Dexter: 'I killed my brother, and I killed yours too. Nyah nyah nyah.'

I know that there is one more episode left in this season of "Dexter" but I wonder if and how it can top last night's, thanks to Maria LaGerta's (Lauren Velez) detective work, Dexter's (Michael C. Hall) showdown with his archfrenemy Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits), and of course that sexy music-video-style bachelor party.  I say this cynically, however, not breathlessly.  We know from previews that Miguel's brother Ramon (Jason Manuel Olazabal) faces down Dexter for the murder of his two brothers.  But the Ramon Prado storyline throughout the season has seemed choppy and unfulfilling.  He's a menacing guy because he has a temper and a scary bald head and mean eyes but that doesn't make him frightening (for me, still, no bad guy on "Dexter" has been as scary as the Ice Truck Killer).  And while the Skinner is still on the run and a violent killer, he's too panicky and mysterious to really be interesting as a character. 

What I'll miss about Miguel Prado isn't his hulk or how eerily tiny his eyes were in his big face, but the cattiness between Dexter and him.  There was something inherently feminine in their friendship, despite the murderous undertones -- the way they became BFF so quickly, hung out together all the time without really much than superficialities to hold them together. Then the copycatting started, and the witchy comments and backstabbing and front-stabbing.  What's going to happen on the show now that Dexter's gotten Miguel out of the way?

Ah, but even though Dexter finally killed Prado, he still has to figure out what to do with the body.  Who is he going to frame? How will he ensure that Maria LaGuerta doesn't find out the truth? And is he actually going to get married on top of all this?

-- Claire Zulkey

Comments

[Bill at Tandberg]

I thought the episode on 11/30 was one of the best from this season. Also, episodes written by Melissa Rosenberg have been among the better for this year and past (I don't know her). I agree that the storyline has appeared a little more clunky this year...can't put my finger on it, other than I thought this season had a much slower start than 1 and 2. As a final note, the Dexter - Miguel dynamic could have been spun tighter if Miguel had revealed he knew Dexter was the real Bay Harbor Butcher. The guy is (was) a hard ass district attorney -- I think he would have pieced it together, further taunting Dexter on his death bed that he (Dexter) also was responsible for the death of an innocent -- just something else for Dexter to think about and further complicate his character.