https://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/1151 ... -returning

Although without Deb and perhaps the other regulars, I'm afraid that it won't be as good as the original run. I hope that I'm wrong.

My daughter texted me with this news last night. She was quite excited.

I'm happy, but also curious to see what form this takes. My first thought was, "Great! Dexter's back!!" Then I remembered that they killed off Deb, and now I'm wondering what the storyline will be. Does he go back to Miami? Do his actions in Miami follow him to where he is now? Does he ultimately give in to the "Dark Traveller" and start killing in the new place?

I saw some people call for them to pull a Dallas and claim the last season was a dream. I'm hoping they don't do that.

So the lumberjack is about to set out on his second spree of ridding the world of other sociopaths like him?

Whatever they do, I hope that they don't bring Deb back (much as I love her character) and Dexter discovers that that whole thing was a dream. That's the cheapest and laziest form of writing and in effect says to us, "Hey Dexter fans, we lied to you."

Agreed. I could live with Jennifer Carpenter in another role and Dexter seeing her triggers something in him. But no Deb. Like it or not, they've closed that door.



No, no, no. Not sociopaths like him. Just the ones who somehow managed to evade the law and thus went unpunished for their crimes.

Oh....

Ah, well, yes, sociopaths, or psychopaths, but not quite like him. Though you must admit, Dexter is breaking the law and going unpunished, too. I think he's even made a mistake or two and killed the wrong guy. Once, at least. Killed a guy though the guy's assistant was the real killer.

And he is more a sociopath than a psychopath. I don't think he just confines himself to killing psychos, though, or those who get off on technicalities. I wonder if Dexter would kill another man like Dexter who was a killer of others they felt deserved it? Or if he'd just work with him.

Anyway, I tots agree if his sister comes back it would be bogus. He might have other family, though, since his father slept around - maybe more than he knew.

Would you still want his imaginary dad in the picture, or do you think he's other that? Might be easier if you didn't need the actor again.

Thus the "Oh...".



I would still want the dad there. That could make for an interesting side story. Does imaginary dad sound supportive in this time where we presume he's not killing and nudge him to kill again? Or does he push back against it?

Another case of TV not leaving well enough alone.

Since the dad is imaginary, it must push back from what Dexter intends to do to make it interesting. I think imaginary dad cheering for him to do what's he's already doing would be silly.

And if he's not killing bad guys, what is the anti-hero going to do instead?

So he's off to do his thing, walk inside daddy's code, but maybe push the envelop.

I suspect his kids should stay out of the picture, but I read once, IIRC, they were little sociopaths themselves.

Bah. Little use speculating at this point. Wait and see.

We watched Dexter on and off in the day, sometimes it was actually on CBS. So we need to go back and start with Season One. I hear the best seasons are 1 thru 4, the rest are not considered as good.

I recently watched them all on Netflix. What did I think?

Seasons 1, 2 and 4 are the best ones.

I concur. For me, 4 is a perfect 10, 1 is a 9, and 2 is an 8.5. I liked the first Hannah storyline, but I think there was something else about that season that dragged it down. And the season with Julia Stiles (5?) was mostly good.

Thinking about Debra, they could bring her back in his mind as was Harry. Harry and Debra in Dexter's mind might be a bit much. They could write out Harry though. I'd trade him for Debra.

I really liked the Lumen Pierce character, though many didn't. I also really enjoyed the Hannah character. (But I'm totally with the rating of the earlier seasons being better.) Since Hannah and Harrison walked off into the sunset, so to speak, I wonder if those characters will come back. Harrison will have grown, so any actor would suffice. I would need the same Hannah though! (Yvonne Strahovski) She had the right amount of evil in her.

I never liked the Hannah McKay character or the whole storyline around her. Dexter had her on his table and was ready to do justice but because she was a hot blonde, he let her off. Later on when she's arrested by Deb and doesn't say anything about him because she supposedly loves him was ridiculous. Later on when he leaves Harrison, his son with the love of his life, Rita, with her, a murderer, was also ridiculous. The series would have been much better served if she'd been the one to die at the end and not Deb. I watch the entire series about once a year but I usually skip the last two seasons. The show changed in a way that I didn't like after Deb found out about her brother.

I like this idea - they could actually use both as the angel/devil yin and yang in Dexter's mind.