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The seventh season of “Dexter” doesn’t arrive until September 30th. After a couple of lackluster seasons, Showtime has really been pushing this new season of “Dexter” in the hopes of keeping disgruntled viewers from bailing and maybe even bringing some “Dexter” viewers who had quit seasons ago back into the fold. They’re trying to both position this new season as a “game changer” and as the beginning of the end. “Dexter” has two seasons left before it’s over, and season seven will operate as the first part of the series ender.
A new trailer has arrived (below), and the executive producer of the series, Sara Colleton, gave an insightful interview with TV Guide that revealed perhaps more than you might want to know about the upcoming season. Here’s the obvious (SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T CAUGHT UP): Deb is not going to turn Dexter over to the police after having discovered him killing Travis. At least not immediately. The seventh season will deal with Dexter’s “regret, responsibility, shame, and betrayal” as he also tries to handle embarrassment for the first time. Embarrassment that he is who he is, and embarrassment that he let down Deb. Deb, meanwhile, has to sit with the knowledge that his brother — who she wants to f**k, by the way — is a serial killer, and deal with her own guilt about not immediately turning him in.
The interview did contain a few interesting notes about the upcoming season (SPOILERS, IF YOU DON’T WANT TO KNOW), namely that Dexter will tell Deb everything. Maybe not all at once, but over the course of the season, Dexter will reveal all secrets, including his past with their father, Harry, and the way he trained Dexter. In fact, part of what the next season will be about is Dexter’s anxiousness to share his lifelong secret with someone he loves. But that’s not all.
There will be a major first-season callback to Sergeant Doakes. As you recall, Doakes was framed as the Bay Harbor Butcher by the actual Bay Harbor Butcher, Dexter, and Lieutenant LaGuerta will begin to suspect that the Bay Harbor Butcher is not, in fact, dead. An investigation would allow her to clear the name of her friend, Doakes, and obviously put Dexter in jeopardy.
On top of that, Ray Stevenson, Jason Gedric, and Yvonne Strahovski — who will play part of a former husband-wife serial killing team who turned state’s evidence on her husband in exchange for her freedom — will have their own subplots, which hopefully will pack season seven with enough stories to prevent it from sinking under the weight of their usually agonizing middle-of-the-season filler episodes.
Here’s the new trailer, which doesn’t contain any new material from the upcoming season, but does contain what I’ve grown to dislike most about “Dexter” these past few seasons: Dexter’s droning, redundant, and cliche-heavy voice-over narration.
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Dexter’s voiceovers started off being cool around season 1 and 2… but now that I hear it all the time when he threatens to kill me if I don’t buy a Dodge Ram, I’m a bit sick of it.
I heard the reason why Julia Stiles didn’t come back during the last (Eddie Olmos) season was because Michael C. Hall had slept with her and that’s why him and Jennifer Carpenter got divorced.
I’m pretty sure she didn’t come back because her story was over, no? Although, everything you said did actually happen.
I think that if I was married to Carpenter, I would have slept with Julia Stiles, too.
Instead of a “Truth” trailer, they should make a “Stupidity” trailer, all about how it took Deb seven years to discover that her brother is a killer.
hmm
Frrt.
Were people upset with the last season? Everyone I talked to thought it was a rebound season after that Julia Stiles debacle.
It wasn’t fair though, using Edward James Olmos will rebound anything. I hear he’s in serious contract negotiations with the Oklahoma Thunder.
It was a mediocre season.
If Edward James Olmos were at maximum strength awesome it wouldn’t enough to overcome a 5 minute cameo by Colin Hanks, and Hanks had a large role in the last season.
(Leaving out that if you watched the season week-to-week, chances are pretty good you knew how the season would end by episode three, either through having watched a lot of TV or by the Internet figuring it for you. All of the episodes had filmed already, so any hope of surprising a web-savvy audience was gone. Any “big reveal” was just a wet fart.
I felt the same way with last season. It was so obvious where it was headed that at one point I thought, this is good because they are making it so bloody obvious there is no possible way that is where they will go with it. And then they did. I’m not a very smart person, and never guess the ending to anything, so I couldn’t believe they went with the ridiculous thing they were more than hinting at every 5 minutes. I was so disappointed.
The season’s big twist was too obvious from too early on, the big “Well look who’s here!” episode was forced and pointless, and the “Deb wants to bang Dexter” plot-line felt totally like something they came up with late in production and just shoehorned it into the last few episodes. Also, the season’s one real bright spot, Mos Def, was killed quite unceremoniously, and too early.
I don’t get everyone hating on the Julia Stiles season. Season five was by far better than this last season, and made logical sense with Dexter feeling guilty about Rita so he was helping Lumen through her problems. I mean I think it’s an appropriate way to go directly after the shocker of season four. Did anything really insane happen besides Deb pointing a gun at them through plastic? No, but once Jordan was onto Dexter I felt genuine worry for Dexter and Lumen.
Now because I’m a fan of the show, I don’t want to admit season six was bad, but while it was bad to me I am aware it could have been worse. I think the religion thing was just pulled out of their ass, they had nowhere to go story-wise. I don’t really blame Colin Hanks, I think he did good with what he had. Again, the Lumen season was perfect timing, although all of the “we HAVE to have cliffhangers like Rita’s every season!” group will disagree. I think of season six as more of Deb’s season. It’s not fresh in my mind, I will watch it again when it comes out on dvd. On another note, my friends that get together to watch the show on Sundays were thrown the idea via interwebs of (SPOILER) Gellar being dead, after the 3rd or 4th episode in by one of our friends. We were pissed that he said that, because now I’ll never know if I would have figured it out on my own or not. I’d like to think I would have. But season seven has to be better, they’ve got some stuff to work with now. It should write itself as long as they stick with the tried-and-true basics of what makes the show work. And I love them going back to BHB, in my opinion season two was the BEST season- the show is the best when Dex is on the road to getting caught/found out. And that’s something they haven’t really done since that season two.
Oh, they got Titus Pullo? Now I miss Rome.
If this show somehow gets great again, it would be one of the biggest recoveries in TV history.
I love Dexter, but the Julia Stiles and crazy English broad storylines were weak. Whether they end the series this season or not, it’s going to be hard to match the intensity of the first few seasons.
Well this is kind of a let down. I had kind of hoped for a ‘Dexter on the run’ type thing. This sounds like more of the same. I just see a lot of missed opportunity, and I feel like that was the issue with the last couple of seasons.
They never should have killed Doakes.
Nope. They should have cut off King’s legs and his tongue, then given him crazy-ass prostheses like in the books!
Nope.
What the fuck are you people talking about? I would LOVE to jerk off to Dexter fucking Deb’s brains out.
Don’t have high hopes for this one anymore
“but does contain what I’ve grown to dislike most about “Dexter” these past few seasons: Dexter’s droning, redundant, and cliche-heavy voice-over narration.”
Well he’s done this since the first episode of the series, It’s kind of his “thing”. So if you’re tired of that, you might actually be tired of Dexter the show.
I’m sorry, was I watching the same season as everyone else? I thought this season of Dexter was awesome. The only thing that sucked was the ridiculous ‘Debs being in love with Dexter’ storyline that was rammed into the last two episodes.
The Doomsday killings were both creepy and interesting in a sort of ‘Da Vinci Code’ esque kind of way and they needed something quite epic, given that Season Five didn’t have a massive ‘BOOM’ ending in the way that Season Four did. Colin Hanks did a terrific job as the ‘villain’ and I think he played the character dead on. You feel sympathy for him early on, and then when you realise that it was him all along, I felt genuine worry for Harrison’s life!
While a lot of people found Quinn a bit pointless this season, I thought him and Batista have got a great double act going on. That’s not to mention that his break up with Debs has clearly damaged him a lot more than he’s perhaps willing to let on to anyone. Especially not Lt. Debs!
Speaking of, Debs promotion was a fantastic move by the writers, she needed to be in that position of seniority for when *final scene of Season Six* happened, which has totally laid down the groundwork for Season Seven!
A fantastic Season, one of the best, in my opinion. But of course, nothing will ever beat Season Four!
Oh and Doakes’ death definitely needs to be revisited. He was an awesome character, killed off way too early!