Dexter Franchise - Tonight's the night

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My only objections are:
I mean, it doesn't need to be Prater that saves him with a lawyer or something. I'd honestly find it even funnier if it was just so tainted and flimsy it gets thrown out on those merits on their own.

I think it could be satisfying if
Prater decides to help Dexter after discovering he is the BHB, only to have Dexter murder him when he is free and clear with double jeopardy
 
I could be wrong, but at the end of the day Batista is still a fan favorite, always was, and I don’t see the writers killing him. They’ve also written him in a way where he can’t just go ‘It’s ok hermano, let’s have some Cubanos and dance salsa jajaja’ after they make up.

Most likely Dexter is gonna end up saving his life, maybe while endangering himself or putting himself in a vulnerable position where he could use it against him, and he’s gonna begrudgingly decide to return the favor and leave with a ‘I better not hear about any BHB shenanigans when I’m in Miami or I’m back on your case pal!’ at which point he gets on a plane and stays on ice for season 2 if the writers decide to use him against in the future
 
there's no way in hell this series ends with Prater alive and continuing to do his "collecting serial killers" thing. It just isn't going to happen unless there's going to be another season.
This might be a technical spoiler for the whole season from a META pov, but: They've confirmed 3, lmao.

There's a very jump the shark idea that popped into my head, where Prater and Dexter are this quasi-vigilante duo where the former finds the serial killers and then Dexter kills them. It's batshit but it's entirely possible, especially if Prater is revealed to be someone who is intentionally finding them because the law can't. There could be a very interesting dynamic where Dexter reveals himself to be the BHB I.E. a killer of killers like him, but Prater is so unyielding in his version of the code that he still wants Dexter dead regardless for being a murderer.
In fact, Prater could easily be framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher: he's collecting and sometimes killing serial killers, he's incredibly rich (dumping the bodies off of a boat, getting away with it for so long), he's about the right age (Dinklage is 2 years older than Michael C Hall), and he's got the fucking slides that Dexter had.
If they went this route they'd probably accuse his hitwoman of carrying them out whilst he orchestrates them. The BHB mostly went after unknown or underground killers who escaped the system though, whereas Prater collects the famous ones near-exclusively, and for his MO to shift so suddenly would be too inconsistent. The number might be off but I think they found something like 20 bodies at the start of season 2, so the BHB has been committed to this particular MO for a long time. and for a lot of victims.

Also, I know the show is trying its best to ignore the not-so-elephantine elephant in the room: but Prater's a dwarf. That alone would take suspicion away from him being the BHB. For one, he always injected his victims in the neck apprehend them. The only real value I'd see in trying to frame Prater as the BHB or something else is that it finally clears Doakes' name, which in hindsight I'm surprised they never got around to exonerating him in the original show or during New Blood.
I could be wrong, but at the end of the day Batista is still a fan favorite, always was, and I don’t see the writers killing him. They’ve also written him in a way where he can’t just go ‘It’s ok hermano, let’s have some Cubanos and dance salsa jajaja’ after they make up.

Most likely Dexter is gonna end up saving his life, maybe while endangering himself or putting himself in a vulnerable position where he could use it against him, and he’s gonna begrudgingly decide to return the favor and leave with a ‘I better not hear about any BHB shenanigans when I’m in Miami or I’m back on your case pal!’ at which point he gets on a plane and stays on ice for season 2 if the writers decide to use him against in the future
The promo makes me think something of that calibre might occur. It's based entirely on the fact Dexter is wearing a mask however, but he's wearing said mask before being interrupted before he can kill. The main issue of LaGuerta is also there. She have died as his ex-wife but she was still his wife at one point. It'd probably be difficult for him to reconcile that with letting her killer go free, but then it'd force Dexter to sully Deb's name by revealing her to be LeGuerta's killer and maybe Dexter knows well enough to not ruin the image of his sister to one of the people who still remembers her fondly.
Crazy idea: Harrison saves Angel from being killed by Dexter. This demonstrates to Angel that Harrison isn't fucked up like his father and leaves them be. The reason for this is Bautisa sees Harrison as a potential good-angel for Dexter's shoulder, and Dexter being confirmed as the BHB gives him a sense of closure, and abandoning this path of revenge in turn gives him a sense of peace. Final scene of season is of Dex hugging Harrison as mind-ghost Harry disappears for good, no longer required as a stabilising presence for Dexter and a reminder of who he is. Something like that...
Ghost-Doakes replaces ghost-Harry and harasses Dexter for the entire next season, and he actually calls Prater out for being a midnet, and television is saved.
 
Man, they really did Batista dirty this episode. He failed to catch Dex in the act, he came off as a deranged retard when trying to explain himself to the detectives, and he admitted to committing multiple crimes while doing so. "I'm looking for a fat obnoxious Italian guy, in NYC, you know him?"
 
Original Sin is canceled again despite being renewed. Trinity Killer prequel series is on the chopping block as well. As was another unannounced prequel series about some other character. Resurrection is moving forward with another season and they are hiring new writers.
Legit bums me out. Original Sin was definitely flawed but it had some of that same charm and 'comfyness' the OG Dexter had with the Miami setting. I thought everyone was well casted and they seemed to enjoy filming it as well. Really bizarre to renew a show just to cut it a couple months later, it felt like they hit a jackpot with two well received shows about an old popular IP they had.
 
Legit bums me out. Original Sin was definitely flawed but it had some of that same charm and 'comfyness' the OG Dexter had with the Miami setting. I thought everyone was well casted and they seemed to enjoy filming it as well. Really bizarre to renew a show just to cut it a couple months later, it felt like they hit a jackpot with two well received shows about an old popular IP they had.
Yeah... does Showtime have *any* good shows at the moment? I don't watch it, and I get my Dexter elsewhere. Seems like cutting off their nose to spite their face.
 
In fairness to Paramount, running a sequel and prequel of the same character at the same time is weird. I'm in the camp that feels prequels are lazy ideas and should be shunned by default, but I can understand why two shows with the same lead character (but younger/older depending on what half of the year you're in) could overexpose the franchise and confuse non-dedicated audiences at the same time.

Doing both never fully made sense to me, unless they started Original Sin with the assumption that Dexter would stay dead and then Hall agreed to do Resurrection once OS was already well into production. A Dexter prequel wasn't something anyone needed, so I always assumed they'd done it because sequels were a no-go.

For some reason I'm a little more interested in watching Original Sin now that it's a one-off.
 
Dexter is one of the dumbest shows I’ve ever suffered through, saved by literally one good season and a decent villain.

"Something, something...Dark Passenger."

straight face crooked toupee.webp

Really, though: Most of the KF posters in agreement with you will never be tempted to click this thread. So let the nice people have their generation's Punisher who I used to be happy for because I mistook Michael C. Hall for being grown up Elliott from E.T.
 
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I guess in none of the articles, books or other media concerning the BHB had any mention of his years long obsession with the blood guy. You'd think Masuka or someone from Miami Metro would speak about him in a True Crime show.

Why did Dexter need to be hyperspecific about who the landlord is mistreating? He yelled out a bunch of names and Dexters like "No the mold, I'm here about the mold".

Batista deserves to die at this point. Writers nerfed him into an incompetent fool whose never interacted with cops before.

I think the season will end with Dexter saran wrapping Prater to a thick book and stabbing him with a fingernail.
 
I don't think I have seen anyone here mention yet that Prater is probably the serial killer that super girl cop is obsessed with that uses a long hook to kill because he is a runt.
 
Why did Dexter need to be hyperspecific about who the landlord is mistreating? He yelled out a bunch of names and Dexters like "No the mold, I'm here about the mold".
Especially right after Dex set an appointment to meet with the landlord to complain about the conditions and barged into his office. The landlord probably isnt going to go to the cops because he'd be self incriminating as to why he was abducted and threatened, but a sleazy New York landlord has to have some connections to non-union problem solvers.
 
Especially right after Dex set an appointment to meet with the landlord to complain about the conditions and barged into his office. The landlord probably isnt going to go to the cops because he'd be self incriminating as to why he was abducted and threatened, but a sleazy New York landlord has to have some connections to non-union problem solvers.
How good was it to see Bobby Bacala bringing some humanity to this series? Screaming at Dexter and Batista was the most intensity we've got this season. Thank God they found an Italian landlord in NYC, imagine contributing to current discourse by making him a Jew..

Blessing shitting on commies is based for a nigger. Hopefully Dexter doesn't lynch him for the disrespectful tone he took this ep, speaking to a white like that.

Jesus Christ, Lundy. Jesus fucking Christ. You're the Bay Harbor Gooner! images-2~2.webp
 
Can people stop being flaming fucking faggots? "Italian slumlords in Manhattan?! Why aren't they Jeeeeews??" Because it's fucking Manhattan, home of the Mob, where even the shittier part have always been filled to the brims with connected wops whether it's the lower East Side or the West side. It was the Jets versus the Sharks, not the fucking Goldbergs nigga. Do you think Little Italy is in fucking Staten Island?

Yeah if Dexter: Penny Shaving was in Williamsburg and there wasn't a single hassidem but i dont believe em, you might have a point, but a fucking dago slumlord is about as stereotypical lower east side or bowery or wherever the fuck that building is supposed to be as it gets.

Stop guinea erasure.
 
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