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Exclusive "Dexter" spoilers for Season 5
Topic Started: Mar 5 2010, 01:45 PM (835 Views)
Kenny
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'Dexter' exclusive: Killer season 5 spoilers!
by Michael Ausiello

Still haunted by the sight of Rita’s lifeless, bloody corpse floating in her and Dexter’s bathtub? Then this next story is going to dredge up a lot of bad memories for you. Prior to last night’s PaleyFest ‘10 event honoring Dexter, exec producer Sara Colleton took a few minutes to answer all of my burning questions about the Showtime drama’s highly-anticipated fifth season (slated to premiere in September). Needless to say, Rita’s horrifying murder will have enormous implications for America’s most beloved serial killer. Beware, major spoilers…

Season 5 will pick up right where season 4 left off.
“We have spent the last month sitting around, talking and really debating how best to deal with the aftermath of [Rita's death]. We uniformly decided that we don’t want to jump ahead. We need to see Dexter go through the process that we’d all have to go through if such a horrible thing had happened to us. We need to see him doing everything from the big emotional things like grieving the loss, to the mundane things like arranging a funeral, getting the kids dressed, and all the other things that are usually done for men because their wives or mothers do them. They have no idea how to handle all of these things. As we saw, Rita was really the caretaker of their baby. It would be cheating the audience of their catharsis to not see Dexter go through that mourning period and see how it affects him or to not see him dealing with the blowback of what he essentially caused. So we will not jump to Harrison as a 5 year old yet.”

Season 5 may not feature a Trinity-esque villain.
“John Lithgow is a tough act to follow. If there was ever a year that we could take a step back from the Big Bad formula and go deeper into Dexter and his psychology, this would be that year. That said, Dexter has a dark passenger that won’t go away no matter how much he yearns to be normal. That rears up and needs to be dealt with. He may even dive deeper after this traumatic loss of Rita. We are working on a way that feels original and fresh and unique to what he has just gone through. It cannot be the way it has been before. In [Season 1], he was terrified of any kind of intimacy because intimacy equaled being discovered. Then he slowly realized he had a need to be known and he set up a family and tried the best he could to balance it all. And now, he sees what being known brings him and he had it ripped out from underneath him suddenly and that will have some affect on him.”

Dexter will remain single… for now.
“Anything is possible, but I don’t think Dexter will be in the mood for dating or love anytime soon. That’s not even on our radar right now. He very much loved Rita and they were in a good place right before she was killed so that wound will take quite some time to heal.”

Michael C. Hall kicked cancer’s ass.
“Michael’s in full remission. I just had a three-hour breakfast with him this morning. He’s in great shape and is getting his energy back. We are all very excited to get back to work. The guy is incredibly courageous and worked hard all through last season despite being sick. He’s an amazing human being and actor. It was scary, but the show will go on. We start shooting in late April or May, which is usual. We will not have to stall production.”
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I'm glad they aren't jumping ahead. This sounds great. And so happy that Michael C. Hall is in remission. I hope he wins the emmy in September.
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Mateo
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^^Me too. Thanks for posting Kenny. :D
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Drew
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A season of no big-bad sounds awful. The "examining" Dexter episodes lately have all been crap, a full season of it - egads. Dexter vs. The Neighbourhood Watch Part 2? YAY
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I think season of no big bads is a good thing, if they have Debra finally discover Dexter's a serial killer, and you have Quinn trying to prove Dexter killed Rita, (he's suspicious as hell of Dexter so that would seem like a natural conclusion for him to draw) and Dexter trying to find some way to neutralize him. It's still hanging out there is Quinn a cop who cuts corners and pockets money, or more a dirty cop with all kinds of skeletons in his closet and maybe some blood on his hands. Quinn and Debra as his foils could make season 5 great depending on how they write it.
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JDB
Mar 5 2010, 08:17 PM
I think season of no big bads is a good thing, if they have Debra finally discover Dexter's a serial killer, and you have Quinn trying to prove Dexter killed Rita, (he's suspicious as hell of Dexter so that would seem like a natural conclusion for him to draw) and Dexter trying to find some way to neutralize him. It's still hanging out there is Quinn a cop who cuts corners and pockets money, or more a dirty cop with all kinds of skeletons in his closet and maybe some blood on his hands. Quinn and Debra as his foils could make season 5 great depending on how they write it.
They already did that. To mixed success. Season 2.
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Yeah I know but they did the 'big bad' thing back to back. season 2 is my second favorite season, (after season 1) plus Debra finds out Dexter's a serial killer, tries to get in the way of Quinn, all kinds of drama there.
Edited by JDB, Mar 6 2010, 11:29 PM.
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