Remember how shit season 5 of Dexter was?

no because what came after was much worse.

>>85971608
Not really.
I just remember how shit it was in general towards the end.

julia stiles is so unbelievably bad in it. i'm honestly surprised she didn't fuck a black guy in it

>>85971608
it should have ended on the 4th one

What was that stuff about with Quinn? Didn't he basically have Dexter dead to rights but then let him off for some stupid reason?

>>85971608
Yes it was awful

The first episode was alright.

After that shit hit the fan and Showtime refused to let anything interesting happen in the story.

>>85971608
I stopped watching after the 4th season cause I knew that lithgow couldn't be topped and I'm fairly sure that my decision was right given the overall reactions

They accidentally did final season storyline in season 2 and it was never good again.

>>85971608
I can't even recall which season that was. After Doakes died it all just blended together in a pool of mediocrity and overstaying its welcome.

>>85971949
That whole season ending was basically "let's pretend none of this happened so we can undo the big chances introduced in S4 and go back to formula"

Season 5 should have been Robo-Doakes. Instead, we just got Robocop.

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>>85971621
This.

>>85972364
Holy shit Doakes died in s2? Why did I keep watching for 5 more years?

On the bright side if there wete only two good seasons I might consider rewatching them some time.

>>85972364
Not accidentally. The showrunner didn't know if Dexter would make it past season two so, in his own words, he focused on telling the best story he could think of, which was the Butcher investigation.

Then the series went on.

>>85971949
>>85972440

Does anyone have the vertical comic of this?

>>85972563
That actually makes so much sense it's sad. This is how all TV shows should be so props for him. Just tell the best story you can, don't try to establish a franchise.

>>85972514
jesus christ what season is this

>>85972514
>Deb will never make these faces while you're fucking her

Feels bad man

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I miss season one Deb and she only got worse as seasons passed.

I can't remember if Dexter got really bad or Breaking Bad was just so much better.

>>85971608
Yep, since it was the last season I watch.

>>85973249
actually both

>>85972514
5 was bad, not unwatchable

season 7 actually entered 'so bad it's good' territory

6 and 8 were off the deep end

>>85971669
I still don't understand when they hire actors capable of one expression only.

>>85973249
Breaking Bad was better and everybody shits on Dexter after season 4 but season 3 was pretty bad with that Miguel shit.

1>4>2>3>7>8>6>5

>>85973249
I watched more than these two shows and the dip in quality was undeniable. The original story was over and they were desperate for ideas to prolong its run.

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>>85971608
>Tfw picked up watching Dexter just before the series ended with its final season airing
>get up to the season 4 finale where his gf or wife dies in the bath tub and hear that the final season was utter trash with the ending being terrible
>decide to drop the show to save myself the dissapointment
>as a result i only have good memories with Dexter with it having a good ending with my headcannon being the show got canclled after the end of season 4

feels good man

>>85971608
The first episode of season 5 was great, and the rest of the season wasn't awful.

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>>85971608

>>85973249
Both. I would argue that season 1 of Dexter was arguably better than Breaking Bad though, the awful taste of the 3, 5, 6, 7, and 8 makes a lot of people forget just how strong Dexter started off.

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>>85973380
>8
>over anything

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>let's bring back Rudy as dark passenger for one episode so we can have some kind of antithesis to Harry dark passenger/conscious when Harry is in almost every single episode

I was disappointed to say the least.

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>>85973533
Name a worse moment in television, I fucking dare you

>>85973442
>the final season was utter trash
It wasn't just one season.
1 and 2 were top tier tv.
3 and 4 were solid well produced television even if a little scattered all over.
5, 6, 7 and 8 were all a complete garbage. Plots and characters comparable to a teen drama and nothing made any sense. Barely any continuity either.

Also I'm not sure if it was a case of me growing up or the writing getting worse but holy shit I started to cringe at the "dark passenger" shit as the show went on.

>>85973533
LOL WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS REAL? IT'S SHOT LIKE A SHITTY B MOVIE

>>85971608
Shut up, cunt.

Dexter ended with season 4.

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>>85973571
Well I was just wanting it to end and if it was a different show I would have liked the finale.

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>>85973600
>gif

>>85973600

that moment in season 3 when Dexter plays Halo 3 on a PC using just the keyboard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfU-sFADX34

>>85973600
Honestly computers can do this shit nowadays, which makes it better than anything CSI does in terms of computers

>>85973682
Not as bad as any video game related anything on SVU even before gamergate that shit was full retard.

>>85973650
Yes. IIRC it was also the first episode of a season and used to establish Dexter as a bad parent and that his house isn't a safe environment to raise a child in.

>>85972316
This
The Trinity Killer was their last hoorah, after it the show went to shit

>>85973821
That's pathetic

>>85971621

Season 7 was decent thanks to based Ray Stevenson and the smoking hot Poison Ivy chick

S8 though was an abomination

My favorite post season 4 episode was Hammertime because it just screams writer's fantasy.

>goes to high school reunion
>get blowjob from Stacy
>kill Chad

>>85973928
>Poison Ivy chick

Hanna?

Dexter taught me to never stick with a show that hits a sharp decline, even if the bantz are fun. I can't believe I watched every episode of this shitshow.

Luckily I dropped Walking Dead long ago.

>>85971621
>what came after
what do you mean?

>all those years people joked about RoboDoakes
>find out it was actually in the books

This show may have gone to shit but holy shit the books were on another level.

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What was this guy's problem? Why'd he kill his sister other than his version of the professor telling him to? Didn't he know the professor wasn't real by the end of the season?

>>85972514

God, not even Emilia Clarke is this bad

>>85971608
I just remember this show having the worst ending of any show imaginable. Like Dexter just becomes a hobo or something.

>>85974172
Holy shit what?

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Why did he have to die so early, /tv/?

>>85971608
funny to see this thread. I am in the middle of rewatching all that shit. It's not so bad m8

>>85974234
Well the character she plays is bad too and only reason it's noticeable later in GoT is because she's got more screen time.

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Masuka was /ourguy/

>>85974278
Lumberjack

>>85974020
I dropped Walking Dead a few seasons ago as well, glad I did, not sure why anyone still persists with that abomination of a show.

>>85974020

yeah me too. i think part of the reason i stopped watching walking dead was because of what happened with dexter too.

you just know walking dead will be on for 15 seasons too. AMC has no other hit shows anymore.

>>85974318
Because he literally stood in the writers way.

>>85974318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leeP6LgM8H0

>>85974182
When he killed Malvo his spirit invaded his body and became Malvo

>>85971608
I forgot the show existed at all desu

>>85973969

Or that one time when they used that song from Lost

>DUDE I LOVE LOST
>LET'S PAY HOMAGE TO IT

Was season 5 the one with Tom Hanks kid and the other Ghost Dad which was obvious to everybody as soon as Edwards James Olmos turned up?

>>85974318

Racist writers

>>85974572

Season 5 was the one where Julia Stiles got gang raped by a bible camp group of friends and one of them was a motivational speaker
>TAKE IT

Season 6 was the >muh relijun shit

>>85974149

Seasons 6, 7, and 8.

>>85974516
>Mad Men ended
>Hell on Wheels ended
>The Killing was sold to Netflix and died
>Breaking Bad ended
>Halt and Catch Fire has one last season
>Low Winter Sun died because they advertised it as the after Breaking Bad show when ot could have been The Wire of AMC
>they shat out some show with David Schwinmer as lead
>some show about apps which is a rip off of Silicon Valley is being put on Monday
>Walking Dead and its spinoff is still being shat out

You now remember the character that was Astor

>>85973908
>>85973821
No it was that woman that poisons people, was left in charge of him in Debs home, then he goes on the treadmill and falls and she's hiding from the police but has to take him to the hospital.

It's just so fucking bad, why did it fuck up so horribly?

>>85974776
I remember Astor but not the character

>>85973577
They also brought Ghost Doakes that one only time

>>85973577
I remember everyone being hyped for this episode and it was totally forgettable.

>>85974857

People were hyped for Nebraska?

>>85974846
i want to fuck season 1 astor

>>85974846
Astor was the daughter of the first girlfriend/wife.

>>85974857
The books have some serious bullshit on them, but one thing they did right (other than killing Larguerta on s1) was keeping Brian alive and having him pop in now and then.

>>85974318
They didn't know how long they'd last so did the whole "bay harbour butcher" arc early.
Besides if he was still in it 7 seasons later he'd be the worst detective ever to have still not caught Dexter.
I think it's better for a show to use up their good stories to make a few good seasons than trying to stretch it out forever, same with movies. The new King Arthur decided not to use Merlin, Lancelot or Guinevere to save them for future films and then that one ended up shit

>>85971608
No. I stopped watching after the fourth season.

>>85974881
I was hyped because I wanted Rudy to become the dark passenger which would lead to Dex's downfall because he was reckless as fuck that episode.

>>85974922
I know, I'm saying I literally don't remember her doing anything worth of notice other than being there. The only scene that comes to mind is when Dexter has to break the news that Rita's ded

>>85974664
Actually accurate.

>>85974985
The pyromaniac English chick.

>>85974985
>wearing those Mickey Mouse ears while giving the most deadpan delivery of your mother is dead

kek

>>85974834
Hmm I might be confusing two episodes but wasn't there also some bullshit excuse to write the children away because "living with him isn't safe" for something ridiculous that could happen to anyonw.

>>85975066
The mother got killed and the grand parents decided to take them because Dex made up a lie that he was a recovering heroin junkie, like the idiot womans ex (who plays Lucifer in Supernatural).

>>85975066
I thought it was to cause an emergency so that Hannah would be in public and get caught?

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>>85974776
Literally the only reason I kept watching past season 4.

>>85975040
She kidnapped both Astor and Cody and then later in season 4 her friend is being abused by her dad and Dexter punches him the kidney. Astor was pointless and other than being targeted by a pedophile, as stated above, and Dexter having some problems with throwing her in a pool she's pointless.

Sad thing is it's still better than the books.

>>85975151
The kid had blue eyes up until he was 2 years old. They stay that color after that period of time and then 2 seasons later they are dark brown and they find a kid that actually looks like Dexter.

Dex actor had cancer whilst filming one of the seasons, he also had a relationship with Deb IRL but they broke up because he's gay IRL.

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>>85975261
>Derp eyes

>>85974985
You don't remember getting pissy over every little thing even when it made no sense just to re-establish the "Dexter doesn't know how to deal with people" meme?

https://youtu.be/STu4Gh6BXbs

First 4 seasons had at least one Astor throwing a fit -scene per episode.

>>85972514
jennifer carpenter is a national treasure

>>85975356
She over acted way too much and always appeared to be having an emotional breakdown.

And way way way too much swearing. I mean wash that mouth out with washing up liquid you rude cow!

Also Angel's heart was breaking each season, you could tell.

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*blocks your path to read your nametag*

>>85971608
Bad but still watchable. /tv/ threads made it worthwhile.

>>85975419
To be fair the cursing and emotional instability were part of her character but I agree with the overacting.

>>85975419
who cares, she is hot

>>85975526
She's really not.

>>85975524
She needs to check her privilege.

>>85975438
Fuck me, that was a fantastic moment. Probably the peak of the entire show.

That and "shut up cunt"

>>85975438
>>85975592
I miss all those first person perspectives the show would use

Really highlighted Dexter's social anxiety

>>85971608
i remember how good season 4, the ending of the series, was

season 5? is that some fanfiction?

>>85975778
Even when S4 was happening I think everyone understood it was a fluke. No one really thought the show had permanently improved. Most of what was good came from things unique to the season (e.g. the villain).

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Remember when Dexter actually drove into the swirling winds of a hurricane and then used a lifeboat to escape? Remember when Dexter threw the body of his beloved sister into the same dumping grounds he used for murderers and pedophiles? Remember when Dexter didn't want his son to be raised by a serial killer so he left his son in the care of a serial killer he barely knew? Remember how good that slice of ham looked in the intro?

>>85974975
This is how I thought it was going to go down, unfortunately they did nothing with it. They ruined everything good they came up with in the last few seasons.

I still remember that I liked really liked season 1 and thought season 2 was still good, but I hated all the stuff about Dexter's Mexican friend in season 3. I wanted to drop the show by that point... I really should've done that. It could've spared me so much despair.

>>85975248
>but they broke up because he's gay IRL.
No they broke up because he fucked Julia Stiles and she walked in on them. Also I believe they were married or at least engaged.

>>85976429
The ham was gross.

It truly was the peak and then the show fell off the cliff and landed on a pile of shit.

>>85975438

shit that guy is an amazing actor

>>85973533
jesus fucking christ i love that scene

If I rewatch the show now will I feel like I'm reading a goth teenager's diary from 2004?
>m-muh dark passenger

>>85971608
First and second season were god tier, third season was a fucking pile of shit, the fourth one good just for the ending and since then it was all shit.

Man at least they could have make wincest real

>>85977817
season 1 is still tv kino all these years later, after that it has both good and bad moments until the end of season 4 and after that I'd rather shoot myself than watch the rest

>>85974548
If you think this was funny you have to go back.

>>85973345
If season 6 and 7's villains had the writing of the first half of the show, they could have been fantastic. What the fuck were the writers thinking with 5-8...

Seasons 3, 5, 6 and 8 were all terrible. Seasons one and two are kino, though.

>>85978234
Oh if I was the rewatch it I'd only watch the first 2 or 4 seasons. I'm asking if the inner monologues and harry scenes are as cringe worthy as I imagine them to be. Even the term "dark passenger" is straight from some emo kid's myspace page.

>>85978380
The autistic monologues help establish his character though. I loved hearing those.

As someone who was a hardcore fan of the show, it's interesting how the show's drastic turn in quality coincides with Dexter's inner monologues losing all of their humor. By the end of the show his inner thoughts are him just explaining what's happening on screen.

>>85978380
I don't think he talks about the passenger that much in the earlier seasons and harry is flashback only, dex only develops schizophrenia later and starts to see him everywhere

>>85974020
Walking dead isn't bad, last season was fun

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>It's a "Masuka has a daughter whose plotline is completely unrelated to a single aspect of the show" episode

What did they mean by this? I literally cannot understand what the purpose of this character was in the show.

>>85978557
no purpose. they needed to fill time.

>>85978557
I think it was in season 2 already where they started adding these retarded plotlines nobody cared about, starting with angel-laguerta romance

>>85978557
I'll never understand why they decided to spend so much time on a character who was nothing but a background comedy guy. The final season was so bad I honestly don't understand how it got greenlit.

Every season except 1, 2, and 4 was shit.

>>85973928
WRONG

Season 7 was just as bad as 6 and barely better than 8. Shit taste

>>85973533

pure kino

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and everything after..

>>85978745
the only good scenes of season 7 were doakes flashbacks, almost feels like season 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxyOXC6lymk

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The real finale was great.

>>85978873
>bullshit, you don't have any friends
Those are bants right there.

>>85974318
SURPRISE MOTHERFUCKA

>>85973600
THE SECRETARY HAS FALLEN!

>>85971608
Every episode after the bodybuilder black detective gets killed was shit.

>I don't have any feelings
>Except when I do
Mainstream t.v. doesn't have the balls to make a truly sociopathic protagonist.

Season 5 always fucking sucks