did with Brian.

It's nowhere near as bad as season 8. In a vacuum it is bad, but all Dexter past season 1 is bad. Do you seriously expect Dexter to be good? It hasn't been kino since 2006. So I adjust my expectations accordingly, and in that regard it's fine.

>>213649221
I expect Dexter to at least be entertaining because it was never good, not even in season 1.
Season 8 was both bad and a boring slog which pefectly applies to Original Sin.

>>213649060
Holy shit, retard, if you want some background noise put on a nature documentary.

Movies, tv shows are meant to be consumed entirely with your full focus. If you're dicking around on your phone or walking around the house, you WILL miss shit and then come back and cry and whine because you don't understand. Most people are like you and that's why modern shows have constant fucking flashbacks and have utterly forgotten the principle of "show dont tell"

I want you to go watch a movie, turn it on, sit down, and stare at the screen for 2 hours. Turn off your phone, pause the movie when you get up to piss, don't talk to other people the entire movie. If you can't do this, you're tiktokbrained and there is genuinely no hope for you.

Rewatching the series since it originally aired, just finished season 6 and it is leagues worse than 1-5. Colin Hanks just could not pull it off and the side character stories drove me insane. How many times do we need to show Quinn getting drunk? Don't remember season 7 and 8 so wish me luck.

>>213649338
Season 7 becomes so fucking garbage the moment Hannah is introduced.

Have fun.

>>213649338
>Colin Hanks just could not pull it off
That's the best part. Watching this prick trying so hard to be intimidating/menacing and failing at it is just comedy gold.
Season 6 is a "good" season just for how unintentionally horrible it is. It's not like something that was created to be "so good it's bad" on purpose to please redditors, it's just such an actual sincere failure in every way that it becomes funny.

>>213649353
>Hannah
She was female writers' self-insert, wasn't she?
I can't explain this character any other way.

>>213646476
Nothing is worse than 8. Even th spin off is better

>>213649437
the only thing i liked about hannah is the slightly unusual murder method she introduced to the show, the whole flower thing

>>213649437
idk. the episode where shes introduced was written by a man.

dexter writers just really thought dexter always needed a love interest. its very weird. i would have preferred if dexter just never got back into dating after rita and just focused on harrison.

>>213649437
Dexter got many female writers for seven and eight, they posted an instagram photo and there was at least seven of them. So the answer is yes.

>>213646476
Nah, 8 is the one season in the whole series i refuse to repeat watch

>>213649509
If they took her out and focused on Sirko/Laguerta's investigation or fuck I dunno, just added a new killer of the week season 7 would actually be enjoyable. It won't be 1-4 quality probably, but I'd say on the level of Resurrection and New Blood (minus the ending)

>>213649548
same, lol

>>213649557
a male gardener who poisons with flowers would have been fine

>>213637541 (OP)
I love 5. Lumen is my jam.

>>213649601
Dexter wouldn't be fawning over a male poisoner sounding like a pussywhipped bitchboy. A male poisoner wouldn't cure Dexter of the need to kill. A male poisoner would be an antagonist for 1 or 2 episodes before getting killed.
So yeah.

>Dexter mentions reading "Everybody Poops" to Harrison
>confirms personal familiarity with defecation
>establishes baseline: Dexter possesses gastrointestinal tract capable of shitting
>Debra = confirmed biological sibling
>shared parental genome implies shared digestive architecture
>if parental units produce fecal matter trait heritability probability approaches 1
>conclusion: Debra also participates in fecal excretion

IMAGINE THE SMELL

>Dexter mentions reading "Everybody Poops" to Harrison
>confirms direct knowledge of defecation
>Debra = non-biological sister, yet cohabitation established during formative years
>shared domestic plumbing ecosystem implies shared exposure to auditory/olfactory confirmation of bowel activity
>if household contains pooping capable adults statistical certainty of multiple concurrent defecators
>conclusion: Debra almost certainly poops
>secondary implication: confined airspace contamination inevitable

IMAGINE THE SMELL

>what if Slater was a gigantic stepdown from Remar
>what if Dexter was a moralfag like in later seasons instead of being closer to S1 autist
>what if we had an entire long subplot dedicated to Deb being a whore (and that's how Dexter learned about dumping bodies in the water)
>what if the main villain was by far the worst in the entire franchise (and that includes the books and those animated prequel things)
>what if there were some really retarded retcons
>what if nobody cared that the police captain is a fucking murderer who made the news suddenly disappeared and there was no scandal over it or anything
Original Sin was bad. Really fucking bad.

Hang all fart fetishists

>>213649798
yeah I supposed we couldn't gas them huh?

>>213649768
>what if Dexter was a moralfag like in later seasons instead of being closer to S1 autist
That's why hollywood can ever do prequels right, they always base the character on what they are at the end of the original instead of what they are at the beginning of the original. They always do this and it sucks.

I dont even know which season is which after 4, but there are two really really bad ones. I think the last two.

>>213649768
>what if the main villain was by far the worst in the entire franchise

>>213649768
>animated prequel things
early cuts was kino
most of the kino was established there, including the music

>>213649925
At least he wasn't a literal cuck and the four Horsemen was a cool kill.
In fact that episode with the elderly serial killer was one of the few bright parts of the season 6.

>>213649904
Season 7 is pretty okay by Dexter standards.
It's nowhere near as bad as 6 or 8, but it kills off its best villain early and in a very unsatisfying manner and focuses on a love interest that feels like it's being shilled by the writers.

>>213649925
i'll admit, i liked the whole "the professor is actually dead and this guy is a schizo" angle
also the "dress in a lion to kidnap harrison" thing

>>213650026
I always forget about the old coot. The way dexter fucks him over at the end was hilarious

>>213650026
Sorry but "Hello, whore" ruins the entire season.

>>213650068
OK it was 6 and 8 then. Truly god awful television.

>>213650123
They should've just dropped the twist, season 6 instantly improves without it.
Olmos was simply way more scary than Colin Hanks could ever hope to be and was a more convincing cult leader/religious psycho.
Colin Hanks was actually great as this kind of a naive meek disciple who's manipulated into thinking he's doing good but has doubts, not so much as a psycho killer.

>>213637541 (OP)
Its not unwatchable, its till campy old Dexter its just a sharp decline in quality, like Trailer Park Boys in its netflix seasons.

Jordan Chase was a nothing villain, but Johnny Lee Miller was carrying him as much as he could.
He really feels like a slimy sociopathic conman trying to come off as charismatic.
Basically a prime example of a very shit villain saved by good acting.

Every thread I wish the series was more like the books. Even if they wanted to keep Dexter more friendly and clear out the literal demons alongside the torture, they left out the kino villains and best comedy. Where's my sexo English aristocratic dommy mommy?? Titty vampire wasn't even close.
Also the hilarity of Dexter seeming to have Asperger's to everyone else but his ego thinks he's got more charisma than Clooney, or his fucking gigacope character change attempt for his daughter.

>>213650709
Dexter being a truly soulless killer who only kills criminals because he was groomed that way just wouldn't work for TV. Audiences want to relate. And such a character almost never has any character growth.

As much as I hate how they did it, Dexter becoming more "human" throughout the show was better.

>>213650709
>tfw no hot bimbo Deb, Laguarda dying super early, or Doakes almost becoming a human pillow

>>213650790
Yeah, I agree. The protagonist being a sadistic menace who calls his torture victims playmates is too much.
But they could've kept aspects like the excessive alliteration with his name or what I mentioned before. I'm just a big horror reader and adore the tonal clash in Dexter; it's like a brutal Ketchum gore scene one page and a meme limerick author tries prose the next.

>>213650926
Show dexter is clearly not a psychopath. He's just an autist with a fixation on justice and blood. That's why he dismembers people just so he can see the blood.

>>213650995
>just so he can see the blood
If that were the case then as Ghost Bryan says, why does he wake his victims up? If it was just justice and gore then catching them and chopping them up would be enough.

>>213650995
Why did you @ me?

>>213650884
The second book's villain is probably too intense for TV. Actually quite sickening. Cyber Doakes is never not kino though, especially that you can hear him coming.

>>213651099
Still justice? Part of his ritual is always making them look at the photos.

>>213651117
>The second book's villain is probably too intense for TV. Actually quite sickening.
I just don't know.
He sounds like an average killer of the week on Hannibal, so to me it feels more less like "too intense for TV" and more "execs are afraid for their ratings and think the audiences watching a show about serial killers are too fragile".

How did Grundy mind break Deb so easily?
Was his half-hard old man cock that good? Or are daddy issues an even bigger weak point for sluts than their cervix?

>>213651873
It's just that Deb is Daddy issuess: the character

>>213647227
kek

>>213650884
sticc deb > bimbo deb

>>213651873
Daddy issues is what turns women into shameless self-hating sluts

>>213651873
you know what