Los Angeles Times

OVERRATED

- — Chris Barton

‘This Is the End’ (2013): Starring roughly half the post-“Freaks and Geeks” universe as outsized versions of themselves, this movie has moments of bitingly selfaware laughs about celebrity culture, but there could have been so much more. Too often it drifts into easy grossout gags when it could have gone somewhere more surprising. It’s nice they all got to hang out again, though — was this “Ocean’s Twelve” for the Apatow set? ‘Dexter’: Just to be clear: Michael C. Hall is tremendous, and the final season of this Showtime series remains bitterswee­t as it marks an end to regularly catching this former “Six Feet Under” star on cable. That said, he deserves far better. Apart from a few intriguing guest stars (John Lithgow, for one), this show never found a single believable character other than its star, and it’s frankly disconcert­ing how many serial killers apparently plague Miami. It’s time this show rests in peace.

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