Episode 03 | Aired Jul 14, 2013

Dex races to prevent Deb from confessing to murder as Quinn seems like a lousy student
By James Hibberd at EW


"Vogel's the killer" was the highest-rated comment on last week's Dexter recap. Many seemed pretty sure of that. Now, though ... apparently not. Unless whoever is leaving those gory gifts on Dr. Vogel's doorstep is somehow operating under her puppet-master-like control. I don't think so. Vogel is hiding a secret, I suspect, but she's not The Brain Surgeon.

Daddy Dex wakes to find Harrison covered in blood, an echo of his own serial killer birth. Turns out...

Episode 05 | Aired Jul 28, 2013

We're nearly halfway through the final season. So why does Dexter feel like business as usual?
By James Hibberd @ EW





The good news: We've escaped the muddled Brain Surgeon storyline! He's apparently dead as Trinity after Sunday's "This Little Piggy" episode.

The not-great news: The episode was otherwise pretty sleepy, and a new murder case was introduced that looks right out of a CBS murder-of-the-week crime procedural.

So I'm going to say it: Five episodes into Dexter's final season, it feels like we're killing time before the dramatic fireworks that we assume/hope...