I hate Dexter so much. So very much... It's everything I abhor about most television series. Anyway...
Tell me more, tell me more.
My brother has been trying to get me to watch this show and I just keep putting it off. Kinda scared that he's over hyped it. What is it exactly that you don't like, without spoiling anything if that's possible.
Anyway, I bought every season of The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air for $10 each. I love this show.
Mainly, the convoluted storyline; the show starts out fairly interesting despite one fairly annoying issue (which I'll touch on in a second), but is quickly forgotten because it is in fact intriguing and entertaining...till the story arcs pile up with so many useless characters I couldn't care less about that detract from the central character, Dexter, and the fact that by Season 4 there's so many overlapping arcs that the original draw of the show is completely buried underneath a pile of secondary characters and side-stories that quite frankly should be brutally murdered Dexter-style. Season 1 is great, season 2 is alright but by the end of it anyone that isn't blindly enamored by show by then will start to wonder where it's going and by the middle-beginning of season 4 I was daydreaming about what I should have for dinner in the middle of an episode.
The second glaring issue is the acting. I could put up with the massive amounts of all natural cheddar cheese oozing out of every pore of Dexter given that Michael C. Hall isn't exactly a well-rounded actor and this was his first major series as a central main character; that was fine in Season 1, but I expected him to come into his own and develop some kind of staple aside from proclaiming in the most corny of soap-opera dialogue "...I'm
Dexter!" as he narrates his past. But he didn't, not one bit; and that's the titular character for crying out loud. The secondary characters drone on as if they're in some high-school play. Doakes, a central secondary character for quite a while (I stopped watching the show by the near-ending of Season 4, by the bye) is so flat, so predictable that the fact that he is for a good portion of the first few arcs of the show the only person who is close enough to Dexter to tell 'what he is' baffled me; all of this explained by Dexter in the most mundane of ways and then left to rot. Dexter's sister, Debbie... Well, I've done enough ragging on the characters, but I'll say that she was the nail in the coffin for this show. In the beginning, she was actually quite interesting to watch, seeing her relationship develop with a certain character (one that is the one of the only decent actors) I'll not name that climaxes in a beautiful way; but given that in the four seasons of the show I watched this was the highest point, doesn't bode well for the rest of the characters.
Those two complaints made the show very hard to watch for me given that a television series needs to have those two exact things to keep a viewer interested. It can be flashy, exciting and all kinds of badass, which Dexter very much is during it's beginning years; but if I don't give two shits about the multiple story arcs the show is setting up along with cringing every time a character opens their mouth for a drawn-out monologue or narration for a fairly neat little backstory that ends up going nowhere...there's little hope it will hook me for long. Dexter is more than likely the most annoying, shallow, poorly written show on television today if you ask me (which sadly you did); made even worse by the hordes of fans that praise it for reasons I clearly cannot understand. If you're looking for some blood, a storyline that flares up like a match-just-lit but burns out just as quickly, then Dexter will entertain you. But be warned, by the middle of Season 4 you'll be wondering what the show has been doing all along, setting up something that it inevitably throws away in favor for something that is so laughably uncharacteristic of the show's forerunner, it's almost as if the writers decided to have the 'Dexter' that we know and love in the first handful of seasons commit suicide in favor of a completely different entity altogether.
Er... Sorry for the "I'MMA REVIEWER!" essay but I had to get that off my chest after hearing my friends fawn over it like a cult for every season until I fell off the bandwagon and had a much better time sticking my scrotum with a soldering iron. It is by far and away the most overly hyped, overly praised television series I've ever had the displeasure of sitting through. Michael C. Hall is just...horridly one-sided; the man may as well be a cut-out cardboard standee because everything I've seen him in is
the exact same and
so cheesy it makes me want to dispose of every single Kraft Mac-N-Cheese packet I can get my hands on. Okay, I'm done. Watch this if you're sick and bored but be warned that by the time season 4 rolls around you'll be wondering what kind of schizo coke-head got his hands on the rights to the series.
House's new season is fucking horrible.
Yes, this show needs to be put out of its misery. Which I hate hearing myself say (shutupIsaiditasIdypedit) because Hugh Laurie is a wonderful actor when given the chance and the storyline up until Season 6 was magnificent but the writers have just...I don't know what happened, but they either stopped caring or aren't being paid enough to any longer because the show is all over the place now. Also, without Lisa Edelstein I can't fap it anymore while enjoying a dose of Vicodin and misogynistic viewpoints while simultaneously badassly debunking unsolvable cases. It's just crap. I'll finish it because I'm a huge Laurie fan and would at least like to see how they end it all but... It's sad.
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