Michael C. Hall, who plays Dexter Morgan, won for Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series - Drama at The Golden Globes while John Lithgow who played Arthur Mitchell, a serial killer who co-starred on Dexter last year, won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television.
For those in the dark, Dexter is a popular TV show starring Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan, a blood splatter specialist who kills other serial killers. His sister Deb also works at the Miami Police Department, and in the past few seasons he entered into a romantic relationship with Rita, having a child of his own with her.
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The first episode takes us right into the action: Dexter is shocked by seeing his wife murdered in their home's bathtub, eventually kneeling on the lawn in full view of police and muttering, "It's me." The FBI get interested in Dexter and soon he's not only fighting guilt but also maneuvering around FBI agents trying to find out if he committed the crime.
In this season, Dexter and his sister share many more emotional scenes. Funny enough, Hall and Jennifer Carpenter, who plays Deb, are married in real life, so it's interesting to see how they play off each in Dexter as platonic siblings. There are some touching moments when Deb tries to comfort Dexter when he spits venom at itself, once again blaming himself for Rita's murder. Deb has been there before -- her ex-lover was killed in the fourth season.
Another storyline developed in season five relates to the romances blossoming in the police department. Newly married Bautista and LaGuerta fight over money and bar brawls, while Quinn enters into a dalliance with a co-worker. This storyline feels rushed, and often detracts from Dexter's inner crisis, but perhaps the writers wanted some love to bloom when all is blood and guts with the serial killer.
And rest assured, fans, Dexter delivers with his kills. If you ever wanted to see the slow pleasure he gets from making his "kill room", the third episode won't disappoint.
On Quinn
He’s not like [Sergeant James] Doakes, where he just senses there’s something wrong with this guy. He approaches it analytically, as a detective, saying, “Why am I the only one asking these questions? Trinity followed a very particular MO for thirty years, and it never included killing a married woman in a bathtub and leaving a kid there. At the very least, something weird is happening here. How did Dexter and his wife become the target?” It’s not as much about [suspecting that] Dexter killed Rita. We get past that. He threatens to do something much more damaging to Dexter, which is uncover everything.
On Lumen [Julia Stiles]
A lot of people are wondering if Lumen is just going to be a replacement for Rita, and it’s so much more complicated than that, which was really exciting to me. It’s not a romantic connection, but it is a potently intimate connection. Dexter shares a unique kind of intimacy with Lumen that is not sought out, but very real and keeps her boomeranging back to him. His impulse is to explore the relationship with Lumen but that impulse is also connected to a desire to atone for what he’s done, in as much as Rita’s blood is on his hands because of the indulgent relationship he had with Trinity. Had he killed him the first chance he got, his life would still be intact.---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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