(Spoiler Alert, read at your own risk if you haven’t watched it yet).
This season Dexter’s story takes a new turn, and this time his second accomplice is a female. To her, he’s her saviour, and now collaborator in crime, in what she thinks is a just cause.
Amidst this search for vengeance, he opens up to her and shares more of himself than he normally would, which creates a big suspicion, will this end in blood? The phrase: ‘I’ll tell you but then I’d have to kill you’ has come to pass every time he has confessed who he really is. Maybe this time it will be different.
Having a partner in crime gives Dexter a whole new dimension and we get to see how he begins to accept this new routine and forms through some twisted way, a unique bond and unspoken vow of secrecy which ties them together.
Laguerta’s leadership is questioned when she redirects tactics during a sting and a girl dies at the hands of some bad guys; Dexter’s sister tastes blood for the first time as she kills the bad guy and confesses to her brother, her surprise at her lack of remorse.
This season has not been as successful as the others, on the grounds of awards. The story seems to have coasted and no new or ground breaking or suspenseful story lines have propped up which will earn a show like this another award on it’s fifth year running.
A unique and well written show like this will usually get awards during its first seasons, but audiences will soon get the groove of the plot and the characters so either introducing new characters and more dynamic ways they interact or even discovering new things from the characters past will produce higher engagement. This might be the reason this season didn’t do so well against other new up and coming shows.
Dexter’s unbelievable luck starts to seep away from it’s original realism of the first, second and third season. This season Dexter’s luck is truly Unbelievable and some time soon he’ll be caught if realism has anything to do with it. Some audiences will be glad to see the faces of everyone close to him, once it’s revealed he’s a serial killer who’s been killing and dumping people in the atlantic while hiding in plane sight.
The next appropriate move would be that the entire department is fired, naturally as having a serial killer under their noses for five years and suspecting anything will not look good for future employers.
A glimpse of hope at the end of this season with Dexter looking back at his relationship with the girl he saved. Even his consideration that he could be human has shown a light of empathy and connection to another person that can get rid of his ‘dark passenger’ and be the director of his own new life.
He seems to still believe faith, wishes and divine intervention is either for crazy people or for children, but coming from someone with a brain scan that matches that of past serial killers and who is compelled to destroy, structured with a code his father taught him, it’s fitting to take his philosophical opinions on life very loosely.
So, this season we are left with the question that may be answered in season 6 and if rumours are to be believed, the writers are prepping to create a whole new dynamic for Michael C. Hall’s distorted Dexter.
Dexter Season 5 Review
July. 18th 2011
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