Oct 15, 2020 06:38 AM
PRE-COMMENT: It would only be worth it if they could magically bring his sister back to life, and minus the brain damage prognosis. Wouldn't be the same without Debra. I'd even be content with something super-lame, like the infamous Bobby Ewing gimmick, which would also negate Dexter's self-punishment stint as a lumberjack. (Sheesh, it's almost like they got the inspiration for that from the ending of Jack Nicholson's Five Easy Pieces, when he hitched with the truck loaded with logs.)
I already know what the showrunner(s) will do instead (if Jennifer Carpenter could be re-signed to the role). She'll simply replace his similarly dead, foster father in terms of the imagined, internal dialogues he had with the latter.
On the pessimistic side -- given the lousy record of popular or celebrated TV series when it comes to endings (including "Game of Thrones"), there's little reason to feel "Dexter" will get it right the second time around, either. No surprise if the pathetic is waiting again at the termination of this 10-episode tunnel. Or just a dribbling off into ambiguity like the X-Files -- one of the ancestral templates for today's unsatisfactory endings.
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Is Showtime's new Dexter season the revival nobody asked for?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/s...l/12769398
EXCERPTS: Dexter, one of television's best known serial killers, is on his way back. Showtime has announced it has given the go-ahead to a limited series, 10-episode revival. [...] Dexter ran for eight seasons until 2013, earning multiple awards including Golden Globe and Emmy wins for Michael C Hall.
But the series finale was widely panned by both critics and fans at the time; the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that it was "full of holes" and "enraged viewers", Vulture labelled it a "terrible end" and Rolling Stone listed it as one of the "worst series finales" alongside Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Roseanne and Friends.
[...] Showtime hasn't given us any hints about the plot of the revival, nor whether any of the show's other main characters will return, however, back in 2013, showrunner Scott Buck told Entertainment Weekly viewers were unlikely to see the current cast in any spin-off. Defending the finale, Buck said it was the most justified ending.
[...] Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall tweeted that this was "the revival nobody asked for". We put the question out to subscribers of the ABC's TV topic on Messenger, asking whether fans would bother watching one more season. The answer was a resounding yes, with responders overwhelmingly excited for the Dexter story to continue... (MORE - details)
I already know what the showrunner(s) will do instead (if Jennifer Carpenter could be re-signed to the role). She'll simply replace his similarly dead, foster father in terms of the imagined, internal dialogues he had with the latter.
On the pessimistic side -- given the lousy record of popular or celebrated TV series when it comes to endings (including "Game of Thrones"), there's little reason to feel "Dexter" will get it right the second time around, either. No surprise if the pathetic is waiting again at the termination of this 10-episode tunnel. Or just a dribbling off into ambiguity like the X-Files -- one of the ancestral templates for today's unsatisfactory endings.
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Is Showtime's new Dexter season the revival nobody asked for?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-10-15/s...l/12769398
EXCERPTS: Dexter, one of television's best known serial killers, is on his way back. Showtime has announced it has given the go-ahead to a limited series, 10-episode revival. [...] Dexter ran for eight seasons until 2013, earning multiple awards including Golden Globe and Emmy wins for Michael C Hall.
But the series finale was widely panned by both critics and fans at the time; the Sydney Morning Herald wrote that it was "full of holes" and "enraged viewers", Vulture labelled it a "terrible end" and Rolling Stone listed it as one of the "worst series finales" alongside Lost, How I Met Your Mother, Roseanne and Friends.
[...] Showtime hasn't given us any hints about the plot of the revival, nor whether any of the show's other main characters will return, however, back in 2013, showrunner Scott Buck told Entertainment Weekly viewers were unlikely to see the current cast in any spin-off. Defending the finale, Buck said it was the most justified ending.
[...] Rolling Stone's chief TV critic Alan Sepinwall tweeted that this was "the revival nobody asked for". We put the question out to subscribers of the ABC's TV topic on Messenger, asking whether fans would bother watching one more season. The answer was a resounding yes, with responders overwhelmingly excited for the Dexter story to continue... (MORE - details)
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I'm in the 3rd season where the daughter of the Fisher family has been hired by her radical Marxist or Antifa art instructor to be his assistant-chauffeur. Because the "jack-booted fascists" took away his driver's license.