The following contains spoilers for Dexter: New Blood's sixth episode, "Too Many Tuna Sandwiches," which aired on Showtime on Dec 12. For more, check out our review of last week's episode.
"Too Many Tuna Sandwiches" hovered in the good-not-great zone, sliding up the scale from last week's modest letdown, but not quite delivering the full goods. Regardless of what the actual endgame is for New Blood, nothing can move forward until Dexter and Harrison wholly communicate with each other -- or, in other words, until Harrison discovers the truth about his dad and all the many, many murders committed. This chapter certainly got us closer to that, as well as building up a few other things, but we're still not at our destination yet.
So is Harrison finding out about his dad a series finale moment or do we get it sooner with layers on top of it?
In the meantime -- hey! -- let's give Dexter credit for actually going to therapy with Harrison. It was never going to work because there's far too much Dexter won't talk about (plus, did he really think Harrison didn't know his mom was killed?), but it was a step in the right direction. It was done for somewhat selfish reasons, of course (it's Dexter, after all), because Kurt started taking a bizarre shine to Harrison and Dexter's jealous. It was a good move, though also one that inadvertently made both Dexter and Harrison look bad because they won't directly address the Bay Harbor elephant in the room. Dexter seemed stifled and Harrison seemed like a traumatized kid who should've never tracked down his birth dad in the first place, which was sort of an awful reminder of who he was back in Episode 2.
Let's hope the actual necessary father/son chat comes soon, though. We're nearing the end of this limited series and Harrison's not only confessing his dark thoughts to Audrey, he's also putting them on public display during high school wrestling events. His desire to hurt people goes way beyond the M.O. he seemed to establish, that of playing the false hero, with Ethan. Now his tempter can't be contained and he's just out there breaking arms in front of a hundred people.
What do we think is true about Harrison? Do we believe his tears? We know he's an expert performer. Did he hurt Hannah? Was the reason he hurt that guy on the road really because the dude tried to grope him? What's the full scope here? Dexter obviously has an avalanche of secrets to unleash, but it's sure felt like Harrison, from the get go, has his own closet full of skeletons.
Speaking of skeletons, a big secret was revealed this week (technically, the end of last week's episode) when Angela found out, straight up, that Jim was Dexter (and I found out you spell Lindsay with an "a-y"). Dexter, when cornered, more or less told the truth to Angela, having to also own up to being an awful dad who abandoned his small son, but... did Batista and Quinn keep Dexter's secret about killing Oliver Saxon? Was that not a part of his obituary? "Died after recently killing a felon in an interrogation room?" Maybe, posthumously, because they both liked Deb and Dexter so much, they decided to hide this dark mark. But... how did they explain Oliver's murder? There is an explanation here, and we need it to work, because if it doesn't, the show ends right here and right now, but it's still a stretch.
Sidebar: Will Angela ever call Batista and rat out Dexter?
In the end though, it was a good beat when Angela discovered the body of her friend and called Dexter, needing "Dexter" -- requiring his forensic expertise, presumably, and not his, er, sailing skills. It's a crucial enough moment, one important to Angela and her backstory/arc, for her to immediately thaw the ice wall between them. This body, and that cave, must tie to Kurt, right? Angela suspected he didn't want people sniffing around there and it would seem she was absolutely correct.
At the same time, Kurt's other killing ground (featuring a way different ritual than what seemed to be used for poor Iris, who was almost honored and revered in a way) was outed when he tried to get the drop on Molly (to make up for his "ruined" kill) but got thwarted by Dexter. Dexter spent most of "Too Many Tuna Sandwiches" under the false impression that Molly was onto him as the Butcher and normally having your lead (and your guide/narrator) be that off is frustrating and hindering, but Dexter being wrong allowed him to stumble into a situation that totally upended Kurt's plan and it was pretty great. Dexter accidentally found out Kurt's a freakin' serial killer, which is kind of hilarious.
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