Right I came in this thread to see if everyone else liked it as much as I have, and the internet never fails to nitpick or complain about something stupid. This season has been real interesting. fukk what these hating ass never satisfied ass nikkas think.
That's fine, but older seasons of Dexter paid close attention to detail. Dexter had to make sure that he was careful about everything, because there were smarter characters around him. Now, he just does what he wants.
Case in point:
Dexter and Deb break into a house (break the frame) and scour the whole house looking for Vogel and Yates, who have left blood trails. They find them upstairs in the master bedroom, where the fearless villain has subdued Vogel in the closet before hiding under a bed. Dexter, realizing that Yates has taken sanctuary under the bed that is obviously large enough to hide a man laying sideways, decides to take matters into his own hands and impale the villain through the mattress. With a curtain rod. Deb, showing what is perceived to be character development, overcomes her emotions and says "Let's clean this up and get out of here." The scene cuts to them in the boat that same night.
Really?
Let's clean this up and get out of here.
Let's go to a mattress store and find an exact replica of the bed that was in the master bedroom. Let's replace or vigorously clean the carpet, the curtain rod, and the other bedroom items that have been exposed to all of the characters. Let's fix the door frame that we exploded through. Let's erase all evidence of there ever being a confrontation or blood/drool/hair in the house. And get out of here.
In previous seasons of Dexter, this would have been a huge deal that they were bumbling around like raging idiots leaving their prints, blood, hair, tracks EVERYWHERE. It's so careless, and it's hard to get past if you've ever watched before.
I know that Dexter has a "code," but there were always a set of rules that Dexter and other villains/murderers had to play by. They've all but abandoned those aspects of the show.
To add to all of that, why should the audience even care if Vogel dies? Why was Dexter still helping her if he was "done" with her? Her character was just introduced and suddenly we're supposed to care about her as if she were Dexter's grandmother or some sort of pivotal character. Dexter has always had a reason to chase down the people that have kidnapped Deb, Harrison, or anyone else in his life. Why does it matter if some half-decent (poorly introduced) villain has taken Vogel?
The dude that trapped Deb in the house of horrors with the mask on and the creepy music was more intimidating.
It's as if the writers stayed up for a whole week straight on coffee and adderall and tried to crank this whole season out.
Each episode is either garbage or top five ever. Character progression and plot building is "filler". Seasons become "garbage" if there's a two or three episode lull in action. Hyperbole is the name of the game around here. I just ignore most of it and come to my own conclusions 
