So both the Dexter and Boardwalk Empire reviews will be 2 episodes in one this week. I've been under the weather and so has my little almost-2 year old.
We'll start with 'Practically Perfect.' Dexter continues his pursuit of Boyd Fowler, but his work has gotten sloppy. He ends up taking a tranquilizer dart from Boyd at the same time he gives the sleepy time medicine to the neck, and both end up passed out on the side of the road and end up taken to the emergency ward. Both wake up and realize what has happened, and Boyd tries to kill him in the hospital, but Dexter has escaped.
Dexter and Deb also go about finding a nanny for Harrison, and of course Deb interrogates the candidates like she would a murder suspect. It's nice that somebody will take care of the little one, as let's face it, we all want to see Dexter on the hunt for more kills.
LaGuerta finds out Batista will be possibly charged or suspended for his bar fight. Personally, I don't care about this story. Get back to Dexter and things that involve him.
Deb is off chasing a serial killer that is chopping off its victims' heads in the Venezuelan section of town. I think the rookie cop she's mentoring might know a little more than she's letting on right now. Just a hunch though. By the way, does the Tourism Board of Miami have any issues with this show? Between this and CSI: Miami, you'd think Miami is full of gangs and serial killers if you'd never been there.
Quinn is still trying to get with Deb as he chases down her brother Dexter. This story is getting creepier and creepier. Nobody would do what Quinn is doing. A one-time, heat of the moment hook up, sure.
The episode ends with Dexter chasing down Boyd Fowler again, succeeding this time and killing Boyd with our first staple killing by Dexter this year (victim tied to a table, Dexter cuts the cheek and saves some blood, tells them why they're being killed, then plunges the knife through the heart). Sometimes things feel good when you know you can count on them. But wait! Right after the killing, as Dexter realizes he doesn't feel any better after the kill, he realizes a girl is alive in the house and has seen everything.
A solid episode. Anything with a kill by Dexter goes up at least a letter grade, and aside from the boring LaGuerta/Batista subplot, this episode did everything it should.
Grade: B
The next episode picks up with Dexter trying to calm down the girl named Lumen who has seen him, played by Julia Stiles, who looks like she's aged about 20 years since Save the Last Dance (admit it, you watched it too). Harry wants Dexter to kill her too, but Dexter wants to help her. That's one of the most interesting plots of this season. Harry's code is gone. Dexter doesn't know who he is any more. He's part serial killer, part brother, part father. In the past, everything took a back seat to serial killer.
Lumen has been held captive by Boyd and likely raped, and likely not just by Boyd. It's obvious she's had a rough life and Dexter wants to help. Lumen doesn't want to trust Dexter, but by the end of the episode she starts to, even though Dexter is forced to confine her. What will become of Lumen? Will she become Dexter's friend? Will she become his partner? Or will Dexter be forced to kill her too to protect himself and Harrison?
Quinn goes beyond protocol to find the Trinity Killer's son to show a picture of Dexter and ask if Dexter is Kyle Morgan. Before the kid can answer, Quinn is arrested and put on suspension by LaGuerta. We're entering unbelievable territory here with Dexter and the Miami PD now. Doakes was suspicious of Dexter in Season 1 and ended up dead. Quinn is now suspicious. Odds are he'll be dead by season's end too. How does a smart woman like LaGuerta ignore the signs when many of her top detectives think there's something up with one of her employees?
The storylines not involving Dexter finally picked up this week. LaGuerta/Batista took logical steps as she tried to keep his ass out of jail, making him apologize to the other cop who he stomped out, but internal affairs still wants to press charges.
The Santa Muerta murders also showed Dexter coming back to work to analyze the spatter, and he guesses that a machete has been used to do the beheadings. Deb gets a lead and almost arrests a suspect, but is detained by a guy with a gushing jugular (from a machete, of course!) before she can make an arrest. Even so, this investigation is picking up and I don't care as much when it pulls time away from Dexter.
The action for Dexter slowed down a little bit for Dexter this week as the interaction between him and Lumen took the forefront. There were no Dexter killings, but the B-storylines didn't annoy me for once. I wss worried about this season, but the Dexter character is truly compelling with his emotions.
Grade: C+
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