Here’s the new trailer for Season 5 of Showtime’s “Dexter,” which premiered at Comic-Con this weekend. I know a lot of people love this show, especially after John Lithgow’s greatness as the Trinity Killer last season, but all I got out of this trailer was melodrama and bad child actors.
If that doesn’t slake your thirst for good-hearted serial killers, below is another new promo for the coming season (which debuts September 26th). Again, I don’t want to take anything away from a quality show, but the promo makes “Dexter” look like melodramatic crap. What the hell is that song? It’s like they borrowed it from a “Grey’s Anatomy” montage.
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Derpp. Yeah the first two seasons were great but Jimmy Smitts sucked all the good out of this show in S3.
If the song on that second video was any more melancholy, John Tesh would be masturbating to it.
My biggest gripe about Dexter is that they take an 8-episode story arc and stretch it into 12.
They had Lithgow last season, so it didn’t seem as bad, but the characters all getting stupid at convenient times for the sake of pacing the plot is a recurring and huge weakness of the show.
That sure was depressing. Honestly, I am OK with Rita getting whacked since she was just an awful actress.
“Derpp. Yeah the first two seasons were great but Jimmy Smitts sucked all the good out of this show in S3.”
But Lithgow lovingly fellated it back to life in season 4.
Besides his ridiculous accent, I didn’t think Smitt’s character was too bad.
/laments the fact that haters will invariably and steadfastly hate
On another note, just watch the damn show already. You don’t have to like it, but being a TV blogger and neglecting to watch Dexter is like being a movie blogger and not podcasting about that time you shit your pants. Wait, what are we talking about..?
Melanoma > Melodrama
/Deb is the worst actress on the planet
//and her rack isn’t nearly as great as Rita’s was
awww fuck…. i haven’t finished season 3 yet and come to find out Rita dies. Does she at least get naked first? Wait, don’t tell me. I need some sort of surprise (or lack thereof).
Further proof that people will always find something to bitch about. I definitely agree the second promo is melodramatic and soap-opera-y, but the show is absolutely incredible. I’ve found that a lot of the douche bags who dont like this show are too fucking dense to watch it and comprehend the humor/plot/ intricacies. Dexter’s internal dialogue is what makes the show, and no one has been better suited to a character than Michael C. Hall is to Dexter. The secondary characters are developed to a point you just don’t see on other shows. Masuoka and Batista would be token ethnic characters and barely known on almost every other show on TV, yet on Dexter they are developed to the point that they are likable and you care what happens to them. So There.
(And no I have not had Michael C. Hall’s cock in my mouth while writing this)
Mainer (and every other white knight on the internet) is right. If you don’t like something, it’s because you don’t understand it.
“Oh, you don’t like walnuts? Well maybe that’s because you can’t possibly understand the complexity of the flavor of them.”
Because Mainer’s the hero Dexter deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
Taco, thanks for ascribing my defense of a singular show to everything else that people may not like. It almost made sense?
I agree with a lot of what Mainer said, the show is incredible. Just not the reason that some people don’t like the show. There are some people that simply find it “too murdery”. I personally find it not murdery enough.
@Captain_Insano I agree and most of the murders consist of him plunging a knife into the chest and thats all they show. For a show whose first scene had him dragging a guy around with piano wire around his neck it really disapoints with the graphic violence.
@Enrico – Yes, Deb lacks a chest but she is not a shitty actress. She has gotten better and better as the show has gone on and is actually more than just a foul-mouthed cop now.
I will however, mourn Rita’s mammaries.
Agreed Mainer.
The show has to take a turn and finish soon – he can’t kill forever. And while we might want him to keep up the rampant killing without consequence, it leaves no where else for the show to go. Hopefully it doesn’t drag on, become unbelievable, and loose sacrifice quality for quantity.
aight. to be honest all this was, was a replay of the last 2 minutes of the last episode of season 4. i hope this season will outdo the others. dont get me wrong dexter is awesome, but season 3 sucked and season 4 could have been better
ok i take that back. my computer didnt load the video the first time and all i saw was the second video. anyways it looks pretty good… hope it is too
hi, does anyone know the name and who sings that mello song on the 2nd video?
Storm by Lifehouse
To everyone who is complaining about the show. If you don’t like it, why do you watch it? i think the show is great and can’t wait until teh 5th season starts!!
thnx!!!