Dexter Series Finale review
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- Опубликовано: 24 сен 2013
- After an 8 season run, the Showtime series "Dexter" comes to an end. Jeremy gives you his thoughts on the series finale...and other missteps his once favorite show had after season 4.
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Season 7 was cool. Loved Isaak. That bar scene with him and Dexter was brilliant.
I wish they ended the whole Isaac story a lot better, and make Isaac a bit more great as a villain.
michael88863 Hannah sucks tho she's so dumb and ruined the season pretty much
That bar scene was amazing when Isaak shares his wisdom on love to Dexter. I would've bought him a drink!
Dexter and Punisher. Hell yeah.
Yep. Season 7 was great. Anybody who didn't like it can f himself.
Dexter's ending is like listening to a beautiful enchanting symphony playing from the top of the forest hills along the sunset with a choir of elven maids.... and then just when it ends...like 5 seconds before it finishes....you hear a huge wet fart.
+The Usual Spot FUCKING PERFECT DESCRIPTION!
Not even because the show started to suck after season 4 so it's more like a song that has a good intro then the rest of it blows.
Lol 😂
More like a symphony going out of tune... you hear a long squeaky fart then a... plop! a drop of shit.
a year later and this comment still cracks me up
Dexter really deserved a better ending.
Ethan Duggan I would have preferred everyone to find out who he actually is and to be executed while poetically seeing all the major characters that he's killed or died as a result of him like Brian Moser, Lila, Doaks, Miguel Prado, Arthur Mitchell, Jordan Chase, Travis Marshall, Maria Laguirta (I know Dexter didn't directly kill her) and Oliver Saxon, as he is dying by lethal injection. Debra looking on from the viewing area with Harrison all distraught, Angel looking betrayed and Harry Morgan looking silently devastated.
it deserved to end after rita died it would have been an absolutely amazing show without all the other shit that happened the only season that was alright after that was season 6 with Edward James Olmos and Tom Hanks son.
It's renewed for a new season this September.
Reece Bark Deb deserved a better ending and Quinn, Batista and Mazouka deserved ANY ending
Alex yes season 6 was horseshit but season 7 was surprisingly good, it was one of the best for me. Completely changed the dynamics of the show. Too bad the ending of the whole show was so disapointing.
I would have preferred it if Dexter had sacrificed himself to save Debra. Debra lives and is traumatized by this but after a year has gone by, she has returned to Miami Metro PD and is getting her life back on track.
She is later on a Police Call to capture a killer. She overpowers the killer and pulls her gun on him and pauses. She looks up and sees Harry telling her to arrest him and Dexter saying to kill him. The End
Perfect. And make her take care of Harrison. Nobody likes nor trusts Hannah
+Matt “Spider-Matt” Thornton Thornton Much better! Deb should have lived and Dexter die or at least disappear, as she didnt deserve death in this show, she was by far the best character IMO and it was hard to see her go. If she would have lived on knowing Dexter was either dead or presumed dead, then I would be much more satisfied than before. A BLOOD CLOT. A VEGETABLE. Thats shit tbh. Ah well whats done is done.
P.S I hate Hannah in Season 8, she needed to fuck off :)
Debra dying because of Dexter, is the best way to end the show. Period. The only person that he actually cared about, died, and the best punishment was to not live the life he wanted with Hannah and Harrison. He can't just die or kill himself. He was too smart and analytical.
+Matt “Spider-Matt” Thornton Why did you type that? Now I am forever going to be pissed about not seeing something this awesome.
I wouldnt touch the series especially the ending cause of how good it was but dude, hell of an alternative ending. This is some cool scene I would appreciate as a bonus ending for a disc collection set or something.
I like to pretend that wasn't how the finale went.
I like to pretend the season 4 finale was the series finale.
+Crow Haiges Yup, and no one can tell me any different.
+Levi Anthony Lol well whatcha gonna. Gotta finish it.
Aj007cool me too
Levi Anthony The show is great. Season 8 is the only shitshow.
Don't worry, the writers hated this finale as well. Showtime didn't let them do the ending that they wanted and wouldn't let Dexter die. Yeah, this finale was shit, but if we're gonna blame anyone, blame Showtime.
Ethan How was the ending supposed to go?
Zachary Foster Still a sucky ending. I’d much rather have everyone finding out. Now that would have been satisfying.
master106 games everyone would’ve found out because he’s would’ve been executed.
Well then it sounds like an opposite to what happened to Game of Thrones
master106 games being on death row means everyone did find out lol
1- Great
2-Great (with exception of girl killing doax so dexter didn't to kill him)
3-Not as great as first two but still good
4-Great (ending is best part of show and second most shocking scene on television behind red wedding)
5- okay but didn't do justice with ending of season four and ends up being forgetable
6- boring and full of plot holes (great ending I will give it that)
7- better than six but still has plot holes that I just didn't buy
8- Shits all over the entire show
Season 8 ruined the entire show
Yes it did, but 5,6 and 7 built up to it perfectly
I can not still believe that people were so shocked by the "red wedding", the people killed off there was C characters in the books at best. So dumb.
Sopoiler alert for game of thrones books (storm of swords) and show (season three)
The red wedding was shocking because the books and show both start out with the starks being the main protagonist of the story. Robb's and catelyn's goal's were relatable; get justice for ned's death (and for other stuff), reunite the remainder of the stark family, end the war so they and all their men can go home, robb to be able to raise his son with his the women he love's (at least in show, book is more debatalbe). Three seasons/2 and half novels did a great job of developing this character's and making them likeable. They have honor and general care about family and kindom. That didn't stop the show/books from killing them and their hope and dream in the span of a few minutes. And that is why the red wedding was shocking and tragic.
Yea fuck season 8
My heart was shattered after Rita and it took me a week to put the pieces back together 😂
Dexter had been accused IN THE police station BY the chief detective IN FRONT of the other detectives of being a serial killer. THEN his accuser is murdered. THEN his next door neighbor is murdered IN the apartment next to Dex's. And yet NONE of the detectives ever display the SLIGHTEST SUSPICION that Dexter MIGHT be involved - EVEN as they stand over the body of his next door neighbor! The lack of suspicion was implausible and the writing lost credibility (unless the show was deliberately making a statement that police are mentally handicapped).
I own Seasons, 1,2,3,4,5 and 7, the rest don't exist to me. If only at the end of 5, Deb DID find out as she should've, then the next season would cover the events of S7, and at the end of that season (an episode added on to the end), Dexter was found out and executed. Then it would be without a doubt, the greatest show ever made imo. But these idiots ruined it, when every fan knew how it should've ended, they had no idea what to do. Bastards.
That would make Dexter one of the greatest shows of all time. Instead of Laguerta getting killed she finds hard proof that Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher and we go on a wild man hunt for Dexter who ultimately gets caught and is taken to the execution chair just like the one he went to as a child with his dad. Thats the ending that should of happened. I wish I was part of the team who wrote the series finale. I would of made the show legendary.
@@ChrisDynamo blame Showtime
just finished watching the finale of dexter... i can't accept it.. i'm returning to season 1
I still cant believe how bad Dexter Season 8 was. What a joke.
I know right... It really pissed me off to because I loved the show so much at first. I swear I don't even know how it possible to fuck up that bad.
MyWorldOrder blame the writer of the books it is her fault.
+leonthesleepy I'd say season 8 was going well, until the finale.
+leonthesleepy lol i LOVED the final season. O.o
RadizZ # maaake your own kind of music
Worst fucking possible ending EVER.
+homersimpsonovich I hated it so much. Like Jeremy, the first few seasons were the best, with some exceptions form later but in general, naw... Then Dexter LIVING?! Fucking hell.
Saitama Because it would have been an ending... Not Dexter moving to Alaska and becoming a fucking Logger or some retarded shit like that.
+Chrisfragger1 he moves to oregon and be becomes a lumberjack leaving his family and friends alone bec he didn't want them to get caught in his line of destruction
One of the things i didnt like for season 8 was for the first like 6 episodes until hannah is back its dexter trying to make things right with deb. how hes never gonna leave her even if she hates him, and then hannah comes back and hes like fuck u deb im goin to argentina
Partially agree, but it's a little oversimplified.
Yeah i totaly agree that he was so selfish. I mean Deb did aboslutely everything for him, because she loved him so much and the only thing Dex did for her in s8 was to stop her machines at the hospital.. Such stupid writing, man.
Come on now, your ruining the whole point
I thought Dexter was one of the greatest tv shows ever made. Even with that shitty ending.
I still watch it on repeat..agreed
One of the greatest opening seasons I’ve ever seen. Right up there with Mad Men’s S1.
I just finished watching it and I didn't mind the ending. Was very poetic when he was dumping debra in the sea. Wasn't the best way they could have ended it but its still an amazing show. Defo in my top 5 of all time
Let's be honest, we all cried when Deb cried
Yup
Brootality Dawg Honestly, the show was such a shitty self-parody at that point that I laughed. Deb gets shot by someone (who is only able to shoot her because some martial decides to stupidly free him, not recognizing him from the news or seeing the murder weapons around him, and then she almost recovers but randomly goes into a coma). So fucking shit.
Didn't even stay with the show long enough to see it.
Nope
Brootality Dawg Did you mean "died"?
I think Dexter should have faked his death as he did but he should have joined Hannah and Harrison in Argentina
Billyplaysps4 yeah that's what I think, the ending was very unsatisfying
The point of him faking his death was to get away from Hanna and Harrison because he said something about how everybody he loves ends up dead because of him and that’s what happend to Rita with the trinity killer and Debra with Oliver Saxon
But she was also a serial killer. Leaving his son only in her hands wasn't the smartest of things u could do too. The ending doesn't make a bit of sense.
Idk Hannah ruined the show the end should been a faked dead typa thing like breaking bad he and his son go somewhere and wrap the show up that way just end that shit happy if they wanted or have the shit catch up to him and after faking his death the fbi catches him great ending
Billyplaysps4 no fuck hannah
I have such a passion for the series Dexter, I think it is the best show I have ever watched. No one show has ever gotten me to the point where I can watch 10 episodes in a row no problem. If you gain that emotional factor with the show than nothing really matters. I love the show, the actors, everything. I thought it was perfect.
he does have a point though, after season 4 it just wasn't the same, season 5 was horrid, just a bunch of irrelevant characters, and now hes a lumberjack like WTF? I loved dexter but I just had higher hopes
jeremy's "i'm batman" followed up by "tonight's the night" had me laughing out loud :DD
Season 1: Great start! Original premise and gave a great intro to Dexter's character
Season 2: amazing! (My personal favorite) Probably the darkest season of the show in my opinion, and Micheal blew us away with his performance
Season 3: underrated but still pretty good! Jimmy Smits was great as Miguel
Season 4: I mean what else is there to say! The best season in terms of quality. Has the best villain! and best moment in the show. (Thanksgiving)
Season 5: had a cool concept, but felt kinda flat, and not a very threatening villain
Season 6: ugh such a predictable and plot hole filled season! Dexter does some many out of character things. The last 2 minutes were the best part of the season
Season 7: Actually pretty damn good! Has a good villain and scenes between Deb and Dex were spot on!
Season 8: umm what the hell was that? Only cool thing was when Dexter killed The Brain Surgeon out in the open.
Dexter will always be one of my favorite shows, but I will admit it went on too long, also shows that Showtime got greedy and wanted to keep it going cuz Dexter was getting so many viewers. The show became a victim of it's own success
This is spot on with how I felt about those seasons :)
+Josh Pedrosa Season 1: A masterpiece, (My favorite) it's rare for a show to crush it right out of the gate but this season is so good I'm actually upset that it wasn't a miniseries. The ending of this season is perfect, I could live without the other seasons. The writing just demolishes every other season in the show as well, Dexter's monologues are actually both funny and interesting and the cat and mouse game between him and the ice truck killer is a better match for the show than any other season. And the finale is terrific. Dexter's dream paradise was the perfect ending for the show in my opinion, no need to make an 8 season epic about this one.
Season 2: More tense and exiting than the first season by far, also much fiercer and darker, but it is sloppier and doesn't have everything come together as well as the first. Lila is not a very interesting character and it's unfortunate that she took up so much screen time. And she ends up being the plot-killer 9,000 robbing Dexter of having to actually kill Doakes. Some of the sub-plots don't really go anywhere either. But Doakes vs. Dexter along with the FBI manhunt was fantastic. Messy, but still a great season.
Season 3: Underrated. I really like this one. Miguel is a great character and I was completely not expecting the twist near the end. It's a bit slower than previous seasons but I found that every sub-plot brought their A-game in this one. Overall I'd say it's a pretty good season.
Season 4: In my opinion, it's actually a bit overrated. Trinity is great and the final few episodes are phenomenal, but this one was VERY slow to start and also contained a completely retarded sub-plot involving Angel and Laguerta. It was boring, I didn't buy it, and it felt incredibly forced. Like season 2, flawed, but so tense and exiting it makes up for it.
Season 5: Unbelievably terrible start, so horrible I almost quit watching the show. The first 5 episodes are piss-poor and it was quite the experience trying to get through them. However, episode 6 was surprisingly good, and the rest of the season carried that momentum quite well. Liddy was FUCKING awesome and turned out to be a great addition to the series, Robocop is never a bad thing. Subplots continue to suffer however, Laguerta turns into the unassuming careerist douchebag she was in Season 1 only for her to reveal: "It was all an act." But wait. she did still totally screw Debra and what happened to that hispanic cop again? It's kind of a dumb inconsequential story, but it's a well told one. And for that I'm going to say Dexter Season 5 was decent, but a big step down from previous seasons.
Season 6: Yuck, not good at all. The side characters are just a mess in this series. The writers haven't figured out what to do with anyone besides Dexter and Deb. Quinn and Angel are forced into a troubled partnership that's incredibly weak and cliche. Laguerta turns into an evil bitch, again, arbitrarily. Masuka has trouble with interns, it's all just so forced and not well thought out. Thankfully the main storyline is at least a little bit better than the previous season, providing a pretty decent villain and some really tense scenes. It's filled with plotholes and isn't nearly as engaging as the first 4 but it's at least better than 5. Season 3 taught us that if you are going to waste time, at least try to make it interesting, Season 6 isn't completely successful at that but I'd still watch this again before I watch 5.
Season 7: Actually not bad, without a doubt the best season since Season 4. I still don't think it's quite on Season 1-4's level but it is a massive improvement over 5 and 6. Issac Sirko was fantastic and although Laguerta hunting Dexter makes no sense from a story perspective (last season she sacrificed cases for politics and now she's sacrificing politics for cases again, just out of nowhere) it's at least tense and exiting again. It gets kind of clunky near the end when the story has to transition from Sirko getting killed into a mostly forgettable arsonist, but it wraps up quite nicely near the end with a fantastic final scene. Quinn is boring once again, big surprise. But the Main story, Dexter and Deb and Issac were just amazing. Best Season since Season 4. The comeback.
Season 8: Nowhere in the same galaxy as bad as people said it was. I was expecting the hackiest tackiest bit of schlock ever. It honestly was somewhat decent. The brain surgeon was actually a pretty compelling adversary and the story really pulls together near the end. Dexter vs. Saxxon with the impeding hurricane gave a sense of climactic showdown I haven't felt since Season 4. Everything leading up to the that was... It was ok, I guess. I still think it's more entertaining than season 5 or 6 which were just the most wheel spinning boring pieces of shit ever. And as for the finale? I'm mixed, I REALLY like parts of it, Dexter full on stabbing Saxxon with a motherfucking pen on camera was just fantastic. Dexter was at his breaking point and he just snapped, and he didn't give a fuck about it either. The following scene with Batista and Quinn knowing Dexter was full of shit was incredibly rewarding as well. And then there is the blood clot...? Really? That was just lazy and ridiculously unsatisfying. And then the scene on the boat at the end was just morose and heartbreaking. This finale was all over the place, I don't know how to think about it. I literally burst out laughing at the lumberjack scene, what a disaster. It wasn't just the idea that was stupid, the editing and the hilariously edgy way Dexter opens his eyes at the end had me laughing. LAUGHING! When one scene earlier I was incredibly sad and somewhat satisfied, now I'm laughing at how fucking stupid that was. This Season was just... It was weird. It's in some ways horrifically bad, but in some ways quite competent and more compelling than previous seasons. I still think it's better than 5 or 6. While it may have been worse in some areas, at least I was interested. I'd rather be laughing at how stupid something is than just being put into a coma. Season 8 is worth watching I think, just for the somewhat satisfying conclusion and generally interesting flaws.
And so now for my conclusion. I think my recommendation for people interested in the show is this: Watch the first season, if you REALLY love it, stop right there and just let it sit in your memory unimpeded by the shittiness that is to come. If you have to see more than watch until you're done with season 4. If you still aren't satisfied watch 7 and 8, you may get some decent enjoyment from them. Just don't watch 5 or 6, they are completely worthless.
Overall, I liked this show, it's got a ton of problems but it had flashes of brilliance and was generally at least marginally entertaining. The first Season was amazing and I can see myself re-watching it again in the future, I might watch 2-4 again but I think I'm done with anything beyond that point.
+Josh Pedrosa The best way to wrap up the series would have been to remove and forget about season 6 and 8. Deb would find out at the end of season 5 then the series finishes after 7's plot, along with a satisfying ending, lol (which would be 6)
+Kolbe Howard I agree with just about everything you said, but I will say Saxon was one of the weakest villains along with Jordan Chase and Travis, main reason being because he is a complete rehash of Brian. They both leave their victims bodies out in the open to send a message towards one of the major characters, the show makes you think the killer is just some forgettable character, only to be later revealed that the killer is a long lost family member of one of the main characters trying to reunite(even though Saxon ended up killing Vogel while Brian wouldn't have done that to Dexter) Still it felt way too much like a rehash, and I didn't like it. Also, about the compelling climatic feeling, I didn't get that because I stopped getting suspense from the show after all sorts of things Dexter survives and gets away from. Which is why I wasn't that surprised by the lumberjack scene(even though I was still disappointed)
Another thing I would say, is that Laguerta trying to expose Dexter made perfect sense because she couldn't accept that Doakes was the Bay Harbor Butcherer because of her personal feelings towards him. However, they shouldn't have waited until season 7 to do that story, so I still see why you said that.
I don't think the problem was length (atleast they stopped at 8). I think it was just the writers forgot how to write.
I'm also mad that there wasn't enough of Astor and Cody in the final seasons.
tick tick tick that's the time of your show dying out
They should make another show starring Brian Moser and make it a prequell showing how Brian started stalking Dexter and what not.
+Fred “Bananatreelobster” Potter Yes totally. I would give all my money to watch that.
+Fred “Bananatreelobster” Potter holy fuck thats a good idea
that sounds fucking terrible dude the only reason people can watch Dexter and be okay with having a serial killer as the main character is because he's not killing innocent people no one is trying to see that shit. Quentin Tarantino made it work with Death Proof but that story was mostly told through the girls point of view and they kill him in the end. No one wants to root for serial killers to murder people and that's not what Dexter is about at all.
and it would be starring Christian Camargo not Brian Moser. He''s a talented actor in real life not a serial killer.
how about instead of adding to the show they go back and remove every season after 4. Boom. Instant masterpiece.
*SPOILER ALERT*
I also found it weird that Dexter would dump Deb's body into the ocean. Like... why? Isn't that a bit disrespectful and cold? That's the same place he had been dumping his victims. Couldn't he had left her body to be discovered so that she could have had a proper burial? This way, for all the employees at Miami Metro, Deb just somehow... disappeared. She was last seen in a vegetated state before the storm, but after that she has disappeared and no one knows where she is.
It was a metaphor for her being a victim of Dexter too.
+Salt Factory I guess it was symbolic. But still, it's weird that Dexter would do that.
FinnHale That point as far as dumping her In the water, he felt like she was dead because of him so therefore making her one of his victims.
ericlucas1 It's still weird
FinnHale true
Season 2 was the best. The feeling of the walls closing in on him by his own precinct. The FBI is in his own backyard. He has no one to turn to and must protect himself by any means necessary. I believe that season contained more of Dexter's dark side than any other season. Suspenseful, intriguing, and overall entertaining. It also had the most interactions between Doakes and Dexter than the first season. Scenes which elevated the show more than any other pairing of characters aside from maybe deb and trinity. Absolutely loved season 2 more than any other.
I would’ve put season 2 WAY later in the series because having everyone looking for him and Doakes on to him was possibly the high point of the entire show. Also hate they killed Doakes off so early
Pardon my tits
Just finished watching finale.My reaction-.............................why...........why!......then I cry and turn off netflix in sadness
Black Lightning that’s me right now
I have never gone back and watched any episode of the show after I saw the finale. It ruined the show for me. It's like trying to go back to you and your wife's favorite restaurant after a divorce. It just never feels right.
Same thing happened to me after HIMYM ended
April Marie Same, I used to love that show but now even old episodes annoy me. What a horrible final season.
Who's here after the new blood trailer. Jeremy thoughts?
Lol who's here in 2021 after the new premiere?
I would like to se Dexter finally fall off the vagon and start killing innocent people. Debra figures out and a manhunt lead by Debra Morgan begins. In the end, in a very dramatic and emotional final scene, Dexter forces Debra to kill him in a police assisted suicide kinda situation. That would be a great finale
Whatever happend to cody and astor. Its as if dexter only cares about Harrison.
well they do mention them towards the end.
I think Astor got a car at least?
Living with grandparents
Deff wondering what your opinion of dexter new bloods ending is 👀
Just sayin
Rita was holding the Show. and when she died everything falls apart. poor Dexter has no clue where to go now
nor the writers of the Dexter.
The writers did a great job and they obviously knew what they were doing
Rita wouldnt last. She should've chose the neighbor.
William Webb das cap
Rita was a terrible character. Kids were annoying.
I'm surprised the disgustingly awful green screen when Dexter is putting Deb into the ocean hasn't been mentioned. Like did this show have a budget of $100? That pissed me off almost as much as the ending.
I noticed the same thing, there were so many terrible green screen scenes throughout the last few episodes. On the boat, in the car, etc..
Kaster Troy right, like along with the writing it just gives the last season such a half-assed feeling i hate it.
Worst Series Finale in TV history. Either you kill Dex, he gets exposed and arrested, or lives happily ever after. How hard is that? And Deb dying OFF screen? WTF?! No, seriously, W.T.F?! As far as I'm concerned, Dexter eventually caught up with Hannah and his kid. And has continued to chop up the bad guys.
Happily ever after should never have been an option; every fan from day one knew that it had to end with him being caught and maybe executed.
Chris Dynamo I agree. BUT, I'd rather the dude "ride off into the sunset" than be......Lumberjack man? WTF! I repeat, W.T.F?! I'm still holding out hope for a Hannah Mckay spin-off show. Fingers crossed! LOL
After binge watching the series over a course of 2 weeks or so I gotta say this really disappointed me. I wouldn't say I "hated" it but it was just stupid how he up and leaves his kid with a wanted fugitive in a foreign country. He literally has zero reason too. It's implied he no longer possesses the need to kill so the whole "I'm a threat to my family" Dark passenger B.S isn't an excuse. Show should have ended with Debra shooting him in the container instead of laguertta.
This is what I thought as well. It comes down to Dexter finally getting rid of the _dark passenger_, and that he is free. Free from the reason he is a threat to his family. Free to be with McKay and his son. Free to live his life.
And then he fakes his death and lives alone for what appears to be the rest of his life. In no world is that a logical move. I would say Showtime wasted a good show on those five minutes.
Scott Buck fucked up.
Don't forget, though, that the only reason Dexter didn't kill Saxon (the Brain Surgeon) when he was strapped down to the chair, was because he wanted to be with Hannah and Harrison (and he thought his Dark Passenger was gone). He called Debra and put her on the scene, in what ended up being a highly compromised position and it basically caused her to be shot. So therefore, even though Debra absolved Dexter of any blame after the event, she died because he neglected to kill someone, when THIS time, it was actually required and even partially acceptable. That's ultimate irony, right there. AND let's consider the alternative if he HAD killed Saxon. The US Marshall who was hot on the trail of Dexter (and by association, Debra) would not have died......so Dexter would probably have been caught at the scene of Saxon's murder, in broad daylight, (because he was rushing things and had stopped being as meticulously careful as he once was). Dexter and Debra would also have been indicted for shielding the fugitive Hannah McKay. Hannah may very well still have gone on her way, with Harrison in tow; then the end result would be exactly the same - Dexter would not/could not be with his son. Also, there is absolutely no way that the character of Debra Morgan would shoot Dexter in that container. No way. He saved her life countless times (the big one being when he chose to kill his own biological brother, to protect her). Regardless of what he was, he was still her big brother and to her, he was her hero.
I actually think that Dexter puposely denied himself the slim chance he had, of happiness, because he felt he didn't deserve it. The death of Debra was a pivotal moment. She said earlier in the season (or maybe in season 7) that she always thought SHE needed HIM the most, but she realised, eventually, that it was the other way around. He needed HER more. She was actually his anchor to everything normal and good. He deeply regretted ALL that happened, right from the moment she discovered what he did for a hobby.
Shut up
I hated all the girls Dexter hooked up with except for Lumen, so the fact that the last season was all about Hannah and him and running away together really pissed me off. They tried so hard for us to accept Hannah, that one;
Deb started to forget how much she hated her and start to not mind Dexter and her being together, and two;
Dexter started to stop being so psychotic? Like feeling that he didn't have to kill Saxon, and in the end he suddenly didn't need to control his urges anymore and lived his life as a what? lumber jack?
I agree that in the end Dexter should have been caught and exposed to everyone, then executed.
Another thing I really hated was how quickly they killed off Zach Hamilton, seriously one of the most interesting characters that was brought in.
I only liked Rita, i really didn't like Lumen, acctaully in my opinion season 5 was the worst season. The girlfriend i'm the most against is Lila, gawd i hated her, thanks to her i can't stand season 2, and thanks to her Doakes died soo... I don't really have anything against Hannah MCkay. Just Lumen and Lila. And yes, the execution idea would be a way better way to end of the show, totally agree there. And yeah they killed Zack way to early off, i kinda liked Oliver till he killed his own mom..
Yeah I forgot to mention Rita, I liked her, but Lila was a worst oh my god. Doakes and Oliver were pretty cool too but it was kinda obvious they had to die sooner or later.
ImMagicallyDelicious Well having Doakes for another season wouldnt hurt. And Oliver didn't die before the last episode. My opinion, the best villians in dexter is in my opinion:
Miguel Prado, Brian Moser, Arthur Mitchell and Isaac Circo
ACpro If that's a top 5, Jordan Chase deserves to be at the bottom of that list. Then Isaac. Miguel. Arthur Mitchell. And Brian at 1, obviously. Because despite how epic season 4 was, Arthur Mitchell is actually just a murderous manchild, whereas Brian actually had an intricate plan. My personal favourite is Miguel though. He was actually friends with Dexter, and he's such a human character, so layered and intelligently written. He's really underestimated in my view.
viridismonasteriense It was no Top 5, and i didn't write anything about Jordan Chase, because i didn't really like him more then the others.
Top 5:
Brian Moser
Miguel Prado
Arthur Mitchell
Isaac Circo
Oliver Saxon
"Cuz tonights the night" haha!
I will miss these lines now. I just finished watching the season finale of Dexter 😭
I thought season 7 was great
I just finished that season and loved it!
Because season 7 actually moves the plot along again. Season 6 just feels like a filler season (some stuff's interesting like Brian replacing Harry Morgan in Dexter's head, but just for that one episode though 😕), and it became kind of a mess halfway through after Colin Hanks just becomes evil instead of realistically still having that split personality. So season 6 is messy and season 8 was just a waste of time.
Season 1: 10/10
Season 2: 10/10
Season 3: 9/10
Season 4: 10/10
Season 5: 7/10
Season 6: 7/10
Season 7: 6/10
Season 8: 5/10
Overall: 9/10. Although season 5-8 lost steam, the first 4 seasons make the show great. The only seasons I thought were bad were seasons 7/8.
season 6 was shit tbh
+Jon Reremy it was ok, I thought Colin hanks was ok
I thought it was pointless tbh, the finale of season 5 should of been the part where deb found out about dexter being a killer when she found jordan chase's body. And I actually thought season 7 was good, Issac Sirko was badass
No such thing as a perfect 10/10
S1 - 10/10
S2 - 10/10
S3 - 8/10
S4 - 10/10
S5 - 8.5/10
S6 - 7/10
S7 - 8.5/10
S8 - 6.5/10
Overall - 9/10
Idk why people think the show went downhill after season 4. Season 5 was amazing. Season 7 was my 2nd favorite season after season 1 too. Season 8 was the only lacking season imo. I just hated the way it ended. Deb deserved better and so did the fans. It was bullshit.
I'm not going to lie, i cried my self to sleep when i saw the ending of Dexter.
KermyTheFrog and the day after cause I remembered deb 😩😩
I liked it too
Lets face it. The Dexter and Hannah relationship is still a better love story than twilight.
The loose bowel movement I had this morning is a better love story than Twilight! =D
I don't really like how they didn't deal with any of the other characters. The end revolved around Hannah, Dexter, Morgan, and his son. What about all the other characters we've been living with for 8 seasons? Where is their ending?
well the show is called dexter , that explains it
ShedowSSS That doesn't explain anything. They could have used the time for closure, instead they added new characters like Masuka's daughter, in the final season of Dexter mind you, which took up screen time. And even that story line was never concluded or fully dealt with. But hey, we got to see her tits though...that's more important I guess than closing out characters we've seen for 7 years.
they all lived hapily ever after xD done
BadMannerKorea It's called current politics. Masuka's daughter can close that the writers, producers, etc. confronted him with character development about being such a sexist pig. They even promoted a "no name" woman african-american to sergeant. Though I felt the 50/50 ratio of men/women writers kept serial killer vibe alive in the first 5 season, but after.... Especially with Hannah -- a woman -- a cure for Dexter.
Deb is where the writers shined (and obviously the acting).
Regardless, you are right about your question about all the other characters who had been developed.
Rewatching baby Jahns after his Dexter New Blood review 😃
I really liked Lumen. She was my favorite out of all his girlfriends. I was so mad when she left.
Spartan- 1337 I didn't like any of them other than Rita
Lumen felt weird to watch. It felt like Jason Bourne would just burst through the door.
I liked Hannah, she made good things like drinks and food :)
MP ELITE same lmao
@@mpelite628 Rita got annoying she would only try to fix Dexter not aid in his hobby
I kinda hated the finale too, yes! But it's still my favorite TV show ever, and i kinda feel that it's going to stay untouchable for a while...
Nah. There are already shows that are much better imo.
I don't know, Game of Thrones is phenomenal and totally enjoyable and epic and has no flaw whatsoever but i still like Dexter more, i don't even know why...
SaintPuppet[S] lol, I hear you. I really liked Dexter, but I expected a very different outcome.
Yeah, i know, i expected differently too...But, it filled my life with happiness i guess, i loved Dexter's character trough out the seasons and it kinda gave me hope in life, which is probably ironic, but that's how i felt.
SaintPuppet[S] Oh yeah? What hope do you mean? I know someone who after watching the show, genuinely wants to be a blood spatter analyst now.
I wish it could have ended like Breaking Bad and have a half season long manhunt for Dexter. In the season finale have Dexter finally kill himself/turn himself in.
But that's what everyone was expecting. I like the way Dexter ended, trapped in his personal hell, having finally achieved true human depth of emotion. With said emotion, he couldn't bear to curse his son and Hannah the way he had his sister, father, friends and wife. It has much more to it than Breaking Bad did, where everything happened exactly as expected.
Allen Babylon I liked the ending. Walter may have gotten what he deserved, but Dexter made the decision to confine himself to his own personal Hell.
Well, I've always had sympathy for Walter's character. Sure, poisoning a kid was a bit too far, well, and Mike...but otherwise, his actions were justifiable.
...and Dexter is coming back !
Deb did NOT have to die, they could’ve said the surgery went well & everybody lives happily ever after
I choose to ignore the lame ending to this show. The first season and the Trinity season were the best. The end didn't even have to be all that suspenseful, it could have been about how Dexter had moved beyond his need to kill and Deb moving beyond needing Dexter so codependently. It could have been resolved without death and ended with a Dexter monologue at the end. It would have been much better.
I've been thinking how Dex survived the storm... Few scenes before the ending they showed Dexter trying to sell the boat to a prospective buyer. They made it a point for dexter to say that the boat had a liferaft. Maybe thats how he survived. There is no reason to put that scene in there otherwise other than to fill up this plot hole
The ending royally pissed me off!
Anyone came here after the annoucement of dexter coming back
A lot of people really miss the point of Dexter's ending. The whole point of the show is his transition from a cold blooded serial killer to eventual loving father/husband/friend. He finally chose to resist killing someone (Oliver Saxon) but as he was responsible for Debra demise he now sees there is no route for his happiness. Being a killer forever is wrong and even if he stopped killing his friends and family are still hurt. I liked the ending but there is no doubt better writers could have made the ending greater.
No I don't think people missed the point of the ending, it was just it sucked so much ass that people overlook said meaning and want a do over.
Something being the point doesn't justify poor quality, nor does it even justify a point that is intrinsically less interesting than any other. And nothing about that point is in contrast with the notion of him getting found out and hunted; if anything, that further drives home the point they're trying to make by showing how it affects the people he worked with, like batista and masuka.
Being a killer *is* wrong, that's why Dexter should've had some consequence for his actions, instead he is rewarded.
Alec McInnis his consequence was that his sister, someone he can't live without, died. Not defending this absolute dumpster fire of a last season.
you saw that dumb video I see
I loved the ending. It's the only ending that could have made as much sense as it did. For example, Dexter was responsible for more than a handful of innocent lives, including Rita's, La Guerta's, etc.... His code was there to keep him and those he "loved" safe. The entire show was Dexter realizing he could be potentially be more than a killer, essentially forcing him to disobey the code. Dexter was and could be nothing more than a killer who NEEDED to abide by the code. Every time he got even close to happiness, something disastrous would happen (Rita's death, Deb's death). I'm sad over the ending, not mad... Maybe some of you are misconstruing the two feelings?
Thank you, exactly my thoughts after I saw it few minutes ago for the first time.
The reason he had to learn the lesson few times over is because people around him kept reassuring him that he is responsible for those deaths and is a good person, that he could be more than a killer.
Deb deserved more respect. I’m not upset that she died, but having her initially seem fine after getting shot then going into a coma to have Dexter mercy kill her… that ain’t it chief. She deserved a better death, at least.
Hated the part where Deb decides she's in love with Dexter. Yuck.
me too lol
At least they were adoptive siblings
Daniel Fierros They were biologically related (same dad), but even if they weren't it would still be incest; they grew up together and only knew each other as brother and sister, so: gross. I think they lost some viewers at that bend in the road.
DID you watch the same show?? Dexter was adopted by Debs dad. They had no biological relations..LOL
Michael bryant You're right. My apologies.
One of my favourite quotes from Debra: "Jesus, Dex............you're a serial killer and I'm more fucked up than you are."
Deb’s the best character
What would have made the finale, like, 50% better is if at the very end, when Dexter's staring into the camera, it cuts to black and then he says, "tonight's the night".
Or maybe we find out that season 8 was actually Dexter in a coma from Deb shooting HIM at the end of Season 7.
The writers made two MAJOR mistakes (countless others, obviously), both of them involving Deb. 1. SHE SHOULD NOT SHOOT LAGUERTA. Just don’t put her in that situation. Have Dexter do it or something. 2. DON’T KILL DEB OFF AFTER MAKING US THINK SHE WAS FINE. If you want to kill her, fine, but just have her die right away. The coma/brain dead thing was the worst slap in the face out of the entire series.
Horrible finale! They botched it so bad it made me angry and then depressed that I invested so much into this show for so little reward at the end. Fine, I get it, Deb had to die, but not like that. Dexter HAD to die or get caught, not ride into a storm and inexplicably make it out alive to move to a logging operation to live as a stupid lumberjack. It was just so anticlimactic. Now they expect us to believe Hannah is just going to babysit Harrison in Argentina for the rest of her life and hope that he picks up soccer or something? WTF!
i agree I wish they went with the manhunt story that shit would've been so intense and I wish they killed hannah but during the season u think he's with her but it's all in his imagination and the ending of the season u see him with her but the camera switches it over to the day he was gonna kill her and he actually does it...that would've been soooo much better
I'd feel really betrayed as a viewer to have all of that be fake. Especially considering the show covers multiple characters so it wouldn't make any sense.
Yea but it would've gave us more of what we loved about Dexter in the first place...that he is a fucking crazy people but once contain because of harry
My reactions for Dexter
S1: Damn this is interesting
S2: This is great
S3: This shit is good
S4: HOLY SHIT
S5: OH OK
S6: HMMM,,, ill give it a chance
S7: what ? why ? common !
S8: NO ! Just No !
Season 1= Interesting...
Season 2= Holy Shit!
Season 3= This show is fun
Season 4= No Fucking Way!
Season 5= It's alright
Season 6= Boring...But that ending though
Season 7= Interesting, and no way!
Season 8= Cmon... Really?
*****
S1: Really interesting premise
S2. Wow this show is good
S3: This show is going places
S4: MOTHER OF GOD
S5: losses momentum but gets it
S6: Woah... huge misstep
S7: Aite we back!
S8: NOPE
+AbirZenith
S1: Holy shit! Amazing, one of the best Seasons of TV ever!
S2! Wow that was exiting!
S3: Damn that was interesting
S4: Holy Mother of god
S5: Oh....
S6: Meh, it was at least better than 5
S7: Comeback baby
S8. Please no, just stop.
+Kolbe Howard Why does every one hate S5? It is one of the best seasons if you ask me!
Swedish ZzZanDman its ok, some people like Justin Bieber, some people like Greys anatomy, some like the Season 5 of dexter :)
I might just be over thinking this but it seems weird how LaGuerta spends all over season 7 trying to uncover the truth about Doakes when he died in season 2 she was grieving for him and then she doesn't mention anything about it for 5 seasons and then it suddenly becomes important to her. Am I the only one who thinks this is weird?
I didn't like the ending,from season 1-Episode 1 I always thought they would capture him,then in season 8 I thought Dexter was going to teach Zach Hamilton everything,and pass on the torch for Dexter to retire,but no he gets killed,it would had been such a great ending to know Dexter retired from killing,but theres a new one out there.
damn I'm wishing I never watched dexter. it's just a giant shit storm depressing as Hell at every turn. they should have let Debra live and have Dexter die.
Me too, I wish I'd never watched it...
i wish this show was never born
Dexter Movie:
Harrison, Dexters son, finds Dexter when he's around 17 or 18 in Oregon, Washington state, wherever he is. Harrison confronts Dexter on obvious questions like, why did you stage your death? How could you leave Mom and I in another country to become a lumberjack? Who are you since I barely know you? Then, Dexter being older and probably more dehumanized than ever, just comes straight out about who is he and what he did in the past, and is probably still doing, serial killing. His son then confesses that he has had the same urges but has not killed yet. And what drove him to find Dexter is that his Mom, Hannah, was recently killed by the drug cartel. And that he had his suspicions that Dexter was actually alive. Harrison is now filled with rage from his mothers death to finding out that his dad is actually alive but staged his own death. Harrison then beats the shit out of Dexter, not killing him but injuring him badly, and takes Dexters sacred tools (Knives).
He goes on a killing spree from lets say Oregon all the way to Miami, making himself infamous but not known by the public. To get back at Dexter, he targets all of the remaining colleagues he has and takes them out in brutal fashion. I know what you're thinking, Dexter won't care, but he will care that his son hates him so much to even target people he thinks Dexter will care about. He takes out the blood spatter analyst at Miami Metro. Then, days later, he puts together a brilliant resume with the proper fabricated records to back it up. He becomes the new Miami Metro blood spatter analyst.
He thens meets a very beautiful girl who's name is Astor Bennet, or at least it was Astor before she changed her name to get out of all the tabloids about her mother and former stepdad both dying in dramatic fashion. Ritas daughter. But at this point the audience has no knowledge that this is Astor Bennet. When they first meet he knows nothing of her former stepdad, or for that matter her moms death. One day he is in Astor's apartment and finds a hidden family photo of Dexter and his former family, which informs him and the audience of the identity of Astor. He goes to work where he has access to all files and finds out how Rita was killed. Later that night Astor is found in her bathtub filled up with blood. Dexter comes out of hiding having had enough of his son killing his "daughter" that he actually knew better. Then the epic showdown of teacher vs student begins. Stalking each other, near death on both parts, fights, etc. Then Dexter gets the best of his son and does the same thing to Harrison that he did to Sergeant Doakes. Lock him up in a cage and thinks about what to do with him. Dexter comes forward to Miami Metro and finally confesses to the killings he has committed, and then tells them where to find Harrison. When they arrive to the destination, the cage door is wide open and Harrison is no where to be found. Leaving the question, did Dexter let him go, or did Harrison break out? Thats the end leaving a possible sequel.. Did this in 15 minutes, might not be the best but still better than the writers from seasons 5-8
not bad heh
could someone maybe give this guy a few millions to film this movie?
1 yes pay to make this movie possible
2 nevermind that pay this guy for this genius idea, although I kinda liked Hannah taking care for Harrison, it would be sad for me to see her go
Who wants to bet this is copy and pasted?
Emilie Goomba Like I copy and pasted it? Or someone who reads this will copy and paste it? Because if you think I just copy and pasted it, google a paragraph of what I wrote and search it on google and see if you can find it lol you won't since I typed this at 2 am one night.
Season 1: Awesometacular
Season 2: Awesometacular
Season 3: Buy it on Blu-Ray
Season 4: Awesometacular
Season 5: Not Going to Remember it in T-Minus 1 Week
Season 6: Not Going to Remember it in T-Minus 2 Hours
Season 7: Good Time if you're Drunk
Season 8: Dogshit
Season 8 was for me more "gonna need another tv screen" fuckinglumberfuckingjackfuuuuuckinghannahbullshit
5 and 7 were fine, and season 8 wasn't dogshit until the last episode
The last season was still better than the last season of Game of Thrones.
Dexter should have ended in season 7. In that scene where Deb has to choose between Laguerta and Dex just cut to black and gunshot. Imo
Christian Morales that would be fucking terrible!
***** Sopranos have an amazing ending
+Christian Morales The best way to wrap up the series would have been to remove and forget about season 6 and 8. Deb would find out at the end of season 5 then finish the series after 7's plot, lol (which would be 6) along with a satisfying ending, lol
+Lachie Hurburgh i tought that too
in Season 5 deb saw his brother and Season 6 (will be 7)
everything ends! :(
+Christian Morales Why would you want to torture your audience like that?
If only they had an opportunity 10 years later to end it properly...
I watched the finale friday night at 2-3 a.m. and it was like I've watched 8 seasons of dexter making mistakes, and deb paying for them......
It's all Scott Buck's fault. He pitched the finale back in Season 4. No one else wanted it, not even Showtime. Then they gave him the helm and he dragged the show through 4 seasons and forced the finale he wanted on the show. It was awful and it was all because of him.
i wonder what the original ending was gonna be
Stupid is as stupid does. Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. Run Dexter run! Not good with girlfriends. Runs his boat straight into a hurricane. Not quite right in the head. Good lord! I've figured it out! Dexter is Forrest Gump's son!
Just finished watching it. Although the ending wasn't what I wanted it wasn't THAT bad I'm glad it was a sad ending. I was worried it was going to be the bullshit happy ending with Dexter in Argentina with Hannah on some farm. The last 6 episodes I thought I was watching The OC or something so I'm thankful that it didn't end that way.
But there was too many loose ends. Doakes is going to remain the Bay Harbour Butcher? Those files of Dexter dumping bags into the ocean that Quinn got from that PI what happened with those? Harrison in his mothers blood, will he start to get 'urges'?
The ending I would've liked (or final season) was Dexter being caught (which would take up 3 episodes or so) during those episodes he maybe kills some key characters to cover himself in desperation (Angel, Quinn maybe) then another 3 or 4 episodes covering a huge trial for the Bay Harbour Butcher where we look back on all he's done what a monster he is etc.
An episode of him being executed and the final episode of life moving on for Deb and the others afterwards.
Debra died to make dexter feel like it was his fault (which it kind of was) because he tried to make deb the hero but instead she got shot because dexter didn't feel the need to kill anymore so he was more human, so after she became a potato dexter now feels guilt because it was displayed that he is more human now because he did not have to kill that guy, so he now doesn't want anyone to be hurt by him again so he tried to commit suicide, yes Debra could of been killed by the bullet but it gives time for dexter to realise what he has caused and for people to think that there was hope for Debra but then its snatched away and to say his goodbyes and bury her at sea also making the point that a serial killer cant live happily ever after.
So true the first 4 seasons summed up the entire show, watching past that point is a waste of time, trust me. Oh and watch Supernatural to season 5 then stop, your welcome.
Supernatural season 8 was pretty good.
***** Season Six was the only post-5 season I liked. I love how perfectly the initially seemingly unconnected plotlines eventually interweave. And for however poorly later seasons followed up on it, I thought the Soulless Sam/Hell Sam/"Normal" Sam thing was very compelling.
***** The leviathans were cool, but they had little to do with the main characters emotionally until Bobby was killed, and they were rarely presented in a really menacing way. I also don't like the wishy-washy way Bobby and Castiel were killed off in the season. The Amy subplot was cool until the end, which rang sort of dishonest to me with Sam's reaction to it all. There are things I like about the season, like most of the episodes dealing with Sam's PTSD, Bobby's first death episode, and the scenes of Dean and Castiel dealing with their broken friendship, but overall, I don't like it as much as what came before.
***** Season 7 wasn't bad. Ray Stevenson was fantastic but shitty writing detracted from the overall feel of the season. As others have pointed out, after season 4 the writing just kept getting shoddier and shoddier with the occasional highlight.
I disagree. Up to season 7 the show is solid, though I think Dexter should have killed Hannah to begin with. I would rewrite seasons 7 and 8, but I WOULD definitely keep Deb and Dexter's love story. It was really interesting PLUS I think they should have become a crime-fighting duo together.
Anything involving Hannah McKay was some of the worst writing I have ever seen.
***** Also a good actress, but nothing could save it from the awful writing. Not even Michael C Hall's acting!
DeputyWeld23 I thought Hannah was a key character in Dexter's development.
I loved her in season 7 though. Then when she turned up in season 8 everything sucked about her. She should've stayed away.
i thought Hannah's character was the reason why final season turned into disaster...
Milan Rathod it is. If she just keep herself in prison or just killed herself by the poison that her friend gave her, then I would’ve and the others too will watch the finale.
Seasons
1: amazing
2: very good
3: very good
4: best ever
5: okay
6: alright ( I know every1 hates on it but I don't mind it)
7:very good
8: annoying and dissapounting
I agree on everything but season 3. That was one of my least favorite! I just didn't like Miguel Prado. It was so frustrating watching him go down his own path and have Dexter look like an idiot chasing after him.
Josh Mitchell after re watching it all again i'mm becoming more and more compelled with your opinion... ( and thats not sarcasm)
also at the end, Dexter is caught on tape killing Saxon and although he was pardoned, Quinn and Batista were suspicious. Deb goes missing all of a sudden and Harrison is missing and Dexter's boat is wrecked at sea. Elway is alive i would assume and knows Hannah is with Harrison. I wonder if there will be another series in the Dexter universe.
Just finished the finale. It wasn't great but it wasn't awful. Just not ideal.
Maybe compared to other shows but Dexter wasn't supposed to be like that. It was supposed to interesting and well written. After season 4 was some network TV type trash. It was really embarrassing, It felt more like CSI or Criminal minds then the old Dexter.
Jesusarus Rex 5-8 obviously weren't as great as 1-4, but I still would say it was better and more fun than a lot of things on TV
*****
I got to tell you, I am a seaman, and its veeeeery hard to survive a storm like that swimming...
***** ok well I said it wasn't awful and it was still fun; I never said I thought it was explained and plausible haha
I thought the VERY end was as it should have been. Dexter - completely alone!
I just finished it. I didn't want it to end
And now Showtime is bringing the show back as a limited series and will be a continuation. They start production early next year and it’ll premiere in fall 2021.
Rita got on my nerves starting in Season 3. She became a diva who basically felt that Dexter didn't deserve to sleep. At all. She was a stay at home mom, but Dexter was the one driving Harrison around all night when he wouldn't sleep. Then, Rita would get mad when Dexter wanted to sleep! She just became like her ex husband. Controlling and manipulative and I dont think she appreciated Dexter at all. Making him sleep at his apartment and not in the home that HE bought for them?!? She just made me so mad!
My finale:
Dexter gets discovered
Vince's daughter and Jamie gets caught by Voger and held hostage; he kills Batista and Vince
Quinn goes to save Deb, Quinn dies, Deb barely survived
Deb, Hannah and Harrison go to Argentina
Dexter gets killed
It's shit, but it's better than the shit they wrote.
Season 1: 9/10
Season 2: 8/10
Season 3: 8/10
Season 4: 10/10
Season 5: 9/10
Season 6: 6/10
Season 7: 7/10
Season 8: 8/10
Last episode: 7/10
Overall Dexter is a great show to watch. Series 1-5 is very impressive with a decline in series 6-8. The best way to describe the finale episode is "it's very dexter" There's no manhunt because as usual Dexter stuck to his code. He also finally acknowledged the fact he will hurt every one he loves so he shut himself away from Hannah & Harrison. He's meant to be a monster without emotion and that's how the show was left.
Debra's death didn't need to be "BIG". It was written like a roller-coaster ride. We think she's dead when she's first shot; then we think that she might still die in hospital and Dexter thinks this, too; then everyone is told that she's okay and it gives Debra and Dexter a good chance to talk; JUST when everyone is starting to breathe a sigh of relief, she has a stroke as a complication from surgery and ends up on life support. So, not dead, but in limbo. Now, that's not a stupid way to write it. That scenario happens in real life, every single day. This kind of death adds to the tragedy of it, because it's the worst possible thing for Debra, so full of life and larger than life and it's a sloooooowwwww death for Dexter, inside his heart, as well. I remember back further, in the whole Debra and Dexter story, when Debra told her brother that if she was ever on life support, she wanted him to pull the plug, because she didn't want to be like that. When Dexter turned off her life support and took her out into the hurricane in his boat, it was a final act of love and the most beautiful goodbye possible. It was a wonderful scene, as far as I'm concerned and his face was priceless.
Quinn just giving up on looking into Dexter was such bad writing....
He didn't want to ruin his relationship with Debra
@@Dantheman-bw8hv The guy Quinn hires to look into Dexter gets Mysteriously killed after saying he has something big on Dexter and he just lets it go.... bad writing.
That sums it up pretty good. The Finale is a horrendous FUCKUP.
Such a shame they didnt took the Idea from original director who made seasons 1-3, where Dex gets caught and sentenced to death by lethal injection. The whole season 8 wasnt about Dexter and the brain surgeon, it was about hanna mc kay and another random stupid boring stuff that didnt matter at all. I am disappointed.
Sorry, but what a terrible idea.
The ending was thematically accurate and was almost a near identical ending to the books.
My reaction to the finale (which I just saw 5 minutes ago) was "was that it?". It was so anticlimactic, ESPECIALLY compared to other season that ended with my panties shat. Season 4 and 6 had the best finales (even if 6 wasn't that great overall) because I didn't expect the ending and it left my in awe of what would happen next. That didn't happen here, it was just like "oh, well that just happened..."
S8 still made me cry at the end
Angel gave out more blessings than Vince gave out sex jokes
I have just finished watching dexter and was massively disappointed. I still think the first 2 seasons could have easily been the last 2. Was expecting a really explosive final season but meh. I wasn't a huge fan of breaking bad but after watching dexter it has made me appreciate how well written breaking bad was.
Dexter should ended like Six Feet Under, with Dexter dying somewhere in the future and happy to see that Harrison doesnt become like himself.
They need to bring it back. Have it recap Dexter at the lumber yard where he sits down with the sound of shore crashes. He wakes up on the shore of an island with Debs hospital sheets empty along the shoreline because they were hit with a hurricane and knocked out. He suspects Debra might be still alive and dumping her in the ocean and the lumber yard scenes were in his head after he was knocked unconscious. You could bring the show back and have a worthy ending to the franchise and go anywhere with the story from there.
Personally I would have liked debs story to end on Quinn proposing and her saying yes, Dexter to safely get away with Hannah and Harrison, with Batista being promoted to captain and Quinn to lieutenant. I know it's a happy ending but it would have rounded off nicely
What’s up with season 5 finale, writers just straight up ignored the fact that Quin had a legitimate reason to believe that Dexter killed Liddy. I mean, the guy he hired to investigate dexter said he found smth that he was a criminal, told him come here and make this bust, and when Quin gets to that place Liddy is dead.
And knowing all that he does literally nothing, maybe except “thank you for the blood work”
That shit would never happen in real life. Haha
and 8 years later they still fucked it up.
So I went into Dexter with no expectations and I actually loved season 6. My 4th favorite season actually, preferred it over 1 and 3. I also would love season 8 but the last episode killed it for me.
I did not like what Dexter did to Debra...Seriously throwing her to the ocean? Like your goddamn kills? After all she did, this is how Dexter honors her.
For me it was:
Season 1 - 6/10
Season 2 - 9/10
Season 3 - 8/10
Season 4 - 8/10
Season 5 - 7/10
Season 6 - 5/10
Season 7 - 10/10
Season 8 - 8/10
The show had its missteps (especially the ending) but it was a great show overall
Nothing dumb about my comment. The first season was very boring, as expected as the first season of every tv show has to set the scene and contain lots of character development. Then season 2 really kicked off especially because of the British girl that Dexter dates, then seasons 3&4 kept the really interesting story going but then season 5 dipped a little and season 6 dipped A LOT. Then season 7 brought it back with Deb finding out and season 8 was great as well apart from the horrible ending
***** That's not an ironic username at all. ;)
True fan?? ^^ lmao
cahan mclaughlin season 7 is awesome!!!!
***** gay
Anyone else here after the Game Of Thrones series finale? Lol
ed lugo 🙋🏾♀️
I haven't seen Dexter but i have seen the game of thrones and ummm...is Dexter's finale better or worse?
DanieLisBatman :0 game of thrones is worse because it was such a massive let down... dexter was kinda shitty for some seasons towards the end so it wasn’t very surprising
@@dwnlg565 i kinda figured that. After the finale I've never been so disappointed in an ending like that in a long time
Best to worst seasons of dexter
1.Season 1
2.Season 2
3.Season 3
4.Season 4
5,Season 5
6.Season 7
7.Season 6
8.Season 8
LOL You Listed Them In The Order They Were Produced.
Dean Costa
not exactly, I put 7 before 6.
But reflecting back I would actually rank them like this
1.Season 4
2.Season 1
3.Season 2
4.Season 3
5.Season 7
6.Season 5
7.Season 6
8.Season 8
Michael Colby
I agree completely.
Joshua Nelson Yah I feel like most people agree Season 6 and 8 are the worst and seasons 4 and 1 are the best
Michael Colby
Undoubtedly. Dexter definitely declined after the fourth season. Whether that was because of the new writing staff or because they weren't sure what to do after killing off Rita, I'm not entirely sure. All I can say for certain is that the show really took a nosedive after Rita's murder.
Well you didn't understand season 5... The relationship didn't work out because her "darkness was gone" after she got vengence. So there wasn't a lesson to be learned.