Review: Dexter: Original Sin, "The Big Bad Body Problem" | Season 1, Episode 7
The season's Big Bad is revealed, and it's one of the people you probably suspected
Let’s start off properly here by again giving credit where it’s due. After last week’s episode, when the son of Captain Spencer was kidnapped, I commiserated with reader Kate in the comments about how our list of potential Big Bads was growing thin—how the show would likely have to toss us some rando late in the game now that both Sarah Michelle Gellar (too physically unlike the kidnapper) and Patrick Dempsey (can’t be him, his own son was kidnapped!) were crossed off the likely culprit list. Yep, you got me, Original Sin; I assumed the Captain wasn’t showing much in the way of remorse because the part was simply not written very well. And that can still be true, but it can also be true that they’re at least nodding toward the idea that something is very, very off about this guy, albeit in the aforementioned clunky manner.
Still, it worked, and now we can get to the heart of the season. Because, in all honesty, the original Dexter wasn’t very go…