It wasn't just Dexter and Zach talking outside his apartment that was hilarious.  You've also got Dexter and Zach in the club, Dexter arranging to go to Zach's studio, and, most entertainingly, Dexter giving Zach a lesson on Not Murdering People while sitting in the police station car park.

The comparison is implied in every post.  And unfavourable.

"Shit sandwich".

Heh… but thinking back, I think it was just the 'stalking the killer of the week' aspect- not knowing whether Dexter was going to kill him, suddenly having to get rid of Quinn… it felt sort of old school. That whole element seemed to fall flat for the whole brain surgeon arc- maybe because of the artificialness of…

I would freaking love it if this week's entry was nothing but the title, photo, grade, and the words "Oh look, Breaking Bad is on."

You're so right about this.  I didn't actually mind this episode much- I thought a fair amount of it worked as a case-of-the-week.  But as a last-season episode… hell no.  It was building toward nothing at all.

I forgot the stuffed animal thing too.  It's funny how Dexter's voiceover feeds us information about exactly what we're seeing on screen at that moment, but doesn't bother with stuff that happened episodes ago and wasn't terribly memorable at the time.  The other one I've forgotten is the dead maid that started the…

Eh, Brain Surgeon's probably not gone.  That guy was the Phantom Phoot Phetishist, not the Brain Surgeon.  Odds are still good that it's Vogel herself, although there was also that random mention of her husband this episode.

I would have loved a Dexter-style voiceover.  "Black lady…. Quinn.  Quin… black lady.  Ay, this is haaaaard."

If they do go for that, they've already screwed it a fair bit by telegraphing it.  How much better (and unDexterlike) would it be to simply have the camera show us Harrison finding it and putting it away?  Instead we got the whole voiceover 'gee, I hope this doesn't come back to bite me on the ass' thing.

Huh, I don't normally buck the trend on Dexter, but I gave it a 'B' for Better Than Last Week.  Better than the rest of the season, in fact.  Something about how the plotline of the last few episodes had been wrapped up freed it to be a little more entertaining- it managed a decent sense of suspense.

I think he means that he's proactive, sexually speaking.  You've heard the expression "let's get busy?"  Well this is one vanilla gay dude who gets BIZ-ZAY.

I think you're confusing the hell out of characters and actors here.  In the universe of the show–the same universe in which Masuka actually works and doesn't just function to provide creepy remarks–random detective lady obviously has a name and is in some sense part of the group.

I like random detective lady myself.  I don't know enough about her to find her annoying, and her ascent from background character to one or two lines to The Possibly Competent Choice in competition with Quinn is probably the most compelling character arc the show has going.

Masuka's such a weird character.  It's like the writers realised ages ago that they had nothing to do with him, so every time he speaks the other characters just roll their eyes and completely ignore him.  Feels like an in-joke more than anything.

"It's the perfect hideout!  Assuming he constantly keeps tabs on whether everyone he's ever installed cable for is currently on holiday and/or is willing to drive round to all of those houses to see if they happen to be empty while he's wanted by the police and has a hostage in the trunk, that is!"

I use it to try to allay the slightly deflated feeling that comes with having seen another bad episode of Dexter end, in the hope that there's something awesome going to be happening next week.  It hasn't worked so far, though.

Oh nice, good call.  I forgot about the whole Vogel-is-obviously-the-Brain-Surgeon thing, but that would make sense.  It didn't seem to make much sense for creepy-foot-fetishist to suddenly start cutting out bits of brains.  What was Dexter saying about them having found brain bits with him at the end there?

Well, she did magically reconcile Deb with him just after she tried to drown them both.  Gotta hand it to Vogel.  That sequence was the therapy equivalent of a montage.

Good thinking, Take5.