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Post by Pavan on Aug 10, 2023 16:52:46 GMT
This has been on my watchlist forever and I've just started watching it. After 2 episodes my first thought was, "this looks and feels very different from what i was expecting".
Over dramatic tone and the protagonist vibe didn't click with me. Is this how the rest of the seasons are going to be?
I wanna hear your thoughts before i watch any further episodes.
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Post by ibbi on Aug 10, 2023 17:36:07 GMT
What were you expecting?  tough to judge a show that ran 8 seasons after 2 episodes! There is definitely plenty of less dramatic tone throughout. Anyway, season 1 was good, and I thought it got better as it went along, season 2 was amazing, as far as I can remember 3 was a bit of a mess that struggled to find itself after 2, but it was fine? 4 was amazing again, 5 was about the least satisfying way they could have possibly followed up on 4. 6 was stupid but not un-fun, and I think 8 was pretty bad. My (I think) controversial opinion is that I really kind of liked season 7 and think it became moderately interesting again. Not yet watched the new thing. Anyway, you have to at least watch through season 4 after that you can give it up. |
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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Aug 10, 2023 18:40:44 GMT
Really great thru the John Lithgow season. Steadily goes downhill from there culminating in one of the worst series finales of all time.
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Post by urbanpatrician on Aug 10, 2023 18:55:32 GMT
IMO, as a pretty big fan. Season 1 - Pretty cool. Dexter's girlfriend was real beautiful. This world just kinda molded. Season 2 - Upped the ante a little bit. There was more stuff that went on this year. Season 3 - Huge degree down. I don't remember this season at all. Season 4 - A pretty good season, tho I didn't like it as much as Season 1 or 2. Was just sad to see Rita go, when she wanted to stay on the show. Season 5 - BAD. Still crying over Rita, she was probably the biggest reason for the decline after season 4. Season 6 - Felt like this was where it needed to end, it's gotten near unwatchable now. Season 7 - I dug it. A few separate things go off on their own tangent, but the Yvonne Strahovski plot was the interesting one. I finally got over Rita. A good rebound. Season 8 - I don't get the hate. I thought this was one of the top half of the seasons. Season 1, 2, 7, and 8 were the standouts for me. I thought there was a real escape angle to it that felt tense, like Dexter seriously trying to get away, once and for all. Maybe the first few episodes weren't that good tho. Finale maybe not great, but it wasn't atrocious as most people say. New Blood - Don't like it at all. Couldn't make it halfway past the season. I never saw the last few episodes. |
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Post by Schiggy on Aug 10, 2023 19:17:14 GMT
It's an incredible show until it isn't. I liked the show for the first 5 seasons. But it has some of the absolute worst and most annoying characters I've ever had to endure. Lila, Doakes, Colin Hanks's character, Deb to an extent (her constant cussing was so grating). Most of the cast is very good besides those horrendous mentions.
Then S6 was horrifically marred by Colin Hanks abysmal performance and this season's raging boner for the world 'tableau,' which rivals 'old sport' being said in The Great Gatsby or 'daddy' in Blonde just made it laughable in a bad way. S7 existed but I actually managed to finish it. It's whatever. I never finished S8. What I saw was bad. The show had been redundant a long time by then and then S8 said "hold my beer, I can do even worse." I just googled what happened. Was not even worth reading; I can't imagine it would be worth watching.
New Blood, even disregarding the major locale change, just did not feel like Dexter. It brought in stupid family drama (cringey, bratty teenagers are the bane of my existence, as well as Dexter being forced to have a romance - the only one I bought was him with Rita) and poor narrative decisions so it was thoroughly meh. I questioned Dexter's intelligence too much. The ending was dumb and corny.
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tough to judge a show that ran 8 seasons after 2 episodes! There is definitely plenty of less dramatic tone throughout.
