The Reel Rejects - DEXTER SEASON 5 Episode 1 & 2 REVIEW!!!

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

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This video is sponsored by Mint Mobile More on them very soon and yeah we appreciate everyone over there very very much and without further ado i think that's all the housekeeping let's jump into season five episodes one and two oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy oh boy a boy oh boy a boy oh boy a boy gang we have done it we have begun Dexter. Season five with an emotional

wallop of a first couple of episodes. Very I guess I would still say excited. Very excited to see where we go from here. I am certainly actually kind of glad that we're only doing two episodes today because this was

substantially emotional and heavy two episodes and I'm ready to break them down with you. But also ready to say a little thank you to the team over at Prepper chopping these highlights down each week it is a task most certainly especially with all the copyright issues

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Hit the notification bell so you can be notified when the next couple episodes of Dexter come your way. And also, if you happen to be listening on any, if you happen to be listening to this review portion on a podcast platform and audio format, leave us a little bit of a rating if you could. Very much appreciated it. Five for season five, John. Five on the five, taking time, doing it all alone. Oh, oh, Andrew.

John. All right, we got some questions at hand, so we shouldn't spend too much time beforehand, but just in this moment. A couple quick thoughts, how you feel it? I'm going to need five minutes for season five, so here we go. It's definitely an emotional start so far, as I would expect, obviously, after losing such a important character and an important character for our main character, of course. So I think the way we are seeing him handle it is done in a very mature way. and also I like the execution so far and I think one of my

not going to say one of the most gripping but just one of the most devastating I would rather say moments was seeing Dexter let go of his facade and see the way he reacted when he just let it all out when Harry said you know let it go son just

you know what I mean so I thought that was really cathartic and really devastating at the same time because a lot of times we don't really see Dexter react obviously you see when he becomes the dark passenger and he's doing his Dexter thing of course like you know feeding the beast and that type of thing and also us

the audience seeing him take out the trash is like it's very it's very rewarding in that sense but for Dexter like him like having a human moment like that was really it was fascinating to watch and also again at the same time was sad to watch like him really letting out his emotions

because you're watching him throughout most of the episode like it's not reacting like a normal human would in this moment because he's again so shell-shocked and at the same time he's meant he's always put up a facade his whole life I know I'm going off on a tangent which I'm sure we're going to go off in questions I have so much to say

but John how are you feeling buddy yeah no this is absolutely rich with stuff to talk about and I'm excited to dive deeper but yeah this was just such a you know somber and emotional couple of episodes and I like that they're just dealing directly with the dramatic aftermath of this because

what else would you do and you know the inclusion like it makes me wonder about the behind the scenes it makes me wonder about what's simply by virtue of the book adaptations happening but I really appreciated the performance from Julie Benz at the top of this in the first episode especially getting to see their you know first moments together and dovetailing their you know early conversations that led to their connection into their goodbye. I thought was so heart-wrenching, but also very lovely. And yeah, just watching Dexter spiral and kind of, you know,

completely unmoored in these episodes has been fascinating. And so far, again, I know we're past the point where people all agree on, you know, the seasons and whatnot. But these two episodes i thought were really really strong and i'm excited to dive deeper into them and uh yeah i'm assuming that your guys questions will will help us to cover anything you know most pertinent to talk about so let's jump in with dana minimo thank god you're continuing dexter absolutely i'm excited as well it's amazing that my favorite reaction channel is watching my favorite show good comp and uh yeah i'm excited too that we get to prolong and a little bit longer with these uh you know shorter blocks.

How would you guys feel if instead of Dexter coming home to Rita dead, he would have come home to Rita finding the blood slides? That would have been definitely an interesting chain of events. It would have really ramped up the

drama in a different type of way. I think Rita really discovering who Dexter is on another level because she knew Dexter the opposite of the dark passenger, right? The light passenger, I guess, as you will. So finding the dark passenger. The light driver.

Yeah, exactly. There you go. There you go. The light driver. That's good, John. I like that. Again, I would have been very... I probably would have... This is an interesting way to take the show, obviously. Like, you know, how does he deal with? We know how he deals with trauma, obviously, with what happened to him and his

mother, and now you can quantificate that and compare it now with Howard Harrison and how are Aster and Cody going to have to handle that as well in regards to them having to deal with the same type of thing that Biny and also that Dexter had to deal with. So there are some interesting parallels here that the show is going to have to get into as well now.

And this would have also been a fascinating turn of events too. So I can, you know, estimated in my own mind what I think or how I think Rita would have reacted to seeing. I mean, if she saw the bloodslides, you could, I guess Dexter is always good at, you know, coming up with the improvising on the spot and coming up with a legitimate story. So he goes, yeah, they're bloodslines. I took them home from work. It's not that big of a deal. So, I mean, it definitely would have created a situation, of course.

But I think, like, Dexter still would have come up with some kind of a story. But definitely would have been, it would have been dramatic and fascinating. and really thrown a wrench in Dexter's plans and whatever you know, wanted to live this mundane normal life and possibly like this could have shattered that if she found the blood slides, but what do you think? Yeah, it's

way less devastating and there's more, you know, I prefer a timeline where Rita's alive. So like, you know, less devastating, more opportunities for him to wriggle out of that, but it could have led to some interesting drama as well. I think this is definitely the more bold

an audacious choice and it is like a really painful way to tie one season into the next so yeah I don't know it's weird like I you know it's like I'm not sitting here like I wanted Rita to die but I don't think it would be quite as interesting

if she had found the slides but again I would have certainly welcomed a version of this where she's still around and we have to just deal with that conflict or whatever and I don't know that makes me wonder about many possibilities.

Not that I would have ever expected her to become like a willing accomplice or to turn a willingly blind eye, but I don't know. There are things that are interesting to think about it. But yeah, it would have been cool, but I think this is certainly as much as I don't, you know, I'm not

happy, it is a very strong driver of, you know, character exploration. And it definitely has made for a couple of, especially the season premiere was a, I thought, a really kind of tour-to-force episode

emotionally speaking, and you know, like I was teary-eyed throughout that whole thing pretty much. So yeah, it's weird. It's like it's not what I want, but I think this is certainly the bold way to go. Definitely. It's definitely the more ambitious way and

this is also real life, unfortunately. I know I've had to deal with this twice now in my life. My father was, after my mother passed, was a single father of four children. Granted, it wasn't in this sadistic and terrible way in which my mother went was nowhere like this, but

still the fact still remains. My father had a very similar situation in regards to raising four children on his own, so it's really a superhero power to have to be able to do that. So from that perspective of watching the show, I really resonated in watching that, and it just gives

you perspective on like how difficult it is to have to raise children even with a partner, but without on your own, where you have to literally become both parents. It's really, really tough to watch, but also it gives you, again, this newfound appreciation for, you know, fact of what our parents, you know, can do for us. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

Sanrak. Apologies if I did not pronounce you that correctly. Thank you for being a royal reject and for asking us the question. We appreciate you so much. Maybe this question feels reductive, but I have to ask. I have waited seasons to ask. do either of you like Quinn after his character's arc after his character arcs in season three and four and what he's up to now with Kyle Butler what do we think he's not the first colleague to sniff around Dexter

but personally I found dokes so much more likeable weird but maybe it did surprise John what did you think I mean they're definitely different and I appreciate that they are different in flavor yeah I love dokes we both love doaks RIP dokes for ever and I mean certainly dokes is a very fun character I think the fun for me in Quinn generally speaking I do like Quinn and what I like about Quinn is what makes him different from dokes I like that in the first season they that he appears in in season what three they give you this sort of view on him where you're like I can't tell if this guy is dirty or not and I can tell that he's certainly like willing to do so yeah you

He's willing to bend the rules to some degree. It doesn't seem like anything too terrible, but who knows? And then, you know, I do appreciate that they, you know, have a fun game of friction between him and Deb. And, you know, the thing last season, as much as I was, like, frustrated with all the stuff with... Christine Hill. Christine Hill. I still thought that the way they handled that, and the way his character has navigated certain things, like, yeah, he can get himself into trouble. And, yeah, he can indulge and kind of bend rules.

But I do find it compelling that there are times where he does seem like a good, honest cop, or at least like he tries to be some of the time. And, yeah, I can understand why you wouldn't be as excited about his energy or like him, but I do like the actor's energy. I think every time we see the credits now, is Desmond something or other? Like, I like his energy as a character, and I like the fact that he is sometimes a character. you're happy to see sometimes a character

that you're not happy to see I like that like I thought it was really fun when he's like trying to charm Dexter last season because he saw him take the money and then there are other times when he's like

at Dexter's throat and you're like God this guy can be a dick so I like the back and forth of him whereas Doakes was like always kind of steadfast and then you got little glimpses into who

the other sides of his character I think Quinn is a fun sort of not chaotic neutral character that's often the part of the spectrum might reach for but he's one of those characters who's a little more dubious and a little more like, you know,

he's a little more like, he blends in a little bit more, I guess, because his vibes are kind of mellow in a sense. Yeah, yeah, I like him and he feels real. You know, he feels like a real new guy on the force or on the team here. Yeah, no, Quinn can definitely be, there is that fine balance. I agree with everything you're saying. There is that fine balance in his character where he can definitely be frustrating at

times and then there's other times like oh he's really endearing he's compassionate especially the way he when he really cares about someone like a deb or someone on the force like yes he is willing to bend the rules because a lot of times cops don't always you know get they don't possibly make as much money as they should or they're really putting themselves out on the line for whatever the meager pay that they get whatever the case is so or he's cutting shortcuts or whatever the the thing is with Quinn that might make you frustrated with him but on the other end again he's got a compassionate side

at certain points and like for instance you see the compassion side and granted look he did have ulterior motives too at the same point and I don't know if he thought he was going to get dead but he did go there to clean that crime scene with her which I thought was really kind of him

and sweet he seems like a guy with who does have some kind of heart and like one of those dudes who you would describe was like at the end of the day he's an all right guy is what it seems like yeah and you mentioned the moments too where he uh because dexter had a one up on him in regards to seeing him put the money in his pocket he was trying to let me take care of you with some things i'll give you some Miami dolphin tickets and you know that way yeah like so you're not going to get me in trouble so yeah there's things

about him that i'm not a fan of and there's other things about him where i'm like as soon as i'm super frustrated. I'm like, oh, okay, I'm back on the Quinn's side and like, oh, I can't stand this character. So I think they're able to, again, really balance that flavor of like, not tasting good today. Oh, it tastes delicious today. I'm really

enjoying this food today. It's a lot better. So, yeah, I would use him as an analogy of a restaurant I go to and I didn't enjoy the meat loaf last night, but it tasted really good tonight. So, yeah, he's a fascinating character. I like that they could do that with him.

Whereas Dokes, like, I would say most of the time, even when he was coming after Dexter, obviously we don't want him to catch Dexter for a multitude of reasons. We love Dexter. We love, I would assume most of us love that he's taking out of the trash. But also, there's just something about that cat and mouse game that was always so much fun.

The tension there was so great. The energy from the actor plays Dokes was amazing. Yeah. I just, it was such a fun thing. And I guess once we got to a certain point in season two, I know John and I didn't want to poop that he was going to die, but there were points in like, are we going to come back from this?

We feel like we're at the point of no return with the shit he knows. Yeah, I didn't expect it. It's weird. It's like, yeah, you wouldn't expect him to not make it through a season because he's part of the main ensemble, but there's also like nothing else you could do with that. He knows a lot of shit that he's not supposed to know, so I hope he's able to continue,

but how are we going to continue this dynamic now if he knows somebody's things? Yeah, well, I think you need somebody. on the team who's I think it's probably a near essential probably essential to have somebody in the force always

capable of kind of looking objectively at Dexter and being like something doesn't add up here I'm going to look a little further as much as I don't want him to you know be deducing things out of these Kyle Butler drawings I'm like as good this

he's doing a good job though and he does have a point like nine times out of ten whatever the statistic is it's probably the husband so we should at least consider this i will say this and then we got to really move on to the next question yeah it's going to be compelling and dramatic as it seems like him and deb are going to continue on this whatever they have yeah the we're not going to put it we're not going to put a label on it but i will say it's going to be interesting to see the drama intention that happens as he's figuring out who this Kyle Butler is and she's gonna be like lay off

it's not my brother Jesus I like the version of dokes you know being on to Dexter in one way or another and I like I like the way he did it I like the way Quinn does it they're different and yeah I can see why you would have a vast preference but I'm the kind of viewer

who's like if you can charm me with a different flavor then great cool like both are good but yeah we'd love to hear your guys thoughts Emma I can't believe I missed the season 4 finale. I'm so sad. We were sad. You weren't there.

I've been so busy dealing with my brother's wedding, which turned out great. Congratulations. Very happy to hear it. It shouts out to your brother and bride. For the question, or husband, whatever it is, for the question, what do you think of Dexter's mentality after Rita's death? Quinn seems to find his behavior suspicious, but retreating into yourself, bottling up emotions, burying yourself into work after trauma like that is a very

common coping mechanism. Glad you guys are continuing this. We are glad as well. You know what? We are just continuing this, Emma, just to get questions from you on the Dexter reactions. That is the real reason. We had a meeting and we said, we need Emma questions. Emma, I fully agree with

you. Everyone handles death and trauma in a very different way and Dexter is no different than the rest of us, although he does take out the trash, so I would say he is different than that way. I just mean bottling up emotions. So yeah. And again, I think the, as I was pointing out earlier in the review, I think it was just one of the most impactful scenes for me personally. I don't want to speak for Donald over here, my brother from another mother, but the way that Michael

C. Hall was able to really emote and let and express himself and let everything out. It's one of the, again, when he's not, I've got to stop saying again. I heard people play drinking games when I say that. It's got to work on that. But I will say, I do realize that when he is the dark passenger, he's able to emote a lot more because he's in his happy place. But to see him when he's not, and I understand he just had taken someone's life who would set a very disgusting thing towards Rita. Having said that, to see Dexter have that moment where he just really let it out and just let go of that facade. I think that was really cathartic. There was a lot of closure in that,

but also, too, like, he's still in a place where he's just not ready to move on, but also he's being human. Makes you wish other characters could have witnessed that. Yeah, for sure, for sure, because they're seeing someone who's not being normal in their eyes. But, again, everyone deals with these situations in a very different way.

I've seen, like, I personally, and John will tell most of you this, was the witness there when at the celebration of my father's life, I was a wreck that day. There were times later on I was able to talk. I had a great support system there, of course, but

there were times at that where I was a wreck and I was just crying my eyes out. So you find that even kill and that balance. What about you, John? I thought this was really believable. This makes a nice bit of tension out of, yeah, the idea that we know

what's going on with Dexter and that something not quite normal is raging therein but there is also that idea that like yeah everyone's kind of around being like okay you seem a little off you seem a little funny but people do go into shock and people do you know bottle things up as you've said and retreat and withdraw and all that stuff so i really liked the way that they orchestrated that and the way that they yeah just had him continuously contemplating his response to this what his feelings were finding his way back to reality and to, you know, what the future is for the kids and all sorts of stuff. And having a little extra time on that episode, too, I thought really benefited it.

And, yeah, once you get to that scene where he does let out that, you know, primal, you know, shriek of pain and anguish, you know, like, it really does hit and it strikes you. And, yeah, like, he comes back and he's still a bit dazed. And it makes you wish that he could emote for the people around him. Also, yeah, like a part of him has been severed now, and I thought he handled it beautiful. This was a really lovely ensemble handling of the situation because him going all catatonic and being sort of detached, like he really sold this feeling that he was just off in his own headspace and his own world and kind of detached from everyone and kind of in a daze and just caught up in this flurry of thoughts. and, you know, his own, it's like he already has so many things about how his emotions work and whether or not they're even there. And so, like, that's got to be raging within along with just the acceptance of the facts along with, you know, Harry being gone. There's just, yeah, they did a really good job of have him be believably sort of catatonic on the surface and sort of strange and off and drawing a good portrait of somebody who you could look at and be like, I don't know if this guy's just in shock or if something's up here.

And then having so much going on inside of him through the rest of it. I think, yeah, going back to that point about the ensemble, like Michael C. Hall clearly has a lot to do in a kind of solitary sense. And then everybody else around him has to do so much emoting and has to, you know, really play these complexities and these gray shades and these, you know, moments where you don't want to be suspicious of someone you know and love. But, you know, you also have to investigate and look at the facts. And yeah, like, I thought it was really nicely handled. It made, again, for a really emotionally striking episode. And, you know, the way in which he's grappling with, this is all my fault. You know, if I had never met Rita, if I hadn't come into her life, none of this would have happened.

And, you know, was it even worth all the good that she and the kids have brought me if this was going to be the outcome? And the things that Astor was saying are pretty much the things he's thinking. Like, yeah, I was just really, really wonderfully handled. I thought wonderfully handled performance from Michael C. Hall, writing. of the, you know, debate within this character and, yeah, handling of just the circumstances like really head-on and really, you know, heartbreakingly, directly has been really stand-up. And I was really excited for the actress who plays Aster. I think giving her a lot of emotional depth and material to work with really shows her range as an actress, too, because a lot of times

we're seeing her being more brooding and rebellious, too, which she got to do that in these two episodes. But again, seeing that, as I was just mentioning, just seeing her have a lot of emotional death and be so depth and being so vulnerable in these two episodes, I think it really shows the talent range that she possesses as an actress.

So I was really happy for her to be able to showcase that in these two episodes. Yeah, absolutely. Shouts out because Christina Robinson weren't you an acting class with her? Yeah, she was in improv classes at the theater, Greg and I used to teach at. And so, yeah, we

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How do you think Dexter's behavior may differ or change this season after the events of season four finale? Also, I think the wig looks pretty good this season. Makeup Department did a good job. I did tell he was wearing a wig, but they also did a good job. So I do. Oh, Dexter's in a wig? Vampire Toad. Yeah, I think because he was in remission or something, right, from cancer.

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Well, Bob was back from Huggs, season one, episode 11, in Elliot, the neighbor. Hey, there you go. How do we feel about the change? I think, like, because we went this ambitious route of killing off Rita, I think it was the proper way to shift the tones. We have, we're changing some themes here of going with guilt, sombrose. So I think it fits in with the style of tone that we're so far in the first two episodes and accepting responsibility for that because Dexter's, what was his first line when the cops and authorities arrived? I did it. It was me rather. It was me. I did it would be a little true. Right, right, right, right, right. It was me. He quoted Dave Matthews then. Yes. And that really reminded me of John's favorite Batman film, Batman Forever.

that's right where Bruce Wayne said was having a vision of the past Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne was having a vision of the past of his parents dying and he said to Alfred I did it and then he said do you think I've gone too far yes yes exactly well and again he felt he felt the level of guilt and a sense of guilt so I think that is a very interesting theme to explore I think John and I spoke of a great deal about that in our season four finale video and just I think that's the proper area to explore with his character, especially given the amount of opportunities he had to take out the Trinity killer. Of course, he had no idea the ramifications and the consequences that were going to happen by not doing it when he didn't have the chance, but that is cause and effect in life, right? When you don't do something, there is an effect to the cause. So it's going to be very interesting to see how Dexter is going to be reacting. And I, again, I think that was the proper way tone-wise to do it. In regards to predictions, I've been told comment section-wise

that people think my predictions are crap and shit. But, you know, and I'm still happy to... It's okay. You could be making the correct predictions, and then people could be accusing you of having already watched the show. I think that... You're damned either way. I think that Deb and Quinn are going to have sex again.

That's my prediction. Good. Yeah, I think that's got to happen. I'm going for that, yeah. That's it. That's all I got. And Masuka's going to have a lot more blood spatter to analyze. I feel like the, I mean, the change in tone so far has made all the sense, just given the circumstances.

So I guess my curiosity is, you know, I guess if I had to levy a guess, I would imagine that maybe not the whole season is going to feel like the first episode. But I have to imagine a lot of those feelings are going to linger, especially because Dexter's emotional spectrum seems to be a bit slow release. and especially an event like this can kind of completely send things into a disarray and requiring them to be brought back together. Very articulate at the moment. Yeah, I don't know exactly where the rest of the season will go. It certainly seems like a very internal, very sort of character portrait. Like they're all character portraits of Dexter and the people around him,

but this one in particular seems like it's headed toward, you know, this sort of guy who's going to have to, like, rebuild and redefine his whole life now. And, like, Cody and Astor being gone will certainly free up some time for him to do his thing, but also he has Harrison. So I know fatherhood's got to factor in. Part of me wonders if they're going to do something at some point where you do kind of an aftershock of Lila, but, like, way less red flaggy or something. Like, are we going to get some kind of.

female serial killer interest at some point who is like an actual potential match for Dexter and then like having that exploration of like said the Trinity killer was like oh maybe you could have like a whole flourishing life and still be this way you know maybe there'll be an exploration of like oh maybe I could find love with someone who's just like me but I don't know that's just a pure speculation just appear sort of like that's something we haven't quite done fully yet even though the Rita the the Lila stuff kind of factors got her own code, literally got her own type of code of Harry ethic and work

about her in sense in terms of she operates the same type of way we'll only take out the trash. That would be interesting. Interesting place to explore for sure. I'd be down for that. But yeah, the shift in his behavior makes all the sense and I like the exploration that that

has amounted to so far and I think I mean his behavior this season certainly is going to I think shift and change as he just contemplate life and morality and this immense apparent sadness he feels at losing Rita, losing Astor and Cody. I think there are going to be some harsh times where he is, again, unmoored from things

in a bad way. But I think this is also an interesting time for, yeah, him to re-contextualize himself as an individual. So, yeah, and I do think, yeah, I barely even noticed the wig and makeup and all that. So props to them. But, yeah, this just seems like a season that's pulled. to really continue confronting Dexter's emotional state maybe, you know, a little bit more internal than like, oh, big guest star or something like that, even though I understand still each season

does have a guest star of some sort. But yeah, I think so far everything has been really conscientious and really, you know, interesting. And my question then just becomes what is, I guess I'm expecting there to be a segue into another kind of focal point of the season along. alongside this, and I'm curious as to what that's going to be, because we're only two episodes in instead of our usual four, so we haven't seen all of Act 1 yet. So I am curious, yeah, as to, like, what else this season's going to take on to make it distinct. Thank you so much for the question, Vampire, Ted. Appreciate it. Hawk, Dexter. Hi, John and Andrew. Hi, Hawk. You are our favorite cobra Kai. It's great that you guys are loving this series as I do. Hell yeah. You can understand from the consequences of his decisions why season

four is not my favorite. I'd rate the original seasons. Here we go. Two, one, three, five, four, six, seven, and eight in that order. But I still love them all. What do you think of how Dexter is handling Rita's death compared to everyone else? Also, what do you think of Quinn and Deb

sleeping together? P.S. I also love the movie Swordfish. I was at the record store. Dude, I was at the record store just the other day. the Pollock and Fold score on vinyl Let's go. Let's go. Hey, guys, we need to get you in the comment section. Convince Greg

to allow this man, Johnald, to react to it. I would assume someone else on the channel is probably not seen. I love that movie, too. It's so damn underrated. It's the follow-up film for Dominic Sainer right after All right, let's ride. Gone 60 seconds.

I think we've responded a couple times already how we think Dexter is handling Rita's death. I will say for what do I think about Quinn and Deb sleeping together? I kind of like it. They're both literally lost the people they loved in the last season.

Now granted, one was true love and the other one was using Quinn to in a position of obviously for the paper, but also because we found out later in a twist that her father

was the Trinity. So he got his heart literally ripped out from him in that type of way. And I think they're both hurting right now. They're both very vulnerable, although Deb really likes to show it a lot more. She wears her heart in her sleeve, as we've mentioned several times in the past. So I think, too, right now, Deb is really, she's fighting this urge to be with him. I think she's always, like, felt something towards him, but especially now that Lundy is gone and she's no longer with Diggle from Arrow. I think she's really feeling and fighting it now

because the last person she really was in love with was literally just ripped away from her, or shot away from her, I guess you would say. And also, too, Rita was just taken as well. So maybe in her mind, true love, and her dad, like everyone dies at some point, right? And maybe, like, true love can't last in her mind. So maybe at some point we'll be FWBs,

or FBs, whatever it's called. I don't know the proper way to spell. You got there. Yeah, okay, it was FWBs. All right. Maybe that's what she wants. Just know it again. Yes, here you go.

You know what I'm all saying. If you know, you know. But the point I'm trying to make is maybe just no label, no attachment, no nothing, and we'll just do that type of thing. So I can understand her urge to want to fight that and not face reality in that sense. And again, I think that with everything she's experienced, and experienced with others and how much she cares for other people

it would make sense why Deb is reacting that way I think at sooner rather than later she's gonna base reality and the fact that she this man probably means a lot to her and I think as I pointed out earlier as well in the review

there's going to be some confliction when it comes to both of them on he's probably pursuing Dexter there's another prediction for you it's just not really that much of a prediction we saw the drawings and all that and it's going to inflict possibly gravely on their relationship.

Like, why are you investigating my brother? We'll see. I think I'm on board for this, but also I'm on board for the drama it's going to create. Yeah, I mean, I think it makes sense just that Deb, Deb wears her heart on her sleeve, but she also has a tendency to bottle things up and kind of act out in ways

and then finally realize that she's in some kind of, you know, grief cycle. and then she sort of has the conversation she needs to have or reaches some kind of catharsis and I think we've seen the beginning of her starting to open up to what's actually going on here because yeah after all the trauma and all the stuff it totally makes sense that in like a snap moment you know you need some kind of physical release

and she and Quinn have had a fun sort of journey of trust and friction over time that, yeah, I don't know whether to expect or not that they'll become something real serious or whatever or something, you know, committedly casual or if this is just sort of a one-off thing and they keep it professional. But I do think it's interesting.

I do think it's fun. I think it's another one of those things that is stakes, but low stakes, so it is, like, fun. And, yeah, like him, you know, putting together these sketches and being the only person to consider Dexter's, you know, implication here certainly is going to lead to conflict. But yeah, I think them sleeping together is just a fun little thing and it's, you know, a way to illustrate that Deb is not okay and is in need of someone to take care of her, but she's in the position right now where she has

to be strong and, you know, independent for everybody and to be sort of a rock as everyone around her is in chaos. So yeah, we'll see where that goes, but I thought it was really kind of a fun bit there. Yeah, Dexter handling Rita's death. Really interesting so far. And I'm just, I like your ranking here. And one thing I have heard in recent weeks from friends and just people I know who've watched this show, season five, seasons one through four have the reputation for being like, oh, this is like the golden age of Dexter. This is the best stuff.

But I've noticed a lot of people ranking five relatively high or, you know, going out of their way to say, I really like season five. Emotionally speaking after two episodes, I can understand why. And yeah, at the outset, I'm like, I could absolutely see how this would be another really quality. season, you know, I don't know exactly what kind of dipage to expect from the court of popular opinion. But, but yeah, that just gets me really excited. The blood spatter dipage. This particular season. That's the kind of dipage, John. Blood splatter. Blood splatter. Don't pull into Andrew, John. Come on. All right. Dan Minimo. Question number two. Do you think Dexter should be able to get another

love interest or can no one replace Ria? No, he should just be lonely the rest of his life. It's payback and guilt for what he did by not taking out training. Of course, at some point, he should definitely be able to. I really do like John's idea of I know they explored this already with Lila. I think if he finds someone

but actually sticks by his type of, yeah, but his type of ideology of like has her own coat of Harry or whatever she wants to call it. Someone is less of a chaos. But really what I would love to see, like they're at the gym and they're practicing like their tricep workout

and it's like something like this or or you know the like one of those type of work whatever it is but yeah i think i really think that'd be a fun place to take the the character and also too like is he ready is he ready to love again or is it too soon but eventually if we do get there of course i think everyone deserves to have love in their life so why is dexter any different yeah he's definitely a little bit more of a complicated character no doubt but i i i think dexter deserves love what about you john does dexter deserve love well of course i think it's interesting you know i don't expect there to be another love interest like right away like i said earlier i think someone who is on his exact level and walk of life as a love interest could be interesting um love means something different to him than a lot of people not to say that he doesn't experience versions that we all share because obviously the stuff he wouldn't be this way over rita and the kids if that wasn't so if he didn't actually of them, but it does seem like Rita was one in a million. I don't think you could ever replace Rita, regardless of if there's another love interest or not. I do think another love interest

would have to be a very specific kind of person, kind of character, someone who, yeah, strikes and, you know, arrests, pun intended, Dexter, in a way that sort of, you know, whatever it was about Rita that kind of made his heart skip those beats. Because there is something, too, in her performance that I thought was really lovely, and I can't quite put my finger on it, but There's just this, like, warmth and this kind of kindness that emanates from her. And, yeah, you can kind of get the sense that even if we had only seen her in these episodes, it's like you can kind of get the sense that she might have been through some stuff. But she just seems like really soft and gentle and kind and lovely.

And I like to think that there's just a kind of ineffable spark there that is sort of key to what their connection was as it was. and as Dexter sees it and all that stuff. So I feel like, yeah, another love interest would be possible. Definitely would never replace Rita because she is just like, you know, on the altar now. The Mount Rushmore of important people in Dexter's life is like Harry, Deb, Rita. And there's no erasing or replacing that. But yeah, I can imagine it.

I don't know exactly if it's like, got to happen for me. I think the most interesting prospect is if it's someone on his level. But, you know, I'd be open to it either way. Thank you so much. Jaden Rhodes. Sorry, I jumped on the clap there. I'm in a minority that think this season is just as good as previous seasons. You know, you're not as alone as you think.

I know a lot of people who have told me they really love this season. But with only the start so far, do you like the start of this season? I absolutely have, yeah. Me as well. I think it's been emotional. It's been heavy, as John and Marty McFly would say. I think we have gone to a darker and deeper place than ever so far. And that's saying a lot because this show has gone to some dark-ass places.

So to explore and be this ambitious, I think is saying a lot. And also, too, this was quite a bit of amazingness in the last season. So I think if you're going to go from where we went from last season, I think this was the, I obviously don't know where we are going from here. in terms of the trajectory of this season. I've got ideas, but if you're going to follow the incredbleness of last season, I think this is the ambitious and proper way to follow it. So so far, incredible, I'm loving, as always, the ensemble,

all the storylines we are following, and I think it is, it feels grounded in reality. It's very organic. I'm really enjoying the first two episodes a great deal so far. I don't know if I felt this emotional through. two. I've definitely felt emotional throughout the show in places Lundy, Rita, of course, but like it was throughout the entirety of these episodes because you were feeling the weight of what had happened to Rita throughout these two episodes rather than the genuine shock of what happened to Rita in that moment at the end. And of course, what happened to the genuine

shock of what happened to Lundy in that moment at episode four. So it's like it hits you like a gut punch and then you've got to deal with it for the review but this is the entirety stretching throughout the two episodes so I don't know if I felt emotion throughout the entire episodes like this so far I'm loving it John yeah it seems like this is going to be a if these episodes are any indication

and I'm sure there will be some funning games along the way but this seems certainly poised to be a more somber more heartbroken more anguished season perhaps than the others and so with that I could see why maybe it's It's not everyone's favorite. Again, I don't know what the rest of the, you know, makeup of this looks like. But this certainly seems, yeah, like a very personal and very sort of tortured season thematically.

And, yeah, I could absolutely at the start of it, this feels like it's going to be just as gripping and interesting and emotional and, you know, twisted as it has been up till now just with a new kind of pathos behind it. So, yeah, I mean, this felt like a really substantial two episodes. and I think it's a really strong start of the season, a really strong way to take such a shakeup of a circumstance like Rita's death, and yeah, have that gut punch, that shock at the end of the last episode. Now in this first couple, you're able to sit there and fully confront it and fully feel the weight

and grieve it and all that stuff. So, yeah, I think this is a really compelling start the season, and I'm really looking forward to whatever's to come. Like, people, yourself included, have gotten me really excited because I feel like this is sort of a dark horse that has been picking up more and more respect from people. So I'm really excited to see how season five plays out. Thank you, Jaden.

We appreciate the question. From Jay Rushden, this is our final question. What up, Jay? What did it do? I need to get that shirt. What up, Jay? If Dexter's child was female, what name would be there? Key lime pie.

No, what was her name? The key lime pie woman. Was it? Was it Camilla or something? Camilla. Camilla? Camilla. Yeah.

I would say, Margo, Martindale, Dexter. I think you're right. Camilla. In my personal opinion, I think Dexter's daughter's name would be Camilla.

What do you think? Wait a minute. Is Camilla Fig also in 100th Center Street? Anyway. Beside the point. Yeah, what would Dexter's kid have been a name? let's see his name's Harrison

so I'm thinking of a I'm thinking that then by law Harriet Harriet Harriet there you go The axe murderer Harriet or

you know damn what's her name I should know her name freaking Princess Leia Oh Carrie Fisher Yeah Fisher There you go

Or no Carrie I guess it would have to be Carrey Oh Carrie Dextrina. I'd want to see Carrie at the prom. He named her Trinity. After the Matrix.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was a good movie. Let's see. Dexter's child was female. Help us out, guys, in the comments. If Dexter had a girl child, what would it be called? Rita Jr.?

I don't know about that. I think Camilla, Deb, and I think Harriet are three good options. You'd have to name her after Laura. Oh, his mom. That's a, that's it. I think, John.

and I think you found the win. No, I really am serious. I really think you found them. He'll name the kid LaGuerta. Yes. Yes, definitely. No, regardless, actually, if it was a girl, he named the kid Masuka. He really missed out an opportunity.

I love that he named his son Harrison, but I think he should have named his first son, Vince Masuka. Yes. Vince Masuka Morgan. Okay. Leave us your thoughts on any baby names. You got any straight thoughts before we hit the book? No, it's a great first two episodes, emotional, compelling, compelling, dramatic. everything it should be after the ending of the last season

and I know look whether you love this season or not this is going to be tough to follow the last season you had one of the greatest villains maybe I'm being ambitious I know that is the word we have been using here the most in saying this I think John Lithgow's character is one of the best villains I've ever seen on TV oh yeah he's incredibly like he deserves all the hype that this has got yeah so so having said that I think no matter which way you go with this storyline and the season this is a lot of pressure to put on this season and i think these first

two episodes really spoke to me and i'm in a place right now where i am really trying to resonate with in a dark place in terms of what i'm dealing with with my father and i'm so grateful to have such a wonderful support system and i think that's really keeping me out of the dark of course i don't have that dark passenger but i'm staying in the light as always i'm staying courageous as my father would want me to. And there's, of course, moments where I break down. Hi, I'm Gene Chatsky, longtime Today Show financial editor, author of Women with Money and host of the Her Money podcast. If you are 10 years or less from retirement and you're unsure if you're on track, well, you're not alone. But you don't have to guess anymore. Finance Fix is my six-week

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