Will Trinity be Dexter’s 24th slide?
In case you missed the details in Sunday night’s episode, a close-up of Dexter’s new slide box reveals that, at least since obtaining his new trophy case, he’s filled it with blood slides of 23 victims. So far it appears that Dexter’s got only one kill on his mind, and that’s Trinity; I just can’t imagine we’d get a “filler” episode at this point, where Dexter needs to go get his rocks off while he’s plotting how to take down Trinity.
Ratings Clack – The Mentalist knocks off CSI
A combination of baseball and pre-sweeps repeats made for a bit of an odd week. Repeats don’t mean there aren’t numbers of note however. We had Jay Leno’s first shot against CSI: Miami and NY repeats, and a look at what running repeats on Friday does for FOX. That is, nothing good for Dollhouse season 3. Also interesting this week — The Mentalist finally topped CSI in viewers and the demo, and even a repeat Gibbs appearance is worth 16 million viewers. Read the rest of this entry »
Quotation Marks – Batman, Emperor Palpatine, and sexy kittens
Halloween week on TV always is fun. Costumes, parties, and horror stories, oh my! This week wasn’t all about the Day of the Dead, however. We saw Derek buck the odds (and his boss) and perform a miracle like surgery, NBC cancel my favorite new show of year (Favorite show not named Glee that is), and the folks from Supernatural meet their future counterparts. And its not even November Sweeps yet!!
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“Batman.” — Jeff
“Yeah.” — Abed
“Are you staying for the party?” — Jeff
“If I stay, there can be no party. I must be out there in the night, staying vigilant. Wherever a party needs to be saved, I’m there. Wherever there are masks, or there’s tomfoolery and joy, I’m there. But sometimes I’m not, ’cause I’m out in the night, staying vigilant, watching, lurking, running, jumping, hurtling, sleeping. No, I can’t sleep. I don’t sleep. You sleep. I’m awake. I don’t sleep. I don’t blink. Am I a bird? No. I’m a bat. I am Batman … or am I? Yes, I am Batman. Happy Halloween.” — Abed
Dexter theories: Lundy and Quinn aren’t all they seem
After watching this past Sunday’s episode of Dexter, for me, a couple of things about two of the show’s characters came back to the surface. I’m talking about Agent Lundy and Detective Quinn, two of the lesser-known and relatively newer characters on the show. There’s something about each of these guys that I’ve had a funny feeling about all along … and not a funny-in-the-pants kinda way, Masuka.
Ratings Clack – Smallville continues to defy the odds
We do often get caught up in the big numbers from the big networks. It is, after all, hard to overlook the fact that NCIS is still growing its audience in the 7th season. There are still some very interesting stories happening on the little network, CW. When it was announced that Vampire Diaries would be paired with Supernatural, while Smallville was shuffled off to Friday, many people expected that was the end.
The show wouldn’t be able to come back from a year grinding away on Friday nights. After a few weeks looking at the numbers though, that’s not the case at all. Clark and the gang can celebrate good times, despite taking a hit from the move. In fact, this week Smallville topped new episodes of One Tree Hill, Gossip Girl, 90210, and Melrose Place. It’s far from done. Elsewhere, we had our first sizable crop of repeats this week, which brought some interesting results. Read the rest of this entry »
Dexter the serial killer … hunter?
Now here’s a role I don’t think even Dexter thought he’d be taking on in his lifetime: serial killer hunter. Alright, so we was hunting down the Ice Truck Killer in season one, but for very different reasons. Back then, the initial hunt for ITK was more for sport, as he admired his skill and didn’t have a personal stake in it (at the start, that is). This time it’s very personal. And when things get personal for Dexter, he works fast. Very fast.
Dexter finds something that matters more than murder
This episode marked a slew of firsts for this show, some which were pretty unexpected. The one “theme” (for lack of a better term) of this episode was one of these unexpected turns, for both the viewers and, especially, Dexter himself. Since first meeting Dexter’s girlfriend Rita in season one, a lot of viewers likely wondered how long she was going to last, and I don’t mean in the breakup sorta way. Now, over three seasons in, we see that it’s not only unlikely that Dexter would ever kill a member of his new family, but he’d go out of his way to prevent anyone from harming them.
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