Dexter Season 6

As usual, there will be spoilers, so beware.

I loved Dexter from the beginning.  We didn't watch it from day one, but once we started, we couldn't stop.  We got into it around Season 2, I believe.

I will say this.  I do not think that they will ever top Season 4, with John Lithgow.  I don't think they should try. That was basically a perfect season.  The twists were completely unpredictable, the cliffhangers were spectacular.  The Trinity character was so unbelievably scary, I actually had nightmares about him.

I won't say that Seasons 5 and 6 were a letdown from Season 4, because I look at them all independently.  Not to mention, as soon as Season 4 ended, I said they would never top it, so I'm not expecting them to even try.  I have enjoyed every episode since the finale of Season 4, just as much as any other.

I read somewhere that Dexter was becoming "the kindler and gentler serial killer."  I don't agree with that, at all.  Dexter never wanted to have a child, but it happened, so he's keeping up his responsibilities.  It's nice to see that he does have loving and protecting feelings toward his son.  I think it just adds to his complexity.

***SPOILERS***
I have really enjoyed Colin Hanks in this season.  I don't think I've ever seen him play a bad guy before and he does it with a brilliant aura of calm and creepiness that's rare.  I didn't see the twist coming that he had killed Gellar and was acting alone - I thought that was quite brilliant.  Once the season is over, I'd like to go back and watch it again, knowing now that Gellar's participation was just a figment of Travis' imagination.

I continue to dislike LaGuerta, and I wish they would have killed her off like they did in the books, but at least they are making her more outwardly devious and smarmy.  A lot of the characters are turning unsympathetic, and I'm not sure I care for that, but there will probably be some redeeming of some of them - I'm thinking Quinn's gotta turn around or he's going to end up without a job and gone from the show.  Matsuka is Matsuka and I think we will always love him, no matter what.  I don't have feelings one way or the other about Deb, except that I think the idea that she would be promoted as she was is ridiculous and I don't think it will last.

Oh, and I know the writers won't read this, but if by some miracle they do, I want to say this:

Please stop writing lines for Angel to say that protract his speech impediment.  Whoever had him say "literary references" - we get it - ha ha -it's hilarious, now knock it off.  Also, why doesn't someone get him some speech therapy?  That's cute in a 4-year-old - not so much in a 40-year-old.

Next week is the finale and I can't wait :)