05.30 Dexter
06.30 Burn Notice
09.00 The Office
09.30 Corner Gas
Dexter. Season 2, Episode 8. "Morning Comes" Another superb episode, with a fair amount of twists and turns. The biggest shock in the episode (and there are many) has to be the sight of Doakes finding Dexter's hidden stash of blood samples. Blood taken from his victims. That's a real what-the-frak-happens-next moment.
Dexter (quickly) realises that he cannot trust Lila and brings their relationship to an ending (after she breaks into Rita's house). It's a show about a serial killer and his new girlfriend is the scary character in it.
Burn Notice. Season 2, Episode 6. "Bad Blood" An unrecognisable, but brilliant, Michael Shanks dominates this episode as the new recurring bad guy who shows up to blackmail Michael into doing some bad things for the bad people who are responsible for Michael's burn notice. All of this badness is actually very good. Especially Shanks.
The case-of-the-week is fairly ordinary. Rob Benedict is mis-cast as a greedy bad guy but the twists are still fairly fun to watch. It's fun to watch Michael putting his plans into action. It's even more fun to watch him adapt his plans when things go very wrong.
The Office. Season 5, Episode 6. "Customer Survey" Rare to find an episode about an ordinary day at work, but this is just that. An ordinary day at work. Jim and Dwight receive bad performance reports and strive to find out why. It's a delightful episode. The climax, where Michael and Kelly bond over the fact that some people won't come to their parties is genius.
Corner Gas. Season 5, Episode 4. "Dark Circles" There's one weak link in this - otherwise - very funny episode: Emma getting high on paint fumes. It doesn't really work, but everything else is golden. Hank (badly) attempts to prank everyone in town by creating crop circles. Karen does a much better job, but it rapidly gets out of hand and draws a large crowd. She sets Hank up to take the fall. But the townspeople give him a round of applause. So she own up and is promptly arrested, while a voice in the crowd calls out for Hank to get another round of applause and cheers. Why? No reason that I can think of, but it's an example of the way things happen in Dog River. Wonderful.
Brent, meanwhile, finds that a dark shirt changes people's perceptions of him and Oscar moves in with Davis. Promptly ordering him about making himself a royal pain in the ass. Hilarious.
Highlight? Dexter (What the frak happens next?)
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Sat, Nov 8, 08 - Dexter, Burn Notice, The Office, Corner Gas
