Dexter

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These character elements, these flashes of light and dark, are what weve been missing from Dexter.

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It looks like we dont need Dexter to provide them for us when we have his kid.

Watching this happen was like watching a black and white movie turn to color.

Now this feels likeDexter.

This is what weve been missing.

A littleFargo, dont you think?!

Dexter/Jim calls out like a cheeseball.

In his own words, hes gotten rusty in his abstinence.

She doesnt get far, though.

Thats the fate of young women in movies and TV shows, problematically.

While men get killed for murdering animals and other people, women just get killed for recreation.

They both exhibit shady behavior in this episode that could point to either one.

So what the hells going on there?

Itll be exciting to find out.

And Im excited that this show might end up being a worthy revival after all.

Not because of Dexter/Jim, but in spite of him.

Theres something weird about the cop who keeps talking to Harrison about wrestling.

Theres just something gross about it.

Cute little Easter egg in the form of the paperback novels next to the kidnapper/killers laptop.

Phillips is the producer of this show, many other shows, and also a novelist.