I think the "you didn't taste the food" response is a bit of a cop-out, honestly. I also don't get three inches away from a Project Runway dress to see the construction of it, but I'm still allowed to have an opinion on what I have seen.

Yeah, this was tricky because while the audience knows the contestants as "Nick and Nina," it's jarring to vacillate between first names on second reference for contestants and last names for non-contestants. Point taken, though!

I agree with you about the dangers of late-round immunities. However, I gotta disagree about "the whole point of having immunity." While it's true that having immunity allows contestants to make a risky dish they might not try if they didn't have the safety net, that logic only applies to individual challenges. I…

I tried to make the distinction between the perception and the reality in a situation like this. I'm not arguing that it would have been objectively more fair if Nina had won, but based on the backlash, it's clear that to many people that outcome would have /seemed/ more fair. That appearance of fairness is what makes…

I'm on duty at least through the end of the season. (File Under: Be careful what you wish for.)

Yeah, I thought that was a nice moment too. I should have mentioned it.

This sincerely made me tear up a little. Thanks for sharing, and very sorry for your loss. Losing anyone is tough, but losing someone who turns you on to great pop-culture stuff and then geeks out with you about it? That's a real bummer. Enjoy the thread.

Our disagreement will have to stand. I don't think it was caring for Dexter to go, I think it was completely selfish, and it only looks caring if you accept the degree to which every supporting character in the show bends to Dexter's will. In addition to many of the supporting characters being flat-out boring, all of…

Honestly, while I found a lot of Buck's post-mortem comments really weird and baffling, I kinda felt sorry for him when he explained how much of the season 8 production had to be rushed or compressed to fit Showtime's time frame for launching Ray Donovan. That's not an acquittal, but while the dog didn't eat the…

Nah, I don't think this is the case. While it's true that I expected the finale to be bad because the seven episodes that preceded it were bad, I didn't review the whole show with a preconceived idea that the finale would fail. If you go back to my earlier reviews you'll see that, even as recently as episode two of…

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't being tongue-in-cheek when I said it's okay to judge people for liking Dexter just this once. It was a joke. When it comes to having "bad taste," everyone lives in a glass house, and I don't buy the "all critics say this, so it must be true" argument anymore than I buy the "lots of…

I've always gotten the impression (with this show and plenty of others) that with a show like Dexter, networks could give a shit about quality or legacy, and showrunner changes are more a matter of how the production is managed or mismanaged. Dexter grew its audience every season without fail, so I could easily see a…

In truth, I haven't watched the earlier seasons in a very long time. I've seen in the recent comments people mentioning that they had gone back to take a look at the earlier seasons to compare them to what the show became, but I thought that might be too depressing, so I never did.

Yeah, that's totally fair. The last paragraph is facetious, but your point is valid all the same.

It's not a her, it's a him. And Scott knows what he did.

This is absolutely fair, and I don't have a good answer to the question. I'm not sure I can explain the phenomenon of continuing to watch awful shows, and I've done it a good number of times. I know that with Dexter, it started off with a lot of promise, and showed signs of life along the way, and that kept a lot of…

It's so funny, because as much as I've bemoaned the voiceover, the final scene was the one place in which I would have welcomed it. The ambiguity wasn't earned.

You're welcome to disagree with my review, find it whiny, annoying, whatever. I'm cool with all that. But don't do the thing where you express your disagreement by invalidating the entire discipline of criticism, because I'm sure you don't feel the same way when a critic's impression aligns with your own. Also, yeah,…

Yeah, sorry, I just don't buy this. Given how much of the first seasons were about Dexter struggling to relate to and connect with other people, I don't see a completely antisocial existence as a fate "worse than death" for him. I see it as him having to, perhaps uncomfortably, revert back to the person he was before…

I've always felt like the show had the potential to get better, even after 6, once the writers were granted permission to set their end game in motion, but I was disappointed again and again.