The season premiere of Dexter left me enthralled and attentive as ever. If you’re anything like me, you find that Dexter balances a perfect amount of mystery and gore. I do enjoy a bit of violence, and coupled with Dexter’s fun wit, the product is an Emmy award-winning production. (I checked the credits page on IMDB.)
The premiere starts by recapping the nature of his ways, his strong relationship with Deb, and the family he once had with Rita. The episode then goes into the main themes of the show. His first victims are Ben and Roger—medical examiners who harvest body parts illegally. And within six minutes and two seconds into the episode, we have our first two deaths. However these deaths weren’t pertinent to the storyline of the episode, but rather a mood-setter for a somewhat dark episode.
During this episode, Dexter looks for pre-schools for his son, and plans his next victim’s death. Dexter suspects a man named Joe of killing his wife, who was one of the few people Dexter liked in high school. Dexter goes to a variety of high school reunion activities in the hopes of getting a blood sample to prove his theory true. Once confirmed, the plan is set in motion, and just like that, another criminal is eradicated.
There’s another storyline that we’ll probably see continued on to the next episode or even longer, involving a crime Dexter investigated. There is a crime scene at a fruit stand where human entrails lay on a fruit scale, but riddle the investigators with the absence of a body. Later in the episode, a jogger on the beach finds a body, with an Alpha and Omega stitched on its chest. Dexter cuts the stitching to find seven snakes slither out of the carcass. The dramatic irony is that the end of the episode we see two men standing on a bridge, reciting biblical verses, and say to each other, “It has begun.”
What are your predictions about this new season of Dexter? I’d love to hear! Send all questions and comments to mlkelle3@asu.edu.
