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Eli seems somewhat unhappy despite his success. His children doesn't seem to give him joy, not like his old partner Junior, with whom he used to beat up people for money. This show has the most entertaining depiction of sibling rivalry this side of Succession. They go after each other in childish ways though, like this preoccupation with Amber's "played out pastrami" and refusing to kiss Jesse's ring because of where his finger has been. Zion's Landing, an "all-inclusive timeshare" has to be the most blatant form of evangelical grifting there is. Actually a streaming service to host these extravagant, ridiculous sermon shows, with lasers and arena rock pretensions from all these different megachurches seem like a good idea, getting with the modern times. (BTW, isn't all-inclusive and timeshare kind of contradictory vacation concepts, never been to either.) It's been so long in the first season, I forget what beef Amber and Jesse had and how they reconciled. Maybe the reconciliation will be temporary. I don't remember how they got Gideon back to the fold either. Maybe he's running his own grift. Judy and Kelvin are both in denial of course, Judy with her husband who's in the closet and Kelvin in the closet but can't resist surrounding himself with non-straight men. Did they bring on Jason Schwartzman on just to kill off his character so soon? No sign of Baby Billy in the first two eps but looks like in the season previews he will be back.

Dexter New Blood is the most-watched series in Showtime history. https://tvline.com/2022/01/11/dexter-new-blood-ratings-showtime-record/ Showtime is desperate for hits. So they may green light a spinoff but I don't know if Harrison played by that actor would be anywhere near as popular. Cast Hall as the middle-aged Harrison! Don't do the ghost Dexter thing with Harrison, that would make viewers roll their eyes too much to actually watch that kind of spinoff.

Yeah plenty of examples where unlikeable characters or characters that you can't like because they're criminals are popular. Because the characters are still interesting. Look at how popular Succession is. All the characters are despicable or pathetic. But the writing and acting makes it an interesting, entertaining show. There is good acting on Dexter but the writing? Still Dexter is an interesting character even if he's a cold blooded psychopath.

Maybe that's more a thing with the show runner. I'm sure some teens listen to music made long before they were born but it's got to be a small percentage of Gen Z? So kind of a gimmick to set it apart from other shows and movies about people in this age group?

Probably a good idea to avoid other survivors as much as possible, like the intruder who killed Frank and the woman who shot the beanbag at Jeevan. That' what Kirsten was suppose to be on the watch for from the tower. Probably less likely that people who've lived in cities all their lives would go hunting for deer but if they want fresh protein, they'd have to learn to hunt and harvest the meat. Also I can accept that wildlife would encroach into inhabited areas once humans shrank to 1% of the previous population. Most of the homes are empty and there aren't too many people driving or walking around even these suburbs. But rather than deer and wolves, it would be scavenging animals like raccoons which would be lured to formerly-inhabited areas, if they smell food in the trash cans and dumpsters. Or if the deer that they shot left a blood trail or they discarded some entrails somewhere near that cabin. They were supplementing whatever they would hunt (including snares for smaller game) with whatever they can scavenge from empty homes But that increases the risk of running into hostile people. Once Jeevan decided to answer that short wave radio, he made himself known as Dr. Chaudry and that woman was probably targeting him. That is interesting, he was mistaken for a doctor at the theater in the pilot and he was an aimless guy. His sister became a doctor, Frank was a writer. But being a doctor became his avocation through circumstances, though it's one thing to deliver a couple of babies, how is he treating other illnesses that people have? Did he find some medical text books or something?

Fan but she's more like Connie Britton's age now isn't she, more than Alexandra Daddario or Sydney Sweeney's age?

Dang the haters are going to be out in full force.

Yeah if Kurt used the exact same MO to lure the girls, with all of them going through the pitstop, it's inexcusable that she didn't catch on. There must have been plenty of witnesses. She had all these "Missing" posters but couldn't find one witness who saw the at the truck stop? Maybe the case wasn't prioritized but what else was going on in this sleepy town before Matt Caldwell's disappearance? Too bad Google didn't have images from security cams at the truck stop and the bus stations of these girls and Kurt talking to them. Otherwise, Angela would have cracked the case 10 years ago!😆 I know, small towns don't have cameras everywhere in the public like big cities do, right? Yet Dexter got away with all those murderers in Miami just 10-15 years ago.

I guess there must not have been Google just 10-15 years ago. 🙄

I don't buy that Harrison is normal or not like Dexter. He clearly has his own demon, unless the writers want to pretend that he didn't say he's mad and wants to hurt people. Harrison saw Dexter kill Kurt, didn't flip on Dexter. It wasn't until Logan is killed, a murder he didn't witness, that he flips. Don't know about that. And what of the oil billionaire in the frozen tundra? What the hell was that about, without any payoff?

I don’t even remember what Fezco’s beef with Nate was. But the backstory with his grandma was that he was vengeful and was going to shoot first, not ask questions at all? All throughout the first season, he wasn’t violent was he? And Ash killing those drug dealers, was that shown previously? But that whole gangster story seemed sensationalized. That woman was going to run afoul of other criminals if not the law, with all those witnesses. Same thing with Fezco and Ash, how are they going to get rid of the corpses of two large men from their crib and how did the drug dealers in this episode not kill Fezco since it sounded like they lost two key men. Now Fezco has all those witnesses and Nate and his psycho father to deal with. Whats the deal with Rue and Jules? In those two episodes between the season 1 finale and this one, they had a little love nest but Rue was secretly using and there was discontent in paradise. So they broke up and no longer live together. Rue says she’s just smoking weed but Rue sees that’s not true, she’s a junkie hanging out with drug dealers, potentially could have been in big trouble — but not really, as star of the show and Spider-Man’s girlfriend, she wasn’t stripping on camera. Rue’s drug use is a dealbreaker for Jules but Rue just wants to be with Jules AND be able to do drugs, even if she has to take Adderall to counter the effects of other drugs on her heart. I forget why Cassie is unhappy. She complains that she keeps making bad choices then gets in the truck with Nate and later goes in that bedroom, worried most about Mandy catching them. Can’t decide who’s more messed up, Cassie or snotty Olivia in the White Lotus, played by the same twenty-something actress playing teen girls. After the episode, Zendaya and Levinson talk a lot about the second season, what they want to do for an encore, etc. Levinson says they don’t want to do the same thing as the first season but this season 2 premiere episode repeats the tendency to shock, for the sake of being shocking. ”Look at what teens are up to these days” as the guiding principle can be compelling but will it be the only trick this show has? If it is, they may be compelled to raise the ante in ways that stretch credulity. For instance if they feature Fezco more this season, you have to wonder if they’re trying to imitate Tarantino. Hoping this episode was more of a one-off, not the direction they want to take this series.

Oh did that come up on the original show, what LaGuerta thought of Doakes as the BHB? Or what Angel thought back then?

Yeah she's been trying to find the killer for 25 years. Dexter figured it out in like 10 minutes. But we're suppose to believe she's the crack detective who figures out Dexter is the BHB. BTW, she gives a lot more damn about the runaway victims than the drug dealers that Dexter injected with ketamine. So why did she have such a hard on to punish Dexter? She also seems more happy to let Harrison go because he killed Dexter than to finally find out what happened to all those runaways.

I don't know, he may have to change his identity. Get rid of that Iron Lake jacket, change name. Dexter is going to become very famous as the actual Bay Harbor Butcher. Not good for Harrison to be associated with him. Even if they don't blame him or persecute him for what Dexter has done, he'd be constantly answering questions about Dexter, how it was like to live with him, etc. He will become famous, at least for awhile. He has to disappear, even if he isn't prosecuted for executing Dexter. From Angela's POV, she didn't even ask questions why Harrison would shoot Dexter from a distance. She decided immediately to make up a false story (for which she's going to have to answer a lot of questions). So while she did Harrison a big favor, doesn't mean she wants this teen killer to date her daughter or stepdaughter or adopted daughter.

Canada opened to Americans in August or September. On December 15, they updated their requirements. First they discourage non-essential travel to even their own citizens. But American who are fully vaccinated and take a PCR test can enter, though they are subject to a random test and quarantine. At some point, Samantha will probably feature one of these experiences in Canada: https://www.rockymountaineer.com/routes_destinations Unless they stop sponsoring the show at some point, of course.

There’s an interview with Clyde Phillips. He pitched it to Hall and to Showtime as Dexter dying and they were all on board. He even said he’d continue with a Harrison spinoff if Showtime green lighted it. The worse outcome for most fans because the character and actor aren’t compelling. Teen vigilante serial murderer? Give me a fucking break … 🙄 Would be a surprising move because the Showtime demographics skews not much younger than 40-45. Actor hasn’t shown anything to suggest he can carry a show. As for this season, Angela is the one who figures it out? Dexter gets caught at Iron fucking Lake? Why did she spend Christmas with him, after she saw the weal marks? I can buy Angel figuring it out or some FBI guy but not her. Also she arrested him for the titanium screws but that wasn’t going to be enough to convict him. Dexter is sloppy with the ketamine but would that have been enough to get him convicted for all those deaths? For sure it would have been a bad outcome for Dexter even if they released him because now he’d be on the radar of law enforcement everywhere and there would be a million Molly Parks or true crime detective wannabes all up in his case. There wouldn’t just be podcasts but all kinds of books and documentaries. They didn’t point out that most of Dexter’s victims were far worse people or at least it seem to register very little with Angela. Not that she would have let him go but she had far more energy, far more revulsion, to Dexter than to Kurt. Was that because she’d been intimate with him? But it seemed like it was a little fling, which hadn’t been going on too long. They play acted to add spice to having sex in his truck, so was she in love, thinking Dexter was going to be the guy for her for the foreseeable future? Instead the runaway cases seemed to be a much bigger emotional investment for her. She recognized Kurt’s victims by face and name. If Dexter escaped without killing Logan, she might not have cared too much since she is getting closure in a major part of her life. Maybe even let Dexter go for breaking this case, which is going to make her nationally and internationally famous. She’d be a horrible cop and person for doing so but she has no case for convicting Dexter on Matthew Caldwell and her case for the Bay Harbor Butcher isn’t ironclad either. So Dexter shot up two guys with ketamine, does it prove he killed all those people in Miami? Like I said, Dexter would be fucked if they prosecuted the case because his name would be out everywhere. Dexter realizing this would be a more believable reason for killing himself or letting Harrison shoot him, not this whole he finds true love for the first time and decides to let his son not get burdened with his sins reasoning. Or Dexter finds a clever way to fake his death again. Or Angela just letting him go. Yeah Harrison is young and “innocent” so she lets Harrison go, but it’s really inconsistent, is she strict law and order or is crime and punishment a gray area for her? (I would also think the ballistics would not back up her story. How did she end up with Harrison’s rifle and use that rather than her service revolver? Dexter was shot at a distance, no signs of struggle or forcing her to kill him. Harrison would have been in trouble because it was an execution, with Dexter’s cooperation, so again, Dexter doing it for love would have put Harrison in trouble with the law and Dexter surely knows that. But Angela would also have to answer questions as well because state police and FBI are going to be on this shooting as well)

TiVo recorded a new episode, Asheville, NC. Labeled it Season 4, Episode 6. But on Samantha’s website, it’s listed as the first of Season 5. https://samantha-brown.com/episodes/season-5/ All the episodes are of domestic locations. She doesn’t even go to Canada again though that makes sense Canada didn’t open up to American visitors until late summer of 2021. She goes to Houston, San Antonio and Boston. She’s don Houston already, am the other ones too. One of the sponsors is a train which traverses the Canadian Rockies though. The furthest that she ventures is Colorado Springs. She apparently skipped Europe for this season even though it was open to Americans this summer and fall. She still has AMA Waterways, which I believe specializes in European river cruises. I think places like Asheville, Jersey Shore, Colorado Springs, even Houston are nice regional destinations but people don’t go across oceans or even the continent to go to these places. PBS viewers will be more drawn to the glamorous places, so I would guess that Rick Steves’ show draws a much bigger audience, because he’s a bigger name but also, people would rather watch travel shows about say Alps, which can encompass several iconic Alpine villages compared to whole episodes devoted to Asheville or upstate NY. These regional getaways seem more like Samantha’s Great Weekends vibe than her Passport to Europe vibe. Places to Love touched on both types of destinations in the early seasons which featured both international and domestic places. Maybe Samantha just needs to pick a lane. The international destinations are more popular but requires a larger budget and maybe more sponsors. Also more time away from her family. Other possibility is that they couldn’t make the logistics work. Still, the rewards may be there. The first season of Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy found a huge audience, with people cooped up at home binging a lot of TV. They also filmed their second season in the latter half of 2021 so it will be interesting to see if it gets the same kind of ratings again. I like Tucci but Samantha can do Italy justice too, and her reactions to Italian food may be better than Stanley’s reactions, which aren’t a high bar.

I thought the doctor was worried that the mother would crush the baby while trying to deliver it. But apparently it was the other way around, the mother was more at risk. In the cold weather, that hair and facial hair may keep him warmer. Maybe he couldn't find enough disposable razors to bother.

In the actual pandemic, birth rate went down, even though the first few months of the pandemic, people were staying home.

I don't think those pregnant women will be seen again right, other than the one that Jeevan married? Although Jeevan might not be in the finale either.

Enjoyed both the Daily and the elimination. But something is up with those ropes and locks. That part of it could have been designed better to be more consistent from player to player. On the elimination, they need to weigh those boxes on camera, with big digits showing the exact numbers. TJ said they were a kilo apart but the total weights he announced were in pounds. Why change from metric to imperial like that? Assuming the weights were correct, I guess Brad's strategy didn't work. Janelle didn't have to use the hammer at all while Jodi did, going from one side of her box, carrying the pieces and then doing her own hammering before throwing the pieces through the last hole. Janelle sat near the outer hole and just reached to pick up pieces that were already small enough to push out. I don't know if Darrell deliberately smashed up the pieces but that was the end result. Janelle kept her back condition a secret but Darrell and Brad knew. If everyone else knew, the votes might have changed. They might have voted in MJ and Jonna if they knew. Darrell doesn't know how many more Challenges he could do. So he wanted Janelle not to quit. That was fine for the elimination but the clips show them carrying things on their backs, through uneven terrain. I'm thinking people with bad backs may have problems running even on level terrain for long periods. Janelle has a good-paying job so she's not going to risk her health for the Challenge.

I thought about practicing driving manual but you can't rent such a car in the US, at least where I live. Some driving schools may have manual cars but most don't. So I might have saved a hundred dollars here and there renting manual on trips to Europe but most rentals of automatics are about $50 a day, sometimes up to $70-80 but when the rates are higher like that, all rates are higher, including standard transmission cars. The only exceptions are these tiny cars like the Fiat 500 (or even smaller) which has really room for 2 adults and not enough space for luggage in the trunk.

i think it's been hinted that there are some people out for themselves. They will take whatever you may have, shoot first, ask questions later. The first time Jeevan went to that other apartment and listened to the short wave radio, they were talking about certain places not being safe.

Clark is a mad king. He wanted the power and he also wanted to be loved, especially by the kids who grew up or were born after the pandemic. Yeah he feared Tyler eventually usurping him. But it's stupid because he was like 40 years older than Tyler. By the time Tyler grew up to be a man, he'd be an old man. Sure Clark can still rule for awhile and Tyler is now in his late 20s. Would have made perfect succession, though maybe Tyler as a teen would have convinced the adults to follow him and dump Clark? Even though Clark had kept them safe all these years and found ways to grow food and enjoy all the comforts which wouldn't exist outside the airport. They probably knew about the Red Bandanas and other hostile people looking to take what they have, kill them for it. So the airport was secure and they had security and quarantine procedures, in case they brought in infected people.

Clark told Elizabeth that they would not perform the play Hamlet because it encouraged people to challenge leaders. Then said the TS can't leave because it would be a security risk. So he planned to keep them there against their will? They may have preferred to stay but if any of them wanted to leave he wouldn't let them. Meanwhile, Elizabeth was urging him to open up the place to the world, because the disease was gone. But the point was, maybe some of the MoC people didn't want to be cooped up, wanted to explore. There is a risk because we've clearly seen there are hostile peoples.