Dexter S06E01

You helped me a lot in this classroom... maybe I should give a little something back

Showtime's latest publicity artwork for Dexter bills him as an "Avenging Angel" while picturing him in both a crucifixion pose and with bloody wings. So there's an overriding religious motif at work as Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) again cuts to the chase while also eluding capture in Season 6 of the pay cable network's longest-running and most successful drama series. What's the meaning of his life? Will Dexter ever bow to a higher power, other than his still materializing deceased father? Can he get his two-year-old son, Harrison, into the very exclusive Our Lady of the Gulf pre-school after telling its Catholic head nun he's a non-believer?

There also are two religious zealots at large, and they do really awful things to their victims in the name of some very twisted form of holy retribution. Add a supposedly reformed ex-convict named Brother Sam, whose blessed-is-the-Lord body shop gives fellow felons second chances. But is he for real? And if so, can Dexter learn something from Brother Sam's latter day relationship with God?


In this context, it's perhaps hard to believe that Sunday's season opener comes off as a little sitcom-y at times in the form of Dexter's 20-year high school reunion, which he attends in hopes of obtaining evidence on a self-absorbed jock whom he suspects of murdering the classmate he married. Largely dismissed as a nebbish during his teen years, Dexter's "prestigious" job as a blood spatter analyst -- plus the grisly loss of his own wife at the end of Season 4 -- combine to make him both a sympathetic figure and latter day hunk to many of his former female classmates.

Eventually, one of the most popular girls in school (Kristen Miller) reveals that she cheated on Dexter throughout high school. As repayment, she gives strips and gives him a surprise blowjob, which he uncomfortably but willingly accepts. So, overall, a not-bad start that promises to take Dex (and "Dexter") in a slightly new and fresh direction. The gratuitous boobage doesn't hurt either.


Television Series: Dexter (S06E01- Those Kinds of Things)
Release Date: October 2011
Actress: Kristen Miller
Video Clip Credit: LC










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