Dexter is Dumb. There, I said it.

Forget blood spatter; I need a brain splatter expert after the events of this season's premiere. Don't misread the title; it was all kinds of awesome. Tense awesome, often-funny awesome, in many ways, way-overdue awesome.

But still, Dex. No. Bad. Very bad.

( Slicers, or rather, spoilers, obviously.... )

And that, slasher fans, is where the first hour took us. It also included a B-story (Mike), a C-story (Quinn and Angel's awkward partnership), a DD-story (the Ukranians running the scrip club), and a G-for-Geek story involving Skippy the Intern and Dex's credit identity. One wonders why they felt the need to clutter up the premiere with all of that, since the Big Reveal was plenty to process all by itself.

First reaction from one of my Facebook buds: " I don't think I can take 11 more episodes of this...O_O"

First reaction on Facebook from moi:  "Want. Episode 2. NOW."