What should I explore next in my ongoing Day ___ Died series?

@ashtviceland

2 жыл бұрын

Seinfeld The Big Bang Theory My Name Is Earl Brooklyn Nine Nine Superstore

@danielesalvi4389

2 жыл бұрын

Star Wars

@ayubnor0

2 жыл бұрын

The MCU would be an interesting topic.

@dinoklein688

2 жыл бұрын

Archer ( :

@jorgerosado2087

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been rewatching Weeds recently. Like to see your take. I’d say season 3 was the last good season.

In breaking bad we got to see how everyone reacted to Walter being Heinsberg but Dexter never gave us that satisfaction of seeing everyones reaction to who he is.

@theretroreview8178

Жыл бұрын

Very true… your comment is on point

@anthonyfernandez82

Жыл бұрын

The same as anyone else that knew

@Charles-In-Charge

Жыл бұрын

We explored that SO DEEPLY with Deborah, but yes… New Blood was not worth losing the opportunity to see everyone face their new reality

@padraig-bobotia-maria5176

8 ай бұрын

@@Charles-In-Charge new blood was only there to push a political narrative.

@ltrey33

6 ай бұрын

I wish Rita would have lived (killing her was a mistake IMO) and lived to see Dexter’s true identity. Whether she rejected him or went full on Stockholm syndrome, it would have been compelling.

They had a perfect final season staring them in the face - they should’ve had Deb shoot Dexter instead of LaGuerta. End the episode there. Next episode have him wake up in a hospital surrounded by police. He’s exposed. Everyone knows who he is. They could’ve easily contrived a way for him to escape. Then the last season could’ve been him on the run in Miami. Deb’s emotional breakdown and inner conflict would’ve made a lot more sense knowing that she shot her brother and may lead to his execution. We get to see the whole cast’s reaction to Dexter’s betrayal and how they deal with it. Just endless possibilities. They could’ve even ended it in the same way, with Dexter disappearing into another life and Deb becoming mom to Harrison.

@Xehanort10

2 жыл бұрын

His killing spree would have ended where it began. In a shipping container with Deb stopping the monster her dad created.

@ojb7478

2 жыл бұрын

Write your own show then

@jonesjoestar

2 жыл бұрын

How could they have easily contrived a way for him to escape?

@Xehanort10

2 жыл бұрын

@@ojb7478 Saying "You have to write a show or a better show to criticise bad seasons of it" is a childish defence. You don't have to write a show to criticise another show.

@falkensmaize

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonesjoestar Oh I don’t know…how about a hurricane that causes power outages and confusion and gives him an opportunity to escape? There are a million ways they could’ve done it that wouldn’t have been the least plausible thing that had happened on the show to that point.

For me, I started losing interest once Rita was killed. And it wasn’t just that she died, but the writer’s handling of the fallout thereafter. Like you said, there seemed to be no consequences after that season, and they tried to replace her role with a lesser character in season 5. They could have salvaged it by having Rita stay involved as another voice in his head, largely going against Harry because they fundamentally view him differently based off knowledge. Imagine a Dexter that always had someone that only saw an angel in him being a voice throughout his daily life, but disappearing when he kills because she never knew him like that

@christopherjones5700

2 жыл бұрын

i actually love that idea. i can picture an emotional scene where he has become used to Rita's "advice" but can't obtain it in a moment where he needs it most since she doesn't know him like that.

@leeriches8841

2 жыл бұрын

The mistakes and bad decisions made by the writers started becoming more and more visible and frequent when Rita died.

@flipsidelimited6560

2 жыл бұрын

The whole tone of the series was off after the 4th season. Given that they changed showrunners and writers halfway in the series, you could see and feel the difference between the two halves. Still looking forward to the new mini-series

@spartanastas5560

2 жыл бұрын

I went up to the last two seasons, and stopped. Admiral Adama and Tom Hanks' brother... it was ok... The Trinity Killer season was amazing though.

@ShyamalaMa313

2 жыл бұрын

Rita didn’t even know Dexter so how could she be a voice in his head. She was his cover for being a real human and not a monster. Only one who knew him could be a voice in his head. Making her his angle presupposes that a conscience exists for him to be anything other than he is. He’s a psychopath it wouldn’t work. It didn’t work when Deb tried to keep him from killing and that just would’ve killed the show for real.

LaGuerta's death would have been worth it if Season 8 was all about Dexter's facade collapsing and Miami Metro relentlessly closing in on him. That's what EVERYONE wanted. An ENTIRE season dedicated to Dexter losing everything. But nope, the writers just went back to normal and gave us another tired stale generic killer of the week formula.

@davidcooper1666

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. It should have been Dexter vs. Debra and Miami Metro. Instead of a villain, Dexter becomes the main bad guy and changes from the lovable anti-hero to one that morphs into a monster that the audience roots against. This is similar to Heisenburg in Breaking Bad. People fell in love with the Walt character, yet he still poisoned a kid, hid the body of another dead teen to not expose his drug empire, and manipulated his wife and Jesse for his own selfish ego. Dexter was a serial killer after all and it would have been fitting to have a final showdown between Deb and Dexter. Ugh, Season 7 set up a perfect opportunity and blew it.

@scalpingsnake

2 жыл бұрын

I wonder why it was done so pathetically. Were they banking on bringing it back eventually I wonder and felt like they couldn't do it with Dexter in prison. The shame is, with this new season I doubt it would have the same impact. Just imagine everyone in Miami finding out who he was and his own colleagues have to deal with the fallout. Some could have not been able to handle it, they would have had to deal with so much flak too because it was their job to catch killers etc.

@msoileau83

2 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Carpenter herself said she wished Jen would have put Dexter under arrest. She also said something about Deb committing suicide though might have been a different scenario. But she thought it was truer to her character to put Dexter in prison.

@ZachIsHungry1

2 жыл бұрын

do most people actually wanted him to get caught? cuz i wanted it to be close but not caught

@matthewshaw1850

2 жыл бұрын

I think the new series will end with his death or being caught

Man it was crazy when Dexter ended after season 4. What a perfect show, don't know what this man's talking about, never died, went out on top!

@Mike-zd8wq

2 жыл бұрын

That's how I advertise the show.

@trentjacobs3957

2 жыл бұрын

I've heard numerous people talk about how the show went to craps.....I've never noticed it. I thought it was all pretty good, and am absolutely stoked to start the next one. And I definitely want another, and another, and another.

@rjl310

2 жыл бұрын

agree 100%

@Cheesusful

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the matrix, one great film, shame there was no sequels but I guess they thought it was best to go out on a high notw

@TheRedAzuki

2 жыл бұрын

What's funny is what in the country I live, the channel broadcasting it changed to a channel my parents didnt own. So i never seen past season 4

I was really into this series but once Debra started to fall in love with dexter that's when I was out.

@Soda-bu5jk

2 жыл бұрын

Literally have watched the show up to ep 1 season 7 3 times and cant get through that first ep

@grelkie

2 жыл бұрын

Why?

@Googledeservestodie

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny, the actors were together IRL in this time

@grelkie

2 жыл бұрын

@@Googledeservestodie I'm pretty sure they were divorced during S7

@marshallmayhem5516

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. That’s actually what I thought Elk would say

Scott Buck. The man who killed Dexter, Iron Fist, and Inhumans. He hasn’t worked a day since.

@Widderic

6 ай бұрын

Let's hope he never does again.

@alanpennie8013

3 ай бұрын

He may be the worst show runner of this millennium.

@vond5829

Ай бұрын

How did he get the job is still beyond me.

@vincentsymphonia7126

27 күн бұрын

​@@vond5829💵

@dogmapile5832

25 күн бұрын

​@alanpennie8013 Worse than Damon Lindelof?

Doakes was one of my favorite side characters. Direct, straight-laced cop, with a fantastic bloodhound sense for a detective. I really wished his character lasted a bit longer...

@user-is7xs1mr9y

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly Doakes was a top-tier cop and having him around was such a laugh, he's iconic.

@ezrolly9898

2 жыл бұрын

That's when I started hating Dexter. They should have saved Doakes death for later seasons.

@gemmahowell8266

2 жыл бұрын

Read the book it's different but no bad and dokes lasts longer

@Poppins242

2 жыл бұрын

In the books he's more central and doesn't get killed x

@spikey288

2 жыл бұрын

Dexter and Doakes simply are too smart to both exist, Doakes would always come after him and Dexter is bound to stop him. It makes sense that he dies, if they prolonged his life it would just be plot armor to drag it out.

I didn’t even bother watching the last season. But the season with John Lithgow was some of the best tv drama I’ve ever seen. Thanks for the breakdown, very cathartic.

@jabberdouche

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I would've done the same. Trinity Killer was the best season. Last season was just dumb!

@ayourmum8521

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly the last season isn’t that bad. It’s just the last episode that’s so horrible it makes you wish the last 4 seasons didn’t happen. In comparison to a show like game of thrones where the entire last season was horrible not just the last episode

@MrMythul

2 жыл бұрын

@@ayourmum8521 season 5 was passable, season 6 was aweful, 7 was good but failed at the end, season 8 was a downward spiral.

@jsbmx2039

2 жыл бұрын

Trinity killer was great season

@in3audio932

2 жыл бұрын

Lost interest during the Colin Hanks season

Hannah McKay was a Mary Sue. I didn't care at all about that character nor did I understand Dexter's (and the writers') interest in her. The show jumped the shark completely when Dexter and Hannah had sex on the murder table.

@Madvillainy48

2 жыл бұрын

That was one of the main reasons I stopped watching

@bythesea1532

2 жыл бұрын

I died reading the last part you said cuz it was so off the walls

@random90sgirl86

2 жыл бұрын

if you don't understand his interest in her then you probably failed to understand the psychology of Dexter! The guy was a conniving, master manipulator and a serial killer...who did you think he would be interested in? a ballerina? we saw him with a normal woman ( Rita) and how was that? it was never a genuine relationship and they never had any real connection and she was totally oblivious to his reality to the point where it got her killed eventually! Hannah was just as complicated as he was and also conniving and fierce..she complemented his darkness plus, she understood and accepted him which are things he had long been looking for since Harry's death.

@shayla106

2 жыл бұрын

@@random90sgirl86 No, we just don’t support bad writing and character assassination.

@SchulzEricT

6 ай бұрын

@@random90sgirl86 Lumen

The thing that always got to me was the police always saying "we have a bad guy we wanna bust" then they get murdered by dexter first almost always without fail. Like that happens like 200 times, youd think theyd notice

The show could’ve easily ended after 4 or 5 seasons and it would’ve been one of the best series of the past 30 years

@-JaggedGrace-

4 ай бұрын

I think even if you cut it short by the last 5 or 10 minutes it wouldve been remembered much more fondly

I'm so glad you called out the season seven finale-I can't stand that episode and I'm beyond shocked that it's one of the highest rated Dexter episodes on IMDB. LaGuerta's death was the point in the series where I realized the writers would never let Dexter get caught and would always have a convenient way to evade getting caught.

@octagonseventynine1253

2 жыл бұрын

Off topic but self portrait is a super underrated album. Nice avatar

@coatsorkeys

2 жыл бұрын

@@octagonseventynine1253 Thanks!

@dionjones6300

2 жыл бұрын

Ngl I hated it too. Debbie absolutely should have shot or captured Dexter. Her morality hut a 180

@HSSLNG

2 жыл бұрын

Having plot armor on the protagonist of a show is hardly valid criticism, seeing as it works fine in almost every other succesful show. Walter White (spoiler!) is never caught in Breaking Bad, Thomas Shelby doesn't die in Peaky Blinders, I think we could keep going. How do you expect a show to continue without its protagonist?

@octagonseventynine1253

2 жыл бұрын

@@HSSLNG I guess you never finished breaking bad

I think that one of the reasons the show's quality took a real downturn is the loss of not only Rita but the kids as well. Their existence on the show caused a natural tension. Dexter couldn't just stay out all night long and basically do whatever he wanted without consequence. Plus, Rita and the kids had problems that he needed to help solve. This is something that is often overlooked. The kids were shipped to Grandma and Grandpa's and we only saw them a couple of times the rest of the show. But overall I agree. The storytelling felt far less organic and the writing in general became sloppier. It lost the precision-like feel under Phillips.

@misterdarwin

2 жыл бұрын

I think the show betrayed its premise when it started making Dexter care. Sociopaths can't be cured. Harry was right about that. They can be given rules and parameters to function in, but Dexter learning to love RIta and the children wasn't plausible. But then they'd have to keep a fundamentally unlikeable character at the center of the show. Audiences would eventually see past the vigilante porn to a man who they simply can't identify with.

@MrJay-be9wh

2 жыл бұрын

@@misterdarwin One cool path they sort of touched on, but never went down, was the possibility that Dexter wasn't actually a sociopath. That Harry misdiagnosed him and sort of groomed him into being a killer and giving him a warped perception of life and death and a template for how he as a sociopath should act. Then later in life, without Harry, Dexter finally started letting emotions come through. Like Dexter was totally distraught when Brian died, and he also chose to sacraifice a life of killing with his brother to save Deb. He also was building connections with warped people like Lila and Miguel and eventually found a way to do it for Rita. He just couldn't confront it because... well Harry had taught him to think he was a sociopath and he couldn't decipher his feelings. Dexter also is kinda weird. Even early on he doesn't display a common diagnosis. He is very thorough and risk averse like a psychopath, but his killing is defined by urges like a sociopath. It's just weird. And then he lingers on deaths way too much. I think having him be the victim of this messed up cop who felt guilt over the death of an informant he fell for and misunderstanding the temperment of his adopted son and fucking him up would have been an interesting path to go down.

@Andy-Bodhi

2 жыл бұрын

You have narcissists the sociopaths then psychopaths. It was my understanding that Dexter was considered the latter and most dangerous. But don't be fooled psychopaths can very much feel things towards a select few. It's usually warped in some way and very self-serving which can make the relationship more intense. However, I do like the insight and varying ideas in the thread. All definitely have their merits

@weejoe27

2 жыл бұрын

I stopped watching it when Rita was killed. Your views are really interesting 👍

@blacklite911

2 жыл бұрын

You’re right. But at the same time Rita’s death was kinda epic. Perhaps if they kept the kids more relevant. But I’d actually say the downturn started with the killing of Doakes. He was the perfect opposite of Dexter and he helped create that tension you were talking about. Now the following season was still good but it was forever changed and imo less funny because doakes had amazing one liners. That was the path they chose to start a start releasing that tension and it allowed Dexter to get more sloppy.

I remember the Dexter finale and Breaking Bad episode Oxymandias were premiering on the same night and the r/dexter subreddit put up a Breaking Bad Discussion sticky instead of Dexter because everyone had given up on the show at that point and nobody was tuning in to Dexter anymore. After that the subreddit pretty much completely turned into a Breaking Bad subreddit for a little while. It was great

@BlyGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Remember when Rian Johnson made all time great content? I member.

@jeltje50

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlyGuy he still does that tho.

@BlyGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeltje50 since he directed Ozymandias, arguably the greatest hour in TV history, he's been pretty awful and wrote/directed a Star Wars film that was vehemently despised by the fan base (I am not a star wars guy, just going by the reaction). I guess Knives Out is supposed to be decent. Johnson just needs to stick to directing, something he is inarguably great at.

@denisesudell2538

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlyGuy I don’t understand why people seem to love Knives Out. I was completely underwhelmed.

@BlyGuy

2 жыл бұрын

@@denisesudell2538 I didn't see it, so can't comment. Not really sure what "Burned Edits" is referencing when he responded that Rian still creates great content.

Jennifer's acting remained extremely strong until the end. She made the show watchable past season 5.

The whole Hannah romance was a final straw for me. It was just so stupid to have two psychopaths having a romance. Dexter being lovesick puppy was pathetic. Also she was psychopath who killed for her own gain when ever she felt like it. I honestly think that the worse thing Dexter ever did was to leave his son with her. Only thing I liked about the ending was that Dexter didn't get a happy ending. I wasn't rooting for his psycopathic nuclear family with Hannah at any point.

@miascott8945

2 жыл бұрын

I agree with all of this! This plot line was more or less what did it for me as well. This, Deb's behavior, and the psychologist Dexter started seeing who acted with Harry as his "mentor" or whatever it was when Dexter was a little kid (it's been a long time so that last plot line is kinda hazy to me).

@iliboxic7586

2 жыл бұрын

Hannah not ending up on Dexter's table after poisoning Deb proved that the real Dexter is dead.

@TaeTae-kw7hr

2 жыл бұрын

ikr I absolutely despised Hannah and that whole storyline and I still can't believe that even though a lot of fans didn't like her they still brought her back for season 8 AND gave Harrison to her smh🤦🏻‍♀️💀

@AbandonedVoid

2 жыл бұрын

The Lumen romance kind of hurt, too, because they couldn't stop speaking like melodramatic goth poetry. I wouldn't mind that, but it's not what I watch Dexter for.

@melissafaye915

2 жыл бұрын

It sounds weird, but it would've been better if him and Deb got together. They actually had chemistry. I love this show so much, but they made some terrible choices...

Scott Buck killed the show in ways Dexter can only dream of.

@EntertainTheElk

2 жыл бұрын

Haha

@clownphabetstrongwoman7305

2 жыл бұрын

This line is so clever.

For me the point where it turned bad was when rita and the kids died and disappeared from the show. Emphasis on the kids too. It did a lot for the show that dexter had this counter point that pulled him away from the killing and into a normal sort of life. It helped show this duality of the character that was lost in later seasons. Especially the kids had such a huge impact on dexter and how he had to change plans to care about them etc

Explained to a friend who only seen a few episodes of Dexter on how the series ended with him handing Harrison to a woman that tried to kill his Sister and ended up faking his death to become a Lumberjack. Let's say he didnt believe me coz it's so left field and stupid.

@santi_super_stunts2573

2 жыл бұрын

Not a lumber jack lol. He’s in New York. I had always thought it was Canada. You can’t be a lumber jack unless your in Canada.

Great show until about halfway through the series, then is immediately plummeted at a record pace. I still can’t believe they killed Dokes off so fast. He was such a great anti-hero.

@CSIGrissom

2 жыл бұрын

“Suprise Mothafucka!” - Sgt. Doakes

@dereklewis4321

2 жыл бұрын

S2 is also kinda odd story wise. Like that narrative of being discovered really should have been the second to last season and the last season is him on the run.

@Singapore-Aviation72

2 жыл бұрын

@@dereklewis4321 yeah I agree. It would’ve tied up really well. Especially if he was going to just disappear, it would’ve made more sense.

@dereklewis4321

2 жыл бұрын

@@Singapore-Aviation72 s1 is same, s2 is the season with Migel, s3 is trinity still, s4 is becoming discovered by the death of Rita and s5 is on the run. Would have been a perfect series this way. Still love the show but it had some miss steps. Plus then we would of had James for 4 seasons.

@ErebosGR

2 жыл бұрын

Dexter was the anti-hero. Doakes was the hero.

It wouldve been so amazing if they stretched out the dokes storyline of him getting caught. Imagine a season 3 where dokes ALMOST caught dexter in season 2 and now is making it his mission to prove it in season 3. A perfect foil for dexter.

@KoolKeithProductions

2 жыл бұрын

Truth. Dokes was my favorite character, and l was PISSED when he got killed off in season 2. I didnt even wanna watch S3 when it aired. What a terrible decision.

@BronzeMantis

2 жыл бұрын

Doakes's character arc would have worked better if it was more of a slow burn. Have the two start off on friendly ties, have something happens that makes Doakes suspicious of Dexter, and go from there. I think they realized that mistake and had a flashback episode later in the series to mark when hostilities first formed between the two.

@dfolz1101

2 жыл бұрын

@@BronzeMantis i actually loved how it starts with doakes hating dexter, kinda showed he had a 6th sense about him all along

@paulheap1982

2 жыл бұрын

@That HALO Dude it wasn't Dexter, it was Dr. Dranco.

@lazygenie5616

2 жыл бұрын

That wouldn’t have worked really, Dokes would have just killed Dexter executioner style he wouldn’t dare go through the process of actually trying to prove it especially after he knew that he was straight up the Bayharbor butcher he had to die for it to work…. Unfortunately because he really did make the show 1000x better

Season 4 of that show was excellent. Jon Lithgow's one of those rare actors who does comedy, particularly sitcoms, so well but can be absolutely terrifying in more serious stuff. I never actually continued with it past that oddly, but I suppose in hindsight that's for the best.

@Widderic

6 ай бұрын

Yeah you're lucky. Season 5 had it's moments but it really all went down hill after they switched writers. I watched the series finale with a big crowd of people and everyone booed. Don't watch it.

@keepingitkianatural

4 ай бұрын

I had his character for 3rd Rock in my head the whole time and I was HORRIFIED.

Debs thing for Dexter was the cheapest way to get him out of bad situations. But those were fabricated for drama, its clear they went with it because they wanted to include a creepy dynamic. BAD TASTE.

@user-is7xs1mr9y

2 жыл бұрын

I mean, isn't brotherly love enough for Deb to "overlook" Dexter's deeds? You see it in criminals all the time, family covering up for them.

It should've been 5 seasons only. Doakes should've been Dexter's main thorn in his side throughout. It should've ended as soon as Debra found out the truth.

@BishopWalters12

2 жыл бұрын

8 seasons was too long, Breaking Bad did it right with ending it with 5 seasons.

Dexter died when Rita died.

@HookedonChronics

2 жыл бұрын

I stopped watching around then, apparently I picked the right time to tap out

@curious1053

2 жыл бұрын

It kinda made no sense to me. Dexter was hunting Trinity, found his car near his address, took the part out, then followed him after he returned from killing Rita, kills him, then is shocked to discover Rita dead?

@jeffwilliams2828

2 жыл бұрын

@@curious1053 from a story arc stand point, it was clear from foreshadowing that Dexter was going to have to kill his sister. But since they were in a relationship in real life, i assume producers stepped in and changed it to something else “shocking”

@aimreyne8487

2 жыл бұрын

Rita was insufferably too nice, and entirely boring to watch

@ignatzmeyer1978

2 жыл бұрын

@@aimreyne8487 I think the contrast of such a nice and innocent person like Rita married to a serial killer was the point that made it interesting.

Dexter was incredible. Some seasons were worse than others, but overall I never got tired of the show. Even the finale wasn't that terrible to me.

@arielfuxman8868

2 жыл бұрын

When I had seen the final episode I had already known there will be another season, so that gave me some hope

@sheena171

2 жыл бұрын

I hoping they didn’t bring the show back only for Dexter to get caught or bumped off. I will upset 😢

@MrGuitarJockey

2 жыл бұрын

@@sheena171 Doesn't seem like it's going in that direction. First season of new blood is better than the entirety of Dexter in my opinion. It just started off so strong and hasn't lost the charm of Dexter yet.

@shanmarie4122

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like I'm the only one who actually liked the ending. I felt like it was unexpected. Everyone anticipated him getting caught or killed. Surviving, living another life, that wasn't really what I'd expected. And leaving Harrison I thought made sense. He knew everyone close to him dies. The best thing he could do to save Harrison would be to sacrifice his own relationship with him.

@sheena171

2 жыл бұрын

@@shanmarie4122 I was cool with the ending, I was glad to see that Dexter got away.

Honestly it was the retconning of Dexter’s origin with Dr. Vogel when I gave up. It was such a huge writing change that basically compromises Dexter as a character, his dark passenger, and the show in it’s entirety.

@OWmyDragonballz

8 ай бұрын

His origin wasn’t retconned from Vogel. She came up with the idea of the code but Harry created the details.

@Stigmatix666

7 ай бұрын

It wasn’t a retcon, because it didn't outright contradict anything

Those first four seasons were sensational, and while I didn't 'hate' the rest of the series (for the most part), you could tell the creative team behind it wasn't of the same caliber.

@Nope2479

7 ай бұрын

Season 3 was mid af

@veramae4098

16 күн бұрын

Bad writing. LAZY WRITERS. Lazy writing. BAD WRITERS.

I would say Dexter died the day he started actively interfering with a live investigation. The Doomsday Killer. Harry's Code is for Dexter to catch killers who the law let get away. He was never supposed to sabotage active investigations. And he never did, until season 6. I will always say that's when it died. Also unpopular opinion here, but Season 5 is the best season.

@paigeblundell9449

2 жыл бұрын

Season five is my favourite

@michealgossar1147

2 жыл бұрын

I don't believe season 5 is the best, but it is definitely the season that deserves more recognition than it gets. The villain is my 2nd favorite.

@FringeMusic107

2 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. The last three seasons showed that the showrunners fundamentally misunderstood certain aspects of Dexter's code. He messed with crime scenes to get ahead of his colleagues, he started killing just to "save the people of Miami", he spontaneously killed people he didn't know simply because they attacked him first (like he learned nothing from Miguel's brother), he suddenly had the supernatural ability to spot serial killers in a crowd... and the show pretended that Dexter used the phrase "the dark passenger" as an excuse to not take responsibility for his own actions. Dexter would have profound epiphanies about himself that directly contradicted his behavior in earlier seasons.

@We_Are_Borg_478

2 жыл бұрын

The only problem with that is Dexter was throwing investigations since season 1. Dokes even discovers this before his death. So really, the show was dead to you before episode 1 even happened.

@FringeMusic107

2 жыл бұрын

@@We_Are_Borg_478 No need to tell me when I stopped enjoying the show. :) Part of his code is that he doesn't interfere. And yes, ye does do that in season 2 when he's pushed into a corner and when he's under investigation himself. He also does it in season 4 because he still wants to learn from Trinity. By season six, he messes with evidence for the sole reason that he wants every killer to himself.

Watching this after the New Blood finale is kinda depressing. It was going so well at recreating the Dexter glory days, but then fell right back into nonsensical writing, plot convenience, and retcons to force the ending, rather than reaching it naturally

My wife and I just finished rewatching the entire series and man the final season was tough to get through. I'd slightly disagree on the day Dexter died. To me, it was the episode where Deb admits that she's in love with Dexter. That storyline only existed to give her more motivation to choose him over Laguerta at the end of the season, and it was totally unnecessary.

To me the series died earlier; In that scene where Dexter and Hannah end up banging on his murder table.

@Tommykey07

2 жыл бұрын

I did find Yvonne Strahovski to be really hot.

@TalkSickMass

2 жыл бұрын

It was such a cheap way to add shock value.

John Liithgow said it best in the season 4 finale: "It's already over."

@Kendervader

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact: It's both the first thing he says in the 4th season and last thing in the season 🔥

@SchulzEricT

6 ай бұрын

He should've said "the best and final season is next"

Season 4 was so brilliantly written, when that season was done and came to its shocking conclusion, I knew it was the beginning of the end of the show. While it got stretched into 4 more seasons, there was nothing that could surpass what season 4 did. I think the last episode of season 4 is what was truly the day Dexter died. Along with Rita.

The original show runners envisioned the series finale would have Dexter get caught and have the ghosts of all his victims watch him get the lethal injection. That would have been a fitting end.

One idea I had is this - and this might actually have made for a much stronger ending. Dexter is still caught, but how he is caught changes in one significant way. Everlyn Vogel is actually undercover FBI. She is still a behavioural scientist and expert in psychopathy - and is actually a former colleague of Lundy's. They were good friends, and after Lundy's death she, like Laguerta, became convinced that the Bay Harbour Butcher was indeed still alive and still active. On reviewing Lundy's case notes, she was granted access to the Miami metro PD in an official capacity, however her actual function is covert - she is to work on the BHB case, investigating where Lundy left off before he mistakenly placed Doakes as the Butcher. It doesn't take her long to figure out the truth, has been tricking Dexter all along, gaining admissions on tape for weeks as she builds a case against him. Her background story about helping Harry was fabricated (after all, Harry never mentioned her...) and she now has everything she needed. Dexter is captured and arrested as any other criminal - the trickster had been tricked and he must now face the consequences.

@qwertymanor

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty good re write!

@Mirage238

5 ай бұрын

Most criminals are never caught. Most missing people were killed and nobody found out. You must not think that the police always gets the serial killer.

Scott Buck is like the grim reaper for TV shows.

@Louis-wp3fq

2 жыл бұрын

It used to be Ted McGinley...

@whodatninja439

2 жыл бұрын

i remember listening to the after show podcasts during season 8. what a fucking moron.

@staghunter2579

2 жыл бұрын

Great profile pic.

@geeksontapshow

2 жыл бұрын

He was behind Inhumans as well.

@codysparks1454

2 жыл бұрын

And Iron Fist

So far _Dexter: New Blood_ is everything I wanted. It feels like the glory days of Dexter are finally back.

@rsoleighton5608

2 жыл бұрын

Ehhhh 6 episodes in hes only killed 1 person it feels more drama about his son

@boredXsomethingXIDK

2 жыл бұрын

@@rsoleighton5608 I mean, he also chose that location to isolate himself out in the middle of nowhere. So it's not like there's going to be an all you can slash Dark Passenger buffet.

@rsoleighton5608

2 жыл бұрын

@@boredXsomethingXIDK that's fair

@rsoleighton5608

2 жыл бұрын

@Green Lion I ain't laughed this hard in a while lol respect bubba

@KBP120

2 жыл бұрын

The new show is rushed, extremely scripted with really poor acting. It barely has any music either. It's pretty much a joke compared to the glory days of Dexter.

As someone who lives in Florida the stuff with that hurricane is so idiotic it's hard to put into words. Hurricanes are not instantaneous events We have days if not weeks of preparation. Any hospital especially one on a barrier island like Miami beach would have been long emptied. Also with as a side note I know they film in California but in Florida cars don't have front license plates

Will never forget how they disappointed us twice. Living with the original ending was better than what happened with new blood.

Dexter should have been 4 seasons, and Doakes should’ve been the final boss, not Trinity. S1: stays the same S2: Miguel season S3: Trinity S4: Original season 2, ending with Dexter going on the run and getting exposed by Doakes

@michaelsnook7666

25 күн бұрын

I would have rather had doakes in the third season without dying by losing to dexter and getting suspended . Then in the end he saves rita from dying and dex gets killed by trinity.

The sad part is that on season 7 Dexter got back that “touch” not as good as season 4 but better than 5, 6 and 3. What killed Dexter was bringing Hannah again on season 8 and making it a serial killer telenovela after she even tried to kill Debra (and then poisoned Dexter) what were the writers thinking??

@SchulzEricT

6 ай бұрын

Better than 5? Um... 5 was the best season, bite your tongue.

Doakes was the perfect anti-hero that was killed off way too fast. But I agree... after season 4, Dexter was just different

I can't believe how bad the ending is. I was sure he would be found out by Batista.

@varicosevisage4794

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I wanted. I wanted Batista to catch him and be conflicted. He said multiple times he viewed Dex as his best friend so finding out your bestie is a killer would've made great drama.

@thrallfan1056

2 жыл бұрын

In the criminal world there is no greater humiliation then being known as the guy who got caught by fucking officer Batista lmao.

@santi_super_stunts2573

2 жыл бұрын

Batista was the worst detective lol. You have to be so bad to be caught by him lol

@UMANGPLAYS

2 жыл бұрын

Batista is back now in season 10

@Bryan-T

2 жыл бұрын

@@UMANGPLAYS I saw that :)

Dexter is the show that taught me to quit a watching before it deteriorates too much. I regret watching the three seasons. Season 5 with Lumen (if I remember the correct season number) was pretty good, albeit a little anticlimatic after the Lithgow season. But after that was mostly blah or pure garbage. I've learned to give up on shows going down the drain and to stop watching because of Dexter. I mean, from Serial Killer With a Code to Deadbeat Dad In Coos Bay is the worst character arc ever.

@didiercollard

2 жыл бұрын

I rather liked Season 5. It felt more like a reset than a continuation, but I liked Julia Stiles's character and her resolution, which for once ended without her death. Not bad. But then somehow, I and the guy who I was watching it with got instantly bored with the sixth season, and never got beyond a few episodes in. Seriously dodged a bullet there!

@ErdTirdMans

2 жыл бұрын

Lumen was seriously underrated. Her character was fantastic and the arc of it was beautiful. The antagonist was weak and some of how they got to the guys involved was overly contrived though. Season 6 should have opened with Dexter being disgusted that he couldn't change like Lumen, embracing his Dark Passenger rather than his "family side" even more, gets caught, he's on the run, Deb eventually finds him, she's hesitant, they have a big argument as she points his gun at him, she realizes he cares more about killing than her and Harrison, maybe she shoots him or maybe he escapes either one works fine

@bubbaXzone

2 жыл бұрын

i enjoyed season 5 and i think 6 was the religious one which i also liked i mean its not like season 1-4 but i still enjoyed it! 7 with dr yolo i just was bored that season and didn't really care for it

@jbellflower83

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. S5 was the last halfway decent season. It was all downhill from there

@gregorneier2592

Жыл бұрын

why do people not like season 7 so much?

I remember the last season aired at the same time as Breaking Bad last season. It was crazy seeing BB go all-in on the end game with every episode having intense moments that brought things to a head and satisfying conclusion, whilst Dexter was just twiddling it's thumbs.

@theretroreview8178

Жыл бұрын

Agree. I remember enjoying BB so much and being so disappointed in Dexter.

I'm a fan of Dexter (even the flawed stuff) so please keep that in mind when reading this. But I think the show hit a decline in writing somewhere in the second season and it never recaptured it, even though there were obvious high points afterward. First off, they killed Doakes off too soon into the show. Secondly, no one would believe that he would collect blood slides. If I found blood slides, I'd immediately suspect Dexter, the blood expert. All that coupled with the fact that a series of coincidences led to the death of Doakes, letting Dexter off the hook from making a tough choice, just felt too convenient for me. Don't get me wrong. I still love the show and I get why people are willing to forgive stuff like this. In fact, I knowingly let stuff like this slide myself. I just think if you're going to be critical of the writing, it started declining in season 2. It just didn't decline to the same extent that later seasons did.

@AbandonedVoid

2 жыл бұрын

I kinda think Season 4 is the best season, followed by Season 1. Seasons 2, 3, 5, and 6 all felt kind of like filler by comparison, and I never watched Season 8 because of how Season 7 went.

@Omeria

2 жыл бұрын

You're absolutely right. I recently started rewatching it and the decline in quality is glaringly obvious in S2. The show still remained decent until end of S5, but the first season is a masterpiece the rest didn't live up to. It had a specific atmosphere that was lost in the following seasons. I had no idea the showrunner of the first season left before S2, but this explains the drop in quality. The show was worse off for it, it's sad he didn't stay for a few more seasons.

@jbellflower83

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbandonedVoid oh, S4 is easily the best season. That was peak Dexter.

@benmaynard3059

2 жыл бұрын

Yea I think in general it was fine as a whole . You can't seperate seasons and claim they don't count or whatever , like some people try to . Just enjoy the ride and deal with it lol.

@funkyfranx

2 жыл бұрын

@@benmaynard3059 What are you on about? That’s like saying you can’t judge individual books within a series, you either like the whole thing or hate the whole thing.

The finale scene feels the most honest to me. Dexter no longer has his inner monologue because he's no longer lying to himself. There was nothing left for him to say.

I'm gonna say 5x12 The Big One. I think the decision to have Deb NOT find out about Dex heavily damaged the following seasons. Season 5, while not being one of the best ones, was still quite good and it very nicely built towards Deb finding out the truth. Her questioning her own morality and what's right was a great set up for that. Also, Dex being emotionally distraught was also very fitting for his secret to spill and the world to start collapsing around him. But the writers lost their balls all of the sudden and Deb didn't discover the truth because of... some plastic sheet. She finds out a season later in a much more random scenario. If Deb did find out about Dex in 5x12 then it would have given season 5 more of an impact and it would give the writers some great material to work with in season 6 to potentially end the series on a high note in season 7. But that delay and cowardice, probably caused by Showtime's desire to keep the series going (I'm almost certain that it was the reason behind the departure of the original showrunner), affected the show's momentum and confidence that would later ruin the final season.

The last episode was goofy but the last scene was strong and made complete sense. Everyone who gets close to Dexter ends up getting hurt so he sees no alternative but to isolate himself. I thought the final scene was one of the best scenes in the series.

@Keyboardje

6 ай бұрын

Even if I could go along with you in this, the later series did away with all those reasons at once again. Making the first ending totally obsolete, as we see Dexter living another new life, with another new love interest and so on, which I resented very much. Then why th not just get Hannah and his son back with him?

I enjoyed the lila, Miguel and lumen seasons so much, say what you will about the fifth season but them putting in a whole bunch of killers and Dexter finally having a partner that didn't turn on him really made me fall in love with that season

@DeathbatOfSpades

2 жыл бұрын

I think the 5th season deserves the same love as the first 4. In some ways I enjoy it more than season 3.

@Nicholenickinicscott

2 жыл бұрын

@@DeathbatOfSpades so true, it was very well made, lumen was the perfect person for Dexter to move on from Rita death, it saddened me that she was leaving but she never betrayed him and accepted him for who he is

@trystin87

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nicholenickinicscott For me it's the 3rd best season, but only because season 4 is perfect and the first season is a great introduction and has such a major villain in terms of relation to Dexter himself. But Lumen is a phenomenal character for him and she's honestly the last great character we see in the show.

@Widderic

6 ай бұрын

Yeah until Miguel said "F*CK YOU DEXTER!"

The highpoint was Trinity with the amazing John Lithgow. After that, not so much.

@EntertainTheElk

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah you can't top John Lithgow. He's so damn good.

@AscensionINC-zi1jz

2 жыл бұрын

4 was enjoyable imo but the ending was the shocking part. Personally 2 and 7 had much more suspense and were much more enjoyable to watch.

@SchulzEricT

6 ай бұрын

I mean, after that you had the best season in the show before season 6 dropped the ball - was entertaining in a vacuum, but didn't do much for the series-long story.

Dexter should have come under suspicion after season 4, but they kept stalling it. Then there was the season 5 ending when Deb entered the killing room with Dexter behind the curtain and she just walked away! From that moment it was awfull.

I honestly like the very very end tho. It’s the only part of that season that resonated as really sad. Dexter has been talking to us this entire show. We are his dark passenger. But by the end, after everything, he just stares and has nothing to say. I legit love that ending. Dexter doesn’t need to have a dramatic death like Walter white. Some people just ruin everything and fade away. UNTIL NEW BLOOD THAT IS

@eval1313

2 жыл бұрын

It was reminiscent of the last episode of the Shield to me

@shriharihudli8596

Жыл бұрын

@@eval1313 Exactly. The Shield ends pretty much the same way.

@djthesis3128

6 ай бұрын

Crazy how they knew the public perception to the show, got New Blood off the ground after like 10 years, and then butchered the ending of that series as well. Love Dexter but now he has 2 of the worst endings of all time

@nahtesalinas1917

4 ай бұрын

*though. Learn how to spell.

Since the first season was based on the book and the rest weren't, even in season two I found myself saying to myself "Dexter wouldnt say that in that situation" or "Batista would clearly feel remorse for coaxing that latina into testifying against Little Chino after seeing that she immediately gets slaughtered but acts like shes a stranger murdered"

Before watching the video... Dexter died the moment Debra fell in love with her brother. Prior to that, I still had hope the series could recover.

I've always held a headcanon that Dexter and Hellraiser exist in the same universe. With James Remar playing Harry in Dexter and a Pinhead disguise persona in Hellraiser 5: Inferno, I've held that Dexter died at the end of season 1 and went to hell where the Cenobites see Dexter as one of their own and lead him down a path of 'Cenobite Training'. Post season 1, Dexter imagines Harry talking to him more directly rather than through flashback. Practically, I know that this is used to show Dexter's inner monologue rather than simply telling it, but it is also fun to see it as Pinhead 'putting on Harry's skin' so he can bring Dexter into the fold. Cenobite Dexter when Showtime!

@DubiousConsumption

2 жыл бұрын

This is awesome. I'll keep this in mind for my rewatch. 🤔

@Paranoid_Alchemist

2 жыл бұрын

Cool

Turns out a lot of people stopped watching Dexter after Rita died, me being one of them. My brother watched until the very end and he didn't really have any problem with the ending. In a way i felt the same way but about Game of Thrones. I didnt think the ending was too bad, but i can definitly see why a lot of people didn't like it.

I personally never wanted to see Dexter caught. I was always rooting for him. I always thought the world needs some Dexters. Because the legal system is a joke. These rapists, murderers, they rarely get what they deserve. So yes, I never wanted Dexter caught.

@user-de3jk8kj3h

2 жыл бұрын

Facts

@suchite8

Жыл бұрын

Death note head ahh

Only the first 2 seasons were 10/10 imo. They started fucking with the formula from season 3 and it got progressively more disappointing each season from then on.

@Keepontakingit

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. And Dexter only really felt true to character in the first two. An awkward, weirdo psychopath trying to fit in and seem normal. That part got completely abandoned

@JoshJr98

2 жыл бұрын

Season 4 was great though

@octagonseventynine1253

2 жыл бұрын

@@JoshJr98 was that one with John Lithgo? I did actually enjoy that. only one I liked after season 2

@JoshJr98

2 жыл бұрын

@@octagonseventynine1253 yeah. And I agree

@RealJeffTidwell

2 жыл бұрын

That’s fair. There was definitely a slight tonal shift, Dexter’s priorities changed. Seasons 3 and 4 feel like a pair, and 5 stands in contrast to most of the series.

Season 4 was setting up the downfall of Dexter. He was at his most stressed, he made so many mistakes, Quinn was onto him, but the new writers just decided to drop everything. S5EP1 was so promising, but everything interesting just gets axed.

I only started watching Dexter after new blood was announced. I finished it last night. It had been on life support from season 6 onwards. For me it died right there alongside Debra. She was the final flicker of hope that things could be okay. She gave a sense that in some way Dexter himself could be salvaged. The show flatlined right there with her.

After the first episode of New Blood, I feel a small glimmer of hope for a satisfying conclusion for the character of Dexter. I am still skeptical, but we will see.

@scalpingsnake

2 жыл бұрын

What are your impressions of the first episode? I am mixed but haven't really fully formed anything yet. I think it sets up some interesting things but also felt a little rushed (I assume they are trying to get 'back to normal' while also keeping the original ending intact?)

@gb76231

2 жыл бұрын

Idk, 10 years without killing and he falls that easily when tempted again

@Tauramehtar

2 жыл бұрын

@@gb76231 Well, according to the story, it is who he truly is. Everything in the series has been about this balancing act. We will see what new progression it brings.

@brandih9802

2 жыл бұрын

I think Harrison will end up killing Dexter

@gb76231

2 жыл бұрын

@@brandih9802 agreed

Such a shame this show went off the rails. I have high hopes for the spin off though!

@EntertainTheElk

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the mini-series looks interesting. Hopefully it can right the wrongs.

@ProfessorChaos56

2 жыл бұрын

@@EntertainTheElk Good or bad, it's still building off season 8's ending, and that already really hurts the show. Even if good, the events of the new story are built off of something that makes no sense at all, and that really pulls me out of it. I still hope it's good, but that will never not bother me.

@justinandrew7310

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorChaos56 I find it the opposite, it's kind of refreshing to see a show have the balls to address a poorly made ending and try to mend it

@melissafaye915

2 жыл бұрын

@@justinandrew7310 yes! Just watched the first episode, and it was pretty satisfying...I just hope they don't shove their agendas down our throats too much...they better not fuck this up with that bs.

@AscensionINC-zi1jz

2 жыл бұрын

@@ProfessorChaos56 How does the original ending make no sense? Even if you hated it it did make sense for his character to end things the way he did. Even Michael c hall and Phillips understood this.

Here 6months after the new blood finale. Oh boy, never have I ever thought the season 8 ending would be the best ending to dexter…

I always thought the episode that killed the series is when Dexter killed Travis Marshall in the church that he knew that the police were currently investigating number one rule don't get caught. It's implied don't get caught and also make sure that you don't make stupid decisions like making things personal choosing the right place for the kill. Example with Jordan Chase dexter made it too personal and he almost got caught by Debra LOL. That's one of the biggest problems I noticed Dexter made everything personal he let his emotions get the best of him. Another thing that Dexter did that led up to a downfall is that he kept taking cases under the police when the cases were already under investigation he kept trying to play like God like he wanted to stop bad things from happening. The whole point of the code was to allow Dexter to do what he wants to do for his Dark Passenger, but at the same time to get Killers who slip between the cracks the code was not designed for him to play God. Ex that is what's happening in Dexter New Blood he killed Matthew because of what happened to the deer and about what happened with the whole boat situation, but he ignored the fact that Matthew was under investigation with the FBI. Another thing that was Dexter's downfall is that he kept trying to balance both his serial killer life and his regular life. Just like what his brother said you can't be the hero and the villain same implied you can't be a serial killer and have a family.. Dexter's life was always a cover story but it later became more when it became more Dexter should have changed his identity right away.

The show also got so hollow and felt cheap and empty when it came to world-building. Compare the Miami Metro station in season 1 vs season 8. In season 1, it looked like a busy police station. In season 8, it looked like an abandoned office building where like 5 main characters just hung out.

I'd love to see "The Day The X-Files Died/ Was Born."

@EntertainTheElk

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah that would be fun. I need to go back and rewatch The X Files.

@camerynlane1143

2 жыл бұрын

please i just finished it 😭

@peterfighter

2 жыл бұрын

The X-Files should've ended at Season 7.

@anon2427

2 жыл бұрын

X Files never died, he just went home. Probably season 5 though, but there were still high points till the end

@ryanb3665

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterfighter yep. On rewatches, that’s where I stop. It feels like the best ending for the show, even though it’s not perfect.

One of my favorite shows of all time... and one of the shows I get so angry with. The premise was genius and the first four seasons were excellent. Season 5 dropped the ball, although it had some decent moments. Season 6 was an utter embarrassment and complete shit up until that last moment when suddenly things got exciting. Season 7 became fun again, right up til the moment you highlighted when they decided to make the worst decisions possible. Season 8 was every tired cliche all stuck together, leading up to the king of all bullshit endings. Really, though, the show dropped the ball in Season 2. While it was a great season, they shouldn't have done the BHB storyline so early. Not only did we lose fan-favorite Doakes, but it meant they already did the storyline of "They investigate Dexter's crimes" so early in the show's run. They really should have saved that for later on. Imagine if the BHB stuff came in Season 5 instead. Dexter, reeling from Rita's loss, suddenly finds Miami PD is investigating his crimes. Ah, what could have been...

@RR-mv1vr

27 күн бұрын

100 agree!

Nah, the day Dexter died was when they had Deb fall in love with her own brother in Season 6. I now hear banjo music all of a sudden.

I almost lost complete interest when Doakes was killed. I didn't like him at first but then grew into one of my favorite characters then they just killed him.

The end of season 4 was masterful. I was so excited the issues he'd run into with having kids and trying to hide his Dark Passenger. And then he just shipped off the kids to the grandparents at the start of Season 5. So glad You Season 3 at least kept the kid around.

@domc8089

2 жыл бұрын

Joe gave Henry to Dante tho

@prettypleasewithsugarontop4858

2 жыл бұрын

Nope they didn’t I’m nearly done with YOU to be honest

@DubiousConsumption

2 жыл бұрын

They kept him for a whole season, which is way more than Dexter did, and my phrasing was chosen that way so there wouldn't be end of season spoilers. I didn't say they were carrying him on to season 4.

It died directly after Rita's death, and didn't know where to go as it progressed. Edit: Typo

@immortal846

2 жыл бұрын

I agree. I literally stopped watching after that

@SchulzEricT

6 ай бұрын

@@immortal846 Well then, you missed the best season of Dexter.

No one seems to mention the role that Miami played in the series. I loved the Cuban musical score and Miami references in the first two seasons but all of these were dropped when production was moved to LA after the second season.

@nikkis.2066

3 ай бұрын

Agreed and the show even took time to properly remark on that.. the location felt vivid and real to me. Season 1 & 2 is where the show was peak. S3 was ok but many problems and while S4 had some great highs...I was feeling a gradual decline in how much I loved the show .

Man Dexter was 10/10 and then the ending just saddened me. Rita’s death was one of the best twists I’ve ever seen

The season 4 finale has always made me mad, it's already been established several times that dexter knows how to spot and lose a tail but yet he doesn't realize trinity is following him super close in a vehicle dexter knows. Then when he sees trinity in the precinct he just walks right up to him laminate and all

@anthonyfernandez82

Жыл бұрын

He could always just ask around about what his name is anyway

The Toothfairy episode wasn't the most spectacular in terms of quality, but it showed us that Dexter DOES love his family. That Dexter cares for the people close to him, exactly the opposite of the old man he sees he could become if he continues. This illustrates the point of Dexter(in my opinion) so well. When you look at them socially, and emotionally, Dexter is borderline an average guy when you look at him next to the psychopathic, bitter old toothfairy. Dexter LOATHS the idea of himself being anything like him. And by and large, that has been the point of the whole series. Dexter metamorphosing from monster to man. With every kill room he sets up, he gains a little more empathy and understanding of the human condition. And then season 7 rolls around, and Issac Circo and him have a conversation at the end of the season about how they will ALWAYS be the way that they are, and that their monsters are and always will be too hard to control. Its just who they are. THIS was the death of Dexter for me. And the ssentiment from season 7 follows Dexter all the way to Alaska, because you KNOW hes still killing, but he has less than no one now. Everything hes worked for, dashed against the cold fridged rocks of the Alaskan waters.

For me is better the end of season 8 than new blood...

@Stigmatix666

7 ай бұрын

Especially when you simply skip the lumberjack epilogue

Not so fast 09:38, Laguerta DOES fit the code- number one rule: DON'T GET CAUGHT.

I think it would have been interesting if at the end It was revealed that Captain Matthews had knowledge of Dexters activities The entire time and was fixing things behind the scenes for him. That would have been a very interesting plot twist

I was told to watch seasons 1, 2 and 4 only. That really worked for me.

Bringing in Hannah was definitely a major death knell. I hated her so much.

The mis-step was Deb not finding out his Identity at the end of season 5 as opposed to 6. It felt like they backed off the idea at the last minute and went into filler mode as 6 was far too fantastical for the tone of the show up to then

@skeetsmcgrew3282

6 ай бұрын

I think Colin Hanks was an absolutely abysmal casting choice for a villain. And the whole weird relationship with his mentor guy... even if it was just a filler season, the writing was bad, the acting was bad, everything was bad. Filler can be fun. That was a disaster

Season 4 is one of my favourite seasons of tv ever it’s almost perfect, creepy and disturbing with a fascinating season finale. I think the only way the show really should have ended was Dexter strapped to a board awaiting a lethal injection but I’m not a writer for tv at all

Another absolutely phenomenal episode, I love how interesting these are even for shows I’ve never seen. Would love to see a day supernatural died video!

Dexter struggled with his "dark passenger", there were times when it completely dominated him, and other times when he could wrestle control over it. The entire series seemed to be pointing to a day when Dexter would finally overcome his dark passenger and live the rest of his life in peace. I think the series should've led him to the point where he ultimately dominated his dark passenger, but just when he felt that peace of being "normal", he was caught and put into an insane asylum for his crimes. In that way Justice would've been done for all of his murders, but he also would be at peace, which is what we all want for our friend Dexter. An ironic ending that is fitting for the ultimate vigilante.

@santi_super_stunts2573

2 жыл бұрын

Hopefully with new blood he can help his son not become like him. Showing his son there isn’t just “the code” which would be him achieving his “peace” but getting caught for his own murders and being executed

I tell everyone watch the forth season carefully if u have never seen Dexter… That speech when he’s on the table telling him I killed ur wife without saying the words was brilliance

Dexter died, literally

THe first rule of the code is don't get caught. NOT killing La'Guerta would have broken the code!

And Dex died again :( They ruined the character. What kind of script writers they are.

The season 4 finale is not only the best episode of the show, but possibly the best TV episode of a decade. It was beyond amazing. After that, the only way was down. But didn’t have to be that far down..

Tonight is the night when Dexter died for the second time 09.01.2021

@gajofixe76

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, it was the day that Dexter's ending was redeemed. It was an awesome ending imo way better than the first one.

What made the show actually work was keeping Dexter's secret from his sister. It never really was a story about a Miami Police Department blood spatter expert serial killer with a code of conduct, but a story about how Debra narrowly misses discovering the truth. The writers killed the show at the end of season 6.

@-JaggedGrace-

4 ай бұрын

I don't think it's as simple as boiling a whole show down to one aspect of one relationship. There was plenty to experience besides that.

@rkerlin

4 ай бұрын

Yes, I agree. @@-JaggedGrace- Dexter was a fantastic show that won over 50 awards including 4 primetime Emmys. The high production values and the writers formed a show where all of the characters were richly developed. I'm a total fan, and I even own the complete series on Blu-ray. But, I honestly believe that successfully keeping Dexter's dark passenger a secret from Debra Morgan was pivotal in keeping the show on the rails to the end of season six.

Good recap as to the long, slow motion catastrophe that was Dexter seasons 5-8. For my money, the season 5 finale is where is went wrong and never quite recovered. Deb walks in, finds Dexter at his kill table, and lets him go without ever seeing his face. That was a total betrayal of her character, and a thing they would do with her again and again the next three seasons. But it was proof that, after killing RIta, the showrunners simply would not upset the status quo, and give the fans the confrontation they craved. And after they copped out that ending, they literally waste season 6 to bring us back to that same, exact point, only to have Deb act out of character again in her reaction.

Laguerta may not have been a killer but the first rule of the code is - Dont get caught - so Dexter killing her was entirely plausible

@Stigmatix666

7 ай бұрын

Exactly

Having read all the books and really enjoyed them, I wish the show had stayed closer to the books. Astor and Cody would have been able to have their own show a few years down the line! We never tire from seeing baddies get what they deserved so it would have been great.

@BEACH.LUVER101

2 жыл бұрын

The books were great, especially the first the way it ended was so much better than what the show put out. And would have made sense for the story to continue through the kids.

@stephennootens916

6 ай бұрын

If I remember right Deb never does but does learn about Dexterous little hobby. And the ending is more open ended about of he dies or lives.

@Mirage238

5 ай бұрын

I agree

I always thought a great ending would have been Dexter finally getting caught, red-handed, as he killed a target, one as or more significant than Trinity. When we all think it's over for him, or he is even shot and we think he's dead. The final scene would be one of a young FBI investigator, getting cleared to consult with someone. It would mirror Silence Of The Lambs, and the killer to be interviewed would be Dexter, who is in a similar specialty prison, with the bullet proof glass wall. Everything in his cell nice and orderly. Him looking friendly, waiting for the young agent. He would say "Hello" with with a devilish expression.

i agree. she didnt have to shoot her. deb was always the plot convenience. dating the killer, dating the detective looking into the killer, dating another killer, etc. i actually didnt notice for awhile bc i liked dexter. either way i think new bloods wraps things up ok by bringing back the shows first director (/writer, i think). angela is basically the deb we wanted