A Beautiful Day
- Episode aired Jun 30, 2013
- TV-MA
- 53m
Season 8 premiere. Six months after LaGuerta's death, Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother and serial killer. Meanwhile, Miami Metro investigates the murder of a man who's had pie... Read allSeason 8 premiere. Six months after LaGuerta's death, Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother and serial killer. Meanwhile, Miami Metro investigates the murder of a man who's had pieces of his brain removed.Season 8 premiere. Six months after LaGuerta's death, Dexter is still managing life as a dad, brother and serial killer. Meanwhile, Miami Metro investigates the murder of a man who's had pieces of his brain removed.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe truck driven by Debra's boyfriend at the beginning of the episode is the same exact truck driven by Nero Padilla in the TV series Sons of Anarchy. Padilla is portrayed by Jimmy Smits, who also plays Miguel Prado in season 3.
- GoofsIn the first half hour of the episode when Dexter is called in the morgue, Dr. Vogel is seen holding and handling the victims severed brain like it's solid which is inconsistent with the brains' soft, gel-like consistency, similar to soft tofu.
The brain she was handling at 32:40 is not the brain of the cadaver on the slab. That brain already the anterior insular cortex cut out by the Brain Surgeon. She had either a specimen preserved brain or a model of one and she was trying to figure out the thought processes of the killer. The anterior insular cortex of that brain is laying on the desk beside the rest if it.
- Quotes
Debra Morgan: Fuck you. Do you wanna know why I'm not returning your phone calls? 'Cause I don't wanna talk to you. And I really don't wanna fuckin' see you.
Dexter Morgan: Why?
Debra Morgan: [laughs] "Why"? Um... because you made me compromise everything about myself that I care about.
[Deb takes another swig from the beer she hasn't paid for]
Debra Morgan: And I hate you for it.
Dexter Morgan: [disbelieving] No you don't.
Debra Morgan: I shot the wrong person in that trailer.
- ConnectionsReferences The Flintstones (1960)
Whatever you thought of Dexter for its early seasons, you could feel it slipping away by season 7, and for this final season, it became evident the series had overstayed its welcome. The writers seemed to be throwing darts blindly for potential plot points at random, and "yeah, that could work, let's go for it." The entire premise of Dexter Morgan's character and "code" had eroded by S7, and the series was now hurtling recklessly toward what has been dubbed one of the most disappointing series finales of all time.
It was always a stretch, to put it mildly, to reason Dexter would worm his way out of most of the messes he had been written into. But of course he had to escape without repercussion, he's the lead dude, right? But the morph from the end of S7 to the start of S8 {"6 months had passed"} was inept and absurd.
Characters are just lost here. Past development now leads to nothing. Batista seems a mere shell of himself. Joey is a cardboard cutout, standing around in scenes with nothing to do. Jamie, one of the few remaining likeable characters, we dont know what to do with her either, so hey, lets have her and Joey doing the bedroom bump every 20 minutes. Lazy and weak.
Charlotte Rampling was an accomplished actress but this story line with her materializing from Dex's past seemed very ill conceived. And Debra, whose foul mouth became tiresome before season 1 had ended, now a train wreck, has lost all her appeal. Really there was - by this final season - no one to care about.
I suppose if Dex had gotten his comeuppance or they had explored more intrigue in that direction, an 8th season might have been worth a look. Instead, it was just confirmation that the show was, by S8, about as fascinating as that old drunk on the park bench: Rancid, unappealing, and best avoided.
- rovinnomire
- Jul 30, 2023
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- Runtime53 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1