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Dexter Resurrection (S1E2) – “Camerashy” Breakdown | Streamin’ Demons
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Jo turns 50 (congrats!) and kicks off this episode in reflective black—alongside Amelie in olive green—reviewing Dexter Resurrection S1E2, “Camerashy”. They decode the “camera-shy” hoodie reveal, Dexter as a protective dad haunted by his code, Harrison’s PTSD spiral, mysterious Dark Passenger echoing Dexter’s own legacy, and the show’s overstuffed pacing. Themes of identity, parental code, and emotional distance shine through. Stick around—Conjuring’s next, then back to Dexter.
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Key Moments
- Opening Birthday Quickfire – Jo hits the big 5‑0, opens with “growing old is for Idiots” (Thank's Tony Horton!).
- Hoodie Power Move – That “Camerashy” reflective hoodie moment: flash blurs your faces and sets the episode’s stylish tone.
- The “Dark Passenger” Clash – Dexter reacts to hearing his name echoed by someone else—a riff on identity, ownership, and power.
- Father-Son Code Pressure – Dexter obsessively protects Harrison—even cleaning a single blood drop like it's the ‘code’—showing everything's still personal.
- Character Setup Overload – Blessing, Charlie, Angel, Batista… it’s a setup tsunami. Jo describes it as “this happens, then this happens…”—a checklist plot that is lazy writing and shouldn't see the screen.
- Binge Dynamics – Amelie binged three episodes and it feels cohesive. Jo warns: episodic pacing might not hold if dropped weekly.
- Next Up Tease – As Jo hints of a super secret interview for What's Kraken with a director of 'one of the best horror movies' in a long time, the duo get ready to spoil the crap out of Conjuring: Last Rites for next week, followed by more Dexter!!
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Transcript
Intro
00:00:07
Jo
Here one Joe and Emily back in black. Or I'm wearing black. She's wearing olive green. Back in olive bling bling. Wow. 50 is socks. That's right.
00:00:19
Jo
If you saw my Somnium episode, I was still my 40s.
00:00:21
Amelie
Thank you.
00:00:24
Jo
Today is my first episode in my 50s. Good luck, people. Growing age. Growing age. Growing old ain't for sissies. So like and subscribe now before I croak over.
00:00:38
Jo
Kidding or not. Who knows? Time's weird. So Amelie, we're talking about Dexter season one episode two, Dexter Regsurection and it's Camishai.
00:00:50
Jo
Is that a Camishai hoodie you're wearing right now? So if I took a flash, would just like flash right off of it? Is that why you're wearing that hoodie? It's a Camishai hoodie.
00:00:58
Amelie
Yeah, yeah, maybe.
00:00:59
Jo
I think it is. yeah Like Iyara lights and some of that.
00:01:03
Amelie
would you Would you believe if it was one would be really fun with the, you wouldn't see my face.
00:01:03
Jo
So
00:01:08
Amelie
With the cam, you wouldn't see, you wouldn't see my face.
00:01:08
Jo
I would see your face only if I use a flash.
00:01:14
Amelie
Because here's the thing, it's, here you've got kind of lead, you cannot see in real life.
00:01:15
Jo
That's
00:01:21
Amelie
So I learned you, impossible. But through that camera, you would see just whoosh,
00:01:28
Jo
that's all I see.
00:01:29
Amelie
light
00:01:30
Jo
bought my glasses. That's all I see. Oddly, honestly, if I take my glasses off and I talk to people, i i see that. All I see is kind of like this blur of light.
00:01:44
Jo
I kind of see shapes. That's about all. You know. So we have Camishai. Now, this is weird episode because it starts off. they They try to do a like a fake.
00:01:57
Jo
They try to fake you out, but not wholehearted to fake out. Because the... what what What ride share do you have? We have Uber and Lyft by us. What was the one you have? Bolt? Do you have Bolt? What was that?
00:02:09
Amelie
both
00:02:09
Jo
boat oh my god i took a boat from my hotel in prague to the the airport i thought was throw up i got so car sick oh my god
00:02:20
Amelie
I'll both either you've got a good both driver and there's no problem are bad luck you get in a boat and the guy just drive like a crazy guy I had one X yeah
00:02:33
Jo
yeah that was me that was me fuck man I wish I could strangle
00:02:40
Amelie
I remember you sent me a message saying, I'm at the airport.
00:02:44
Jo
him.
00:02:45
Amelie
I think I'm going to throw up. And I'm like, what's going on? Look, it was like the Second World War. The guy just drove like a crazy guy.
00:02:51
Jo
Yeah.
00:02:53
Amelie
And I say to him to take his time. Like, is everything fine? I'm going to give you a tip. Slow down, dude.
00:03:00
Jo
Yeah.
00:03:00
Amelie
And, oh, God, like, you had a bad experience. But whenever I take Bolt, I have a good experience. I would say out of the 10 times I took Bolt,
00:03:06
Jo
Oh.
00:03:09
Amelie
Once I had a bad experience with a dude who didn't stop to look at his phone for the way for an office. And I was like, dude, look at your car.
00:03:20
Amelie
yeah catch Look at the road, dude.
00:03:22
Jo
Yeah. Well, yeah, it's okay. You had that experience. I had an illegal experience where he did ask me, he picked me up from the airport in Prague. And if you've ever gone to the Prague airport, you could just wait and get one of the official Ubers, which I think they lined up outside, right?
00:03:40
Jo
Or you can use the Uber app. I use the Uber app. And he was driving me to my hotel. He's like, you know what? I'm low on gas. Can I stop at gas station? I'm like, yeah i don't give a fuck.
00:03:51
Jo
Whatever. You know, like 10 minutes. Who gives a shit? I didn't know if that was illegal. I started getting pop-ups on my phone saying, are you okay? You're not at your destination, but you stopped for an awfully long time. like, ah ah do you want the cops? I'm like, no, no.
00:04:07
Jo
Fuck, man. The guy's getting gas.
00:04:08
Amelie
I didn't know that.
00:04:10
Jo
Yeah.
00:04:10
Amelie
That's fantastic. That's really good.
00:04:12
Jo
Yeah. And I was talking to a dude in Indianapolis as he was giving me a ride back from Gen Con. And i was like, yeah And I just mentioned it to him like, oh, no, that that's illegal. Because you're not ever supposed, you're supposed to stop for gas beforehand.
00:04:27
Jo
Because if you stop, then they will send the cops to us. Because they think that we're doing something to you. I'm like, oh, shit, that explains the pop-ups on my phone.
00:04:37
Amelie
Interesting.
00:04:38
Jo
Yeah.
00:04:38
Amelie
Have you ever sent an Uber for a friend in need?
00:04:43
Jo
Yes.
00:04:44
Amelie
Yes, me too. This is what I did.
00:04:46
Jo
I need a food. Damn.
00:04:47
Amelie
I had a friend who who got robbed on the street after a nightclub. like They stole his watch, they stole his wallet and everything.
00:05:00
Jo
took all of Warren's wealth and that's why we get... Oh, I was saying Nate Dogg has to regulate. Oh, my bad. i thought you were doing the regulator song from Warren G and Nate Dogg.
00:05:09
Amelie
They had his new watch. I laughed at him after because he was like, look, my new watch. Look, my new watch. No, no, no, no, no. And they stole his watch.
00:05:20
Amelie
They stole his wallet. got a good black eye and stuff like that, a Czech guy.
00:05:25
Jo
Black Eye?
00:05:28
Amelie
And it's because in
00:05:33
Amelie
yeah had the luck to have someone who who had a telephone, firm like I think it's a bar probably, and he called the reception when I was working because he knew I was working on Monday morning. He's like, look, I'm in real need.
00:05:50
Amelie
Can you send me an Uber? And will pay you back, but this is what happened. So I described to the Uber, my friend is da-da-da, check, he's got a black eye, da-da-da-da, visits the street, etc.
00:05:58
Jo
yeah
00:06:01
Amelie
And he got an Uber, but yeah, I'm thankful for Uber and Bolt to be able to send an Uber and Bolt to a friend. And you can see the map.
00:06:12
Amelie
They can send you a map during their trip.
00:06:14
Jo
And you can kind of track it for it.
00:06:17
Amelie
Yeah.
00:06:18
Jo
yeah So your experience was different. The one I got from my friend because it was raining and I was in the car with them and then
00:06:30
Jo
Well, we'll say I got kicked out of the Uber.
00:06:35
Jo
I got kicked out of the Uber. Nothing horrifically bad. But my friend's like, I'm going to keep going. I'm like, okay. So I'm like, I'm drenched.
00:06:47
Amelie
why did you get kicked out of the uber
00:06:47
Jo
I'm just fucking... That must be my smile. I... wasn't if anything It wasn't anything bad. It wasn't anything bad. I'll tell you offline. it wasn't it wasn't even wasn't nothing illegal.
00:07:00
Jo
It was just one of those things where one thing led to another and I got displaced from the Uber.
00:07:01
Amelie
la la la
00:07:10
Jo
And so I ended up walking. So basically I got my friend an Uber and they were all nice and dry and stuff like that. was basically getting pissed on by God. But It was all good.
00:07:25
Jo
I got to see...
00:07:25
Amelie
Is there the Uber driver who kicked you out or your friend?
00:07:27
Jo
Yeah.
00:07:32
Jo
Neither.
00:07:37
Jo
Exactly. I'll tell you fine.
00:07:39
Amelie
okay. okay
00:07:40
Jo
Yeah. So we've all been in good Ubers and bad Ubers. That that Bolt, I thought he was having a PTSD from... The war, I had no idea, but it was like all these side streets, a thousand miles an hour, sharp turns, sharp hits. i'm like, I was not ready for that.
00:07:58
Jo
and Usually I don't get car sick. The only other person that ever made me car sick was Jenny Hill. And she was driving this small little car. Hi, Jenny. And it was going through like this kind of the ah ah Scottish countryside slash the northwest of England border.
00:08:14
Jo
And it was just a matter matter of me going, oh my God, I can't. ah Otherwise, I'm golden.
00:08:20
Amelie
Oh yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:08:22
Jo
Like two twice in my life. And once was once was a PTSD person who thought he was still driving in the war. And the other one was Jenny Hill. So you know.
00:08:33
Jo
Now, for those you who watch BBC News, you're like, Jenny Hill? im like, yeah, Jenny Hill. Anyways, long time ago. Long the time ago. We have Dexter.
00:08:44
Jo
Well, I can subscribe now for more Uber tips. No, we have Dexter... Resurrection Season 1, Episode 2. And before we go on, I wanted to say New Blood got canceled.
00:08:58
Jo
Not New Blood. What was it? Old Blood? Start old school? Dexter old thing?
00:09:02
Amelie
Alt-Sin, Alt-Sin, Alt-Sin.
00:09:04
Jo
Whatever. Yeah, whatever it was, it got canceled. it the Showtime said they renewed it for season two. And then last week it just came out. They were just saying, just kidding, yoink, we're canceling it.
00:09:18
Jo
No reason given, which is fine. always like getting renewed and then canceled in the same fucking month, whatever. Must be nice. And people wondering why there's no loyalty to streaming services anymore.
00:09:33
Jo
Anyways.
00:09:35
Jo
Camera shy. We start off and it's it's a tease that Dexter is the person strangling the guy because it's supposed to look kind of like Dexter and it's supposed to move like Dexter.
00:09:46
Jo
No, it's just some sociopath. Just some dude. You know, some rando that cuts off the driver's head. you know, whatever. But you figure that out really quickly because Dexter never had like just he never killed out a humbug. He always had some big logical reason to kill.
00:10:06
Jo
And we didn't see him the setup, and Dexter's all about the setup and investigation, and then he kills people. so we're like, oh, so it must be some rando. And it worked okay, I guess. you know But when we do see Dexter, we see him going through the back door of the Empire Hotel to check out the crime scene.
00:10:24
Amelie
Exactly.
00:10:26
Jo
What do you think of that? what do you think of that? Because he's doing it because he wants to make sure his kid's okay.
00:10:31
Amelie
Yes, that's interesting with this season.
00:10:34
Jo
Yeah.
00:10:34
Amelie
He plays a father. He wants to protect his son, his son who is in New York alone.
00:10:37
Jo
Yeah.
00:10:40
Amelie
And that's really interesting because the previous season, he was either a baby, a child, or his son who was a teenager who wanted to do teenager things.
00:10:48
Jo
Yeah,
00:10:50
Amelie
Now he must be between 18 and 21 years think.
00:10:55
Jo
yeah he got a job at Somnium.
00:10:55
Amelie
And now he's looking at yeah is looking after his son like a dad who just helicoptered him, you know? Like, I want to see if my son is doing well.
00:11:03
Jo
Oh. Interesting helicopter. You're saying Dexter is a helicopter dad? Because he's trying to check in on him like that, like physically.
00:11:10
Amelie
Yeah.
00:11:12
Jo
I hadn't seen that before.
00:11:12
Amelie
like Because when you see in the first scene, he's talking to his dad and he's trying to do the code and everything and da-da-da-da.
00:11:13
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:18
Amelie
So he's a young man without his dad and he's trying to cover a murder and everything.
00:11:23
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:24
Amelie
Dexter thinks his son is trying to kill because he's a serial killer, just like him. Well, actually, no, it was an accident. We both saw the first episode. It just, boom, accident.
00:11:34
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:35
Amelie
He didn't try to, you know.
00:11:36
Jo
He lost his temper.
00:11:38
Amelie
He followed his father's code and advice, like everybody does, when for the first time you're alone in a big city without daddy, mommy, right?
00:11:47
Jo
Yeah.
00:11:47
Amelie
And the Dexter tried to look and see how he did everything.
00:11:53
Jo
Yeah. And I think that goes back to almost like if you were training an apprentice. Yeah. And the apprentice does the job. And then you come by and without the apprentice knowing, kind of like, okay, this is what he did. This is what the she did. And we can fix this later on. This is pretty well done.
00:12:11
Jo
And Dexter does that. He recreates the entire scene better than the cops do. And Claudette and Melvin, they're not dumb cops. They're not like, oh I'm clueless.
00:12:22
Jo
They're actually pretty smart in this. Like they are playing cops true to life, meaning with brain cells and with experience. They have their own corbels, but they are true to life.
00:12:37
Jo
And then you see where Dexter is just like brilliant anyway, because he's been a cop most of his life or has been around cops all of his life, really. And then he finds, he tracks it through like, okay,
00:12:51
Jo
What would you use? You couldn't use this. You had to use this. You had to use the the lobby bar kitchen. You had to use this little extra elevator here. You had to do this.
00:13:02
Jo
And then he's looking up. What did you miss? What did you do miss? You've got great table to murder someone on. But he's already murdered. It's great table to cut someone up on. And all these garbage bags are right here. That's nice.
00:13:13
Jo
Drainages right here. Sharp instruments. Looks up and sees a single spot of blood.
00:13:21
Jo
So Harrison covered his tracks except for one thing.
00:13:21
Amelie
Yeah.
00:13:24
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:13:26
Jo
Yeah. And that single spot of blood, Dexter ah ah immediately recognizes and cleans.
00:13:34
Amelie
Yes. To protect the sun.
00:13:37
Jo
To protect his son. Yep. Absolutely. He protects...
00:13:40
Amelie
That's really interesting to see the true vision because this theory is not funny, funny, lighting, ha-ha, like in Miami.
00:13:42
Jo
Yep.
00:13:49
Jo
yeah
00:13:50
Amelie
It's really dark. You see PTSD. You see the consequences of being a murderer, right? So you have the son who doesn't want to be a murderer, who really wants to forget about it, but he's got PTSD.
00:14:03
Jo
Yeah.
00:14:05
Amelie
He sees a ghost of the one he murdered several times during the episode, right? And in contrary, you have Dexter who is like, oh, my son is just like me.
00:14:14
Jo
Yeah. It was like Chip of the Old Black. And sure, Harrison also sees Dexter in a while. He thinks that Dexter is murdered. You know, Dexter was shot by him.
00:14:26
Jo
So he thinks Dexter's dead. So he kind of sees that kind of like Dexter sees Harry a bit. But we all see, your you know, if you live long enough, you'll you'll see your parents around. You know, it's not like because they're murdered or anything. They're just because they meant something to you.
00:14:42
Jo
Now, for Harrison, thinking about the guy he killed, it's really occupying his mind. Right? Dexter couldn't think twice about the person he he kept he murders.
00:14:55
Jo
except when he's looking at the slides. His little trophies, right?
00:14:58
Amelie
Exactly. Exactly.
00:15:01
Jo
And so you you you have that, and you're I think you're right. Dexter's like, oh yeah, he's just like me. But he's not. And I think a lot of parents make that mistake. Oh, you're just like me. No. You're your own entity.
00:15:15
Jo
And this is where Dexter's going to find out that Harrison's not like him in multiple ways. And one of the ways... Well, we'll get into it later in later episodes, but it becomes telling.
00:15:28
Jo
Now, Dexter finds his truck towed, and this is kind of like, this happens as forced plot point.
00:15:40
Jo
Because he finds his truck towed, two things happen. One, Angel's going to find out that it got towed, and Angel's going to come to New York. because Angel says like, oh, even if he gets a parking ticket, I want to be... Like the the writing's clunky as fuck in the series.
00:15:58
Jo
and think there's Like, even if he gets a parking ticket, I want to be known. I want to know. He says that. And then honestly, the next fucking episode, Dexter gets a parking ticket.
00:16:11
Jo
It's like, that's just lazy shit, man. I mean, either that or you think your fans are stupid as fuck and you needed to say that. I don't know. But, sure, whatever.
00:16:22
Jo
Dexter gets a stuff towed, and he gets it towed, only to set up the angel thing, and to set up him meeting, what's his name, Blessing Kamara? Who is it?
00:16:32
Amelie
something like that.
00:16:32
Jo
Uber, sorry, a rideshare driver. And talks about the dark passenger.
00:16:36
Amelie
I like... Yes. So, the dark passenger was a nickname given to his need for Dexter.
00:16:40
Jo
Yeah.
00:16:46
Jo
Yes.
00:16:46
Amelie
And he found out there is a serial killer called the dark passenger who looked like him, up apparently.
00:16:50
Jo
yeah It does.
00:16:50
Amelie
And tells the story of, oh, my friend, who is also driver, well,
00:16:51
Jo
Yes.
00:16:55
Amelie
He got attacked and da-da-dee and da-da-da, and this is what he does, etc. So Dexter is intrigued and he's like, ooh, a new victim. I'm going to look after the duck passenger. And he decides to ask the driver, hey, how can I be myself a driver just like you?
00:17:10
Jo
Yep.
00:17:12
Amelie
Because I just arrived in the city, need money. i mean money
00:17:16
Jo
Yeah, what which is is cute. Like, and Dexter's not doing it because... Maybe Dexter is looking for a dark passenger because he's a killer. the same time, he's kind of miffed. He's like, that's my name.
00:17:29
Jo
Like, that's what I gave my my fucking dark passenger. Like, what do you mean you're using that name? It's like almost a copyright infringement. that he's going to kill someone because of the copyright. Like, no, man, we we only have one dark passenger in this house.
00:17:41
Jo
So, yeah, he does this, and then he sets up... I'm looking at the notes... We're like, how can I be a Uber driver? You know, and it becomes a bit fun later on.
00:17:52
Jo
It becomes fun later on. Now, when you're meeting Blessing Kamara, do you care about that driver? Do you care about the blessing, like the guy that Dexter's talking to? Is he a likable character?
00:18:02
Amelie
Kind of. I like him because he's he's sunny.
00:18:03
Jo
Yeah. Me too.
00:18:07
Amelie
He's different from the other. He has an accent when he speaks. yeah He's a cool guy.
00:18:10
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:12
Amelie
He helps text her. He's like, oh, your car got towed. You knew he was your name. dadada I need to take care of him.
00:18:17
Jo
Yeah.
00:18:17
Amelie
He's a good guy.
00:18:19
Jo
He's a good guy. He's a good dude. And he comes in a lot later in the episode. And i I do like it because it reminds me of, as we're talking about negative and positive experiences, he reminds me of a lot of the positive experiences I had in a taxi or Uber where the person's really doing it because they want to make sure you're getting safely from A to B. You're doing so in style, right? I've had a lot of people like that and at Giant Con.
00:18:43
Jo
uh there was straight that i had like two people like that gen con the rest people couldn't even speak twice to me but we're like oh i know i'm really here because i really want to help people out i want to give them safe rides like great awesome that's blessing karmar kamara excuse me now got confused during this episode and the next scene because this person named charlie she stalks a serial killer and then she's like oh you know if you messed you messed up and whatever I didn't know that serial killer was not the guy we saw in the first episode, ah ah first ah part.
00:19:19
Jo
I thought they're the same person. That like, oh, because again, maybe I wasn't paying attention or maybe everyone looks alike to me. I don't know. I thought that the taxicab strangler, the dark passenger, was already killed by Charlie at this point.
00:19:38
Jo
Because she straight out says, you messed up. The guy tried to negotiate and she just kills him with own bat. Right?
00:19:45
Amelie
no you see the game he didn't pay attention sha you see game
00:19:48
Jo
Yeah. You do? Yeah. See, I thought it was just the same guy. I'm like, oh, so that guy is dead already. Like, okay. But it's a different guy entirely.
00:20:00
Jo
But she's just trying to set up that she exists in the world and she's a badass. And there's an organization that likes to talk to serial killers. So it's kind of like the force meeting of a bunch of characters.
00:20:12
Jo
In this episode, we meet the Dark Passenger. but We meet Charlie. We meet Blessing Kamara. This is like a lot of we must meet these people. We meet the detectives a little bit more as well. So it's more of a setup episode.
00:20:29
Jo
And we see Angel and talking with Teddy to say like where he's going to go, whatever it's going to be. So Angel comes back. It's kind of like, I don't know.
00:20:40
Jo
The episode's a lot of setup for other things. I mean, it's only the second episode.
00:20:42
Amelie
Yeah, but Angel doesn't play the nice cop anymore.
00:20:46
Jo
No, he he drops the, oh, gee, shucks act.
00:20:47
Amelie
No, no, at no. Yep, yep.
00:20:51
Jo
Yeah, and he's going to come in. And that's the thing. Angel, we started seeing who truly Angel is. And Angel is someone who used to be that nice, jovial person. who just happened to look like my friend and Bean.
00:21:04
Jo
If it's true, if ever seen Bean, like, oh my God, it's Angel. And we see the years weigh on him. We see death weigh on him.
00:21:15
Jo
And that's the haunted Angel we see now.
00:21:20
Jo
Right? And do you still... Okay, if it came down to it, Dexter versus Angel, who do you want to win?
00:21:29
Jo
To the death.
00:21:29
Amelie
Oh, bah! That's an excellent question.
00:21:35
Jo
eight Who would you want to win? If it comes down to it, Dexter or Angel, then one of them has to die.
00:21:44
Amelie
I want Dexter to die, not Batista.
00:21:46
Jo
Really? You want Batista to live and Dexter to die?
00:21:51
Amelie
Yes. Yes, because you can see in this series the darkness of de sir Dexter killed a lot of people and Batista lost a lot of people.
00:22:03
Jo
Yeah.
00:22:05
Amelie
He lost Deb. He lost... Oh man, I forget her name.
00:22:11
Jo
Maria.
00:22:12
Amelie
Maria. Evan.
00:22:17
Jo
i mean...
00:22:17
Amelie
like How many people died who were his friends and stuff?
00:22:21
Jo
Dexter lost people too. Dexter lost his mom, his wife, his sister.
00:22:28
Amelie
Yes, but it's because of Dexter.
00:22:29
Jo
His mother-wife's sister.
00:22:35
Jo
Well, okay. Dexter loses his mom. We can't blame that on Dexter, but...
00:22:40
Jo
Dexter loses the wife kind of because Trinity, because he's Dexter, guess.
00:22:48
Amelie
Dexter saved Trinity for killing himself. Then he killed Trinity, but Trinity knew he was going to be killed by Dexter. So he killed his wife first.
00:22:58
Jo
right.
00:22:59
Amelie
And when he came back, too late, his
00:23:02
Jo
Yeah. And then I think you and Dexter kind of...
00:23:08
Jo
and ends up having Deb get killed accidentally. We'll say. It didn't mean to get Deb killed, but it's what happens. All right. All right. So yeah, maybe Angel being more innocent of the victims around him.
00:23:22
Jo
Like Angel didn't do anything that made Maria get killed. Angel didn't do anything that made Deb get killed.
00:23:26
Amelie
Yeah.
00:23:29
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:23:30
Jo
Angel didn't do anything. Well, who else gets killed then? Dokes, but, you know, I don't think they're...
00:23:36
Amelie
Docs. Yeah, he didn't want it too, but Docs was looking. That's a new Docs. He knows something is wrong, but a lot of people around him died.
00:23:43
Jo
Yeah. So you're, okay, you're picking Angel instead of, okay, if you had to pick between Angel and Harrison, only one lives.
00:23:54
Amelie
angel Harrison to live.
00:23:56
Jo
Why? Wait, wait, you want Harrison to live? Why?
00:24:02
Amelie
Because he's a child. He's
00:24:05
Jo
he' He's got a GED, he's got like 19.
00:24:08
Amelie
a young man.
00:24:08
Jo
see That motherfucker killed at least two people. Or at least he thought he killed two people. yeah he kills at least one. He thought he killed another one.
00:24:14
Amelie
Yeah.
00:24:17
Jo
he's He's had a good run.
00:24:19
Amelie
He killed his father who asked him to kill him. Who he is serial killer then guy he killed accidentally was rapist like come on anyone like I'm not saying anything but he he is a good guy right saw all the series
00:24:35
Jo
Okay. okay How about this? the people The people that Dexter killed were not good guys. Dexter was doing community service.
00:24:44
Amelie
yeah but he he could have stopped and he put people in danger
00:24:50
Jo
could he have oh Could he have stopped? I think he's compulsive.
00:24:55
Jo
I think the dark passenger is literally the dark passenger. I think he's being compelled. The power of Christ compels him.
00:25:02
Amelie
Who deserves to survive? Who deserves to survive? For you, who would you like to to see Bim Badaboom?
00:25:09
Jo
Oh, who do I... I don't care if e Harrison lives or dies.
00:25:15
Jo
i think if Harrison dies in the next episode, I didn't watch...
00:25:15
Amelie
That's interesting.
00:25:19
Jo
I'm only on episode like four or five right now.
00:25:21
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:25:21
Jo
if if If Harrison dies in this episode, i wouldn't care. I would care.
00:25:26
Amelie
Why?
00:25:27
Jo
i would... I want... If you said i had to be blessing Kamara and Harrison, one of them gets to die.
00:25:35
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:25:35
Jo
Harrison's gone.
00:25:36
Amelie
Yeah.
00:25:36
Jo
Do you agree? Between Blessing Kamara and Harrison, you keep Blessing, who is like a secondary character.
00:25:40
Amelie
Oh, you bad. You bad. You... Shame on you, Barisone. I like that guy. I like the dude.
00:25:47
Jo
Yeah, but you would do the same thing You would kill Blessing over Harrison?
00:25:48
Amelie
like... save
00:25:52
Jo
No, you wouldn't.
00:25:52
Amelie
No, no, no, because he's so such a good actor. Yeah, yeah, like...
00:25:56
Jo
Yeah. I would say the severed head, if you had to say Stanley's severed head from after the dark passenger, the the the Uber driver, the dark passenger kills in the first two minutes, I would say his severed head versus Harrison. I'm still caring killing Harrison.
00:26:15
Jo
I'd rather talk to Stanley's severed head than see Harrison get a show. Because I don't think that show is going to be successful.
00:26:24
Amelie
why Why you don't like Harrison?
00:26:27
Jo
It has nothing to with the actor. I hope other everyone understands. It has nothing to actor. It's... I don't give ah ah fuck about him as a kid.
00:26:39
Jo
i don't give a fuck about him as an adult. I don't give a fuck about him as a character in Dexter. like just I just... How the fuck's to give for him, man?
00:26:50
Jo
I didn't care. i would actually rather see Like, what was it? Cody and What was the stepkids? Cody and...
00:27:01
Amelie
I don't remember the name. Yeah, the daughter and the son, yeah.
00:27:03
Jo
Yeah. Yeah. I'd rather have seen them. Why? Because I saw them in previous episodes of Dexter for years.
00:27:15
Jo
this Like, Harrison as a character? What? I see him as a little baby. Yeah, that's not a character. It's a prop. And the next time I see him, he's like, you know, 17. I'm like, I don't care.
00:27:27
Jo
Why would I? I'm just old. I'm 50. I'm cranky. That's why. for cranking, damn it. So, okay. We see that Harrison sells a truck.
00:27:39
Jo
You know, he does a bunch of blow first and then he sells he sells something, whatever.
00:27:44
Amelie
Yeah, because he's got t got PTSD.
00:27:44
Jo
I'm like, how many trucks does Dexter have?
00:27:48
Amelie
He wakes up at night. He has nightmares. He contacts your friend on the phone. He's like, hey, let's party. Yeah, let's do drugs.
00:27:56
Jo
This party.
00:27:57
Amelie
You know what I mean? No. you
00:28:00
Jo
Which is exactly it. And this is what I'm saying. Dexter thinks Harrison's just like him. He's not. Could you imagine Dexter doing a bunch of drugs?
00:28:09
Amelie
no
00:28:10
Jo
No. No, because Dexter's probably afraid if he did drugs, he's killing everyone there. The only thing kept keeping Dexter...
00:28:16
Amelie
There is an episode in the previous series where accidentally he gets fucked up or little bit drunk, but nothing happens, he's just little bit woohoo, but that's all.
00:28:19
Jo
Not killing.
00:28:24
Jo
He's...
00:28:26
Amelie
But he doesn't do drugs because, oh my god, i I've got this darkness in me, I'm an alcoholic, and na-na-na.
00:28:26
Jo
right
00:28:31
Jo
He needs to keep control.
00:28:32
Amelie
No.
00:28:34
Amelie
Yeah.
00:28:35
Jo
And that's part of the code Harry co caught them taught him. Keep control at all costs. Because if you lose control, then you're just one of the animals.
00:28:46
Jo
You're on mute.
00:28:49
Jo
Still i mute. Amelie, you're still on mute no matter what you say. You're still mute.
00:28:53
Amelie
Oh, sorry. I saw the little zigzag. So as I was saying, he's not stressed. He's not mad. He's not sad. He's not nothing.
00:29:03
Jo
Yeah.
00:29:04
Amelie
He's a psychopath.
00:29:05
Jo
It just is.
00:29:05
Amelie
He doesn't have any feelings. He likes food. eats a lot of food. He likes food but lot, barbecue, stuff like that. you know
00:29:11
Jo
Oh man, I want some food.
00:29:11
Amelie
He likes to eat lot, right? But he's not like, oh, my God, I killed somebody. I'm very stressed. I need to get fucked up drunk, you know? Yeah, he does like sex.
00:29:20
Jo
Yeah, which Harrison does.
00:29:21
Amelie
Sometimes he does like sex. Mm-hmm.
00:29:22
Jo
Right, and that's exactly it. Harrison, his reaction to killing someone was, I need to get fucked up. Which is a natural reaction to have. you kill someone, you might want to get fucked up a bit.
00:29:32
Amelie
Oh, yeah.
00:29:33
Jo
You know, it's a natural reaction to have. And Dexter doesn't see Harrison having that reaction because he thinks he's just like him. It's like me picking up what shoes I'm going wear today.
00:29:46
Jo
Like, okay, the other black ones. Cool. you know. So we see this as it goes on. And then Dexter does the whole, like, I want to become an Uber driver because he's really like, I need money. Not really. But I have no idea what Dexter does for money.
00:30:01
Jo
No clue. But we get to see a bit of Dexter with the house party, Blessing's house party. And he's like, oh, he talks to the guy like, I survived the killer. I'm like, yeah, right.
00:30:12
Jo
This guy's probably got nothing. but He's got a dash cam and does survive the killer.
00:30:15
Amelie
Yeah.
00:30:16
Jo
I'm like oh, my God.
00:30:18
Amelie
But that's interesting because they give him the maximum of information.
00:30:18
Jo
And yeah.
00:30:22
Amelie
Dash cam, what happened? The guy show how he was attacked.
00:30:25
Jo
Yeah.
00:30:25
Amelie
He say, okay, can I please check your net, etc.? The guy was just like you, same handshake color and stuff. Maybe you will say a killer. Boo. And he really likes these people because instead of being shot and crying and depressed,
00:30:41
Jo
yeah yeah instead of all that
00:30:49
Amelie
Yes, they're very happy people in the trauma.
00:30:53
Jo
yes happy to be around yeah right yeah and the
00:30:54
Amelie
They're very happy people. And Dexter is little bit different from the normal perp people. you know He's very depressed and stuff.
00:31:04
Amelie
He's very, how can I say, he's very psychopathic. He doesn't know how to act with normal people, right?
00:31:09
Jo
He's very closed in with his emotions.
00:31:12
Amelie
Whereas seeing people with a big smile, he can communicate with them better.
00:31:16
Jo
Yeah, and and I think we see a bit of of blessing. The character's name is Blessed Kamara. We see that in his openness and his friendship and his open life and all the love they have at that party, even though one of the people almost got killed.
00:31:31
Jo
And you're right. They spoon basically, this is what I'm saying. The writing's a bit lazy. Because of the Angel Batista thing, they're right. They're just spoon fed. Like people are just got dumber through the years watching Dexter.
00:31:45
Jo
And then this writing is like, of course, is something, you know, Dexter's going to catch that someone else didn't catch. Of course, Dexter's truck's getting towed.
00:31:56
Jo
Of course, Angel's going to find out. Of course, he has to take an Uber. Of course, that Uber driver's just going to happen to mention this. Of course, Dexter's going to say, why not go to a party?
00:32:07
Jo
And of course, someone at the party's going to show him bit by bit exactly what the Dash... the dashboard killer serial, the dark passenger does. And then Dexter's going to go like, great.
00:32:19
Jo
And of course, Blessing's got an apartment to rent. Why not? You have to connect more people.
00:32:26
Amelie
A pile of a pile of a pile. You take a Uber driver and the guy knows someone. who You meet the people and I have a flat.
00:32:31
Jo
yeah
00:32:34
Amelie
Sometimes, you know, can be it. You meet someone who knows someone who knows someone. You know, socializing. You can find some stuff. The flat thing, really lucky.
00:32:44
Amelie
Really lucky dude.
00:32:46
Jo
yeah was Yeah, it's so lucky it's basically MacGuffin. I mean, it's it's not MacGuffin, it's all Deux Sacks. But you you see all this and then Dexter does a basic Google search as my light goes out.
00:33:00
Jo
A basic Google search and goes, oh, there's only three people that work at that corporation and must be the one with no picture.
00:33:08
Jo
Like, what the fuck, man? It's like Dexter by crayons. Like, honestly, Paramount, be be true of me. Do you think the public is so dumb now you can't tell an intelligent Dexter story anymore?
00:33:24
Jo
Which is, you still have suspend your disbelief that he could kill people for like 45 fucking years and be a police officer. But do you think we're just this dumb to the point where you have to really color in everything and spoon feed us bit by bit by bit by bit?
00:33:39
Jo
Come on, man. Come on. So, yeah you know, it's fine. He finds Ronald what McDonald, whatever the guy's name is. And like, oh, it must be this guy. And he does something very on Dexter like that's this model for Dexter resurrection on Dexter life. It starts off being shot through the chest and not dying. It's very on Dexter. Like most people die from that.
00:34:03
Jo
And it goes like, oh I have to become a better father because dokes told me to on Dexter like, and instead of letting the serial killer get in the Uber. So it gets confirmation. It gets confirmation and he's still healing up, right? He's not ready for action.
00:34:20
Jo
he intervenes,
00:34:25
Jo
saves the Uber driver's life, and then chases the killer through New York, all the while the killer can see his face.
00:34:40
Jo
He exposes himself to try to help someone out. And the episode ends with Harry coming back saying, hey, that's... unusual for you to do. It's not the logical step.
00:34:54
Jo
You're going against programming now, right? So you see that, what did you think of, does that affect the way you see Dexter's character that he's now starting to make human choices versus the logical next step?
00:35:11
Amelie
I didn't thought about it. I really didn't thought about it because i was more attracted by the episode from the point of view of his son, having PTSD, doing drugs, etc., and having guilt.
00:35:16
Jo
Yes.
00:35:29
Amelie
I found the new character, the driver, really funny, so I like to see what's going on.
00:35:34
Jo
Yeah, me too.
00:35:35
Amelie
I really got caught with the idea of the special hoodie. He wears a hoodie. and he's got a special light around, and you can't see his face. And that, I was like, wow, that's smart.
00:35:45
Jo
Yeah.
00:35:48
Amelie
You know, it was very on point.
00:35:49
Jo
Do want one? We can make it one.
00:35:51
Amelie
But to be honest,
00:35:53
Jo
Do you?
00:35:54
Amelie
um um I didn't thought about that. I'm more like taken by the synopsis of, oh, I think his son is just like him, a serial killer, and he's doing it in purpose, you know.
00:36:06
Jo
Yeah.
00:36:09
Jo
Yeah, i think I think it's easy to get cut up in that. And I do agree. A lot of the parts of the episode work. a lot of Mostly the episode works because the acting.
00:36:23
Jo
Like the things that clunk are not the actor's fault. It's the writing. When it clunks, it's exposition, it's writing. That's what clunks. Or whoever cut the episode at the end.
00:36:35
Jo
What really works well, atmosphere works well. The acting works well. You care about all the characters. like I even care about the dude who in the park, the that the valet that he goes out with, that Harrison goes out with. I even care about him.
00:36:50
Jo
I don't care so much about Harrison. Like I said, I i don't really care about Harrison as a person. i don't really care what happens to him. He's interesting as a character to me in this episode in this season.
00:37:01
Jo
But he's not interesting because he's Dexter's kid. That's i'm trying to say. I don't want to see Dexter part five Harrison's adventures. I wouldn't give a shit. Like those adventures are Dexter's.
00:37:13
Jo
I see him as a character like Deb. You know, I wouldn't want Deb to have her own show.
00:37:22
Jo
But I care about Deb.
00:37:23
Amelie
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:24
Jo
Yeah, fair.
00:37:25
Amelie
Yeah, I see. Now you explain like that. I'm like, yeah, sure.
00:37:28
Jo
Yeah.
00:37:28
Amelie
That's very interesting because you don't like Ari's son.
00:37:28
Jo
Yeah.
00:37:30
Amelie
I didn't like Debs.
00:37:32
Jo
No, no.
00:37:33
Amelie
So I get it.
00:37:34
Jo
I liked her in White Girls, the movie. So we we see this, and this is only episode two, so they're doing a lot of setup for episode. This is just basically exposition, cast introductions, and motives.
00:37:50
Jo
that Basically, they should call that Screw Kamishai, which is the episode title. should be exposition, character setup, and motives. Boom. All in one episode. Shoved in your face for 30 minutes, and then it ends miraculously.
00:38:03
Jo
You know, but it says something up nice. I think it's an early episode. I believe Paramount released the first three episodes all at once. So you could probably binge those. And after that, it's one per week.
00:38:15
Jo
Sure, it works. It didn't want me to just stop watching it. You know, i kind of do like watching it. The episode flies by for me. people Some people said it was slow, but like these episodes kind of like, oh, it's over already. That thing, you know.
00:38:32
Jo
So overall, are you still excited in watching Dexter Resurrection?
00:38:36
Amelie
Oh, yeah.
00:38:37
Jo
Yeah.
00:38:37
Amelie
Yeah. I oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:38
Jo
Me too.
00:38:39
Amelie
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah I like the first episode, episode like I immediately got hooked by the first episode. The second one, like you said, look, I was so happy with the hoodie and the dark passenger and it's a new it's Dexter.
00:38:45
Jo
Yeah.
00:38:50
Jo
Yeah. There's small things that go. but
00:38:53
Amelie
Like I was so happy. I binged it.
00:38:56
Jo
Yeah.
00:38:57
Amelie
OK. I didn't pay attention of all the this and that and this and that. I'm like, oh, ha ha eho you know, it goes very quick.
00:39:04
Jo
Yeah. It goes quick.
00:39:05
Amelie
After, if we look at it from a point of view of writing, yes, it makes sense. The first episode was great to do a transition. The second episode, it just do bing bang, bang, bang, bang.
00:39:14
Jo
Yep.
00:39:17
Amelie
This is what's going on.
00:39:17
Jo
Yeah.
00:39:18
Amelie
and we have to give a chance to the other episodes.
00:39:22
Jo
absolutely Absolutely. And that's, when you're saying bang bang, bang, bang, what's going on, that goes back to South Park, Matt and Trey saying, bad writing is this happens, then this happens, and this happens, when good writing would be this happens, because this happens, this can happen.
00:39:38
Jo
And that's difference. And I think episode two is this happens, then this happens, then this happens, and this happens. And they try to do like, well, because of, hmm?
00:39:44
Amelie
Was it a filler episode? Do you think it's a filler episode?
00:39:49
Jo
didn't hear you.
00:39:51
Amelie
A filler episode. Do you think it's a filler episode?
00:39:55
Jo
I think they either had to do the episode this way of one thing after or another miraculously happening to explain the rest of the season or they had to expand the season to like four or five. my You know, everything that happened this episode could have been two or three different episodes.
00:40:12
Amelie
Yeah, I agree.
00:40:14
Jo
It could have taken their time. But by doing that, but it's not my money, so of course I said that. By doing that, they would have added on two or three more episodes or even a different season to Resurrection to get to where they wanted. So I think there's kind of like, oh, let's fast forward through some shit.
00:40:29
Jo
Whatever.
00:40:32
Jo
You know?
00:40:32
Amelie
sometimes we forget when we watch theory and it's the first season they try so they've got low budget jes they've got timing deadline etc so
00:40:37
Jo
Yeah.
00:40:42
Jo
Well, Dexter's got...
00:40:43
Amelie
You can have it a fantastic character and storyline, there is always a filler episode or an episode with Eh, could have been better, but, you know, okay, fair enough, you you take the shortcut.
00:40:53
Jo
yeah good
00:40:55
Jo
Have you watched The Flash TV show?
00:40:59
Amelie
Yeah, quickly, but never hooked.
00:41:03
Jo
Same. Yeah. There were some episodes of The Flash, some seasons of The Flash I loved. And then we'll say out of 20 episodes, only five I'd watch because the other 15 were just shit.
00:41:16
Jo
They're just filler, like, oh my Christ, what the fuck am I doing with my life? There's entire seasons I fast forward of The Flash, no pun intended, because I didn't care.
00:41:25
Amelie
yeah yeah
00:41:25
Jo
But I wanted to see what happened at the end of the story. You know, it doesn't feel that way to me. Like, but but this episode two does not feel like The Flash to me.
00:41:36
Amelie
no no is there is a there is link somebody is a writer or a group of writers they say okay we're going to do 10 episode and it's going to be chapter 1 2 3 4 5 etc there will be a link
00:41:37
Jo
i It's still watchable. Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:48
Jo
yeah
00:41:50
Amelie
Every episode you watch, there will be an answer for the next episode, or you're going in five episodes to say, oh yeah, three episodes before, he mentioned it, or the character, etc.
00:41:58
Jo
Right.
00:42:01
Jo
Yeah.
00:42:01
Amelie
That's the same with Breaking Bad, that's the same with Better Call Saul, etc.
00:42:05
Jo
Never watched it.
00:42:07
Amelie
That's great. There is some good series. I remember watching with my parents, like by for example, Battlestar Galactica, which is great.
00:42:17
Amelie
There are some episodes, it fantastic.
00:42:18
Jo
Which one?
00:42:20
Amelie
Battlescar Galactica, the new one.
00:42:22
Jo
Katie Stackhoff? With the new one, guess. it With Katie. Okay.
00:42:26
Amelie
The new one, yes.
00:42:26
Jo
Yeah. No, amazing.
00:42:28
Amelie
I loved it. I watched it with my parents, but sometimes there were a night, we remember, it was a special episode just about couples.
00:42:31
Jo
Yeah.
00:42:35
Amelie
It was boring as fuck.
00:42:37
Amelie
And me and my dad, we were looking at each other other like, what the fuck? They're in the space and they have dinner, know romantic dinner, and they talk and they talk. And you can really feel felt it was theater episode.
00:42:37
Jo
Really?
00:42:48
Jo
A filler.
00:42:49
Amelie
It's just a black woman with a white guy, the captain with a Starbucks talking, etc.
00:42:53
Jo
Yeah.
00:42:54
Amelie
And I'm like, what's that? Where's the alien? Why is he? Yeah, sure, it's about romanticism. Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, you could have skipped that episode and you would be fine.
00:43:01
Jo
You know who did... Which is funny because you you can look at that, you can watch something like MASH, the TV show MASH, where the episodes, any random episode could be a filler episode, but it didn't feel like it.
00:43:16
Amelie
Yeah, because it's funny.
00:43:17
Jo
There's some series that actually pull it off perfectly. But I agree. I don't think this was so much a filler episode than was just annoyed by the the listing. Like, this happens, check. This happened, check. Okay, what else do we to do? This is grocery shopping.
00:43:33
Jo
Dexter, season one, episode two, grocery shopping. oh Sure, whatever. We'll get the fuck. I can get it. We're setting things up. The characters are great. I love meeting Blessing Karmara.
00:43:44
Jo
I love seeing everything in action. I love seeing pieces of it. I just didn't think it worked as a cohesive. I think I was just too listy.
00:43:51
Amelie
You know why it works with me? You know why it works with me? Because I've been watched. I've been watched three episodes in one go.
00:43:57
Jo
Oh, so you just kind of like made you feel like it was one long episode from one to three.
00:44:02
Amelie
Yeah.
00:44:02
Jo
Okay.
00:44:02
Amelie
Like, basically, in my head, it's episode one and two and three.
00:44:06
Jo
Okay.
00:44:06
Amelie
All together.
00:44:07
Jo
Yeah, because did like one at a time and this was just like, oh, like if they were released at one week at a time, I don't know if I would watch episode three.
00:44:09
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:44:15
Jo
I'm like, I'll watch it later. But nobody, you know, I'll be like 10 years from now.
00:44:18
Amelie
Mm-hmm.
00:44:19
Jo
I'm I'm write in the episode. All right.
00:44:20
Amelie
We need to take account my generation, we binge watch. Like we stay home of all afternoon and we watch the whole series in one go.
00:44:31
Jo
yeah
00:44:31
Amelie
Or now we have one episode. It's one hour. see what I mean? Like we binge watch literally. So watching Dexter, I didn't pay attention when you say, yeah, that's going, so that's going and da, da, da. And I'm like,
00:44:45
Amelie
Oh, watched this three episodes and I didn't feel like it. Like I saw the ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta and then the consequences.
00:44:52
Jo
Well, when we talk next week about episode... Oh, by the way, next week, I'm doing an interview. i i can't say with whom. It's the director of a movie. I can't say whom yet.
00:45:02
Amelie
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00:45:03
Jo
But I'm very excited for my next What's Crackin' because it's me a special one being put out with an interview with a director from a movie that I can't even talk about. So bizarre. I can't talk about that is going to win a bazillion awards, deservedly so, and it's horror, true horror, and I can't wait. But after i can actually release those, we'll talk about when I can.
00:45:27
Jo
But next week, we'll be talking about Conjuring. Conjuring.
00:45:33
Amelie
Ooh.
00:45:33
Jo
last rites, and then we'll back to Dexter. Conjuring, last rites, and then back to Dexter, season one, episode three. So, if you're watching us, we'll take a small break from Dexter to hit Conjuring, love, and then Conjuring, and then my special guests will come in.
00:45:50
Jo
But yes, Dexter, good call. Good call, I think. Absolutely. behalf of myself, Joe, and Amelie, we bid you good day. you next week with Conjuring. Bye!
00:46:02
Jo
We spoil the shit out Conjuring, so watch Conjuring first before we spoil the shit out of it. Bye, everyone.