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Melissa Rosenberg, Who Wrote The Upcoming TWILIGHT Movie, Wrote Tonight’s DEXTER!! And It’s An Episode Capone’s Seen!!
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Ratings for “Dexter” are rising, albeit more slowly. Its 1st-season premiere was seen by about 334,000 viewers, its 2nd-season premiere was watched by about million, and last week’s 3rd-season launch hit 1.2 million (thanks no doubt to the show’s CBS writers-strike run and its “outstanding drama” Emmy nomination). The June 16 installment of “Weeds” still holds the Showtime series-premiere record of 1.3 million viewers.
Melissa Rosenberg, whose name is on the teleplay for tonight’s “Dexter,” not only wrote the movie version of “Twilight,” she wrote 2006’s “Step Up.”
I know who gets a bloody shirt! Hint: it’s not the obnoxious little guy writing the magazine article!
“Capone” says tonight’s episode had him giggling with delight:
Hey everyone. Capone in Chicago here checking out Episode 302 of a show that has really and truly never let me down in its short existence, "Dexter."
The TV critic for the Chicago Tribune, Maureen Ryan, complained that Jimmy Smits character of Miguel Prado feels like he's being shoehorned into the show. I may have expressed some reservations after the third season premiere, but after seeing 302, my hesitations have vanished. I now see how the relationship between Prado and Dexter will progress, and I literally giggled with delight at a particular point in this show when their connection is made a bit clearer. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Read on…
What's the title of 302?
"Finding Freebo"
Who directed?
Marcos Siega, a show veteran, having directed four previous episodes and two more later in this season, for a total of seven. He's also directed episodes of "Veronica Mars," "Shark," "Life," and HBO's "True Blood."
Who wrote it?
Melissa Rosenberg, series co-executive producer, as well as a co-executive producer on "The O.C." Including at least one more coming up this season, Rosenberg has written seven "Dexter" episodes total, as well as episodes of "The O.C." and "Love Monkey." Most importantly for you under-16 types, she wrote the screenplay for the upcoming film adaptation of TWILIGHT.
Where do we pick things up?
Dexter and Rita are at the doctors to confirm her pregnancy. They promise to have a real conversation about their options very soon. Meanwhile on the two open cases currently on Dexter's lab table, Deb asks him to re-examine the blood work on the Jane Doe case. This is an interesting twist in the show since Dexter knows that the dead woman is Freebo's girlfriend. He wants to help Deb get back into the Freebo investigation that she was kicked off out last week, but he needs to use this information to find Freebo first.
Prado begs his old flame Lt. Laguerta to let him be involved in the investigation into his brother's death. She discourages this with a story about how her personal involvement with Doakes during the Bay Harbor Butcher case clouded her judgement.
Is the Rat Squad's Yuki Amado still after Deb to get close to former narcotics officer Quinn?
You bet. In fact, she gets two visits from Amado. One in which she essentially tells Deb that her detectives shield would be the reward for spying on her fellow officer, to which Deb responds by hurling a very special "C" word at the lovely Yuki. The second visit hits a little closer to home as Amado questions Deb's life--or lack thereof--outside being a cop.
How does Dexter take to the thought of being a dad?
In some of the shows most twisting and elaborate fantasy sequences, Dexter pictures his life with a child, Dexter Jr. He also sees his own adopted father, Harry, would have liked having a grandson. There is one great moment where Dex daydreams about possible baby names. But he also worries about whether his child would have the same proclivities as he does.
Besides Dexter, does somebody link the Prado and Jane Doe cases in this episode?
Oh yes.
Do Dexter and Prado get to hang a little bit in this episode?
And how. Prado spots Dexter at the station and thanks him for coming to his brother's wake. He invites Dexter and Rita to dinner that night at his home, where both men get a little bonus info on the case. Turns out Prado wants Dexter to be his inside man on the case.
I love watching Dexter pretend to be a tweaking junkie in last week's episode. Does he get to do any more undercover work this week?
Dexter attends a kegger at a sorority house and is forced to turn down having sex with two hot sorority sisters.
Anything else turn up during the Prado investigation?
Angel and Quinn look for Freebo at the houses of dealers he was known to hang with in the past. At one such dealer's house, they turn up evidence that wrecks a case Prado prosecuted recently and would likely overturn the conviction.
What I liked
As I mentioned in the opening, the relationship between Dexter and Prado is feeling less forced. Dexter's episode 301 lie to Prado about this case touching him deeply has made Prado trust him as a friend. It also sets the stage for some truly dark shit yet to come. The fantasy sequences are plain and simply messed up. Dexter Jr. is a freak. And as much as a pregnancy on any series is often a sure sign that the show has "Jumped the Shark," not so with "Dexter." It opens up psychological potential for Dexter that never would have been possible before. He has to contemplate the way he was raised, and how much of that he might pass onto his own child. And doesn't the fact that he fantasizes that the child is a boy pretty much guarantee that it will be a female child?
Does Dexter find Freebo?
Yes.
Does somebody else find Freebo?
Yes.
Do they find him at the same time?
Yes.
What is Freebo's state when the episode ends?
He wrapped head to toe in plastic wrap with photos of his victims surrounding him.
How does it end?
Someone other that Dexter or Freebo gets blood on their shirt.
9 p.m. Sunday. Showtime.
-- Capone
capone@aintitcoolmail.com
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I think they are setting up Prado as Dexter's father. Dexter's "ice truck killer" brother looks latino in origin or mix white/latino. And the show has never really explored his father.
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Is the best show I'm watching right now. Get's it right in every episode. If you haven't watched this show yet rent the DVD's. Michael C Hall is awesome.
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Looks like you started at at season 3.
Dexter's real father was revealed and dispatched by his "latino" looking broker in the first season.
Looks like Prado is "the level boss" in this one.
After Prado could pull Dexter's access of files in 3.1 did he bother to look at why Dexter pulls a lot of files that do not relate to his cases? -
Dexter always keeps you on your toes with it's twists
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great show. i hope like hell it will go at least another few years and just keep getting better
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Surprised no one has mentioned the near tragedy very recently on set. The details of which revealed some major spoilage for this season. Anyone interested just Google "Dexter stuntman stabbed Kristin" for the scoop. Should be the first result.
And for the record I was VERY apprehensive about Smits joining the cast, but I am really warming up to him.
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I was worried she had written the staggeringly, reality-warpingly bad 1998 "Twilight" which manages to waste a cast including Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner on a pointless, meaningless mystery and inexplicable dick jokes. But no, it's the vampire one. So that's good. Dexter's a cute show, but seems to be running out of places to go.
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and that is why i dont dig the whole pregnancy storyline
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you're kinda right... Since Dexter wraps his victims in plastic, you'd think he wraps it before he packs it.
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rubbers suck.
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Thanks for letting us all know what happens to Freebo...
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Condoms are some thing like 97% effective. I've known people to have kids while using them. Same goes for birth control.
So, it's very possible Dexter is making logical choices but numeric values kicked his ass. -
The direction the books take Rita's kids is much more interesting. And they are better written.
Doakes and Aguerta were dealt with in a superior fashion in the books.
But that doesn't detract from the show, except the kids and how much cooler the book Doakes dealing with would have been.
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or does he become a serial killer in order to kill off baddies...this does seem kinda forced...as for the way the kids are written in the third book, i disagree...not every kid who experiences a trauma becomes a serial killer, but the author would have you believe that is the case...it is lazy writing
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Best new show on television.
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And I got the facebook page of a girl named Kristin Dexter and a soccer page of a highschool player with the same name.
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Why the new showrunner felt like he had to spoon-feed us for 45 minutes last week is well beyond me.
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...until AFTER you've seen Dexter. He doesn't review the show as much as he tells you everything that's going to happen in it. WHY would you want to know, before hand, that someone else finds Freebo at the same time as Dexter. That was THE great surprise of the episode. Do yourself a favor and wait until Monday AM to read these.
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Ok, he takes all the time to set up the kill room and place the victim then offs them in a single quick thrust?
In the real world he would play with a bit. The books mention that.
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It occurred to me last night that last season should have been saved until maybe season five.
Really where is there for Dexter to go?
His nemesis is gone. The tension of continually being hunted for some mistake or other is fading a bit.
So what is left?
I've always been of the opinion when they add a baby to a tv show it kills the show. Just one of those overly contrived plot devices when there is nothing left to say.
Sure the soap opera drama aspect works and characters evolve, but the tension fades with so many near misses.
Sadly they can never return to the Rita's children plot from the books. Because it was never established in the show.
That would have added a substantial amount of depth. And allowed Dexter to evolve even more.
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If you like your stories short, setting up plenty of potential that is never played out, and with endings that come out of nowhere and make you go "huh?" before you question why X, Y and Z weren't covered, then yes. The books are better than the show. But so far, the show has done a FAR better job than the books. I like the direction the third book went in, but if the fourth novel doesn't pick up that thread and absolutely fly with it, then I may have to just give up on them altogether and stick with the show.
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i so read that the wrong way...i'm a naughty boy.
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Huh???
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or is really close to doing so
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Parkman is fat
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Shoot future peter in the head? uhh Peter heals
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No he wasn't shot in the head...
But the Haitian was right there, cancelling his powers. They probably capped him in the head off screen after. -
Here are my questions: How the hell does future Peter die from a gun shot when he has Claire's healing ability?
Wouldn't present Peter already have Sylar's ability from just being around him? That's how he stole everyone else's power.
What ever happened to the Irish girl from last season who got stuck in the future with the virus? Did that future just disappear along with her? Peter doesn't seem to care much about her any more and what ever happened to the virus itself? -
they throw at the screen
I just don't care.
It's impossible to care.
There are no characters.
Just plot devices with faces.
None of them has a real consistent personality.
And anything that happens in the future will be corrected thru time travel.
And anyone in the present that dies will be cured with magic blood. -
Sunovabitch.
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At least Ali is fun to look at
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Have they said yet? And what was going on in Hiro's future? I'm guessing Ando got a power like everyone else. Why would the formula still be a big deal? And was that destruction the world being destroyed, or something different?
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Nice.
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Hello Adam.
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Finally. I was about to give up on this season.
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zero consequence show
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Seriously. I Believe in Harvey Dent.
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I was thinking of the exact same Simpson episode, chrth. Parkman looked like a kitty cat & had to act all tramuatized.
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And stole his talkback!
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Fucking weak! Even though the Heroes talkback ALWAYS becomes the top talkback and gives this site tons of hits once a week, because HERC turned on the show, the fans don't get a talkback! Fuck you Herc!
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Sylar is just using Candice's power (illusion) to impersonate Dexter now...
Though it would appear that this is a Dexter talkback on the outside, it really is a Heroes talkback on the inside. -
This is going to spiral out of control real fast. I can see him having to kill Smits by the season end. Love this show.
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It's Harry. He had a relationship with Dexter's mother and it was interesting how Harry rescued Dexter but not his brother. Harry is Dexters biological father
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