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chrisnu
04-10-2013, 07:58 PM
I figured I'd start the thread with news that Yvonne Strahovski is reprising her role (http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/04/10/yvonne-strahovski-returning-dexter/) as Hannah McKay. I liked Hannah. Then again, I liked Lumen, too.

chrisnu
04-19-2013, 04:31 AM
Showtime has confirmed that this is the last season. And a new clip:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dy6u5rXqN5o

More new footage in a promo for both Dexter and Ray Donovan:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O01rIQKP374

chrisnu
05-04-2013, 05:19 AM
http://geektyrant.com/storage/0998-post-images/dexter-8-small.jpg


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0f9-x_IyfY

chrisnu
05-17-2013, 11:38 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ckzE5vT0wc

EvilShoe
07-01-2013, 01:38 PM
Looks like it's just the two of us, although I'm only watching because it's the final season.

This is one of the worst shows I'm still watching right now, one I haven't really enjoyed since season 2. I guess the 4th was ok, but people tend to be forgiving towards it to thanks to Lithgow and the finale.

This season's opener was ok, I guess.

EDIT: To be honest, I'm not even sure the show was all that good to begin with. I guess it benefited from having been released in that era when TV was transitioning into quality stuff, and not yet saturated with anti-heroes. Maybe this would've been DOA without Hall.

Gizmo
07-01-2013, 04:41 PM
I thought the episode was alright. Hopefully the show goes out with a bang. Hopefully it'll be season 2 quality.

EyesWideOpen
07-01-2013, 10:47 PM
I thought it was a decent episode but a little bit of a comedown from the greatness of last season.

slqrick
07-08-2013, 04:27 PM
Caught up out of obligation. Second episode is better than the first, but I feel like they're making the season arc too obvious.

chrisnu
07-08-2013, 07:21 PM
If more Vogel means less everyone at Miami Metro (except for Matthews, maybe), I'm all for it.

Qrazy
07-09-2013, 01:28 AM
If more Vogel means less everyone at Miami Metro (except for Matthews, maybe), I'm all for it.

Vogel is a terrible character imo.

EvilShoe
07-09-2013, 11:24 AM
Vogel is a terrible character imo.She's a very contrived character, but it helps a lot that she's played by Rampling.

Everyone at Metro is beyond terrible, so yay!

chrisnu
07-09-2013, 08:09 PM
Vogel is a terrible character imo.
I would prefer terrible over useless.

Morris Schæffer
07-09-2013, 08:21 PM
What the fuck are you guys watching? Isn't season 8 coming out at end of september?!

Qrazy
07-09-2013, 08:37 PM
I would prefer terrible over useless.

She's prob doing the murders herself.

chrisnu
07-09-2013, 10:41 PM
She's prob doing the murders herself.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31g0YE61PLQ

Thirdmango
07-10-2013, 06:26 AM
What the fuck are you guys watching? Isn't season 8 coming out at end of september?!

Nah man, two of the episodes have already aired. It's every week on sundays right now.

I've watched the first episode so far, will get to the second sometime this week. it's not a big priority right now but probably will become more of one when it gets closer to the end.

EyesWideOpen
07-15-2013, 03:08 AM
I thought Vogel was really great in these last two episodes. I'm genuinely intrigued with where they're going with her.

chrisnu
07-16-2013, 05:31 AM
I liked Matthews talking shit about Quinn. I think he may be the most useless character in television history, given the amount of screen time he's afforded.

EvilShoe
07-22-2013, 03:24 PM
Masuka has a kid!!! I care.

Qrazy
07-22-2013, 07:58 PM
That was such a bad episode. Just when you think this show can't get any worse, it does.

Russ
07-22-2013, 10:21 PM
That was such a bad episode. Just when you think this show can't get any worse, it does.
Total agreement. How can it get any worse? Seriously!

I mean, that moment where Sookie strips down and and straddles...

...wait, what?


This isn't the True Blood thread?

chrisnu
07-23-2013, 04:39 AM
That was such a bad episode. Just when you think this show can't get any worse, it does.
I don't think it's as bad as Season 6. Yet.

EyesWideOpen
07-29-2013, 03:06 AM
I thought these last two episodes were great. Vogel has been awesome.

Qrazy
07-29-2013, 05:03 AM
Great, I'm so glad we had that brain surgeon plotline, that really went places. FUCK>

chrisnu
07-29-2013, 05:01 PM
Well, shit.

And they used the Trinity music for Yates. NO.

I bet that family's gonna enjoy having their bed harpooned.

EvilShoe
08-06-2013, 02:10 PM
Halfway through the season! Can't wait for this to be over.

Derek
08-07-2013, 04:54 AM
Halfway through the season! Can't wait for this to be over.

But how will they wrap up the Quinn/Batista drama? Will Masuka be able to make up with his daughter? What of Deb and Elway? I smell relationship drama a-coming! The toughest part about this show ending will be figuring out the new worst-show-I-follow.

EvilShoe
08-07-2013, 01:59 PM
But how will they wrap up the Quinn/Batista drama? Will Masuka be able to make up with his daughter? What of Deb and Elway? I smell relationship drama a-coming! The toughest part about this show ending will be figuring out the new worst-show-I-follow.It's amazing how uneventful this season is. If I hadn't been made aware this was the final one, I never would've guessed.

True Blood seems eager to succeed Dexter, I'd say.

EvilShoe
08-12-2013, 03:47 PM
Well, this episode had a shirtless Dora Madison Burge (of Friday Night Lights fame). So I guess that's something, at least?

chrisnu
08-12-2013, 08:16 PM
Well, it wasn't as putrid as I expected. I guess that's another something.

Gizmo
08-14-2013, 06:27 AM
So 45 minutes of Breaking Bad's final season has more going on and intensity than 8 episodes of Dexter's final season. Maybe (hopefully) something exciting will happen in the last few episodes, but right now this is going out with a whimper. I don't even care if Dexter gets caught or not, I just want it put out of it's misery.

EvilShoe
08-14-2013, 01:45 PM
Anyone else think this will end with Dexter dying martyr-style and Harrison being found in a puddle of his blood? Seems like the kind of hackneyed thing this show would do.

Gizmo
08-14-2013, 06:09 PM
Anyone else think this will end with Dexter dying martyr-style and Harrison being found in a puddle of his blood? Seems like the kind of hackneyed thing this show would do.

I hadn't considered it, but that does sound about right.

Qrazy
08-14-2013, 06:46 PM
Harrison was already found in a puddle of his mother's blood, it would serve no purpose to do that again, so no I don't expect that.

EvilShoe
08-15-2013, 12:44 AM
Harrison was already found in a puddle of his mother's blood, it would serve no purpose to do that again, so no I don't expect that.
This is Dexter we're talking about.

Qrazy
08-15-2013, 01:18 AM
This is Dexter we're talking about.

Fair point. :D

IMO this is what the season should have been. Flashback a ways, Deborah does not kill Laguerta. She pulls on Dexter but he escapes and then this whole season is Miami Metro tracking him down with a series of near escapes. Finally he is cornered in epic fashion and he goes to trial. The trial exposes all the pros and cons of what he does and finally he's put death by lethal injection. The last shot is him experiencing the sense of powerlessness he enacts upon all his victims and having his own epiphany about all this shit. End in a dream sequence of some nature mirroring the season one finale.

Drawing parallels between Dexter killing murderers and the State killing murderers is the only ending that makes any sense for this show.

EvilShoe
08-15-2013, 12:18 PM
I could see that working in a universe where Dexter hadn't suffered from a terrible supporting cast for years now, but as is: do we even care about these characters at this point? Like, how involved with Dexter are they even?

I still think the biggest mistake the writers made was kill off Doakes so early on, especially in a Deus Ex Machina way. The better option would've been to turn him into a reluctant ally of Dexter (similar to Deb's role now) and even use some material that happened in the later seasons: Rita's death, Vogel having him questioning his murdering ways, etc... There was a true dynamic between those characters, and I feel like that just went missing in later seasons, replaced by a guest star of the year instead. Like, why even have Prado on the show? Doakes could've fulfilled that role.

The whole thing just feels like half-assing your job. There are some alright elements in there, but it all adds up to nothing but average.

Qrazy
08-15-2013, 04:09 PM
I could see that working in a universe where Dexter hadn't suffered from a terrible supporting cast for years now, but as is: do we even care about these characters at this point? Like, how involved with Dexter are they even?

I still think the biggest mistake the writers made was kill off Doakes so early on, especially in a Deus Ex Machina way. The better option would've been to turn him into a reluctant ally of Dexter (similar to Deb's role now) and even use some material that happened in the later seasons: Rita's death, Vogel having him questioning his murdering ways, etc... There was a true dynamic between those characters, and I feel like that just went missing in later seasons, replaced by a guest star of the year instead. Like, why even have Prado on the show? Doakes could've fulfilled that role.

The whole thing just feels like half-assing your job. There are some alright elements in there, but it all adds up to nothing but average.

Yeah either keep Doakes alive or Brian. You could have made them seem dead but not obviously so, write them off the show for a while (they have urgent business elsewhere) and then bring them back later so we have a serious antagonist to deal with once more.

chrisnu
08-21-2013, 05:23 PM
More nude scenes that try to show as little as possible.

Other than maybe the second episode or so, this season has been so goddamn boring.

If Vogel ends up being the killer, this will officially be the worst season, even worse than Season 6.

EvilShoe
08-26-2013, 12:51 PM
Wish this was over in 3 weeks, but there's a delay due to Labour Day. This season can't do anything right.

chrisnu
09-01-2013, 11:15 PM
This A.V. Club review (http://www.avclub.com/articles/make-your-own-kind-of-music,101569/) does a very good job of explaining what the problem with this show is: giving Dexter the outcome he wants is the entire point of the show.

EvilShoe
09-02-2013, 11:39 AM
Yeah, at this point I mostly watch the show so I can read av club's reviews after.

chrisnu
09-09-2013, 03:49 PM
Someone please make the stupid stop.

Best part of the episode was Jamie telling Deb to go fuck herself.

slqrick
09-09-2013, 04:11 PM
Really glad I stopped watching after the first couple of episodes.

chrisnu
09-09-2013, 04:14 PM
Scratch that, the best part of the episode was everything about the scene where Harrison falls off the treadmill.

http://i.minus.com/iI0P8nzj70iQe.gif

Dexter, ladies and gentlemen!

Thirdmango
09-09-2013, 04:45 PM
It was really nice being able to watch seasons 6 and 7 in such a quick fashion because the glaring flaws didn't feel as glaring because I'd just move on. Doing it week to week it's just too much. They just seem to not have it in them to make good television, but what was so weird to me was watching The Daily Show this week and they said, "Only 3 episodes left." And the audience cried "No." Or there are some guys I know who keep saying this is the best show ever, and I think it's sorta like the concept of Zombies, if you're all in, it doesn't matter what they throw at you, you'll love the shit out of it.

I watched this week's episode before Breaking Bad cause I had some stuff to do while watching. Now I feel depressed.

Thirdmango
09-09-2013, 05:02 PM
One comment in the most recent AVClub article was the best and I thought I'd repost it here in case you miss it:



You give the writers no credit, but those lines were actually directed at the audience.

"You're still here. I hope you realize that."

"Why wouldn't I?"

"I just don't want you to have any unrealistic expectations."

Qrazy
09-16-2013, 04:07 AM
Holy god this is the worst show ever.

chrisnu
09-16-2013, 06:43 AM
I hate Scott Buck and this writing staff so much.

Nice touch of continuity by bringing back Prado's widow, though.

Gizmo
09-16-2013, 07:15 AM
The motivations behind some of these actions is laughable.

"they're on to me here."
"stay there." really?

'the only thing standing between me and happiness is killing this guy tied a chair. meh, don't feel like it.'

One episode left, are you excited for all this drama to finally come to a head?

chrisnu
09-16-2013, 07:41 AM
Stupidest Marshal ever.

EvilShoe
09-16-2013, 03:12 PM
I think this might be one of the first finales I'll leave on in the background while doing my dishes.

number8
09-16-2013, 05:59 PM
This is fucking hilarious. The Dexter sub on Reddit decided to have the weekly official discussion thread be about Breaking Bad instead.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Dexter/

chrisnu
09-16-2013, 08:15 PM
http://i.imgur.com/mgI9KOg.jpg

Kurosawa Fan
09-16-2013, 08:16 PM
I loved this comment:


I think Holly's performance in "Ozymandias" was better than all of season 8 from Dexter.

Seriously though, best baby performance ever? In spoilers, since this isn't the Breaking Bad thread.

From the pouting "My mama" to the hiding her face from the fireman, she destroyed me.

EvilShoe
09-21-2013, 06:15 AM
Lawl? http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/28747/spin-offs-dexter-maybe-mad-men-no

Speaking at a Paley Center event earlier this week to celebrate the series, Nevins said:
"Arguably, Dexter is to Showtime what Spider-Man is to Sony or Batman is to Warner Bros., so I think it's going to be important for us to keep it alive."
Nevins admits the network has been spending a considerable amount of time considering where the franchise could go moving forward:
"We spend a lot of time talking about how we keep the show alive, so it may be a more complicated original idea than just a spinoff… I hope that whatever we do will feel both original and in keeping with what people expect out of Dexter."

chrisnu
09-21-2013, 06:27 PM
If Scott Buck is in charge of the new show, there is no way in hell I will watch it.

EvilShoe
09-22-2013, 12:46 PM
By the way, Clyde Phillips (the old showrunner) said he'd be doing a reddit on Monday, to say how he would've ended the show. (Not that I think his run was the best, but at least he's not Buck.)http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1mkv67/

number8
09-22-2013, 07:15 PM
Reboot!

Henry Gale
09-22-2013, 07:33 PM
Guys! I haven't watched since Season 4, but apparently tonight is the big finale! It all comes down to this!

Everyone must be so excited!

EyesWideOpen
09-23-2013, 02:50 AM
I say no thank you to that finale.

chrisnu
09-23-2013, 06:20 AM
Now that this shitfest is over, I'm going to immediately begin pretending that the last four seasons do not exist.

EvilShoe
09-23-2013, 06:28 AM
Well, that was embarrassing.

EvilShoe
09-23-2013, 06:34 AM
Last line to the entire series: "let's go get some ice cream".

chrisnu
09-23-2013, 06:38 AM
I'm never going to watch anything that Scott Buck is in charge of ever again. Who's with me?

Here you go, Scott Buck!

http://i.imgur.com/sgcHwb1.jpg

EvilShoe
09-23-2013, 06:48 AM
I'm never going to watch anything that Scott Buck is in charge of ever again. Who's with me?
I said the same thing about Jenji Kohan, and now everyone's raving about Orange is the New Black. At least Weeds was decent at the start, whereas Dexter (although dipping in quality after season 2) turned to complete crap once Buck took over. So yeah, fuck Buck.

Qrazy
09-23-2013, 07:04 AM
Holy fuuuuuck that was soooo baaaaddd f;alwkjefa;elwkfjkads.f.sa.fan afn s!!!!fdas.n

chrisnu
09-23-2013, 07:23 AM
Even worse than the fake spoilers I read where Quinn kills Saxon and essentially becomes the new Dexter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWBTe1v4FE0

Dead & Messed Up
09-23-2013, 07:34 AM
I'm thinking it was a nod to that Monty Python episode where Michael Palin is a secret serial killer who abruptly becomes a lumberjack. Did Michael C. Hall get to sing?

Thirdmango
09-23-2013, 09:48 AM
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha.

Wow.

Now I can officially say that over half of Dexter was terrible.

Edit: I did sorta like that one Russian guy for what little he was in the past four seasons. I suppose there is that...

Also can I just say, because Dexter decides one last time not to be murder-Batman, that's when the consequences destroy his life. Bwa Ha Ha Ha Ha. That's so good. Wow this show. Just wow. What a terrible show.

Thirdmango
09-23-2013, 10:03 AM
The AVClub article is great on this episode but there's one line which I completely agree with: "It’s a feat for a finale to make you regret having watched a single moment of the series, but “Remember The Monsters” made it look easy."

I basically now regret having watched this show. Sure the 1st and 4th seasons were quite good, but looking back I don't even care to re-watch them. That's how sour the milk is now.

EvilShoe
09-23-2013, 03:37 PM
So the Dexter writers "explained" the finale:
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/09/23/dexter-interview-series-finale/


But a fan gripe was the season had Dexter dispatching new threats like in a typical season rather than a sense of that the show was arcing toward a finale with Dex’s world unraveling.

BUCK: It felt like we had done that with LaGuerta last season and with Lundy in season 2. I felt like it ran the risk of feeling repetitious and familiar.
COLLETON: Going that way felt pedestrian to me. I don’t know how else to put it. Years ago it was discussed and tabled as a very predictable non-interesting way to go.
...

number8
09-23-2013, 04:10 PM
Reading all the angry reactions online to the finale is my kind of schadenfreude.

number8
09-23-2013, 04:22 PM
The AVClub article is great on this episode but there's one line which I completely agree with: "It’s a feat for a finale to make you regret having watched a single moment of the series, but “Remember The Monsters” made it look easy."

I basically now regret having watched this show. Sure the 1st and 4th seasons were quite good, but looking back I don't even care to re-watch them. That's how sour the milk is now.

Haha, this is great. The contempt is just dripping out.


As a rule, I think it’s ridiculous to judge someone for liking or disliking an artwork. But I have to be a hypocrite here: If, after watching “Remember The Monsters,” you still consider yourself a fan of Dexter, I’m judging you. Not quietly. Loudly. I’m in your face with a megaphone, yelling “WHAT IS YOUR DEAL? CAN’T YOU SEE HOW AWFUL THIS IS?” You may be thinking, “Why are you yelling into a megaphone? Isn’t that redundant?” But you love a show that, for the better part of eight seasons, has used voiceovers and ghost dads to call your attention to things you’re currently looking at with your eyes. So you’ll forgive me for thinking redundancy is your thing, won’t you?

chrisnu
09-23-2013, 05:26 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3XmjQySbL0


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPwxrB8qWCI

Gizmo
09-24-2013, 05:25 AM
Oh my god. that was just.... that..... I.... I... I wasted years of my life and lots of money on showtime for this crap.

number8
09-24-2013, 12:46 PM
This is what this show is going to be remembered as forever...

http://i.imgur.com/2zmDEZV.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/n4LEbIZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DnmsYlW.png

http://i.imgur.com/JpED9sR.jpg

chrisnu
09-24-2013, 11:24 PM
Let me lament the demise of this show with my favorite quotes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcMSaVExUiI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CfNarCjSHM


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_oM6U_dwfM

chrisnu
09-24-2013, 11:27 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgI6ZrOU0vY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCbPQCL88eU


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlZnbagyj6c

chrisnu
09-24-2013, 11:28 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZz2bNmIePo


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlGYb0eMvvI

chrisnu
09-27-2013, 06:17 AM
http://youtu.be/N3T14LJEqjI


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiH_VK4HDNc

Derek
09-27-2013, 07:00 AM
What about Masuka and his daughter? I need CLOSURE to that storyline!

Qrazy
09-27-2013, 07:05 AM
What about Masuka and his daughter? I need CLOSURE to that storyline!

:lol:

EvilShoe
09-28-2013, 09:22 AM
Obviously the spin-off will be about Masuka dealing with his daughter's crippling pot addiction.

chrisnu
10-03-2013, 07:00 AM
BREAKING BAD FINALE SPOILER ALERT:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6dQV6a3Qk

Gizmo
10-03-2013, 10:43 AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF6dQV6a3Qk

Breaking Bad spoiler alert? Though I'm sure most everyone will have seen Breaking Bad finale before Dexter finale. At least if they're smart about their viewing habits.

chrisnu
10-03-2013, 04:51 PM
Yeah, the spoiler alert message in the video title didn't come through. Edited.

Scar
10-04-2013, 12:52 AM
So, I'm guessing the general consensus is that I should consider my lucky for only watching the first couple episodes this season?

I've been telling people who are new to Dexter to watch the first four seasons and walk away. Scratch that, I tell them to run after season 4.

Gizmo
10-04-2013, 01:28 AM
So, I'm guessing the general consensus is that I should consider my lucky for only watching the first couple episodes this season?

I've been telling people who are new to Dexter to watch the first four seasons and walk away. Scratch that, I tell them to run after season 4.
yep. I use to try to get people to watch Dexter, but stopped around season 6. Now when I hear people talking about watching Dexter I tell them to watch just the first 3 or 4 seasons only.

Thirdmango
10-07-2013, 10:46 PM
I have a friend who's only seen part of the first season and I now tell him to not even bother finishing the first season.

(Edited because scar rightly so let me know that using my phone with auto correct and such made the post unable to read.)

chrisnu
10-08-2013, 06:23 PM
Showtime told Dexter writers they couldn't kill Dexter, forcing them to go with only other possible ending (http://www.avclub.com/articles/showtime-told-dexter-writers-they-couldnt-kill-dex,103892/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1:Def ault)

So the network is in part to blame, at least.