Dexter

Thrills, thrills, thrills in this penultimate episode of season five. Someone makes a major discovery, performs a heroic intervention or is horribly stabbed or bludgeoned to death in virtually every scene.

Dexter’s life and secrets are put in more and more danger – we pretty certainly know he’ll get out of it (series six is coming) but it’s nevertheless impossible not to follow him, fearfully, every trepidatious step of the way.

That’s particularly true now he’s in a relationship that feels a lot more significant than any of his others – and while Dexter (Michael C Hall) is surely immortal, Lumen (the excellent Julia Stiles) surely isn’t.