Dexter rates a special flip/fake magazine cover & content in EW this week, and yesterday or the day before, Showtime sent out the link to Dexter VIP subscribers (e.g., signed up on an email list) for the premiere episode.

Besides the season premiere, Hall's up for an Emmy, so I'm sure this is all part of that.

then Stephen Moyer gave one delivery where he just made it sound...like a proposition.

His pronunciation really needed "Five dollah" as a follow-up. I don't know how he got those sounds out of the name's spelling. Of course, I have no idea what he's trying to do accent-wise in general—if an Aussie of Ryan Kwanten's limited talents can manage a halfway decent Southern accent, I don't know why they settled on a male lead who sounds like he came from some fictional country out of a Marx Brothers movie.

I'm kind of torn... I do think they're largely getting the atmosphere of the South right, and I like most of the actors. But I was surprised they didn't just name the lead Mary-Suekie and CGI violet eyes onto Anna Paquin.

I can't quite tell if I dislike Tara in her own right or because she's hitting so many similar beats to Mahandra and falling so very short of the awesomeness and likeability Tracie Thoms brought to that role.

My suspension of disbelief is fading out with the "you are kept alive by magic" shit.

Choose a world to walk in, and stay there. The whole, "we don't want anyone to know our weaknesses" thing is negated by the fact that all these asses already know about the silver and hep D and the shit. Unless the magic life force also makes the internets unavailable.

The world they've chosen to walk in would have already exposed the physiology of vampires before they were granted voting rights.

Bad soap opera, no biscuit.

Liked Tara a lot more this ep. I am again tired of seeing the brother have sex, hot body aside.

More foreshadowing with the dogs. Sam growls in his sleep, and he greeted the other dog with "my brother". Interesting.

I am beginning to get a little annoyed by the overt sexuality of the show. first, it's the brother having sex all the time, then we see Sookie masturbating once (I knew it was a dream because she'd never go to Bill's house in her nightgown), and then about the masturbate on the steps in front of Bill's house in the middle of the damn day. just me, or anyone else?

Nope. Masturbating on the front steps in the middle of the day was CRAXY.

Gosh! Really? Wow! Not so much Fandom Wank, more Wank Fandom?

I am beginning to get a little annoyed by the overt sexuality of the show.

So much this. I'm really all done with that. And the scene with Sookie on the front porch of Bill's house? Ridiculous.

What I really need is for this show to stop throwing anvils at my head. Not dropping, 'cause that would be too subtle, but picking them up and hurling them at my head.

Also, also . . . the bad vamps are worse than I could've even imagined. I want to slap them repeatedly about the face. Perhaps with a hastily thrown anvil. Honestly, I don't know how much longer I can hold out. I still like the grandmother and Sam. Lafayatte is a hoot. And despite being stupider in a day than most people are in a lifetime, I'm still enjoying Sookie. But the story is soooo bad, y'all.

I'm agreeing with all of this. I really want to like this show, but I'm so very weary of bad writing.

sits next to Ash.