Dexter Season 7 Review
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| Dexter Morgan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
Dexter Season 7 Trailer:
This season Dexter (the 7th season) starts exactly where the last
season ended. Season's 6 payoff was when Debra walked on Dexter while Dexter
was making the kill (Dexter Stubs Travis).
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| Debra Morgan (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
At the beginning
of this season Debra tries to cure Dexter from his dark passenger with no
success. As the season progresses Debra understands that what Dexter is doing
is necessary for the greater good. Dexter shows Debra that there are loop halls
in the legal system and he needs to continue doing what he does best - killing
criminals. Debra struggles with it at first but eventually she understands that
it is necessary and accepts Dexter's dark passenger. Debra even started
covering for Dexter, when LaGuerta was sniffing around in order to catch the Bay
Harbor Butcher and clear Doakeses name.
Debra's Transformation is complete when in the 8th
episode she asks Dexter to kill Hannah McKay for her, Debra doesn't have the evidence
for an arrest, and she is frustrated because she can’t prove that Hannah McKay
killed Sal Price. Unfortunately for Debra, Hannah McKay is
not an easy kill for Dexter, as Dexter struggles with the issue to kill or not
to kill Hannah for the entire first half of the season.
One of the main
stories this season is that Dexter falls hard for a really hot chick (Hannah
McKay) and she is ... you guessed it ... she is a killer. As the season
progresses the viewers start to understand that Hannah McKay is Dexter’s soul
mate (in some sick romantic way), Dexter himself addresses the issue by
remembering all of the flaws his former relationship partners had (Rita's
blindness, Lila's attraction to the darkness, Newman's dependence) to highlight how perfect Hannah is (for
Dexter).
At first Dexter
wants to kill her and he preps everything for it, the plastic, the table ...
everything but then when she is lying on the table ready to receive a knife
into her hart something happens … Dexter releases her and they do what monkeys
do on the discovery channel.
While all that drama is going on with Debra and Hannah, Dexter has to deal with a real adversary this time, a leader of the Russian mob (The Koshka brotherhood - who thought of that stupid name? Koshka translated from Russian is a cat. The Cats brotherhood or The Brotherhood of Cats sounds a bit lame wouldn't you say? ) This Russian mob’s boss hobby is killing people in a variety of different ways and watching them die. Sounds like a real nice fellow isn't he, the Russian mobster is after Dexter because Dexter killed his "boyfriend" in the first episode.
The guy who plays
the role of the Russian mob boss is Ray Stevenson you may remember him from
HBO's Rome (one of my favorite shows of all time). I can’t complain about the
casting here, Stevenson is perfect for this role. That's why he does such a
great job. The dynamics between Dexter and Isaac Sirko (Ray Stevenson's
character) was great, until they pushed it too much. The writers forced Dexter
help Isaac Sirko. It’s a little bit of a stretching the line, despite the fact
that Hannah was kidnapped and Dexter had no choice. It felt like the writers
made that move just in order that Dexter and Isaac Sirko will have a couple
more dialogs, I have to state that the exchanges between Dexter and Isaac Sirko
were great. It is only fitting that the end of Isaac Sirko was made to be as it
was. When Dexter's season 7 started we were introduced to Isaac Sirko as a
really bad dude but as season 7 progressed we were reviled to a different side
in Isaak, from being a ruthless killer to more of a human character that his
entire world was turned upside down.
I don’t really
understand why they killed Isaac Sirko so soon in the season; the alternative villain
characters just didn’t work (the Torch). The entire process of finding and
killing the arsonist felt rushed and not important. The angle of the
arsonist started strong and looked intriguing but towards the end it just
flopped, you knew that when they showed Joseph Jansen's face
(the arsonist) at the beginning of episode 10 season 7. When they did that
you knew this angle is going to end soon especially after they
made Joseph Jansen so mysterious and elusive just one episode before.
After Isaac
Sirko's death the show got very slow and slightly boring, it was not as intense
as in the early episodes. The main story was still Dexter and Hannah while in
the background LaGuerta is closing in on Dexter and the fact that he is
the Bay Harbor Butcher. Meanwhile Debra can’t really except that her brother is
with Hannah. In order to put Hannah away Debra is trying to connect Hannah to
the murders from the past. So far I didn’t touch this “Debra in love with
Dexter” issue because it was made to look not very important. Towards the end
of Dexter season 6 Debra was thinking this thoughts that she was in love with
Dexter but in the current Dexter season the issue gets on the surface only at
episode 8 of season 7, right after Debra finds out that Dexter is
is getting funky with Hannah. Debra brakes down and tells Dexter what
she wanted to tell him the night Dexter killed Travis. The scene was instance
but it didn’t had any substantial follow up, the fact that Debra spilled
out what she felt towards Dexter was in the air in the episode that followed
but nothing else happened.
Only when Debra crashed her car and we discover that Hannah poisoned her, the "Debra in love with Dexter" issue resurfaced in the back of my mind. Those to chicks are fighting for Dexter and none of them wants to let. After a while Dexter makes the hard choice and decides to give Debra the evidence that will put Hannah in away for good. Short time after that LaGuerta plays her hand and arrests Dexter but the evidence don’t stick because Dexter is one step ahead. LaGuerta doesn’t give up and finds evidence that connect Debra to the church where Travis died, at this point Dexter has no choice and he decides to kill LaGuerta for his and Debra's survival. Like always Debra walks on Dexter when he is about to kill LaGuerta, and after a couple of tense moments Debra takes a shot and kills ... LaGuerta. On the other side of town Hannah escapes custody and she looks pissed.
Only when Debra crashed her car and we discover that Hannah poisoned her, the "Debra in love with Dexter" issue resurfaced in the back of my mind. Those to chicks are fighting for Dexter and none of them wants to let. After a while Dexter makes the hard choice and decides to give Debra the evidence that will put Hannah in away for good. Short time after that LaGuerta plays her hand and arrests Dexter but the evidence don’t stick because Dexter is one step ahead. LaGuerta doesn’t give up and finds evidence that connect Debra to the church where Travis died, at this point Dexter has no choice and he decides to kill LaGuerta for his and Debra's survival. Like always Debra walks on Dexter when he is about to kill LaGuerta, and after a couple of tense moments Debra takes a shot and kills ... LaGuerta. On the other side of town Hannah escapes custody and she looks pissed.
Summery
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| María LaGuerta (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
The story we witnessed developing between Dexter and
Hannah and Dexter and Isaac was unique, intriguing and most of all fresh that
made you connect with the characters even more, feel what they feel.
I have to state that I thought that the finale of
season 7 will be different than it was presented to us in episode 12. I thought
that LaGuerta will find her evidence to put Dexter away what would make Dexter
hit the road and go on the run. So the next entire season Miami police
department will be on a man hunt (Dexter Hunt) mission that could have been
interesting. I thought that towards the end of the season Hannah would die (she
just had to die in my mind)
everything was just
to perfect with her and Dexter. The route that the writers took is
interesting as well the Hannah angle will be very thrilling because we don’t really know what she
is going to do. The LaGuerta issue is a lot trickier, Debra used her own gun to
kill her so whatever that follows will have to be delicately done. LaGuerta’s
death will be hard to cover up.
What will I do without my favorite serial killer for
the next 6 month it will be hard to recover
from this awesome season.
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