But it was also leaked onto the internets… makes it hard to tell if it was real guesswork.

I only owned the Countdown compilation, but I loved the songs from It.  I could be wrong, but it seemed like Jarvis was often trying to sound dark and crooning in the subsequent albums in a way that really didn't suit his voice- at least not back then, anyway.

It would be annoying since they flagged it up in such a horribly obvious way (although granted it was no more horribly obvious than everything else).  But dammit, it's a way to bring in some kind of tension.  At this point I'll take it.

With you on the rating.  I wouldn't go so far as to say this week's episode was actually good, but it wasn't consistently horrible like last week's.

If you're still having trouble sleeping, I was assuming that she was going out to hang the washing up.  Or that she was stealing Dexter's clothes.

Yes, the complex situation was indeed unpredictable and intriguing.  And the reviewer and most of the readers clearly all have a mysterious grudge against this show that has absolutely nothing to with the absurd myth that it kinda sucks now.

The Zach bits were legitimately and deliberately funny, so I give the show credit for that.

I think they're setting up for an ending in which he discovers he's not such a psychopath after all.  If they do it particularly badly, it'll be because his love for Hannah conquered his killingness.

Actually, I've seen it now, and… I actually am a little ambivalent about that episode.  Yes, it was stupid for all the many reasons everyone's pointing out.  But after last week set expectations to absolute rock bottom, I found there were stretches that weren't so terrible.  Zack's bumbling efforts and 'dude'ing were…

You Americans and your giant houses… at least in the UK, plenty of houses only have one bathroom.  Mind you, house size was an issue I had with Breaking Bad at the start.  Walter White was introduced as working two jobs and struggling to make ends meet, and yet their house was a goddamned mansion with a swimming pool…

Oooooh, can I be the first to jump into pedants' corner and point out that 'complete ambivalence' means 'having completely contradictory opinions about something'? I think this is pretty much the opposite of the effect this season has.  'Complete boredom' would cover it.

Damn, and I thought the first one was fun on a visceral level but terrible if you spent any time whatsoever thinking about anything that happened…

I've still got a shred of hope that the finale will reveal him to have been a prolific serial killer all along.

Oh, while I'm back, a thought occurred as to why they're not doing anything interesting… they're working on a spin-off, I think.  It's possible they don't want to have anything too game-changing/character-killing so they can keep their options open for that… which would mean not even the finale gets to do something…

Good Lord.  I'd actually forgotten that he did too and was just imagining that as a way to make the season interesting.  But yeah, you're right.  They actually had it and dropped it in favour of… lieutenant issues, maybe?

That… was… mysteriously disturbing.

Yes yes yes.  Have Quinn and Batista be on to him.  It would be so natural- Batista doesn't trust the conclusions about Maria's death, and Quinn finally starts to put two and two together… together with crazy unreliable confession-prone Deb, the ingredients are all right there, dammit.  Have them discover that Deb was…

I would genuinely like to see that.  It would be so heartwarming amongst all the meth n' death.

People mock this show for spending so much time on irrelevant B-plots, and they're right to do so, but at this point the A-plot is so uninteresting (and, even worse, covered in that damn voiceover) I've actually ended up rooting for Quinn this season.  I no longer care what happens to Dexter, but it would be quite…

You and he were… buddies, weren't you?