***Spoiler Alert RE: Dexter S05 E01***
I’m feeling completely underwhelmed by this episode. I can’t seem to wrap my head around Dexter’s character and thoughts…
He’s spent his entire life trying to learn emotion…for someone as intelligent as him, someone as careful, someone who practices emotion his entire life, I can’t seem to figure out why Dexter‘s acting (not Michael Hall) is so bad. Learn how to cry Dex, it’ll come in handy some day (like this episode).
I thought the Mickey Mouse hat was an interesting touch (while Dexter was breaking the news to Rita’s family). Throughout the beginning, I’m wondering exactly how everyone is gonna react to the news and when I see it, they throw in this completely ridiculous hat. I was expecting it to be…dramatic. But instead, I was thinking “WTF, he looks ridiculous with that hat on”.
I still couldn’t wrap my head around Dexter’s lack of fake emotion in this episode. If I were a cold, emotionless….uhh, let’s say vigilante because I’d rather not call myself a killer, even hypothetically…I’d totally know when to pour on the fake emotion. The ONLY reason why I can see him not faking emotion is if he doesn’t care, if he’s gonna drop his life and go elsewhere. Which is where they took the ep, so it sort of made sense. And then he came back…so he should have still put on a better acting job. Contingency plan much Dexter?
Overall, I was disappointed with this episode. Again, it left me underwhelmed. The eulogy at the end was TERRIBLE….I thought after what he’d been through, showing real emotion for possibly the first time and everything, he’d have something interesting to say. But he didn’t. I feel like I’m Doakes this episode, wondering “why can’t everyone else see there’s something majorly wrong with this guy?”.
Isn’t it going to be suspicious that most of his stuff burned down? Where was he keeping that stuff anyways?
I hope, starting next week, they really begin to take this season in a direction. Who’s the antagonist? What’s the twist? There are only 12 episodes left, this one was wasted.
Boourns.
Well after seeing the episode twice now I would argue that because Rita’s death shocked him he couldn’t put up the facade. Not to mention, Harry always helped him deal with the fake emotions and all throughout the episode Harry was gone. Dexter is a sociopath, not a psychopath so really it’s not surprising that he didn’t know how to act at all… Plus he barely mentions how he’s supposed to act, and this episode was more all about his relationship with Rita and how he treated her. So really I think this episode was Dexter being Dexter, not the person people expect him to be.
And not to mention Quinn is suspicious… Oh and he burned his stuff he had in the storage shed he bought after Cody fell in to the shed in the backyard. It was no where near the house…
But yeah I’ll admit it wasn’t the best episode, but at the same time if Dexter was always this cold blooded ‘perfectly’ acting guy, would it really be that interesting?
On and the season should only have 11 episodes left since it’s 12 per season… (Just saying)