Dexter

Lately everyone's been talking about "Avatar," and the fans of TV series and the relevant sites have also been talking about "Dexter." I can't watch the first one in proper quality yet, unlike the second, which I'd been wanting to start watching for a long time. After I saw the reaction to the last episode of the fourth season, I decided to watch the show sooner rather than later, before I accidentally found out what happened in it and ruined the experience.

Got through four seasons in two weeks; if it weren't for work, it would've taken a week. Right now I'm still reeling from the ending... I haven't read any analysis or reviews of the episode yet. If you think about it, you couldn't call it unexpected — at the end of the third season I thought the fourth would end this way, but then I forgot because of the tense events in the fourth, and the very start of the episode pointed to such an ending, but then again by the end I was already fully immersed in the events and bought into it... For the show, unfortunately, this is the best finale there could have been. They played on the viewers' feelings well, which doesn't happen often. There was something similar in the last episode of the fifth season of "House." I think the ratings of the first episode of the fifth season of "Dexter" will set a new record for the channel.

Yeah, broadcast series are no match for cable ones, only waiting for the cable ones for 9 months is more agonizing. Before this year I tried not to start watching them, but this year I started two at once, though I dropped "Mad Men" because of the delays in the English subtitles coming out and the pure-drama genre — I'll finish the third season over the holidays. I also need to catch up on "Castle" and maybe "The Vampire Diaries" :) And why not? After all, the actor who plays Dexter's dad is going to play the dad of the main characters. I have no desire to go back to the too-procedural "Bones" and CSI — that's good to watch on TV without straining yourself, not on a monitor with subtitles fully immersed, when you've got other things to do too. I also really don't like it when subtitles don't show up on the day of the broadcast; I don't like keeping in my head which shows to look out for subtitles for over the next few days.

P.S. A bit more about "Dexter" and lions :) Yeah, among other things, I liked the last episode of the first season, called Born Free, also because in it there were lions set to John Barry's song from the film of the same name, even if only on a screensaver.