'Dexter' Final Season Recap - This Little Piggy

Note:  My apologies for not getting this recap up sooner as I've been on vacation this week.

Funny enough, just now before writing this, I came across a recap of this episode on Entertainment Weekly's website which notated how we're almost halfway through the final season of Dexter and everything feels more of the same.

It's hard not to agree with that sentiment.

Everything so far as felt just kind of 'typical'.  There are no higher stakes shown this year (yet), and it looks by the end of this episode things between Deb and Dex are back to normal.  I'll explain.

After Deb tries killing Dexter via a car accident into the river (then saving him), we find the two in a psycho-therapy session with Dr. Vogel.  Dexter shows a side to himself we've really never seen before which is that of a pissed off, hurt individual.  He screams at Deb telling her how she could have made his son an orphan and how he's 'so fucking happy for her' that she feels better about herself.

Meanwhile, this mediocre killer of the season, Yates, ends up kidnapping Vogel not too long after her session with the Morgan siblings which brings the two together to save the good ol' Doc.  In a not so surprising turn of events, Dex and Deb arrive just in time to save the day and Yates is made into a permanent under-the-bed fixture.  At this point, the duo who seemed to hate each other by the beginning of the episode or are seemingly both chummy chummy again.

Updates on a few other storylines going on this season worth mentioning (but aren't seemingly getting anymore interesting) are stated below:

• Masuka is suddenly under the impression his new found daughter is out to get him for money and wants to hire Deb and Elway's firm to investigate her.
• Quinn is caught in a predicament of who will get the Sergeant position with the all-of-the-sudden important character of Smith (though this resolution is pretty much spoiled in the preview for next week's episode).
• Finally, a new storyline is developing with a murdered maid (was she mentioned last week?  I don't know, that's how boring this plot point is) which leads Dex coming face-to-face with the apparent teenage version of himself (so stupid).
• Oh also, Dex looks like he's getting laid soon with his new neighbor, Cassie (what's the point of this?)

 I know I usually ad notes for each episode but I'm going to go on a little rant regarding this season that will pretty much sum up my thoughts of this episode.

This is the final season of Dexter.  A show that became the cornerstone of Showtime's network.  It deserves better than this.

For one, this last season was rushed into production so it could help launch the network's newest drama, Ray Donovan (which by the way, if you keep running promos every friggin second for this damn show before and after a Dexter episode, you are going to turn off viewers to watch, like myself).

Also, there are rumors there is going to be a spin-off series centering around Debra.  Really Showtime?  You're going to sacrifice the quality of the show that launched your network so you can promote the hell out of a annoyingly advertised new show and hopefully launch a not-so-needed other one?

And here I thought only the film industry had gotten greedy...

Grade: C+