TV from 12/9 - 12/15

Sunday (12/9)

Dexter

Man, it feels like Dexter has been driving hard towards the finale for over a month now. The pieces have been in place, Doakes in captivity, Lila as a crazed stalker, Rita inching back into Dexter’s life, revelations galore for Dexter, but each week brings more and more information that just clouds where the show is heading. This week saw Dexter nearly turning himself after some great scenes with Doakes. But at the same time the hatred Doakes has had for Dexter seems to be waning even though he has been locked up for days now. Watching them work together to take care of the drug dealers was fun and shows that there is a possibility that Doakes may live and not go to jail. But I still don’t see how the show can reconcile Doakes’s knowledge of Dexter without killing or arresting him. As for Lila, with her showing up at the cabin as the climax of her Dexter stalking has gotta mean she will be facing the sharp end of Dexter’s knife in the finale. Although it was nice even to see Deb berate her and tell her to leave town even if it doesn’t work. The finale cannot start fast enough.

9 out of 10

Thursday (12/13)

Why did this come back in the middle of December? If the CW had new episodes, they should have held on to them until 2008 when the rest of the networks are scrambling for shows. Not that this was even a decent episode. More awful clone storylines. Who cares? That plus no Lionel means a bad hour of television.

3 out of 10

Yeah, television has begun to disappear. Once Dexter ends this week, the holidays start and then when television should be coming back from the holiday break I have no idea how many shows that I watch will still be on. Thankfully The Wire pops up in January.