I think I’m in the minority when it comes to complaints about Dexter‘s last season; while I stuck around for the acting, a lot of the plotting drove me right up a wall. But season three has been gangbusters so far. Jimmy Smits is a great addition to the cast; his character has been playing off Dexter perfectly. (Unless they blew it in this week’s episode, which I haven’t watched yet.)
So I’m happy to see that Showtime agrees, and has already ordered up seasons four and five. That’s a tremendous vote of confidence for the show. Each season will be twelve episodes, with the fourth set to go into production in Spring 2009. But the pessimist in me wonders if five seasons might not be pushing it a bit. How far can Dexter’s particular plight be drawn out? A lot of that will have to do with how the balance of this season goes, and who discovers Dexter’s secret this time.
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For this piece of extraordinarily good news, I will kill you last.
You know I'm going to delete spoiler comments, right? Don't even bother to leave them.
In addition to everything else, this series highlights Miami like nothing else ever made. Great news.
I think there are still new Darkly Dancing Dexter books coming out, though I don't know if the show is using them as a guide anymore. I don't think they'll have any problem pulling in high quality guest stars through seasons 4 and 5 anyway, so it'll be worth it for the acting alone, like you say.
they haven't follwoed the plot of the books since the first one (apart from nabbing Lundy's name and relationship with Deb). I'd quite liked to have seen the second book as the 'what to do with Doakes' story arc but (Lila aside who just annoyed fuck out of me) thought the Bay Harbour Butcher was a better arc for Dexter.
Apparently the third book is pants anyway
Yeah last season was hit and miss. Definite improvement so far. I think they can easily go another two seasons. So long as they don't go back to the books. This is one of the rare exceptions where the books just aren't as good.
The first few eps last season were shaky. But over all I think season 2 was better than 1. And so far I haven't been in love with it this season at all. I've been watching True Blood first before Dexter. Dexter might be a little played out for me already. Russ is right…can only take it so far. Deb has to find out the truth at some point. That is a natural progression it must take at some point. She has to take Harry's role in some way.
The third book is horrendous. I for one am glad they aren't following the books, as the show is much better. Hope this doesn't count as too much of a book spoiler, but it alludes to Dexter's dark passenger as being a dead god. Yup. A god. Living inside Dexter. Not a metaphor.
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