TV Series: Dexter Season 7

Merry Christmas! It's Christmas for Dexter and his family anyway. Before you start complaining, let me remind you that shops in Germany have been selling Christmas items since the middle of October.

I took this photo on 26th October. The shelves were stocked with Christmas candy while the Halloween candy was still on sale. Is it this bad in other countries?

Season 6 ended on a cliffhanger. Season 7 starts immediately after Debra witnessed her brother killing someone for the first time. Dexter makes stupid lies on the spur of the moment to justify what he did. He starts off calling the killing of Travis Marshall self-defence, which is a feeble excuse when Travis is lying wrapped in plastic on a church altar. It's only half way through the first episode that Dexter openly admits that he's a serial killer. How many people has he killed? Dexter fans have compiled a list of his confirmed killings, and Travis was the 126th.

There's some confusion about the number of people he's killed. At the beginning of Season 5 Dexter says he's killed 67 people, but that's not correct. He'd killed at least 96 people at this point. I'll write more about it in a future post.

The main opponent that Dexter has to face in Season 7 is the Ukrainian gang boss Isaak Sirko, but the season is more about Debra's development. She slowly learns to accept Dexter's nature and the justice that he carries out outside of the law. She even comes to the point where she asks Dexter to kill someone. Ironically, Dexter refuses. He's fallen in love with a serial killer called Hannah McKay. It's more accurate to call it lust. Dexter isn't capable of romantic love, although he does feel comfortable in a relationship with Hannah. She understands him, and he doesn't have to pretend to be something he isn't.

She's beautiful but deadly. She killed her first person when she was 15, stabbing a woman to death. As she grew older she preferred to poison her victims. It's not as messy.

She owns a shop that sells flowers, so she can grow her own poison at home.

Beautiful flowers and an even more beautiful woman.

I made dozens of screenshots of Hannah, too many to include in this post. Here's a small selection.

Dexter has to watch what she puts in his food.

The actress Yvonne Strahovski has a face which can charm any man. Even Dexter.

Hannah is too much for Dexter to handle. He attempts to kill her, but she straddles him and holds Dexter's own knife to his neck.

Merry Christmas?

There are other beautiful women in the TV series. Dexter's boss at Miami Metro is Captain Maria LaGuerta. In this season she begins to suspect that Dexter is a killer. The only person she confides in is Debra, not realising that she's protecting her brother.

Dexter's step-daughter Astor only appears in one episode. She's 14, but she looks older. Girls grow up fast.

She's growing up too fast. In this episode we find out that she's smoking pot. She claims that it's legal in some American states, but Dexter points out that for 14-year-olds it's illegal everywhere.

Debra sees things differently. She allows Astor to smoke pot when Dexter isn't around.

I like Debra, although I find her bad language offensive. She calls herself a potty mouth. Here's a subtitled sequence in a lift.

Do people really talk like that? It's awful!

Season 7 is a turning point for Sergeant Angel Batista. He's thinking about retiring from the police force to run a restaurant. He buys the restaurant, but he doesn't have it in him to quit the police. He runs the restaurant after hours. A second job.

Angel and Maria are arguing about Dexter. She's the only one who thinks he's a killer.

For all of the series' high quality, it still has faults. Look at the online news report. The last two paragraphs in the first column are repeated in the second column. That's sloppy. (Click on the photo to enlarge it).

This is an image that's frequently repeated in flashbacks. When Dexter was three he witnessed his mother being killed with a chainsaw. Detective Harry Morgan found him sitting in a pool of blood. It's suggested that this trauma is what made him a psychopath. Is that possible? I was always of the opinion that psychopaths are born as psychopaths and can't change.

Season 6 ended with a cliffhanger, and Season 7 also ends with a cliffhanger. Season 8 is the final season. I regret that it ended so soon. Maybe I need to watch it again.

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