page_title: Love American Style (Dexter)
section_title: Reception
hierarchical_section_title: Love American Style (Dexter) / Reception
caption_attribution_description: English: Jeff Lindsay at the 2013 Texas Book Festival, Austin, Texas, United States. Mr. Lindsay wasn't really perturbed with me (at least I don't think so). He made the face for the photo.
context_page_description: "Love American Style" is the fifth episode of the first season of the American television drama series Dexter, which first aired on October 29, 2006 on Showtime in the United States. The episode was written by Melissa Rosenberg and was directed by Robert Lieberman. In the episode, Dexter Morgan hunts down Jorge Castillo, a human trafficker and murderer. His sister, Ofr. Debra Morgan, attempts to extract information from a security guard whose limbs were amputated by the "Ice Truck Killer".
  The episode was the first to be written by Rosenberg; it was her first for a cable show, and she finished writing the script five weeks early. Filming took place at numerous locations in and around Miami, Florida and Los Angeles, California. The scenes filmed in Florida were shot in July 2006 and those in California were shot later. "Love American Style" received generally positive reviews from critics and was watched by 6.7 million people when it was broadcast by CBS eighteen months after its Showtime premiere.
context_section_description: "Love American Style" attracted 6.7 million viewers when broadcast on CBS in March 2008, 18 months after its original broadcast on Showtime.
  IGN's Eric Goldman felt that the episode's juggling of multiple storylines was "satisfying", and that the scene in which Dexter prepares to kill Castillo was "terrific". Though he praised Debra and Doakes' storyline with Tucci, he wrote that "it was a bit disappointing to then see Deb be a bit too quickly vindicated at the end". Paula Paige, writing for TV Guide, said that the episode "will go down in cable history as Dexter's finest [episode] to date". She was pleased with Debra's character development and the "downright stylish" cinematography, but thought that Jorge and Valerie's final, passionate words to each other were "too much for me". Ray Ellis of Blogcritics believed that the episode "takes the series into a more three-dimensional direction". He described the episode's subplots and themes as what "make Dexter compelling", and wrote that Debra's character reached a more "empathic level" in the episode. TV Squad critic Keith McDuffee praised the increasing complexity of Dexter's relationship with his father through flashbacks, and thought that Dexter's voiceovers were "the best thing about this show".
caption: Author Jeff Lindsay was initially upset with the episode.
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