Showtime's "Dexter" season four will knock your socks off.
Unlike some other series on the network which have not held up well over the years, Michael C. Hall and company are well served by fresh writing, interesting inter-office situations and a very bad man: John Lithgow's Trinity killer, Arthur Mitchell.
Unlike some other series on the network which have not held up well over the years, Michael C. Hall and company are well served by fresh writing, interesting inter-office situations and a very bad man: John Lithgow's Trinity killer, Arthur Mitchell.
Tonight, Sunday, Sept. 27 (9/8c, Showtime), Dexter takes on the American dream in colorful Miami suburbs with his beautiful wife and three children. Dexter's baby gives him a new lesson in patience overcoming fussy little demands, and he learns a lot about himself and his capacity to love back. This epiphany is revealed in episode four in a key scene with a bad cop who has murdered her own family, and cleverly covered up the crime.
Just because our anti-hero is in the 'burbs, hosting barbecues and neighborhood watch meetings, Dexter still role plays the normal guy fitting in.
Dexter's dark passenger that he carries is usefully employed in sussing out a neighborhood vandal as he manages to keep up the facade with wife Rita.
The addition of Miami's latest resident, the Trinity Killer, played by actor John Lithgow as a serial killer who has been at the game for decades, that draws another great actor, Keith Carradine, as Agent Lundy, back to Miami.
This of course sets up a great side story of Lundy and Debra's unfinished love affair.
Lithgow adds so much incredible juice to this series as this quiet, intelligent and powerful evil force. His fateful scene where he crosses paths with Carradine's Lundy, casing a possible kill site, is edge of the seat good.
Another great actor to praise is James Remar. Remar is frequently seen in ghostly apparitions counseling Dexter on his strategy, and his life. Remar is one of those actors I love in everything I have ever seen him in, ever since seeing him play Ajax in "The Warriors."
The character of Debra Morgan gets her due and lots of good scenes; she is pulled apart emotionally when Lundy resurfaces, and has to figure things out for herself. The Trinity killer hunt pulls her into the game with Lithgow and into Lundy's arms once again.
Lt. Maria LaGuerta and (Lauren Velez) and Angel Batista (David Zayas) has some major caliente scenes this season. Zayas' Batista is a very sexy guy, and they have great chemistry together.
Resident bad cop Joey Quinn (Desmond Harrington) also has very good scenes. His corrupt behavior is caught by Dexter, who wants no trouble or relationship with the lusty cop who takes a fetching reporter to bed, bad move. His character is interesting in that your not sure if he's really good OR bad, and that ambiguity is carried out perfectly by Harrington's subtle acting. He's an interesting character.
Still puerile and scatological, Dexter's lab pal Masuka (C.S. Lee) shows signs of some insight and maturity, but he still is the comic relief at the crime scenes - always inappropriate - and he drives a gaudy monster truck we learn this season.
The fourth episode will absolutely floor fans of this series. Producers have managed to make damned near every episode (especially this one) a cliff hanger.
The series rocks, and is better than the last. This is not easy to do in smallscreen land. Make sure you watch "Dexter" this season.
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