Dexter Season 5 OhmyGod OhmyGod Ohmygod!

Another thing I love about Dexter is that each time you watch the show, you think "surely they can't up the ante on the previous season?" but by heck, they do each time. (Spoiler Alert) Check out this latest trailer for season 5...



For regular fans of the show, I'm sure you'll agree that there comes a point in each season where you kinda feel the writers are treading water, where the web of storylines and characters are still moving into place....then about three-quarters of the way through the season, there's a big reveal ....

For example, last year, it was a good 'un:



Ok, that's a bit of a rubbishy vid, obviously taped from someone's telly, but you get my point - and the youtube comments attached to it sum up many viewers feelings about the dropped bombshell.

To quote Kabo3lives on youtube,  "I flipped my shit when I saw this. No lie". Quite. 

But this year, each episode has had me on the edge of my seat. The latest one I watched (episode 9) was a fairly quiet one, by Dexter standards, with Dex having to reveal far too much to the police about what he's up to, when his stepdaughter Astor goes missing. It seems to end sweetly, with Dex as family man,  But the last 1 minute of the episode was absolutely chilling. (You are gonna love it.)

This season, the writers also seem to be more comfortable than ever with the whole menagerie of characters within the Dexter universe, and have written them all meaty plotlines.

Miami Homicide is well-busy with loads of gruesome beheadings, Deb and Quinn are getting it on, (and he looks even more revolting than usual - skinny with a mahogany perma-tan, ewwwww), the dark-haired woman from the Commitments is Dex's nanny, Angel and La Guerta are probably the most troubled newlyweds I've ever seen, and she's even more insecure than ever about her job. 

There's a host of guest-stars too, clearly having the time of their lives. Julia Stiles, Jonny Lee Miller, and a fantastic Peter Weller (yep, that's right, Robocop himself), as a sleazy, drugs cop suspended for corruption, but hired by Quinn to check up on Dex, and who finds out much, much more than he bargained for.

With three episodes left of this post-Rita Season 5 left, those plotlines are now at a stage when they are intermingling, and drawing together. Once again, the net is closing around Dex, and also, this time, around a new friend he has made. Sleazy drugs cop is also beginning to realise that Dex is not a normal human being, and Dex's prey realises he's being hunted...by Dex ...and...and ....it's just magnificent.

When I reviewed this season a few weeks ago (see here) , I knew it was going to be good. So far it's even better than last years season with the Trinity killer. And even more dangerous. If that's possible.