Dexter

Dexter Season 5 Episode 12/ “The Big One”

by Simon Band [ed note: I've also seen this episode released as “Through a Glass Darkly” although the title card says “The Big One”] I feel a bit cheated this season with the finale of Dexter, while I was hoping for a b...
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Dexter Season 5 Episode 11/ “Hop a Freighter”

By Simon Band The “previously on Dexter” recap yet again delivers in giving us the little snippet of last week’s show that frames the entire narrative, the sudden sexualisation of Dexter and Lumen’s killing, and what it...
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Dexter Season 5 Episode 10 “In The Beginning”

By Simon Band With the title of the show and all of its biblical suggestions we go quickly from the darkness of the title card to what comes shortly after: the light. This week’s Dexter seems unusually filled with light, and ...
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Dexter Season 5 Episode 9/ “Teenage Wasteland”

by Simon Band This season of Dexter the script writers are doing something unusual and exciting, different to previous seasons, and that’s structuring the story around single lines of dialogue. Theses single lines, throug...
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Dexter Season 5 Episode 8/ “Take It!”

by Simon Band I love the puns in Dexter episode titles! “Take It!” is a lovely play on the language of the self help seminar, as well as terminology used in abuse and rough sex. Not the stuff you shout over your bowl of cor...
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Dexter Season 5 Episode 7/ “Circle Us”

By Simon Band I love the opening sequences of Dexter. You get a highly edited and selected “previously on Dexter” sequence that tells you, not just what has been happening recently, but bits from the way-back-when to frame ...
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