So I’m officially more than 24 hours behind at this point. So sue me. (Note to readers: this is, in fact, should not be considered to be a legitimate suggestion that you incur legal action towards either myself or PremiumHollywood.com.)
Anyway, I enjoyed four consecutive Showtime panels – “Dexter,” “Weeds,” “Brotherhood,” and “Californication” – and, frankly, what I got out of it was that I really ought to be subscribing to Showtime rather than HBO. I know, them’s bold words, but it’s true. “The Sopranos” and “Deadwood” are both gone ’til their respective creators get off their respective arses and put together movies, “John in Cincinnati” hasn’t done anything for me as of yet, “Tell Me You Love Me” is officially the running joke of the press tour (although, to be fair, I haven’t actually seen it yet, personally), and God bless ’em, but “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Flight of the Conchords” are both funny shows that will inevitably come out of on DVD, at which point I watch them at my discretion. Meanwhile, Showtime is offering new series like “Californication,” returning series like “Dexter,” “Weeds,”” and “Brotherhood,” and, in the future, will be bringing back “The Tudors” and “This American Life.”‘
Seriously, what’s not to like about Showtime?
Anyway, here are some highlights:
Dexter:
* Michael J. Hall describes the world of his character, the serial-killing Dexter, as “pretty rocked.” Expect him to encounter an unexpected visitor, says Hall, “someone who sees him for who he is, accepts him as such, and he really has no choice but to do him in. And so, yeah, I think — I think when we meet Dexter at the top of season two, he’s still reeling from that, and — and any footing he’s able to establish for himself is pretty much immediately pulled out from under him.”
Executive producer Clyde Phillips explains, “We’re sort of playing the beginning of the season, picking up obviously where the first season left off. And then, it’s maybe four or five weeks later in the world in which these characters inhabit. So all of the emotional resonance of what each of them went through, particularly with what Dexter went through, will continue as if that were the actual passage of time, so they’re still dented and rocked by what has happened.” (Adds fellow associate producer Daniel Cerone, “The nice thing with Dexter is it’s actually the lack of emotional resonance. So in episode one of the second season, he discovers his sort of emotional vacancy and his reaction to the death of his brother.”)
