Last week in the offscreen adventures of Harrison Morgan, Heroin Kingpin: http://www.avclub.com/artic…

@avclub-087b52206cd164583fd17f0fa1c5d6a4:disqus No shit. I ran into him once when I was working at the Capitol, and he's a tiny man. He's essentially Lord Farquaad from Shrek.

'Cause it's fun. We all know it's bullshit, but who doesn't like to get indignant about things once in a while?

The show had me at Lyle Lovett.

Assuming I correctly interpret your handle, did you enjoy the shoutout to our alma mater as much as I did? Adrianna is now my favorite character on the show, by default. Hook 'em.

You're right about them dragging Dexter out too long because it was a money-maker, which they did by clumsily forcing everything back to the status quo every season, but I still think it's more than that. There's a way they could have done exactly what they did story and character-wise in season 3-5 and made it good,…

It's funny you mention that. I went back and watched parts of some episodes from seasons 1 and 2, and it's like a completely different show. It was witty, tense, meticulously plotted, and it even had some interesting camerawork on occasion. Seasons 3-5 had their moments, but there's a big drop-off in quality between 2…

"Quinn's policework in the past couple of episodes hasn't really been sergeant-test worthy."
You shittin' me? This is Miami Metro. I'd say Quinn's been well above average.

Adding: as someone who purchased my first iPhone this week after years as a BlackBerry user, I was excited to see that there's an app that allowed Dexter to track somebody down in a matter of seconds based on nothing but his name. If any of you iPhone people know what that app's called, let me know because I need it…

It's a rough time for Harrison Morgan, and we're starting to see the toll his off-camera activities are taking on him. El Sapo, one of the top enforcers in Harrison's heroin operation, was killed last week, and Harrison knows he must respond quickly, lest rival organizations start thinking he's vulnerable. But he's…

That's why I'm glad I didn't get into The Americans until FX marathoned past episodes a few weeks into the season. Watching the first handful in succession was a good introduction to the show, and, based on the discrepancy between the hype for The Bridge and my fairly neutral reaction to the pilot, I'm thinking the…

Yeah, I guess the thing was that I'd seen a lot of reviews talking about how interesting "the world of the show" is, and I didn't really get a sense of it from this episode. The Wire comparison is a good one, except for that.

Anybody else think that was a pretty good episode of TV, but not a great pilot?

Shut up, Koby. "Logic" has no place on this show, particularly logic of the kind that's in any way associated with detectives or law enforcement in general.

I like to think there's a riveting show to be made about Harrison's off-camera adventures. He could be fighting crime, engaging in international espionage, or building a drug empire. We don't know.

- This show has featured a lot of graphic crime scenes over the years, but no gory setpiece has ever been as horrifying as the sweater Deb wore to the Miami Metro office.

The biggest reason it's hard to get invested in Dexter as a character isn't that he's a shitty person, it's that he's a shitty serial killer. It's okay when a TV character does bad things and never pays the price—that can still be an interesting show. What's not interesting is when a TV character does stupid, sloppy…

This season will be NOTHING TO ME if we get through twelve episodes without a single character unironically uttering the phrase "Melon Ball Killer"

The sad thing was that the bench out-acted almost everybody else in that scene.

Oh yeah, the arsonist was a thing. Hm. Needless to say, I didn't bother with a rewatch, but since you did, a question: did Jim Beaver show up for a couple scenes as Yvonne Strahovski's father, or was that just a fever dream I had?