(US) Dexter Season 5 Episode 2 - "Hello Bandit" (SPOILERS WITHIN)

jayteecork

After watching this episode I have to say Quinn is my new favourite character.

He's simply awesome. Lying down in the bed with that stupid grin on his face, priceless.
I can definitely see Dex's sister and him having a relationship this season.

Masuka providing the comic relief as usual, albeit with brains falling off the ceiling onto his shoulder.

Interesting that Dex's target will be rolling onto a new episode. with these bums he usually finishes them off in one episode.

Also the "bad guy" was the detective dude from Southland.

edit: excuse the typo "episode 1" above, I copied the template from last week's episode and forgot to change the number, d'oh!

zimovain

Average episode.

Ron DMC

Title fixed.

Our man in Havana

zimovain wrote: »

Average episode.

Indeed, nothing special. A slow start to the season.

DingosAteMyBaby

I'm really enjoying this season so far. Obviously they couldn't have followed season 4 with another major serial killer arc so I'm liking the time they are taking to delve more into the character of Dexter and exploring him struggling with his (limited) emotional side.

It's good how are they are really using it as an aftermath to season 4, with all the loose ends still in play. I would've hated if they hadn't continued with the Trinity investigation. With Quinn now on Dexters tail, the tension is slowly building week by week.

I also enjoy the new dynamic between Dexter and Deb, with Deb taking him for once.

FreeOSCAR

Dexter has already took a turn for the better.

The two most annoying parts of the show are gone. Rita and the Kids.

SDTimeout

I'm not sure if it's all this leaving cert poetry has made me analyze everything i see now for a deeper meaning. I really thought this was one of the best dexter episodes. Not from an action oh my god what will happen , point of view. Yet how well the psychological implications are panning out. My main example would be how Dexter could only say " me too " when he couldn't say i love you. Typical Dexter perhaps.

Maybe it's homosexuality also ebbing out as my dark passenger but the episode made me quite upset and while i didn't cry. ( I have at TV before ) this was emotionally a fantastic episode.

Nice little touch from the book aswell. Interesting to see how far they take the artsy killing.

ixoy

I liked it. I'm enjoying how they're showing Dexter trying to handle Rita's death and the kids. They're one of the few things he feels emotion about (despite Astor being incredibly irritating) and now he's lost them. Rita and the kids kept him in balance so will he go off the rails if he starts to feel nothing?
I also have this creepy idea of him taking Harrison on some of his killings.

I wonder how long the Southland killer will last? I'm assuming only a few episodes which will be more about Dexter working up the will to go through with it (plus the actor is presumably filming for Southland's third season).

Have to say I don't like Quinn. I find him very believable but also quite smug. He does have potential to be the best nemesis for Dexter since Doakes, which could be interesting. The investigation into "Kyle Butler" may have more merit than Season 2's "Trinity Bay" killer.

Minstrel27

Perhaps with the children gone it may pick up but so far I am really not as interested as previous seasons.

ixoy

Minstrel27 wrote: »

Perhaps with the children gone it may pick up but so far I am really not as interested as previous seasons.

Every season we give out about the opening episodes being slow so I'm just going to give it time!

Amtmann

A good, dense, well thought out episode. The pilot plus this episode are better than the intros to seasons 3 and 4 in my opinion. It's a return to season one and two from what I can see. The episodes aren't rushed at all, and they are obviously part of a complex, unfolding plot, not self-contained action episodes. The cinematography, music and dialogue have been super these first two episodes. I'm delighted with Season 5 so far.

Minstrel27

ixoy wrote: »

Every season we give out about the opening episodes being slow so I'm just going to give it time!

It is not being slow that is the problem. It is everything about it thus far.

FearDark

Damn you guys I dont know how you get episodes so fast! Im just started the download and its gonna be at least half an hour, im tempted to read through the thread in the meantime!! Cant wait to see what this season is actually about

Yillan

I liked the first episode, but nothing really happened in that one there. Angel is acting like a little bitch which is a little out of character for him. Don't know where that little plotline is going. Dexter's conversation with the FBI was a huge letdown. Was that scene for the purposes of the trailer, because it really seems that way.

I suppose the episode had to happen. To get rid of the kids. That was the purpose of the episode. Everything else was just filler really. Some stuff was set up, but when the aim of the episode is to write out children, it's not going to have you on the edge of your seat, unless we're talking about 'A Serbian Film' type show, which Dexter isn't. Yet.

Fingers crossed though eh?

Amtmann

Yillan wrote: »

Dexter's conversation with the FBI was a huge letdown. Was that scene for the purposes of the trailer, because it really seems that way.

That's why I don't watch the trailers anymore. They really detracted from season 4 for me. Think you'll enjoy it more if you don't know what's coming....

Stench Blossoms

Furet wrote: »

That's why I don't watch the trailers anymore. They really detracted from season 4 for me. Think you'll enjoy it more if you don't know what's coming....

100% agree with this. I've stopped watchin previews for all the shows I watch.

Thought this weeks episode was very good. Much better than last weeks episode. Like the way they are carrying over the 'bad guy' to the next episode.

Liked the scene with Quinn on the bed, very amusing.

Don't think I cared much for the scenes with Angel in the bar fighting, I don't really have much interest in his relationship with LaGuerta so that's probably why.

jayteecork

Seems Elliot might have more to do with this season, which is quite interesting.

It's funny, he does look like a young John Lithgow, and as we saw with the reporter Trinity has children away from his "regular family"

I know it sounds barmy but this is US TV!

jayteecork

jayteecork wrote: »

Seems Elliot might have more to do with this season, which is quite interesting.

It's funny, he does look like a young John Lithgow, and as we saw with the reporter Trinity has children away from his "regular family"

I know it sounds barmy but this is US TV!

But it's GOOD american tv. That would be awful.

AlmightyCushion

Furet wrote: »

That's why I don't watch the trailers anymore. They really detracted from season 4 for me. Think you'll enjoy it more if you don't know what's coming....

Same here. I'd rather not know what was going to happen.

Duggy747

Yillan wrote: »

Dexter's conversation with the FBI was a huge letdown. Was that scene for the purposes of the trailer, because it really seems that way.

I thought the same, the original trailer had 3 sections of this short questionning spliced into the trailer to seem like the shìt had hit the fan for Dexter when in fact it was just to tell us that a sketch of Kyle Butler was being taken. Wasted scene.

it's not going to have you on the edge of your seat, unless we're talking about 'A Serbian Film' type show, which Dexter isn't. Yet.

Somehow I don't expect Dexter to stick his raging erect penis into the eyesocket of a villian anytime soon :pac:

Overall, I'm not really warming to this season yet. I don't care about the love relationships, Dexter's anchor to a normal life has been stripped away. I want to see how he's going to cope raising his son as well mentally keeping his cool.

Sherifu

Good episode, loved the scene with Dexter in the guys house and the discovery at the end. Delighted the kids are out of the way. Harrison & Dex in the removal truck was also a great scene.

Furet wrote: »

That's why I don't watch the trailers anymore. They really detracted from season 4 for me. Think you'll enjoy it more if you don't know what's coming....

Was never much of a trailer watcher or spoiler reader. Takes a lot of the impact out of certain developments when you know about them ahead of time.

Scuid Mhór

not a very good episode in comparison to the season's opener. had some touching scenes (dexter bringing his son to investigate the blood; kids leaving) but was also quite boring as i don't care about angel's financial woes or the shark jump that is deb and quinn. half-and-half about the pace of the show. like how it's not rushed but wouldn't mind it speeding up.

MadPatrick

It's bringing good story telling to mainstream TV, it's bound to encounter some opposition.
How about from now on we have a poll?? Polls rock!

Peyton Manning

Only getting around to this now, but hands up - who else was absolutely delighted to see Astor and Cody piss off?