By LillyKatPTR Senior Staff Writer
“After all, I am your biggest fan.”
- Syndrome/Buddy, The Incredibles
Uh-huh. Yup. We knew that.
Still, did anyone else find the Dex v. Icetruck Killer meeting this week a little … well, fanboyish? Like, the big bad IK was just a little too eager to become Dex’s best friend? I swear I thought he was going to ask Dex for his autograph or something.
And yet, we do know the IK has a thing for Dex.
The entire time they’ve been engaged in this chess match of serial killerness, it hasn't been without their BFF routine. But, that game has been played without either being in the presence of the other. Now that they have met to face to face, the whole let-me-be-your-best-friend routine makes the IK kinda seem dorky.
Dorky in a still very creepy way.
What is up with him taking out Dexter’s real dad? How did he know that? Deb and Dex didn’t even know the guy – a point of serious contention this week between brother and sister. Seems there were a couple of things Holier-Than-Thou Harry did not tell the team.
Deb brought the house down with her impassioned plea to Dex to just forget about this newly discovered real dad thing. Jennifer Carpenter was on her game. She and Michael C. Hall have such tangible brother/sister chemistry that it makes their scenes resonate with a realness that makes you actually start believing they are brother and sister.
Still, I was with Dex this week on feeling like something is fishy on all counts - and worth investigating further.
Rudy lecturing Dex about the whole “this is your real dad” thing. Rudy being out stalking Dex late at night as Dex tries to discover the real cause of his biological father’s death. Rudy being the suspicious cable repair man. Rudy being freakin’ everywhere and everything to the Morgans at this moment. What’s he going to do – take out Dex and Deb to finish off the family?
Well, I guess he is their biggest fan. And that can tend to be dangerous.
Meanwhile, Doakes decided to just kill off a pedestrian.
Okay, not really.
More like a former Haitian death squad member who Doakes recognized from his former military black ops days. I guess you could say it was sort of house cleaning, or settling some unfinished business. Still, it put Detective Batista in a tough spot, and almost had him have to narc on his partner given Doakes’ account of what happened and the forensics of the crime scene didn’t quite match up.
I guess Doakes is like Cold Case’s Scotty Valens – he can bend the rules to carry out personal vendettas and not get in trouble.
Amazing how that works, eh?
And then there is dearly disturbing Paul … he’s like a bad dream that we are all just counting down the moments until Dex … well, you know. But, it is kind of fun to watch Rita put him in his place. She’s growing by leaps in bounds. And fierce Rita is just as charming as soft, sensitive Rita.
The first season of Dexter airs Sundays at 10 p.m. on CBS. Check out Showtime's official Dexter Web site for the inside scoop on the series.
1 comment:
This week's episode was like a bizarre family get together movie. Kinda like a creepy, dark version of "Meet The Parents" with Deb's "boyfriend" (a.k.a The IK) playing the Ben Stiller role. Just made my skin crawl. I figured he had killed Dex's father in some weird plot to get closer to him and even, gulp, bond with him. SICK-O!!
I HATE Paul! I knew his Mr. Nice Guy act wouldn't last too long. I am happy to see Rita sticking to her guns (a huge credit to Dex, no doubt). I can't wait for him to go away.
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