Is anyone ever safe behind the bars?
Season 4 of Dexter has been a motley coat: it has been funny and it has been scary, it has been revealing and it has been dampening, there have been lessons, but have they been forgotten?
Milk or blood? (in an Eddie Izzard voice) Daddy dearest Dexter
Season 4 begins with Dexter, the family man, the husband and the father. And obviously being a serial killer - daddy-issues, teenage hormones, marital discord. And this year his challenge is the Trinity killer, someone initially pursued by FBI Special agent Lundy. Like season 3, this season too got off-track and off-topic, especially with the whole LaGuerta-Angel, Quinn-reporter area.
Dexter, Dexter, on the wall…who’s the stranger of them all?
But the last episode gripping and very interesting, far more than whole of season 3 and most of season 4. Michael C. Hall plays Dexter with dexterity and finesse. Lithgow, who played Trinity, was pleasantly twisted too. Carpenter as Deb was superb, and although I dislike her spent emotions over Lundy, I believe her nose for detective is top-notch.
“The wheel is come full circle, I am here” –
King Lear
I think this season completes a full circle. The first season revealed that Dexter was this boy born inn blood, sharing with his sibling this love for murder and kill; Four seasons and he finds a re-writing of the history, with him being a witness to this blood bath. As he picks up his son from the ruins, you cant help but wonder if Harrison shares his father’s destiny or is this device just a mirror for Dexter to see himself?
Season five, most probably, will raise questions about Dexter as a single dad with three kids.
(I think it’s better to hammer yourself now, Dex!)
Rating: 3.5/5 (Season 1 was so much better)
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