Dexter, Season 7
Every week in Slate ’s Dexter TV club, Katy Waldman will have an IM conversation with a different Dexter fan. This week, she rehashes episode 7.1 with Torie Bosch, editor of Future Tense at Slate. As Season 7 opens, Dexter has just dispatched Travis Marshall, aka the Doomsday Killer —but there’s a catch. His adoptive sister Debra, newly appointed lieutenant of Miami Homicide, saw him commit the murder. Even worse, she witnessed the crime after suddenly realizing that she might harbor romantic feelings for her brother. In Episode 1, Dexter tries to convince Deb not to report him, even as he struggles to conceal his true nature as a serial killer. Torie Bosch: I've got my rubber apron on. Let's do this thing. Katy Waldman: One tension that I kept feeling during the episode was: How much was Dexter faking in his scenes with Debra? Was his shock and fear a performance, or was it a genuine reaction to getting caught?...