Wow, I got to see two boring and wildly underwhelming series finale episodes in a row tonight. After a very disappointing season, Dexter ends its series run with total wtf. Meanwhile, Copper's creators are claiming they meant this episode to be the series finale as opposed to being a cancellation but this episode sure doesn't suggest that.

After a month-long blackout, I now have CBS and Showtime again. I'm catching up with the Dexter episodes I missed through On Demand, and damn does this season suck. I'd so hoped they'd go out big and with excellent writing for their final season. Though at least it made it so I didn't feel as bad missing it during the Showtime blackout.

My big thing today is that some group of asshole motorcycle guys decided to travel at 40 mph in a 55 mph zone while occasionally doing wheelies and spread out across the entire highway to make it almost impossible for any of the mounting number of cars behind them to pass. If I'm stuck doing less than 40 mph on I-495, there damned well better be a ( Read more... )

Time Warner Cable has blacked out CBS and Showtime here. I hope it's resolved before Sunday night, when Dexter's newest episode is supposed to air, but I'm not holding my breath.

When multi-billionaire cable/internet/phone/etc. company battles multi-billionaire media giant, the customer loses either way.

My fall TV schedule. As usual, some things conflict, though some of them will drop out due to their irregular season airing or size. It annoys me that some nights are scheduling disasters while other nights have giant viewing gaps with tumbleweeds rolling through.

Sunday
8 p.m.: The Amazing Race
9 p.m.: Hell on Wheels, Dexter (returning Sept. 30 ( Read more... )

Callum Keith Rennie was a lot of fun in the season opener of Californication. I don't know if I can stay with a series where the point is that the main character is a dick who constantly screws up, but I'll at least follow during Rennie's run. I like the daughter too.

While Dexter's opener suggests some interesting future plots, I wasn't happy ( Read more... )

Thorn's been watching the first season of Dexter and mentioned that teen Dexter looks a bit like Tom Welling to her, which immediately took me to the crackheaded crossover place. Yes, Dexter as another last son of Krypton. (Maybe the greater sunlight of Miami causes psychosis? Then again, Smallville Clark's real dad was pretty big on "Kill the ( Read more... )

Darkly Dreaming Dexter and Dearly Devoted Dexter by Jeff Lindsay are fun, macabre, witty, page-turning reads, although I give Dearly Devoted a higher recommendation.

The happenings in the Showtime Dexter show have some loose basis in Darkly Dreaming Dexter. Loose basis. The arc of what the show calls the "ice truck killer" goes down differently in ( Read more... )