Review: Dexter - Slack Tide
(S04E07) "We all have secrets, Debs. Some of them shouldn't be found out." - Dexter to DebraWhile preparing this post, I had to double check the time stamp on this week's episode because "7" just seemed too early. It literally felt like we were more episodes into the season. I even looked out my window to make sure the Earth had not been sent into some kind of time paradox where time runs backwards, the sun comes out at night, and golf is America's most watched sport.
Then when I looked over my notes for the recent episode, I realized why. "Slack tide" indeed.
This week's episode did have some very great moments that showed glimmers of the show's glory days, but the rest got bogged down in the same sidetracks that have dragged the rest of the season down with it. The plots may be in different pieces, but they are all in the same garbage bag as they float through the Gulf Stream.
The scenes with the Trinity Killer, now unmasked as Arthur
And Dexter finally makes a kill, his first one since he sliced up the ultra evil cop bitch in the "Dexter Takes a Holiday" episode almost a month ago. Dexter's To-Do list is more disorganized than mine.
The rest just form this crooked mesh of twisted plot lines that have no bearing on anything yet and are in danger of not becoming interesting once they do. That sense of suspension of disbelief was all but shattered when Dexter officially made an enemy of Quinn by out-and-out threatening to rat him out if his girlfriend reporter did a big feature piece on his sister. It just felt like very weak glue to hold together pieces that don't seem to fit in the first place.
And now we've discovered that Quinn has replaced Doakes as Dexter's new butt thorn, simply because Dexter made an idle threat. Quinn has no reason to suspect Dexter of anything other than being a rat or an IA snitch, so it's like watching Doakes track Dexter but without the thrills, tension or interest.
Still, things can only get better from here. I hope.

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