No. The entire show has been off tonally since that season.
They write in "comedic" lines for Masuka and Angel that fall short 90% of the time. The scene with Angel and the black girl (who I guess is now a main character we're supposed to care about with no exposition) was cringeworthy.
The scene where Dexter cracks his sister's password was a cheap shot at being meta that you wouldn't have seen in seasons 1-4.
Jennifer Carpenter as less compelling than ever, so rather than the bit part she was confined to before she's been injected into every story line we go down now. (Everyone is a fan of the Dexter and Deb love story though, right?)
The further the show gets from the source text, the more and more the plots get thinned. Thus they have to fill time with expanded roles for bit characters who don't merit it or terrible throwaway scenes like last night's intro.