Season 4 feels focused again.
The opening has not changed, and who wants it too. It shows exactly what kind of a person Dexter is. All that blood, all that disturbing imagery hidden under a facade of normality. And, in a demonstration of what makes this show so brilliant, scenes copying the opening help us see exactly how Dexter Morgan (played by the creepy yet boy-next-door Michael C Hall) is doing. He wakes up, but he can't kill the mosquito on his arm, the white T-shirt he pulls over his head is stained, and his shoe lace brakes. The parallels tell you exactly how much having a son and living with his wife (Julie Benz) and her children is disrupting his calm and control.
Dexter is back in a danger zone. Lundy has returned to town, looking for a serial killer he's named the Trinity Killer. Still, if anyone can figure out that Doakes was not the Bay Harbor Butcher (who is, in fact, Dexter), it's Lundy. And now that he has a baby son, and is over tired, his work is suffering. As Dexter aptly put it "I'm killing for two now." If he gets caught, others will suffer. Most especially his son.
We also have another serial killer in the picture for the first time since Season 1. (Season 2, they were after Dexter and Season 3, well, let's just say there was so much going on that you didn't pay any attention to the guy (literally) tearing strips of people's backs...). John Lithgow is not the man I want to find naked in my bathroom, particularly not with a razor blade in his hand. I really feel like he's going to be a nerve-wrecking nail-biting fiend to pursue.
With a car crash ending the episode, and the worry that Dexter might still have a body in the trunk, I can't wait for next week' episode. Amazing how much we sit here and root for Dexter.
What are your thoughts about this season so far?
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