{"id":498,"date":"2010-11-19T09:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-11-19T09:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T14:34:39","slug":"why-season-5-of-dexter-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Why Season 5 Of Dexter Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been out of it for a few weeks since the election. It really hit me hard. An overwhelming sense of depression, helplessness, and hopelessness for our country. I haven&#8217;t tweeted or done anything social networky in weeks.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to blog about this before last week, but I was hoping last weeks episode of Dexter could have changed how I felt about the show. It didn&#8217;t really, despite the two somewhat shockers.<\/p>\n<p>This season of Dexter has just sucked. I kept searching for Dexter in the news and found an article today, finally, verifying that there WILL BE a sixth season. I have mixed feelings about that considering how crappy this season has been, but it&#8217;s good to know that the stupid cop guy (the one who Quinn hired) will probably not be the one to take Dexter down.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve compiled a list of why this season sucks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No personal relationship with the villain(s) &#8211; In season 1, it was Dexter&#8217;s bro which we found out at the end. In season 2, it was Dexter himself. In season 4, it was Trinity of whom we had a known relationship from the start. Maybe we&#8217;ll know more about the Jordan Chase people, but there&#8217;s only four episodes left&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>No twists or shockers &#8211; With the exception of the last episode (a tiny bit).<\/li>\n<li>No character building &#8211; Are we just learning about Lumen the whole time?<\/li>\n<li>Little emotion shown by Dexter &#8211; At least the first episode there was sort of emotion. I did like when he covered Lumen&#8217;s ears though last episode.<\/li>\n<li>Little Harry involvement &#8211; I can&#8217;t remember the last time Dexter talked to Harry. He doesn&#8217;t even have flashbacks or anything. At first I didn&#8217;t like the Harry\/Dexter talking, but now it&#8217;s an important part of the show.<\/li>\n<li>Little time&#8217;s going by &#8211; So I guess we&#8217;re only like a month after Rita&#8217;s death? Shouldn&#8217;t Dexter still be grieving? Shouldn&#8217;t anyone still be grieving?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">No one knows Dexter&#8217;s secret<\/span> &#8211; Strike that now. Lumen knows but it wasn&#8217;t a shocker.<\/li>\n<li>No cliffhangers &#8211; I hate cliffhangers to begin with, but this season has nothing. Maybe with the exception of last episode. There&#8217;s been nothing that makes me want to scream or tweet. Not Dexter like at all if you&#8217;ve seen any episode.<\/li>\n<li>Previews don&#8217;t make me want to tune in &#8211; Seriously, I&#8217;m not thrilled like I was last season with previews. They don&#8217;t show anything that really make me want to watch or get me on the edge of my seat or wanting it to be Sunday even when it&#8217;s Friday night.<\/li>\n<li>Julia Stiles takes away &#8211; Is it just me or does her acting suck? She was so good in10 Things I Hate About You.<\/li>\n<li>Little problems get solved right away &#8211; Like with Laguerta&#8217;s money&#8230; solved by the end of the episode. Nothing&#8217;s lingering or coming back to haunt anyone.<\/li>\n<li>No explanation of little things that matter &#8211; Like the dude Dexter killed in the first episode&#8230; what happened with that? Did he really clean up the body, clean up the blood, shower, change clothes, and get to the funeral that quickly? I still don&#8217;t understand why Paul&#8217;s parents (let alone anyone) weren&#8217;t at Paul&#8217;s funeral in season 2.<\/li>\n<li>A nobody has gotten closer to Dexters secret than anyone else &#8211; Even Doakes didn&#8217;t get THAT close. Who the hell is this character of whom we know nothing about and who has nothing to do with any of the other characters. That blows.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been out of it for a few weeks since the election. It really hit me hard. An overwhelming sense of depression, helplessness, and hopelessness for our country. I haven&#8217;t tweeted or done anything social networky in weeks. I wanted to blog about this before last week, but I was hoping last weeks episode of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}