Dexter - Close to 6th Season Renewal
Dec 2, 2010
Cancelled ShowsThis won't surprise anybody: Showtime is getting ready to announce a renewal for Dexter.
The show just had its second highest ratings ever on Sunday night, delivering 2.5 million viewers, up 43% from the fifth season premiere.
That almost certainly means the upcoming finale on Dec. 12 is going to set a new viewership record.
In 2008, Showtime confidently renewed Dexter for two seasons. That's not likely to happen this time, since key talent deals will need to be renegotiated before the show's seventh season. Expect the offical Dexter renewal within the next week or so.
Source: Hollywood Reporter
No surprise at all. I was expecting the announce to arrive the day after the season finale, but maybe they wanna do it even sooner.
ReplyDelete*Does happy dance*
ReplyDeleteawesome news, as long as they keep up the with great story am in :)
ReplyDeletebtw only started watching dexter a month ago and i LOVE it (M.C.H is the BEST)... can well till sunday
Now I really hope Deb finds out about Dexter because I'd like to see a full season of Deb dealing with the fact that her brother is a serial killing vigilante.
ReplyDeleteDexter Picked Up for a Sixth Season:
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Ugh. This Sunday's episode jumped the shark.
ReplyDeleteHell yeah!
ReplyDeleteHow so?
ReplyDeleteI have a long and windy explanation to answer your question, so I will try to keep it short.
ReplyDeleteWhile I have been enjoying this season, something has been off about the story. The writing and acting are excellent, but the plotting is kind of ridiculous.
I knew something was wrong when they had Dexter kill a random in that washroom. Sure, the guy was a dick, but remember how all of Season 3 was built around Dexter accidentally killing an innocent? So here, he murders some random man in cold blood, and leaves the scene of the crime without cleaning up or really caring? I get that he was upset about Rita's death, but THAT was NOT the way Dexter works. I would have bought the scene had there been consequences. When that kind of thing happens on Dexter, he spends the rest of the season trying to fix his mistake. Unless it comes back to haunt him in a later episode, that one act essentially threw away the consistently logical aspects of this show.
Do I even need to go into that contrived, though hilarious, episode with Dexter setting up the "autoerotic mummification"? That was the single most ridiculous thing Dexter has thrown at us. Suspension of Disbelief is one thing... THAT was something else entirely.
As for why last night's episode jumped the shark, it's 100% because of the sex. A rape victim willingly having sex so soon after her rape? Really? And Dexter, so soon after Rita? It's not something as a fan I was hoping they would move towards. They spent that episode where Astor showed up adamantly denying that anything was happening. I had hoped that that was the show saying "Icky rape victim and serial killer with a recently murdered wife sex is NOT going to happen." It's like they took Miguel Prado's arc, made it more interesting, and turned him into a woman so Dexter could have a long term relationship with another serial killer. Ugh.
Why couldn't this season have been about Dexter and Deb getting closer to compensate for Rita and Lundy? They had SO much in common. This season could have built on that. Or built on Dexter's relationship with Cody, making Dexter's "saviours" or something his children, not some random woman.
I hope that explains my frustration with Season 5. I know it's strange to ask a show about a serial killer to "make sense"... but it has dealt with plot way more convincingly before this season. Dare I invoke the changed showrunner card?
I still don't think that's "jumping the shark." I think that's just your opinion on the show and how the show should progress.
ReplyDeleteAbout that scene where Dexter killed the guy in the bathroom... the whole point of that was that it wasn't logical, that it wasn't Dexter as we know him. The man was feeling grief for probably the first time. He just realised that he loved Rita... and was no doubt hating himself for not knowing that while she was alive. The fact that there was no method to the madness, for me, made it one of the most compelling scenes throughout the whole show. If he'd cleaned up, if he'd spent one moment thinking about it, then it would have ruined what the writer's were trying to do... which was to show he was completely consumed by grief.
Also, while I don't have statistical data on hand, I'm pretty sure in real life there are rape victims who don't abstain from sex because of what's happened to them. And with Lumen, she's been through one of the most horrific things imaginable - probably thinking she would never trust anyone again - and here's Dexter, "fixing" her life. While I agree that this season could have been about Dexter/Deb, I have always wanted to see Dexter in a relationship where his partner knew about his killings. I'd hoped Rita would find out and have to deal with that... but alas, never gonna happen now.
The thing about "Dexter" as a whole is that it's so fantastical, so unrelateable, from a normal person's viewpoint, that we can't really throw our own logic at them. We can't predict what we don't know. I think this season has actually been one of the better ones. I was really worried after Rita died, as she was such an itegral part of the show, but I think they're doing well with it.
And with all that said, I definitely see where you're coming from. I think we just have completely different opinions and expectations. Sign of a good show right there! ;)
I felt that normal Dex would not kill or lash out on a whim or from some emotional trigger being pulled. This however, was Dexter having felt love and lose for the first time in his life and processing something that threw him him balance. He was not himself and that is the EXACT reason he acted outside of his normal habits.
ReplyDeleteI personally know 2 rape survivors that had sex with either their bfs or some guy they met in a shorter period of time than Lumen did with Dexter. So I do not agree on that.
I think Lumen would be a spree killer more than a serial killer if she was labeled as anything. So far she can't be serial having only killed one person.
To me it makes sense that Dexter would connect with people that are "abnormal" or twisted in some way... damaged. That is EXACTLY why he has never felt like he belonged in the world. Partly why he felt the connection to Rudy or The Ice Truck Killer before he knew it was Rudy, or attracted to Lila before he knew she was batshit crazy (technical jargon).
Deb and Dexter have a lot in common, but not the one critical factor... Dexter's sociopathic mindset. Deb lives on emotion and makes most decision based on her emotions. Dexter normally does not feel emotions at all.
I do agree the season has had a slightly different feeling to it maybe due to the new showrunner. The exploration of Dexter's evolution has shaped it in a different way. He is becoming less of Harry's monster son that lives by Harry's Code and more of his own unique monster that is creating his own code to live by..After Season One I think this has been my favorite season, because of the evolution of his character. Different than Last year's AWESOME season, but just as good... maybe better for me.
Lol, fair enough.
ReplyDeleteStill, in regards to that initial bathroom scene, my issue with it isn't that Dexter lost control. That makes perfect sense to me. It's that the show provided absolutely no consequences for his action. Dexter hasn't stopped to mull over his killing of an innocent, which would have consumed an entire earlier season never mind at least one episode here. Furthermore, it's like it never happened. The murder didn't show up at work or on the news or anything at all. It just disappeared. Dexter usually deals with consequences really well. This season has been kind of a let down on that end.
Another example is the La Guerta/Deb showdown. It was off to an awesome start... and then Deb just got shuffled away for an episode (where she was able to be of more use anyway) and then came back to work the episode after. Talk about anti-climactic. No bringing it before the Captain? Nothing? What was the point of La Guerta's entire arc this season? She has marital problems? That's it? No battles for control?
Anyway, you're right about everything else. I guess I was really just hoping for a Deb/Dexter get closer season. If we're moving towards a Deb discovers his secret kind of reveal at some point... It would make more sense coming out of that combined tragedy. It even looked like it might go there with Deb feeling nothing for killing one of the Fuentes brothers. Oh well, we'll make a final judgement call based on the season finale :P.
You're obviously right about the rape thing. Still, it makes me uncomfortable, at least from Dexter's side. I get why he's attracted to her. It just bothers me that the show runners were all "Rita's gone! You know what we should do! Give Dexter a love interest!" Too soon for me lol.
ReplyDeleteSee my above reply in regards to the bathroom killing.