I'd been putting off watching the final five eps of Dexter because they kept putting me to sleep. Staying home and watching tv was just the ticket today for getting rid of the final bits of my cold, and I stayed awake for all of Dexter.
It wasn't worth staying awake for, alas. When Vince Gilligan says, "Yeah, we wanted to end BB the way we wanted to end the story, and have people be sorry we're gone, instead of being one of those shows where you're saying, 'That's still around?'"... this is one of the latter.
The John Lithgow season was very good and so was the Lumen/Julia Stiles season that followed it. That would have been a great ending point, with Lumen and Dexter together, and Dex on a parallel with Lumen, leaving behind any need or compulsion to kill. The Colin Hanks season was ridic, and as much as I love Charlotte Rampling, neither of the last two seasons were that great.
OMG. SOOO bad. What were they thinking? I wonder what Jennifer Carpenter thought about it.
Banshee Season 2 starts January 10th! Is anyone else planning on watching it?
I finally figured out where I know the main actress from. She was on Buffy as Sam (Riley's wife) is As You Were.
Rayne,
thanks for the post! I will start watching Season 2 ASAP.
This is where we discuss Netflix shows, right? I finally got around to watching House of Cards. I somehow missed or forgot that it was Fincher. Wow! Great stuff. My favorite character is probably Doug Stamper, but the whole ensemble is fantastic. It's got Fincher's fingerprints all over it. I love that the AA meetings look like they came straight out of Fight Club.
I re-read some of the previous discussion about HoC, and am amused that much of it centered around the difficulties of being able to discuss the show, due to its format.
Gods, Brienne is going to break me.
In other news: Jesus Fuck, Jimmy McNulty.
Sometimes, it still feels like McNulty is real, like if I went to some bar in Baltimore I could buy him a beer.(maybe it's because he has so many sides, because I don't feel that way about, say Phoebe Buffay,even though I love that character too.)
Fo' real, yo. All them fuckers real fuckin' people. (HBO: Home of series where the moral is "any world populated by people is inherently fucked".)
If I tell you that I am getting good at "that character doing a fake-ass accent...that's the actor's regular voice, isn't it?" you'll know where I am in the series, I'd bet.
