Every time I wanna throw a few words about an episode, I always wanna talk about the previews of the next one. I mean, the previews work. "If it don't run, chrome it!" The secret is to create expectations, and they do.
The show runs OK... but just OK! I am not going to go real far back. For instance last season. It was excellent. This one, though, the grand finale, not so much!
I am a loyal fan of the show and of course I watch it every Sunday, and I put it higher than the vast majority of other TV shows, but let's be honest, there is no big bang here... (hopefully it is (still) building up, but 3 ep's to go and so far not so good)
I was expecting the episode to pick up exactly when the last one left off. Instead, there was another chronological jump, not awfully big, but anticlimactic.
Let me agree with a fellow reviewer on the fact that we don't really need to see a soap opera of Dexter's. OK, we saw him feeling his feelings, but I love you, you're my light and my universe, be with me, it is not really the show I started watching 7-8 years ago, or even more recently.
Not few times did I say that I am not sure about what Dr. Vogel is up to. Well, finally we took a peek of what's going on. Mixed feelings about that. I had two colliding reactions. On one side I was, like, "Yes! I knew it", and on the other "Naaah! Reeeally?".
New info about Dr. Vogel's background and past. Another cheaply put detail of her son who, guess what, she thought he died, but he did not. He's clever, sharp, psycho... And with a little photo-shop and a facial recognition software Dexter shazamed his identity!
He could have asked Debra after all!! I mean, she talked to Jamie for a minute and she automatically went there, to Cassie's new, pushy, soon- to-be-sent-home boyfriend!
It all seemed just a tad too rushed up until now!
To the show's credit, the subterranean impact of Elway's feelings about Debra is kicking in. Not, of course, the way he'd want. He called up a federal Marshal to find Hannah and get the reward money... and to get to Debra for her withdrawal from the case -and his case- with my last point coming from deduction and presumption. He even essentially kicks her out her (his) office.
The federal Marshal seems highly dangerous. He is going to tear things apart. From a director's standpoint he does obvious moves to manipulate Dexter, but Dexter's inner confliction doesn't allow him to think clearly and see them. Good scene with the Marshal approaching Harrison. I believe that many viewers thought Harrison was going to give Hannah's name away triggering a new wave of suspicions. He said it was his mom, though! Easy cover-up for Dexter saying it was Rita!
Getting down to business now, Dexter is using one of Hannah's potions to drug Vogel because she doesn't agree with him on taking her son in and locking him in a psych-ward in order to "cure" him of his psychopathy. Let me underline here that Dr. Vogel was talking about her son in way that showed she already knew him. I mean he was her son, of course. I mean she knew him, knew him... Anyway!
Interpreting Mama Cass's song, Make Your Own Kind of Music, Dexter is going to the coffee shop where Dr. Vogel used to take her son to when he was a kid. After waiting a while, Dexter follows him to his car with the the usual good intentions... sedate and kill him! Daniel (Vogel's son) gets in his car, turns and stares at Dexter and he drives off. Dexter then finds his tires sliced! Daniel had spotted him long ago. That, or he was already tipped off by someone... Let's say Vogel (my opinion and speculation)!
Dexter rushes to Vogel's house afraid that Daniel is headed there to kill her. She is alive, and she talks to Dexter making him reveal that it was all his plan and not hers; that, in order for Daniel from the other room to hear it.
While talking with her, Dexter actually spills in a second his whole plan with Hannah. He did say only Deb will know, but here he is revealing it to Vogel. As he walks away, he is thinking to himself that Vogel is on her own now... blah blah... sort of what he said about Miguel Prado in season 3. When ever did that work for him?
I tried to stick with the main plot! There are other interesting happenings in the episode, mostly about Deb... and Quinn among others! Something inside me celebrated when he kissed her!
Anyway, I am not going to dis the episode. I strongly believe that the same story would be an astounding novel, but for some reason it doesn't leave the impression we'd like on film. I do not like the introduction of the character of Vogel, and her son, and how pivotal role all of them have and will play in Dexter's life!
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