The question now is whether they follow up on all that points to Dexter being tied tovthe Trinity killer.

BTW in the books Deb finds out about Dexter early and helps him.

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I found it difficult to imagine that a killer as proficient and skilled as Trinity would allow a stranger like “Kyle Butler” into his home and confidence as easily as Trinity did.

And I also find it hard to swallow that a character as controlled and disciplined as Dexter would lose his temper in front of law enforcement officers, thus, allowing Trinity to escape, albeit temporarily. It also didn’t make sense to have Dexter frame another person for Trinity’s crimes. If Dexter’s first priority was to protect his family, wouldn’t he want the police to catch Trinity?

What bothered me about Dexter this season, besides the annoying “romance” between Angel and LaGuerta was that Trinity never seemed like much of a match for Dexter. He should have been the ultimate challenge, but instead he turns to Dexter for emotional support, and tries to kill himself in front of him. Then just when you think these two killers were going to go at each other mano a mano in a knockdown, drag-out fight, Dexter dispatches him easily. Sure, Trinity got his revenge from beyond the grave, but I still felt the finale didn’t deliver on what it promised at the end of the previous episode.

Now, I hear the writers are thinking of jumping forward. Sounds like they wrote themselves into a corner that is just too hard to get out of.

What I feel like they might be leading up to is for Debra and Dexter to start murdering together. That would be a cool direction for the show to go in I think. You heard it here first.

I’ve been missing Dexter since I cancelled Showtime. I would like to start viewing it again, but I’m stumped on the best way to catch up on the episodes I’ve missed. Is it available online somewhere or should I just rent the DVDs? How are you seeing it Ronan?

there’s always eztv.it and utorrent.

I’ve not read the books but I’ve heard they are quite different from the show and that while the author is one of the writers on the show, the show is vastly superior to the books.

You have me excited as overall I’ve been kind of disappointed with this season. There were some great episodes but the satirical social commentary felt much more forced. Yes the casting was great, but this season was disappointing for me. What I do like is that unlike prior seasons the finale isn’t anticlimatic. It seems like in previous seasons the main plot finished the episode before the last and then there are a bunch of implausible events tying all lose ends. Last season they did leave open Deb’s searching for the mistress of her dad, although they didn’t do much with it (unless it’s a point in the finale) It sounds like this one really is leaving a lot more open and that they are really changing the structure of the show more.