No mention of Skye's computer mastery?

Is there anything to this show other than the premise? Is there a lot of variance from episode to episode based on the challenges or contestants' behavior?

Awesome. I'm imagining a version of The World Ends With You in which every contestant originally died of heart failure at 27.

It would take an essay to defend that idea. The simplest I could put it is that there's a difference between a work presenting a viewpoint (by having racist/sexist/intolerant characters or dialogue) and promoting it (by having asshole characters encouraged and rewarded for their asshole behavior). Then there's the…

I know Carrie will likely end up saving the world, not in spite of but because of her manic bipolar states, but every scene made me realize she must be the easiest person to discredit in the world.

I don't have much experience with Whedon's work, but the dialogue on this show feels too cute by half. It doesn't feel like these are quirky characters with quippy rapport, it feels like the writers have one eccentric personality being spread across six people. Okay, five people and Ming-Na Wen. But Skye is like two…

If this doesn't end like Death Note, with Dexter outed as the killer he is and ghost Harry looking down on him as he dies, I will be sorely disappointed.

I want to show you my appreciation for that joke, but I don't know you very well.

If I were a casual viewer I'd be floored when someone told me this was the final season. They have a villain-of-the-week/season thing going on, but beyond that there's no indication that the walls are closing in on Dexter.

The people I know who like it say it's "honest" and "witty". The people I know who hate it say it's "preachy" and "sexist".

I took this episode a lot better because it was so self-consciously ludicrous. Vogel's strange themed dinner party, Dex and Hannah acting as surrogate parents for their adopted killer son, said killer son's reactions to all the newbie mistakes he was making, as well as all the attractive women fighting over Dexter…

"No man, the safety's on."

His crane wife! (Dammit, wrong band.)

It's odd: I hate Seth McFarlane and YouTube, so no comment I can make will sound different than "Fuck those ignorant d-bags unless they happen to agree with me."

"Do my hair like this."

@avclub-9cd818ea56273170b63f339aa6f34bca:disqus

Another punchable moment: Angie asks for a chance to step up when she realizes she may lose that promotion to a guy who used to buy coke with his bribe money, and Angel just kind of blinks and walks away. Dammit, Batista.

Dex and Deb seem to walk away from that car accident with nary a scratch, the accident is either not reported or not mentioned by their respective coworkers, and Dex is back on the road without any mention of a rental or car insurance.

@avclub-ebaecc92914b0c48ee244d59fcc39102:disqus

"Silk Shirt Scarecrow" will be my new band once I acquire friends and musical talent.