Dexter - Season Five – Episode Six: “Everything Is Illumenated” Review

Season five finally found its feet with Everything Is Illumenated, and didn’t it feel good to be back in the midst of a genuinely gripping chapter of Dexter Morgan’s story? Not since My Bad have the stakes felt so high. That episode had audiences screaming at their screens with frustration as Dexter’s reaction to Rita’s death threatened to expose his secret life. Everything Is Illumenated teased fans of the show like no episode has before and it was exactly what we’ve been craving for since the season began.

Dexter – Season Five – Episode Five: “First Blood” Review

Dexter’s attempts to persuade Lumen to return home are met with granite-like resistance from the troubled young woman, but her presence in Miami is a distraction Dexter can do without and her departure becomes his top priority.

Dexter – Season Five – Episode Four: “Beauty and the Beast” Review

Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) has almost always had things under control. He is the king of cool when it comes to tricky situations and no matter how close to being exposed he has come, Dexter has always recovered, and usually with style. But that all changed when he came into contact with Arthur Mitchell, the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow), a man with thirty years experience in the act of murder.  He should have been Dexter’s prized kill and for about an hour he was, but, that all changed when Dexter found his wife, Rita (Julie Benz), in a bath of her own blood, murdered by Mitchell hours before Dexter took his opportunity to add Trinity to his blood slide collection.