Dear Network Television,

I’m finally getting around to watching the second half of NBC’s Impact that aired this past Sunday. I will admit, this was definitely one of those circumstances where I started watching the first installment because there was nothing on. The cast helped, as I’m a fan of both David James Elliott (from JAG) and Natasha Henstridge (specifically because of Eli Stone). Plus, Steven Culp. How can you not like Steven Culp?

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“She’s a Lump” (Season 3, Episode 2)

When I previewed the third season of Saving Grace, I was working with what I thought were the first two episodes of the season. Turns out they’ve decided to run the episode “What Would You Do” later, which I think was a pretty good switch. Tonight’s episode continues the storyline of the Jane Doe that Earl (and Grace) have been watching over, whereas it doesn’t play a major role whenever we see it (Looking at the previews of next week, it won’t be then). As it was a part of the second season finale, and the premier last week, I’m grateful for the change.

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(Season 3, Episode 12 – “Do You Take Dexter Morgan?” – Season Finale)

Well, I was just all kinds of wrong about how this season was going to end. And you know, I’m really glad for that. For the past two seasons I’ve thought this show has been easy to predict, and I just did not see the finale playing out this way at all. However, I wish there was a lot more meat to it, so to speak.

It’s certainly a change of pace to have things end on a rather happy note. Is that what fans of Dexter really want, though? How many of you wanted things to end happily ever after, and how many of you wanted to see a huge shocker of an ending? Does a shock-less finale make for a bad one? I’d say it certainly makes for a forgettable one, in this case.

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(Season 3, Episode 11 – “I Had A Dream”)

First of all, bravo to those who called what was going on with Dexter in the trunk. When I read some people making that guess, I knew it had to be right — it only made sense.

Even for a second-to-last episode, I didn’t see the final events of this one coming so soon. I thought for sure we’d see those … results … come about in the final moments of the finale. For that I’m very happy, as for once things aren’t playing out just as I expected.

I’ve said before that I thought Ramon could be working for Miguel as a killer lap dog, but I wasn’t sure until now that Dexter thought it. I can’t imagine that we’ve heard the end of what Oscar was really doing at Freebo’s place that night, and at the same time we’ll learn a lot more about Ramon and Miguel. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that Miguel was a red herring of a ring-leader all along, and it’s someone else who’s been heading up this army of wackos all along. But who?

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Weeks ago I posted a poll asking who everyone thought the Skinner was in this season of Dexter. The odd thing about this killer is that, so far, he’s not proving to be central to the overall plot of the season. The reveal of him being tree-trimmer King was anticlimactic at best. With King now on the loose from the events of last night’s episode, we’re left wondering what his motive really was.

Over in the comments of the TV Squad review of the episode, commenter “Alberto” mentioned an interesting theory: is King working for Miguel? Let’s look at the evidence.

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(Season 5, Episode 12 – “Return To Queens Blvd” – Season Finale)

So, did you like having the show take us back to New York again? No? Well, you’d better get used to it, because it sure seems like there’ll be a lot more of it next season.

Actually, it wasn’t really all that bad. The scenes with the moms were funny, especially Turtle’s. Mrs. Chase is classic neurotic, over-protective mom. I guess most of these guys grew up without fathers? After all these seasons, I honestly don’t remember if it was ever brought up before, but I’m sure it has.

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(Season 3, Episode 9 – “About Last Night”)

With only three more episodes left, this one felt a bit like filler to me. We found out for sure who the Skinner is, but how will that be significant to the rest of the season? Will Deb and/or Quinn have to answer for Anton’s C.I. status, or lack thereof?

I forgot until tonight that the Skinner only reared his ugly head because of what Dexter did, killing Freebo; an interesting chain reaction there. How long has King been in this country? Is it only until now that he’s started killing people in Florida?

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