Monday, December 12, 2011
Recap City / Television 'Dexter' Season 6, Ep. 11
Posted by Marc Schultz on Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM
- Showtime
- So how long has Deb been undressing Dexter with her eyes like that?
And what game-changers they are! Homeland security is interested in DDK. Travis is targeting Deb specifically. Harrison is going to be in a Noah’s Ark play. Matthews asks Deb to keep his relationship with Dead Hooker a secret. Travis is a very, very fast painter. Intern is mailing the Ice Cream Truck Killer’s prosthetic hand to Dexter. LaGuerta sells out Matthews. Deb has secret romantic feelings for Dex. Unrepentant killing machine Travis can’t manage to kill any of the regular characters, probably because he insists on using fire, instead of his gun.
JAW DROPPING! Sure, Deb getting the hots for her brother is unexpected, and interesting from a meta-fictional standpoint (Carpenter and Hall are, after all, a real-life married-and-divorced couple), but it comes across as the most desperate, bottom-of-the-barrel attempt yet to keep Deb from the truth about Dexter. Does this mean we’re going to have to sit through a whole season of Deb secretly pining after Dex before she gets figures out he’s a killer? Maybe this is just to prepare her for next week, when things get really screwed up between them, after she finds out about all the murder. My prediction: Deb will off herself, with poison, in Dexter’s apartment, while Harrison and the babysitter are staying at the Ritz. After failing to kill off Miami Homicide this week like they promised last week, it would really only be fair.
Dexter, meanwhile, is proving himself a good guy by calling in his last murder to 9-1-1 (anonymously, untraceably!), saving the office from a gas attack (with more help from FriendZone), and setting up his own elaborate, bloody public-fountain tableau with the severed hand of Prof Gellar. Actually I’m not sure what Dexter’s tableau was meant to prove: Dex indicated that it was to get Travis’s attention, which I guess it does, but then he sends a video message informing Travis that the beast is coming for him, and tipping him off as to where he can be found. So what did the fountain tableau accomplish again, that the video message alone couldn’t have? It tips the cops off to Gellar’s death, but other than that..?
Anyway, as soon as Dexter catches up with Travis, he’s hit with the spins and a nose-bleed, after-effects of his exposure to the wormwood poison, and Travis gets the upper hand. But instead of shooting him, Travis puts him in a boat with a bunch of gasoline and then sets the ocean on fire. I guess because fire worked so well on Batista just a few hours earlier! Oh wait, that fire didn’t do shit. Isn’t Travis supposed to be a seasoned, psychotic killer with dazzling engineering skills and a super-efficient method of getting things done, like say enormously elaborate murder scene tableaus that would appear to require the work of more than one person? But, uh, yeah, pouring gasoline into the ocean nearby a rowboat filled with more gasoline and then lighting a match, that’s an airtight way to off somebody. What is this guy, a Bond villain?
I don’t know if I can even bring myself to focus on the other characters and subplots this time, they’re just so stagnant and uninteresting I can barely register them as they’re happening. Let’s see: Quinn is still fucking up. Batista is still annoyed with him about it. LaGuerta is still a bitch. Matthews is still a blustery asshole. Intern is still slightly sinister. Babysitter is still upbeat and unsuspecting. Vince is still Vince. New Detective still thinks this is all bullshit. Ghost Dad is still not so sure about all this.
I know, I know, it sucks so bad you probably haven’t even made it this far down the page. But if you have, and if you’re despairing like I am, keep repeating this to yourself through the rest of the day, and maybe the week: Just one more episode. Just one more episode. Just one more episode.
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It took a couple of seasons to lower my expectations to this level of a show. Had Season 6 been season 3, I would be all kinds of fury. Thankfully due to a nice gradual lowering of writing this season is ok to watch
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