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Dexter Review: "Easy as Pie" (Episode 7)
In our haste to dig into this season’s often listless narrative arcs, we’ve ignored some well-drawn work that has edged its way in. Margo Martindale (pictured) makes what will likely be her final appearance on the show this week as Camilla, the file clerk and old family friend who helped Dexter delve into his past in the first season. We learned she was terminal last week, and even if Dexter’s quest to find her the perfect key-lime pie was a pretty transparent ruse, her final hours (and Dexter’s unlikely part in them) were an ingenious way to explore mortality without... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsDexter review. Episode 3.06—"Sí Se Puede"
We’re halfway through Dexter’s third season, and if this week’s episode felt a little inorganic, it served to clean up a series of plot points that had been unfocused over the last five episodes. Miguel’s brother is ostensibly out of the picture after Deb begins to share our suspicion about his connection to the Skinner murders (it isn’t him, alas), and Miguel is officially Dexter’s after-dark partner, albeit an apparently troubled one. Now we can get to the point, assuming there is one.... read more
Found in: TV DetailDexter review. Episode 3.06—"Sí Se Puede"
We’re halfway through Dexter’s third season, and if this week’s episode felt a little inorganic, it served to clean up a series of plot points that had been unfocused over the last five episodes. Miguel’s brother is ostensibly out of the picture after Deb begins to share our suspicion about his connection to the Skinner murders (it isn’t him, alas), and Miguel is officially Dexter’s after-dark partner, albeit an apparently troubled one. Now we can get to the point, assuming there is one.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsDexter review. Episode 3.05—"Turning Biminese"
This week’s big reveal—that Miguel Prado suspected Dexter was more than a one-time vigilante—obviously should have come a few episodes ago. The Prado arc has frustrated fans and has never struck me as particularly viable to the series’ overall development, but now Miguel has an inextricable part in Dexter’s fate. The new subplot provides a much-needed foil to the developing domestic aspect of the series: for the first time, Dexter has someone who knows what he does, and that presents new possibilities as well as a potential threat.... read more
Found in: TV DetailDexter review. Episode 3.05—"Turning Biminese"
This week’s big reveal—that Miguel Prado suspected Dexter was more than a one-time vigilante—obviously should have come a few episodes ago. The Prado arc has frustrated fans and has never struck me as particularly viable to the series’ overall development, but now Miguel has an inextricable part in Dexter’s fate. The new subplot provides a much-needed foil to the developing domestic aspect of the series: for the first time, Dexter has someone who knows what he does, and that presents new possibilities as well as a potential threat.... read more
Found in: TV, ReviewsTV Detail: Dexter review. Episode 3.04—"All in the Family"
So, uh, Dexter and Rita are engaged. Weird. The entire episode this week—as Dexter tried to convince her to accept his awkward, whim-induced proposals—felt out of line with the subtle shades that have developed their relationship over the last few seasons. She had a tentative place in the show early on, as if she could have easily left the cast, and it’s hard not to get the sense that she’s going to need to get a little more wind of Dexter’s nighttime activities for this to work. We’ll see.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VTV Detail: Dexter review. Episode 3.03—"The Lion Sleeps Tonight"
Very much a transitional episode, this week’s Dexter spent more time progressing the season’s central plot than it did staking out new ground. The exception is that Dexter decides to stay with Rita and raise their child when it’s born, but who does that really surprise? Dexter’s father—who has been dead since before the show started—continues to show up in dreary flashbacks even now that we know about his past, so the show will inevitably find plenty of material in the idea of Dexter as a father.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VTV Detail: Dexter Review. Season Premiere and Episode 3.02
The first two episodes of Dexter’s third season open with the kind of uncharacteristically contrived setups that brought the first two seasons to their hasty conclusions. In the premiere, Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is briefly at the cheeriest we’ve seen him in some time after he avoided detection late last season with the kind of dumb luck he’s been taught his whole life to avoid. His escape was liberating in that sense, with the mythology surrounding his father apparently settled and a new sense of possibility ahead of him.... read more
Found in: Blogs, Ctrl-VSteven Spielberg-Diablo Cody's Tara set for Jan.
In the flood of announcements that followed Diablo Cody’s overnight overexposure, perhaps the most persistent was the bond between the Oscar-adorned Juno screenwriter and Steven Spielberg. If we’re to believe the Hollywood lore, he even considered directing Juno at one point, and before long he had Cody attached as a writer on several of his fledgling projects.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsLeisha Hailey lands L Word spin-off on Showtime
[Above: Hailey with L Word co-star Erin Daniels]Robert Greenblatt, president of entertainment at Showtime, announced at TCA this year that the network is working on a spin-off to their hit lesbian drama The L Word. With their popular show going into it's sixth and final season early in 2009, Greenblatt told reporters that he and Ilene Chaiken (L Word creator) were wanting to do a spin-off with one of the main characters, but wouldn't reveal which one and even said that no one in the cast was aware of the project yet.... read more
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