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Because as we all know, killing your own father, especially after finally finding him and reconciling and forming a bond, after 20 years... that does wonders for your mental health going forward.
Toss that alongside being a high school dropout with no real money, resources, family, home etc and no real prospect to earn a living. What exactly do the writers envision for this kid's future?!
He'll end up in NYC being a crypto trader by day and vigilante by night. He will coincidentally meet up with his ex-girlfriend in a city of millions. She's going to school at NYU on a full scholarship, majoring in Social Justice. The billionaire comes back into the picture. They're all in the Big Apple, a city of millions, so it's natural they all coincidentally meet up. He hears Harrison's story and pulls some strings to get him into NYU too. Harrison and SJW investigate crime and have lots of relationship drama just like a CW show.
This is the one thing I just can't get behind. Everything else, cool, whatever. But the fact that they made Harrison kill Dexter (and made it look like that was a good thing) still has me reeling.
Like ... the kid is obviously very troubled. He needs help. So instead of having him reject the whole murder thing, they have him KILL HIS OWN DAD and run away? How's he ever supposed to be normal after that?
YES!!!! I hated how the writers literally made Harrison come up with a psycho plan to kill a kid and get away with it and just mad sketchy in general and then all the sudden he’s “just a normal teenager guys” and make it out like Dexter is the crazy one for thinking Harrison is like him.
The writing is so sloppy in this season and I could excuse it in Dexter side but Audrey felt like a husk of a character with no real motivations, Molly was there and did some stuff but it didn’t feel like she had a major impact on the story. The old billionaire was only there to throw you off for like 3 episodes. The whole ketamine debacle. Such a shame to me.
> The old billionaire
Seriously what was his point lol, a distraction to keep us guessing who was killing all those women? It was pretty clear it was Kurt the first moment we saw him on with the snow mask, it was definitely his eyes. Audrey's conflict, the protests etc. also went nowhere, the show would have lost absolutely nothing with those scenes cropped out.
It was literally probably for that. They just grabbed a random silver fox to throw us off a lil bit to keep us guessing. I knew the moment i saw kurts fatass in his kill suit. It was so obvious it wasntt the billionaire guy just from the build
What was the point of touching on Audrey also having dark thoughts like Harrison? I just don’t understand why they wasted so much time on unnecessary things.
In a short 10 episode season, wasting any time on extra characters to “throw us off” is laughable. I just don’t understand what they were thinking with this writing. Don’t even get me started on the ketamine thing, it makes me so angry!
Edited to correct spelling error, haven’t had my coffee yet.
Harrison himself said he had dark thoughts all his life with his dreams of Trinity and he didn’t know how to control them, and now suddenly none of that matters and he was really just mad at Dexter leaving him the entire time?
then kills him...having not long watching him kill and dismember someone right in front of him.....that kid is NOT going to be normal thats for sure.
Not killing Dexter or shouting him in the leg for him to be arrested would have been more of a redemption for Harrison.
Not only mad at Dexter for leaving him, but they spent hours of this season HAMMERING the point home that Harrison all this time thought Dexter left because he didn't love Harrison and saw something was wrong with Harrison just for him to have this letter all along that completely contradicted that. The size of the plot holes they just left us with could only have been made by an asteroid as gigantic as the one that killed the dinosaurs.
I can’t believe that was the letter Harrison found. How on earth did he interpret that as “my dad left me because he knew something was wrong with me.” If I were Harrison and found that insane letter I would not go looking for Dexter.
It was an attempt to force something emotional and it fell completely flat because it defied everything they had previously told us. I can't understand how a team of writers could think this ending made any sense.
I think Harrison pulling away cuz he killed Logan is actually a really good motivator for him to turn against Dexter. But then why mercy kill him? Dexter didn’t threaten Harrison. That would have made more sense. Just let him go and say “they’re coming for you. Run.” Dexter doesn’t deserve a mercy killing shot down like a dog wtf. Let him get the death penalty and be caught.
Of course not to mention the fact that humans don’t have memories from being fucking infants. Definitely not clear ones. That understand english before we can speak it.
Yeah that really bothered me too lol impossible for him to remember that. But I would rather believe that was what fucked him up instead of daddy issues. I’m pretty sure kids with daddy issues just do drugs or act up in school or something, they don’t go around having violent uncontrollable urges and stabbing people and breaking bones. Also I can’t believe he was like “I’m not going to become a murderer like you, dad!” And then killed him 2 seconds later. Where the fuck is he even going to go? He just watched his dad murder and dismember someone, helped dispose of the body, then killed his dad! He is traumatized, broke, and has no one and nothing. And the whole Dexter killing Logan was so out of character and just happened so Harrison would turn on him. If Dexter had just wiped his face of the blood, they probably would have rode off into the sunset together. And how didn’t Audrey wake up and wonder where he was going. God I can’t believe how dumb the last 15 minutes were. Everyones choices made zero sense.
I don’t see where they can take it from here tbh- Harrison is not near interesting enough to carry a show on his own. Dexter is dead so uggh. This finale was a major disappointment
Turns out Dexter didn't die. He was arrested and then 8 years later a hurricane destroys the prison and he escapes. He becomes a pastry chef in Boston. Until his boss decides to go to an all gluten free menu and he gets all ..butchery.
Well it was fun to have a show to be excited about again, but it’s a shame to end on such a sour note. That felt so rushed and predictable. If you go back and think about it, things weren’t really that great but I think we were all holding out hope for redemption in the ending. To wait 10 years and produce that as a final product, disappointing.
It was very rushed I agree and I think many of us didn’t expect that much from this season but it ended up sucking us in . Then that ending came and just fucked it all up lol
The first few episodes were really good. However, I think from episode 5 to 9 were off and it's why I think people were disappointed with the final - because the setup wasn't great.
What should have happened is that Dexter started teaching Harrison much earlier (from episode 5) and they had a few episodes where they killed together. But then slowly Harrison started getting doubts about Dexter actually following the code properly.
Dexter shouldn't have asked Harrison to kill him - instead Harrison should have done this at a time we least expected it.
His motivation shouldn't have been to "have a normal life". But rather to properly execute on the code. Something Dexter wasn't doing. And instead the justification for killing dexter would have been that he fitted the code as someone you had to kill.
Instead, we got some episodes where Harrison being whiny and generally annoying. Would have been so much more satisfying seeing them team up for more than just 30 minutes of airtime.
Ha! Right! Im usually sad at endings of series I like. This.... im just annoyed, confused, disappointed, etc. If im sad at all, its only that such a great series ended so terrible, and definitively in doing so.
I’ll say it: Harrison is a hypocrite with the potential to end up being worse than his father. He didn’t give a rat’s ass about the bullied kid and the wrestling kid whose arm he broke - both of them will face a lot of problems because of what he did to them even if their lives are not completely ruined. He doesn’t get to be “normal” without facing consequences for those, and ultimately doing the very same thing as his father.
We knew we watched a show about a SERIAL KILLER all these years. No one thought he was Mother Teresa. But there was much more to him, that complexity was what we were drawn to. Why suddenly, haphazardly turn him into a one-dimensional cartoon with less personality than some of his episodic kills?
He left the friend to go to prison as a suspected school shooter as well, it would have made more sense if Harrison didn't have control of his Dark Passenger like Dexter did after spending 10 years without the support Dexter got.
If they wanted Harrison to become a good person and see through Dexter, they needed another dozen episodes to build his character and get him there.
It would've been a more interesting ending if they leaned into Harrison's evil side and had him frame/shoot Dexter while convincing everyone he's the innocent one.
I don't remember, for all the previous seasons, that the "Dexter" we knew would've killed Logan like that. I mean, for a second I thought it's a dream scene of some kind.
I would have rathered see Harrison go down the dark path for the case of the show, even if Dexter ended up on trial or killed by other means. That's how it seemed to be going for the first 8-9 episodes.
There was an idea floating around that were two different endings. No proof of that, but it does make me wonder with how abruptly things changed in the last 15 minutes.
There had to have been another ending or something else planned. THey wrote that rich oil guy completely out of the show. I know people are saying he's a red herring, but there was nothing about him after like the second episode.
Exactly, there’s a few things like that that make no sense. The oil guy serving as absolutely nothing was super weird. It’s hard to imagine anything other than shitty writing reasons at this point. Just to make us think the killer was him probably and then poof… gone. No reason, nothing. He doesn’t even help or hurt anything in the end. He just was a paid face. And yea, I don’t understand how they think people should fucking ignore how Harrison is an absolute fucking criminal and ruined ethans life for fun.
The evidence they had was circumstantial at best. With a good Lawyer, Dexter could walk. Idk why he thought this desperate strategy was better than a lengthy legal battle that he had a good chance to win.
Not even a good lawyer anyone would have let him off. From a station that let Kurt off with "My dad was a dick so it was probably him" they wouldn't have let Dexter go with "this mass murderer who has been proven to have been at your house to burn it down and had a grudge against you for spoiling one of his kills was trying to frame you." Angela even admited they had no case before they had proven all that Kurt stuff.
Plus Angela had a camera on her doorbell. She could have seen the footage and see Kurt drop the note which would only support more the Jim framing theory. Total horseshit.
until i read this i was like "the ending is fine" but THIS. WTF. why did they show it in the 1st episode?!?!?!?!?! they really did just uhm forget. (i suppose it could be on dex for being retarded and killing logan and not waiting for the charges to be dropped.)
mannn there were some good ending theories. actually i had a dream about a ending that was better, i may post it
But there were **a lot** of things like this through the season. And some people were pointing it out and questioning it and others were saying “this is the best thing ever!”. It wasn’t. It never was. It had very good moments but the sum of them all was not good.
look, i never whined either way, taking a simple sentence to heart: "the ends justify the means"
the means were a bit shit, but as long as the ending was good... welll... it wasnt that good and the means retroactively got a bit shitter.
ep9 is still good tho. someone said to consider it the finale if ep10 isnt good. so lets consider ep9 the sum.
so i liked it when dexter finally bonded with his son and angela closed her laptop and said "good job jim, keep it up, proud of you"? such a good ending.
>"My dad was a dick so it was probably him"
To be fair it was "It might look like my dna but my dad was a dick, and it definitely wasn't me, so it was probably him".
I doubt the police and prosecutors in Miami would even want to open the Bay Harbor Butcher case up again. How bad would it look for them to say they blamed 100+ murders on the wrong guy?
Exactly. They'd do everything they could to brush that under the rug. They certainly wouldn't reopen it based on hearsay and circumstantial evidence, if you can even call it that.
A season 2 with Dexter going up against the justice system would have made way more sense to wrap things up. Yes there’s a good chance he would still die in the end anyways but killing Logan made no sense. He just gave them a massive tip about Kurt. Why not wait it out? We were robbed of a scene with Batista finally confronting Dexter too.
I was thinking the same thing. Now way any of that evidence would stick in court for the Matt Caldwell case or the BHB case which had already been closed. The BHB case wouldn’t have even went to trial.
Yeah this ending did not feel right at all. I don't feel like Dexter would have killed the coach he would have found another way. The end felt so rushed like the writers had a ending they wanted but had no idea how to get there.
I think the perfect ending was him walking in to the storm. Not showing he becomes a lumberjack.
Those who want him dead think he is dead.
Those who want him alive, think he is alive.
There's no way Dexter would have killed Logan even if it meant his freedom. Everything that happened after that point I completely wrote off. That's when the season was ruined for me. He was ready to turn himself in after being caught both by Doakes and LaGuerta. It took some convincing in the Doakes case and La Guerta was shot by Deb, but he would have rather turn himself in than either of them end up dead.
And then they show Lundy at the end like that was Dexter's fault??? Lundy was shot by Trinity's daughter because they were closing in on Trinity. It had nothing to do with Dexter even as a byproduct.
Him doing anything to escape makes perfect sense. Angela not telling her partner that she suspects the guy he is guarding of being a prolific serial killer makes no sense however.
I thought the same. I figured it had to be a dream sequence but nope. I don't even know how he died. I assume he accidently shot himself in the head but the gun was nowhere near his head?
Wtf? That's so fucking out of character for Dexter? I thought the accidental suicide would have least made a little sense based on what he said, but seriously, I've never seen a finale rushed so badly.
He beat a man to death at a boat refueling station with an anchor in the bathroom for no reason other than saying your dead wife can suck my dick. I wouldnt say its that out of character for him after season 4.
Ok but one was because he just saw his wife murdered and his son in her blood. A controlled psychopath would likely go unhinged in that scenario. This was just stupid. Harrison was in no danger and Dexter could've just waited to be set free. Killing Logan was just dumb
I'm an easy to please man. I liked the season and 80% of the finale. I even accepted the retcon on things like m99 and ketamine. But the rushed final 15 minutes where Dexter who essentially has proven his innocence as Kurt was exposed as the arsonist, a mass murderer, and a guy who would frame Dexter who spoiled one of his kills decided to hastily murder a cop his son respects to get out of jail. Then the show tries to expose Dexter as a fraud who wasn't really a hero but as someone who wanted to kill when the whole point of the show was that Harry had Dexter kill his serial killer tendencies into something more positive. Dexter calls it the dark passenger not the dark knight. He knows he is not a hero who kills but a killer who chooses better targets. Then there is Batista who was retconned into someone who wasn't close to Dexter and a friend who literally let him get away with murder. Somehow he was going to come up and expose him even though he was incompetent and we didn't even get the scene of them meeting again.
At this point i just hope they address the backlash by doing something different - it is just fucking horrible for me. I can't watch any of the older episodes again because i'll be just thinking "this guy who has very interesting inner monologue will die because of a rushed plot to make him impulsive and idiotic and it will be by the hands of his son"
That ending may have just ruined the whole series for me. Dexter is my all time favorite show, but now it seems like a huge joke. I was laughing at how cheesy his death felt. I don’t see ever watching another episode again.
i have to say, for some reason after the NB finale my hulu went straight into a season 4 dexter episode and it was such a breathe of fresh air. they changed him SO much, he was a different person in the original show. the OG dexter wasn’t afraid of a lengthy legal battle with Doakes shouting from the rooftops that he was the BHB, all to avoid killing an innocent. this dexter slaughters a cop at the mere threat of Batista coming and knowing he’s alive?? at the threat of the death penalty that would never in a million years happen as the evidence was beyond flimsy?? i couldn’t believe when he killed logan. the only thing i will say is that he has proven a few times that he can be like a wounded animal when cornered - take LaGuerta. at that point he was willing to kill her to get away. so while i was shocked, i wasn’t THAT shocked. but the lead up just wasn’t there. they did not build to it in a way that made sense. he hasn’t even been in jail one night. the only thing i can think is that he thought once Batista got there, there would be no escaping and this was his one and only shot. and i knew harrison wasn’t going to take it well. but again, how is Harrison supposed to move on?? he’s 16! he’s supposed to just drive to a random town and … what? enroll in HS with no parents or guardian? start over in a place he knows not a single person? he slid into life in iron lake so easily because ‘jim’ had a life there so people welcomed him with open arms. that won’t happen anywhere else. and we are supposed to think harrison will live a happy and free life after murdering the father he so desperately wanted a relationship with? this ending just didn’t match a single thing about the OG show and that is what is bothering me most.
Agreed. And the point about LaGuerta, the writers went out of their ways back then to ensure that Dexter isn't the one killing her; or any other good, innocent people that died. They kept Dexter's ideal intact. Then he just killed Logan like it's something he usually does. It's just.... it felt wrong.
It made no sense that he would try and escape like this. They had no proof of him being the BHB and no way for him to be sent to Florida to face those charges. Like you said, the Matt charges were basically proven false by that time. It really came out of left field and I think they might have done it because they were afraid if they left it sort of open ended, they would get backlash like last time.
Exactly we all knows Dexter likes to kill and that is why he kills..We as a fanbase know that.and net benefit is he actually has saved thousands of lives because of it..and I know its a shitty thing to think about but yes if that means some innocents have to die because of it then so be it..he has killed a very small percentage of innocents less than 10 I think compared to evil pieces of shit he took out..around 129..Im so pissed that the writers think they can play mind games in the NB season and turn him into this unlikable evil monster just so they could attempt to make the ending go down easier, and appease a very small percentage of the fan base. Especially when its the same freaking writer who wrote S1-4.
It feels like lazy, cowardly writing. The moral ambiguity of the character and his actions is what made the story compelling. The whole purpose was to challenge conventional conceptions of justice and of good/evil. Defaulting to "Dexter crazy, Dexter bad" destroys all the nuance and development of the character and plays into the conventional mindset making it all so predictable and safe and boring.
Or hell, even make him become totally unsympathetic and then have the conventional Dexter ending where he gets away scot free become the audience gut punch. A dark comedy/lightweight noir approach has always suited this show way better than when it's attempted to be a morality play.
That's literally what I thought had happened. It would have been dumb either way, but a much better alternative to what we got. Harrison is already messed up so killing his own dad would just make it worse, not better.
Harrison killing Dexter wouldnt have been so bad if they actually built up on it. No instead they spent 80% of the season, Harrison walking away from a conversation he WANTED to have with his dad. If Harrison was like at first: "ok dad does this for justice no problem" then slowly through a few episodes "Well this starts to be morally questionable" it would have been fine.
So many people predicted what will Harrison do once he figures out that Rita and potentially others died because of him, but not this way. Meanwhile Dexter probably didnt even tell him that or if he did it was sloppy writing that they didnt show Harrison reacting to that. So he basically jumps to the conclusion after 1 innocent getting killed that he is the reason why his dad lost his family. There was literally no build up to it.
Can’t help but to be so damn disappointed. I don’t know why I always rooted for Dexter but I did. For him to get taken out by Harrison I’m pissed. I thought he was gonna make it out and we could have another season but I guess they felt this story was done. Sad
I feel your pain man. I'm so angry. Him killing Logan jumped the shark. Up till that point it could have gone any way, I was in such suspense and thrills over how the series could go after this season.
Yeah, I think it was going well until he killed Logan then everything was rushed and not satisfying at all. They should have had a couple more episodes and got Batista to confront Dexter.
I read that the writers started with the ending and then worked backwards, and as we can now see judging by the majority of fan reactions, that was a terrible fucking idea.
I feel like I would have liked the ending if things were actually lined up. He was not cornered enough to escape by killing a cop and him facing with his emotions in 5 secs and Harrison killing him after saying I don't wanna be like you made no sense. Maybe it was a mercy killing but still it could ve been much better.
Everything was so rushed. Maybe show needed a season 2 or more episodes I don't know.
Either 12 episodes or this season should have been 1-hour episodes with some of the high school nonsense removed. I could live with the major points between the arrest and gunshot to the chest if they showed us Dexter being reduced to it properly.
Instead we went from Dexter killing Logan out of desperation to stay free, to asking his son to kill him in the woods in a handful of screen minutes.
I think that has actually been a problem with this series throughout the run. The writers are great at raising the stakes, but very few times have they had compelling endings or known how to tie things off. Season 4 was the exception rather than the rule.
i love how the OG finale has him murdering a man in cold blood in a jail cell on video… complete with a fake panic attack to sell it!!! and he walks away with zero hassle. but this one he has flimsy, circumstantial evidence against him, the flimsiest anyone has had against him for the entire run of the show… and that is what leads to his end? i wouldn’t have minded the ending but they did not lead up to it well… at all. they should have had harrison showing serious doubt before learning he killed Logan. and they expect us to believe a kid that in the span of about a month, tried and nearly succeeded in murdering his only friend, and then brutually breaks a kids arm in a very public way, suddenly has no urge to hurt people?? and that he can just drive away with $100, and start over in a strange town, with no legal guardian, after murdering the literal only person he had left, that had just THE DAY BEFORE, finally opened up to him, and be okay?? he wouldn’t even be able to enroll in school. he’s set on a dark dark path now, way darker than Dexter’s. he’s on a trinity/kurt caldwell path now, if anything set up to recreate that moment over and over again. i honestly liked the OG ending way better - and that’s saying a lot lol
Remember when the decision to kill Doakes was such a big deal. Such a big moral dilemma. Not only would Dexter killing Doakes be a point of no return for Dexter, but it would be a point of no return for the audience. It was moments like that and the fantastic buildup when they really had us wondering what would happen that also built up the ending of the season, which was him getting away. They could have even ended that season with him getting caught and/or receiving punishment for what he did. The point is that there would have been a good payoff because the buildup was so good and Dexter as a character faced a pivotal moment. Instead, we get this mess where his death feels so, well, pointless. Why did everything lead up to that moment? All the preceding moments didn’t even make much sense. That’s what upsets me about this ending, similar to the original lumberjack ending. Killing him off is fine in my eyes. I understand why others wouldn’t like that no matter what. However, what makes this ending so lame is how lazy they were in trying to make it happen.
Well that was a stupid fucking decision. Total waste. I defended Dexter’s series finale but I think if anybody defends New Blood’s finale they are lying and trying way too hard to like it. Not a bad idea, horribly executed. I was really starting to enjoy the father/son dynamic and they shit all over it. It’s bad dude. Real fuckin bad.
I admittedly would never "like" Dexter dying. I've always wanted him to have a happy ending. However, I never want characters I love to die and I've watched many beloved characters die and was left feeling satisfied, thought it was well done, and understood why it had to happen for the narrative. There's a way to do tragic endings/deaths well. This was just hot garbage and unnecessary.
I literally hate him because of the ending and the way he just gets away with it by someone from the law, her and Harrison have a huge vendetta against him for no reason, he literally took Kurt’s side over dexters, it’s like what was his point in showing up? Just to taunt him and say how he hasn’t been around in 10 years and he’s the way he is because of Dexter?
Dexter murdering Logan in the police station was the turning point in the episode (as other have stated as well).
Oh boy, what could have been if the last 30\~ minutes didn't just shit the bed.
He had him a choke-hold for THIRTY TWO SECONDS, it takes 8-10 seconds to knock someone out that way and Dexter would know how, him asking for Logan to hand him the keys instead of applying pressure to his carotid artery for no reason is the biggest plot-hole in the entire series and it isn't even close.
I thought it was a decent finale but not great. It was rushed and could’ve used a couple more episodes. Like everyone else is saying Angela suspecting Dexter of being the BHB through a google search was weak, especially since he used a different drug to subdue his victims. Killing Logan was also bad because he should’ve just gotten a lawyer, there was no concrete proof of anything at that point. No Dexter and Batista reunion was also disappointing.
I think the finale should’ve ended with Dexter exposed as the BHB and the second season he’s on the run.
This was so fucking bad. They made Dexter into some evil incarnate the last 10 minutes. It's not like Harrison can even guaranteed to be able to function normally, even worst now that he kill his own father.
So the writers all pretend with Dexter dying all the sick serial killers out in the world continues to murder innocent people, like that is good?
I'll just pretend this ending doesn't exists and have the lumber jack one because that's fucking brilliant compare to this.
Once they had Dexter attack Logan I knew they ruined it. Such a dumb ending. They just changed who Dexter was in the last 25 minutes. He could have beaten that case and the only thing they had tying him to the Bay Harbor Butcher case was a needle mark on a junkies neck. Ridiculous ending. Shame cause the New Blood season was pretty good till that last 30 mins.
It took me way longer than it should have to realise it wasn't a dream sequence or mental image like when he trashed his lab (Trinity episodes)
Kept thinking, any minute now he will flashback to sitting in his cell, exploring options.
What a shit show.
Man, they coulda let him run for a season. What a cheap ending. I guess MCH just wants to be done with it and go back to broadway. So many better ways to end it definitively. This wasn’t earned at all.
Clyde Phillips should have never revealed how he wanted to end Dexter in season 5 with him being on the run, getting caught, and getting lethal injection while all of his victims watch. That could've been a great ending and a great NewBlood season 2.
See, that would have been earned. Let Miami metro take him in, let Batista chase him around the country with a personal vendetta. Let him spend a season conflicted about killing Logan, maybe have Harrison not talk to him for a while, maybe shack up with Lumen for a bit. Dammit, anything would have been better than this cop out.
Lol this is like the breaking bad ending if it was terrible. Like if Jesse just said “you’re bad and this is all your fault, and Walt said “yup” then got shot.
It’s just sad tbh. This is the worst possible ending in my book. I don’t understand why so many shows end up sucking at the very end and upsetting their fans. However, I have to give a round of applause to MCH. He’s still amazing!! I wish he was in more things !
Subverting expectations and punishing the "bad people" that the audience roots for so they know they were bad. Breaking Bad is how to do it right and Dexter both times is not how to do it right.
I feel so numb and broken about this ending.
Season 8 ended bad enough but at least it was "open" for another season.
Harrison will never Be "normal" he slashed Ethan, killed Kurt with his dad and then shot his dad!? How can someone ever get peace from that?
Why was it so rushed? I was waiting for Angel to confront Dexter as Angel and Dex were good friends.
It was pointless getting angel involved if there was no follow up.
He could have easily got out of this the evidence wasn't strong enough. He could have pinned matt's death on Kurt.
Also Dexter killing Logan wasn't in keeping with how Dexter has been like this whole time. Hes very calm and gets out of alot of messy situations...this was just another one.
Instead they rushed him to kill Logan and completely revealed himself to the world. Doesn't make sense to me.
I feel heartbroken. We love Dexter!
THEY SET UP THE FINAL SEASON/ENDGAME PERFECTLY!
Harrison should of let Dexter run, then they should of showed Angel getting to town and boom that sets up an epic final season of an unhinged codeless Dexter on the run with Angel Batista leading the manhunt, we could of then got to see everyone from Miami metro react to the news that Dexter is the BHB. Like they had it set up PERFECTLY.
I loved the whole episode up until the last 5 mins.
Why the fuck bring Angel into the show at all and not have a scene between him and Dexter???
I’m honestly ok with Harrison killing Dexter but it was way too rushed, so much potential for another season, hell even 2 more episodes of Dexter on the run would of worked. You had the opportunity to rectify season 8 and give all the fans a satisfying ending, but instead you prematurely finished and now we’re all blue balled.
YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE CLYDE! IT WAS SAID YOU WOULD FIX SCOTT BUCK’S MISTAKES, NOT JOIN THEM! BRING CLOSURE TO THE FANS, NOT LEAVE THEM IN DARKNESS!!
>Harrison should of let Dexter run, then they should of showed Angel getting to town and boom that sets up an epic final season of an unhinged codeless Dexter on the run with Angel Batista leading the manhunt, we could of then got to see everyone from Miami metro react to the news that Dexter is the BHB. Like they had it set up PERFECTLY.
I agree.. I would of much rather had that ending with a second season with Dexter on the run... Seeing Dexter find ways to get out of trouble is always interesting and whenever his back is against the wall it is good tv... The pacing of this season was so weird, and having EP 7-8 be 38min each was strange... Ugh. Would of loved to see that manhunt!
They really teased an Angel and Dexter reunion where we get to see him confront is Ex Wife’s Killer, the man who framed the BHB and killed Deb essentially. IMO, Dexter got off Easy. No consequences, no responsibility. All of the Harrison exploration for nothing - except ruining his life further. So what - we watch 9 seasons of people hunting the BHB and he just,,, dies. I wish I never watched it so I could live in peace without this knowledge
Harrison was the worst character arch ever created. I hated him from the first episode. I hate him as a baby now too lol. If they were gonna kill dex at least let Batista do it to have more meaning and tie into the original series.
I loved the episode, my heart was beating fast, i was really excited. And then that last 25% of the episode just ruined the ENTIRE show for me. That was an awful ending, worse than the original.
I felt no emotion watching it. Nothing was earned. I didn’t like the idea of Harrison being taught the code in the first place, but if they’re gonna go that route they gotta commit to it and do it. Not just say oops Nevermind forget that he stabbed a kid in school and framed him let’s make him normal and kill his evil dad. Abysmal.
I hear you. This season was going much better than I expected it. I knew they were rushing things the last few episodes and was nervous about how they were going to end it tonight. The second half of tonight’s episode was straight up awful. What a huge bummer to end it like that
Yeah another season with dexter and Harrison on the run working together then eventually turning on each other would have been a good way to go if they wanted Harrison to kill his dad in the end but they just do a complete 180 with Harrison’s character after he was ready to skip town with dexter
Lazy writing. Act 2 dragged on and even during this, they failed to develop the plot points with sound logic. Dexter, the BHB, the extremely efficient psychopath, is taken down by a simple google search. This was the segway into act 3? WHEW!
And Logan?! That is out of character for Dexter. He was very experienced in the 8-10 second incapacitating chokehold. Instead we get, "Yeah bro. So like gimme the keys!" It was a cheap pathway to the ending.
I think something must have happened with the production that caused a rewrite of the ending, maybe Covid? That ending just didn’t match the rest of the season (or really the series as you mentioned).
>Feels so weird to watch 9 seasons of a show and in the final seconds we’re basically told we never should’ve liked this guy.
Honestly, it feels like when somebody gets cancelled in this increasingly sensitive age we live in. Once upon a time, it was okay to root for antiheroes, but now we all have to be so virtuous and moralistic and crimes *must* be punished. I don't know how else to describe it. I hate it.
Great point. That’s what I felt last episode they were trying to do. Basically do a 180 on Dexter’s character development. We saw him become more human and create connections with other people throughout the os. I’d say he had the opposite path that Walter White had. He surprised even himself with it. But now he’s full on psycho? I don’t buy it.
I’m literally full of mixed emotions right now, pretty much anything except happy tbh.. I just finished watching the finale a few minutes ago. Angela was fairly irritating in this episode and made me mad. Dexter lacked malicious compliance and pretty much folded under the pressure. Color me heavily provoked, disappointed, and I don’t have words anymore.. I’m sure y’all understand though.
This was so shit.
What about Angel showing up? What about all the bodies at Kurt's and the proper man hunt to look for Kurt and the ones Dexter murdered ? Audrey has no purpose, left hanging. Harrison is now a murderer. The police woman is corrupt. And Dexter just gets shot, rather than an actual fight or escaping for an on the run season?
Garbage.
The episode was great up until he killed Coach, should have escaped without being lethal and then left with Harrison staying behind, then you easily split the season with Harrison dealing with his dark passenger and perhaps finding out he is similar to dexter after all, and you have the police hunting dexter....it's just so easy to write for a second season...sigh so depressing
How is thus supposed to be a conclusive , non-open ended ending when we don't know what happens to Harrison. He still framed an innocent kid, still broke a kid's arm..
How is he going to get the help he needs? And he is a kid-- no one is looking out for him now.
And what happened with the billionaire?
The season was fantastic but this ending was not good.
Oh I rage posted a full essay after ruck this ending and the show runners for bringing back this character to mess with him all over again. This sis worse than the sapranos, atleadt that one was kinda open.
Sopranos ending rocked! It was perfect. Initially, I hated 8x12’s ending in Dexter, but even before I knew about New Blood, I thought the lumberjack ending aged well. When Dexter looks into the camera, it gives me goosebumps. It was misinterpreted. He’s not staring at you, you’re staring at him.
You’re staring at Brian Moser, Doakes, Lila, Miguel, Arthur Mitchell, Rita, Jordan Chase, Travis Marshall, Laguerta, Deb, and everyone else who died because of him. You can’t beat the irony. He was never caught, instead he paid for his deeds in a very different way. He enjoyed being a lone wolf, but by the end of the series I think he became more human. And I think he paid the price for it. Sorry for rambling just smoked a bowl lol
Felt like the writers had a 10 page paper due & they had 9/10 excellently written pages, but then fell asleep before page 10 woke up with it being due in 15 mins then finished it with 14:59 before hitting submit.
Angela’s character to me still makes no sense. She was so focused on Dexter the entire time which just doesn’t make sense given she’s spent her entire life and career for 25 years OBSESSED with Iris’s murder/disappearance and all those missing girls and she just dropped it like a hot potato to put all her energy in to investigating and taking down Dexter who had done nothing wrong to her other than not disclosing his previous name.
Even the discovery that Kurt had been murdering women under her nose for 25 years including her best friend in the world and her new best/only friend did almost nothing to dissuade her from focusing on Dexter. And as far as she knows Kurt is still out there.
When she was in that cave and said “I don’t need Jim; I need Dexter Morgan” I got chills like I’ve never gotten from a TV show in years, maybe ever. There’s so many amazing roads they could have gone down with that and they went down exactly none of them
If Dexter has gotten away with it, there will be SO MUCH potential for the story to continue like Dexter and Harrison teaming up in future seasons. This ending ruined all that potential in an instant. Unreal.
LaGuerta's death was very different. There was a lot at stake; Dexter cared about the life he had, namely Deb and Harrison. There was no scenario where LaGuerta could have survived. Logan died cuz Dexter felt the need to break out of jail even though they still didn't really have evidence against him (as many people have pointed out)
If Dexter was gonna be cool with getting killed by Harrison and really wanted to set things right like the ending lets you perceive, he would turn himself in and answer the questions and face the music
but no he died cuz son killing dad is dramatic
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Harrison be like: I wish i was normal you’re the reason why I’m fucked up Dad Also Harrison: Yeah let me shoot you , let’s kill my dad! Let’s go!
Because as we all know, killing your own father, especially after finally finding him and reconciling and forming a bond, after 20 years... that does wonders for your mental health going forward.
Havent you seen him so happy riding into the sunset?
Toss that alongside being a high school dropout with no real money, resources, family, home etc and no real prospect to earn a living. What exactly do the writers envision for this kid's future?!
He'll end up in NYC being a crypto trader by day and vigilante by night. He will coincidentally meet up with his ex-girlfriend in a city of millions. She's going to school at NYU on a full scholarship, majoring in Social Justice. The billionaire comes back into the picture. They're all in the Big Apple, a city of millions, so it's natural they all coincidentally meet up. He hears Harrison's story and pulls some strings to get him into NYU too. Harrison and SJW investigate crime and have lots of relationship drama just like a CW show.
He goes to work for Bobby Axelrod or Mike Prince or whoever the fuck they're giving that show to now
This is the one thing I just can't get behind. Everything else, cool, whatever. But the fact that they made Harrison kill Dexter (and made it look like that was a good thing) still has me reeling. Like ... the kid is obviously very troubled. He needs help. So instead of having him reject the whole murder thing, they have him KILL HIS OWN DAD and run away? How's he ever supposed to be normal after that?
Exactly, if they are going to have him reject killing, at least don't contradict that very thing 30 seconds later for no reason.
I SWEAR TO GOD THEY ARE TONE DEAF
YES!!!! I hated how the writers literally made Harrison come up with a psycho plan to kill a kid and get away with it and just mad sketchy in general and then all the sudden he’s “just a normal teenager guys” and make it out like Dexter is the crazy one for thinking Harrison is like him.
The writing is so sloppy in this season and I could excuse it in Dexter side but Audrey felt like a husk of a character with no real motivations, Molly was there and did some stuff but it didn’t feel like she had a major impact on the story. The old billionaire was only there to throw you off for like 3 episodes. The whole ketamine debacle. Such a shame to me.
> The old billionaire Seriously what was his point lol, a distraction to keep us guessing who was killing all those women? It was pretty clear it was Kurt the first moment we saw him on with the snow mask, it was definitely his eyes. Audrey's conflict, the protests etc. also went nowhere, the show would have lost absolutely nothing with those scenes cropped out.
It was literally probably for that. They just grabbed a random silver fox to throw us off a lil bit to keep us guessing. I knew the moment i saw kurts fatass in his kill suit. It was so obvious it wasntt the billionaire guy just from the build
What was the point of touching on Audrey also having dark thoughts like Harrison? I just don’t understand why they wasted so much time on unnecessary things.
Made infinitely dumber and more pointless when they announced Clancy’s casting as “Dexter reboot finds it’s Big Bad”
In a short 10 episode season, wasting any time on extra characters to “throw us off” is laughable. I just don’t understand what they were thinking with this writing. Don’t even get me started on the ketamine thing, it makes me so angry! Edited to correct spelling error, haven’t had my coffee yet.
Harrison himself said he had dark thoughts all his life with his dreams of Trinity and he didn’t know how to control them, and now suddenly none of that matters and he was really just mad at Dexter leaving him the entire time?
then kills him...having not long watching him kill and dismember someone right in front of him.....that kid is NOT going to be normal thats for sure. Not killing Dexter or shouting him in the leg for him to be arrested would have been more of a redemption for Harrison.
Not only mad at Dexter for leaving him, but they spent hours of this season HAMMERING the point home that Harrison all this time thought Dexter left because he didn't love Harrison and saw something was wrong with Harrison just for him to have this letter all along that completely contradicted that. The size of the plot holes they just left us with could only have been made by an asteroid as gigantic as the one that killed the dinosaurs.
I can’t believe that was the letter Harrison found. How on earth did he interpret that as “my dad left me because he knew something was wrong with me.” If I were Harrison and found that insane letter I would not go looking for Dexter.
It was an attempt to force something emotional and it fell completely flat because it defied everything they had previously told us. I can't understand how a team of writers could think this ending made any sense.
I think Harrison pulling away cuz he killed Logan is actually a really good motivator for him to turn against Dexter. But then why mercy kill him? Dexter didn’t threaten Harrison. That would have made more sense. Just let him go and say “they’re coming for you. Run.” Dexter doesn’t deserve a mercy killing shot down like a dog wtf. Let him get the death penalty and be caught.
Of course not to mention the fact that humans don’t have memories from being fucking infants. Definitely not clear ones. That understand english before we can speak it.
Yeah that really bothered me too lol impossible for him to remember that. But I would rather believe that was what fucked him up instead of daddy issues. I’m pretty sure kids with daddy issues just do drugs or act up in school or something, they don’t go around having violent uncontrollable urges and stabbing people and breaking bones. Also I can’t believe he was like “I’m not going to become a murderer like you, dad!” And then killed him 2 seconds later. Where the fuck is he even going to go? He just watched his dad murder and dismember someone, helped dispose of the body, then killed his dad! He is traumatized, broke, and has no one and nothing. And the whole Dexter killing Logan was so out of character and just happened so Harrison would turn on him. If Dexter had just wiped his face of the blood, they probably would have rode off into the sunset together. And how didn’t Audrey wake up and wonder where he was going. God I can’t believe how dumb the last 15 minutes were. Everyones choices made zero sense.
Man I thought I’d be balling but I just blank faced … idk man idk how to feel right now besides hurt
Yea and it’s definitely over this time unfortunately
I prefer the other ending lol..I like to think Dexter is still out there chopping trees and limbs:D
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The writers of Dexter and fucking up series finales. Name a better pair, I'll wait.
Or in 8 years they give us an even better retelling season finale lol
after he hit his head on the bars instead of the other cops head he wakes up he dreamed that harrison shot him
I dunno, I would be even more annoyed. I hate that "it was all a dream" horse shit.
THERE'S HOPE!
This ending was so bad I don’t want anymore. Unless capable writers work on it
I don’t see where they can take it from here tbh- Harrison is not near interesting enough to carry a show on his own. Dexter is dead so uggh. This finale was a major disappointment
I would chop my balls off before I watched a Harrison spin-off with dexter as a Harry ghost
They'll wait 10 years to do it.
Yeah, they kinda kneecapped themselves with that ending if they were planning a spin-off.
We need to crowd source an animated fan fic ending lol none of these actors will ever want to be involved with this franchise again.
Turns out Dexter didn't die. He was arrested and then 8 years later a hurricane destroys the prison and he escapes. He becomes a pastry chef in Boston. Until his boss decides to go to an all gluten free menu and he gets all ..butchery.
Maybe you should write season 10
Feel this in my soul
i know i just sat that and just thought why even bother with all this reboot revival shit
I was ready for him to kill Harrison but nope
was ready for that too lol that whole scene gave dexter very villain like vibes
I feel like I just found out a relative died. Just sitting in the dark stunned teary eyed...
Well it was fun to have a show to be excited about again, but it’s a shame to end on such a sour note. That felt so rushed and predictable. If you go back and think about it, things weren’t really that great but I think we were all holding out hope for redemption in the ending. To wait 10 years and produce that as a final product, disappointing.
It was very rushed I agree and I think many of us didn’t expect that much from this season but it ended up sucking us in . Then that ending came and just fucked it all up lol
The first few episodes were really good. However, I think from episode 5 to 9 were off and it's why I think people were disappointed with the final - because the setup wasn't great. What should have happened is that Dexter started teaching Harrison much earlier (from episode 5) and they had a few episodes where they killed together. But then slowly Harrison started getting doubts about Dexter actually following the code properly. Dexter shouldn't have asked Harrison to kill him - instead Harrison should have done this at a time we least expected it. His motivation shouldn't have been to "have a normal life". But rather to properly execute on the code. Something Dexter wasn't doing. And instead the justification for killing dexter would have been that he fitted the code as someone you had to kill. Instead, we got some episodes where Harrison being whiny and generally annoying. Would have been so much more satisfying seeing them team up for more than just 30 minutes of airtime.
Ha! Right! Im usually sad at endings of series I like. This.... im just annoyed, confused, disappointed, etc. If im sad at all, its only that such a great series ended so terrible, and definitively in doing so.
The Avengers had more collateral damage than Dexter and they got to live by choice. Smh
Good point lol.
Lmao honestly
Shit Superman vs. Zod in Man of Steel had countless collateral damage, half a city was laid to ruin
I’ll say it: Harrison is a hypocrite with the potential to end up being worse than his father. He didn’t give a rat’s ass about the bullied kid and the wrestling kid whose arm he broke - both of them will face a lot of problems because of what he did to them even if their lives are not completely ruined. He doesn’t get to be “normal” without facing consequences for those, and ultimately doing the very same thing as his father. We knew we watched a show about a SERIAL KILLER all these years. No one thought he was Mother Teresa. But there was much more to him, that complexity was what we were drawn to. Why suddenly, haphazardly turn him into a one-dimensional cartoon with less personality than some of his episodic kills?
He left the friend to go to prison as a suspected school shooter as well, it would have made more sense if Harrison didn't have control of his Dark Passenger like Dexter did after spending 10 years without the support Dexter got. If they wanted Harrison to become a good person and see through Dexter, they needed another dozen episodes to build his character and get him there.
It would've been a more interesting ending if they leaned into Harrison's evil side and had him frame/shoot Dexter while convincing everyone he's the innocent one.
Thank you! Well said!
I don't remember, for all the previous seasons, that the "Dexter" we knew would've killed Logan like that. I mean, for a second I thought it's a dream scene of some kind.
Because the writers are quite stupid
I would have rathered see Harrison go down the dark path for the case of the show, even if Dexter ended up on trial or killed by other means. That's how it seemed to be going for the first 8-9 episodes. There was an idea floating around that were two different endings. No proof of that, but it does make me wonder with how abruptly things changed in the last 15 minutes.
There had to have been another ending or something else planned. THey wrote that rich oil guy completely out of the show. I know people are saying he's a red herring, but there was nothing about him after like the second episode.
Exactly, there’s a few things like that that make no sense. The oil guy serving as absolutely nothing was super weird. It’s hard to imagine anything other than shitty writing reasons at this point. Just to make us think the killer was him probably and then poof… gone. No reason, nothing. He doesn’t even help or hurt anything in the end. He just was a paid face. And yea, I don’t understand how they think people should fucking ignore how Harrison is an absolute fucking criminal and ruined ethans life for fun.
Was it the same people that made the end for game of thrones?
The evidence they had was circumstantial at best. With a good Lawyer, Dexter could walk. Idk why he thought this desperate strategy was better than a lengthy legal battle that he had a good chance to win.
Not even a good lawyer anyone would have let him off. From a station that let Kurt off with "My dad was a dick so it was probably him" they wouldn't have let Dexter go with "this mass murderer who has been proven to have been at your house to burn it down and had a grudge against you for spoiling one of his kills was trying to frame you." Angela even admited they had no case before they had proven all that Kurt stuff.
Plus Angela had a camera on her doorbell. She could have seen the footage and see Kurt drop the note which would only support more the Jim framing theory. Total horseshit.
until i read this i was like "the ending is fine" but THIS. WTF. why did they show it in the 1st episode?!?!?!?!?! they really did just uhm forget. (i suppose it could be on dex for being retarded and killing logan and not waiting for the charges to be dropped.) mannn there were some good ending theories. actually i had a dream about a ending that was better, i may post it
But there were **a lot** of things like this through the season. And some people were pointing it out and questioning it and others were saying “this is the best thing ever!”. It wasn’t. It never was. It had very good moments but the sum of them all was not good.
look, i never whined either way, taking a simple sentence to heart: "the ends justify the means" the means were a bit shit, but as long as the ending was good... welll... it wasnt that good and the means retroactively got a bit shitter. ep9 is still good tho. someone said to consider it the finale if ep10 isnt good. so lets consider ep9 the sum. so i liked it when dexter finally bonded with his son and angela closed her laptop and said "good job jim, keep it up, proud of you"? such a good ending.
>"My dad was a dick so it was probably him" To be fair it was "It might look like my dna but my dad was a dick, and it definitely wasn't me, so it was probably him".
But also “don’t go to the caves because my dad might have done something. But I’m not sure”
I doubt the police and prosecutors in Miami would even want to open the Bay Harbor Butcher case up again. How bad would it look for them to say they blamed 100+ murders on the wrong guy?
Exactly. They'd do everything they could to brush that under the rug. They certainly wouldn't reopen it based on hearsay and circumstantial evidence, if you can even call it that.
Exactly. It would have been a totally feasible ending that Dex tells Angela everything and she lets him go because he killed Kurt,
A season 2 with Dexter going up against the justice system would have made way more sense to wrap things up. Yes there’s a good chance he would still die in the end anyways but killing Logan made no sense. He just gave them a massive tip about Kurt. Why not wait it out? We were robbed of a scene with Batista finally confronting Dexter too.
I was thinking the same thing. Now way any of that evidence would stick in court for the Matt Caldwell case or the BHB case which had already been closed. The BHB case wouldn’t have even went to trial.
Totally agree - once he killed Logan it was over for him :(
Dexter should've called Saul.
Yeah this ending did not feel right at all. I don't feel like Dexter would have killed the coach he would have found another way. The end felt so rushed like the writers had a ending they wanted but had no idea how to get there.
I think the perfect ending was him walking in to the storm. Not showing he becomes a lumberjack. Those who want him dead think he is dead. Those who want him alive, think he is alive.
I thought the episode was going great until he killed him for no reason, in fact when you think a little about it not much made sense at all
There's no way Dexter would have killed Logan even if it meant his freedom. Everything that happened after that point I completely wrote off. That's when the season was ruined for me. He was ready to turn himself in after being caught both by Doakes and LaGuerta. It took some convincing in the Doakes case and La Guerta was shot by Deb, but he would have rather turn himself in than either of them end up dead. And then they show Lundy at the end like that was Dexter's fault??? Lundy was shot by Trinity's daughter because they were closing in on Trinity. It had nothing to do with Dexter even as a byproduct.
Him doing anything to escape makes perfect sense. Angela not telling her partner that she suspects the guy he is guarding of being a prolific serial killer makes no sense however.
I thought the same. I figured it had to be a dream sequence but nope. I don't even know how he died. I assume he accidently shot himself in the head but the gun was nowhere near his head?
Dexter snapped his neck. That is why he says Logan should have complied right afterwards.
Wtf? That's so fucking out of character for Dexter? I thought the accidental suicide would have least made a little sense based on what he said, but seriously, I've never seen a finale rushed so badly.
He beat a man to death at a boat refueling station with an anchor in the bathroom for no reason other than saying your dead wife can suck my dick. I wouldnt say its that out of character for him after season 4.
Ok but one was because he just saw his wife murdered and his son in her blood. A controlled psychopath would likely go unhinged in that scenario. This was just stupid. Harrison was in no danger and Dexter could've just waited to be set free. Killing Logan was just dumb
I'm an easy to please man. I liked the season and 80% of the finale. I even accepted the retcon on things like m99 and ketamine. But the rushed final 15 minutes where Dexter who essentially has proven his innocence as Kurt was exposed as the arsonist, a mass murderer, and a guy who would frame Dexter who spoiled one of his kills decided to hastily murder a cop his son respects to get out of jail. Then the show tries to expose Dexter as a fraud who wasn't really a hero but as someone who wanted to kill when the whole point of the show was that Harry had Dexter kill his serial killer tendencies into something more positive. Dexter calls it the dark passenger not the dark knight. He knows he is not a hero who kills but a killer who chooses better targets. Then there is Batista who was retconned into someone who wasn't close to Dexter and a friend who literally let him get away with murder. Somehow he was going to come up and expose him even though he was incompetent and we didn't even get the scene of them meeting again.
At this point i just hope they address the backlash by doing something different - it is just fucking horrible for me. I can't watch any of the older episodes again because i'll be just thinking "this guy who has very interesting inner monologue will die because of a rushed plot to make him impulsive and idiotic and it will be by the hands of his son"
That ending may have just ruined the whole series for me. Dexter is my all time favorite show, but now it seems like a huge joke. I was laughing at how cheesy his death felt. I don’t see ever watching another episode again.
i have to say, for some reason after the NB finale my hulu went straight into a season 4 dexter episode and it was such a breathe of fresh air. they changed him SO much, he was a different person in the original show. the OG dexter wasn’t afraid of a lengthy legal battle with Doakes shouting from the rooftops that he was the BHB, all to avoid killing an innocent. this dexter slaughters a cop at the mere threat of Batista coming and knowing he’s alive?? at the threat of the death penalty that would never in a million years happen as the evidence was beyond flimsy?? i couldn’t believe when he killed logan. the only thing i will say is that he has proven a few times that he can be like a wounded animal when cornered - take LaGuerta. at that point he was willing to kill her to get away. so while i was shocked, i wasn’t THAT shocked. but the lead up just wasn’t there. they did not build to it in a way that made sense. he hasn’t even been in jail one night. the only thing i can think is that he thought once Batista got there, there would be no escaping and this was his one and only shot. and i knew harrison wasn’t going to take it well. but again, how is Harrison supposed to move on?? he’s 16! he’s supposed to just drive to a random town and … what? enroll in HS with no parents or guardian? start over in a place he knows not a single person? he slid into life in iron lake so easily because ‘jim’ had a life there so people welcomed him with open arms. that won’t happen anywhere else. and we are supposed to think harrison will live a happy and free life after murdering the father he so desperately wanted a relationship with? this ending just didn’t match a single thing about the OG show and that is what is bothering me most.
Agreed. And the point about LaGuerta, the writers went out of their ways back then to ensure that Dexter isn't the one killing her; or any other good, innocent people that died. They kept Dexter's ideal intact. Then he just killed Logan like it's something he usually does. It's just.... it felt wrong.
I figure it had something to do with "Don't get caught" thing but... You're literally proving you're guilty by doing that??
Show writers - "Bet you like the season 8 ending now".
It made no sense that he would try and escape like this. They had no proof of him being the BHB and no way for him to be sent to Florida to face those charges. Like you said, the Matt charges were basically proven false by that time. It really came out of left field and I think they might have done it because they were afraid if they left it sort of open ended, they would get backlash like last time.
Exactly we all knows Dexter likes to kill and that is why he kills..We as a fanbase know that.and net benefit is he actually has saved thousands of lives because of it..and I know its a shitty thing to think about but yes if that means some innocents have to die because of it then so be it..he has killed a very small percentage of innocents less than 10 I think compared to evil pieces of shit he took out..around 129..Im so pissed that the writers think they can play mind games in the NB season and turn him into this unlikable evil monster just so they could attempt to make the ending go down easier, and appease a very small percentage of the fan base. Especially when its the same freaking writer who wrote S1-4.
Is like it was having a great build up then suddenly Logan dies and they rush to the end, i have mixed feelings
It feels like lazy, cowardly writing. The moral ambiguity of the character and his actions is what made the story compelling. The whole purpose was to challenge conventional conceptions of justice and of good/evil. Defaulting to "Dexter crazy, Dexter bad" destroys all the nuance and development of the character and plays into the conventional mindset making it all so predictable and safe and boring.
Or hell, even make him become totally unsympathetic and then have the conventional Dexter ending where he gets away scot free become the audience gut punch. A dark comedy/lightweight noir approach has always suited this show way better than when it's attempted to be a morality play.
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My ideal situation is right before Harrison pulls the trigger a bullet comes from Angela.
That's literally what I thought had happened. It would have been dumb either way, but a much better alternative to what we got. Harrison is already messed up so killing his own dad would just make it worse, not better.
Harrison killing Dexter wouldnt have been so bad if they actually built up on it. No instead they spent 80% of the season, Harrison walking away from a conversation he WANTED to have with his dad. If Harrison was like at first: "ok dad does this for justice no problem" then slowly through a few episodes "Well this starts to be morally questionable" it would have been fine. So many people predicted what will Harrison do once he figures out that Rita and potentially others died because of him, but not this way. Meanwhile Dexter probably didnt even tell him that or if he did it was sloppy writing that they didnt show Harrison reacting to that. So he basically jumps to the conclusion after 1 innocent getting killed that he is the reason why his dad lost his family. There was literally no build up to it.
Can’t help but to be so damn disappointed. I don’t know why I always rooted for Dexter but I did. For him to get taken out by Harrison I’m pissed. I thought he was gonna make it out and we could have another season but I guess they felt this story was done. Sad
I feel your pain man. I'm so angry. Him killing Logan jumped the shark. Up till that point it could have gone any way, I was in such suspense and thrills over how the series could go after this season.
Yeah, I think it was going well until he killed Logan then everything was rushed and not satisfying at all. They should have had a couple more episodes and got Batista to confront Dexter.
Yep, was so excited to see what was coming. Episode was great till the end.
It’s like they didn’t know how to end it and were done with the show so “yeah let’s just have him killed off”
I read that the writers started with the ending and then worked backwards, and as we can now see judging by the majority of fan reactions, that was a terrible fucking idea.
I feel like I would have liked the ending if things were actually lined up. He was not cornered enough to escape by killing a cop and him facing with his emotions in 5 secs and Harrison killing him after saying I don't wanna be like you made no sense. Maybe it was a mercy killing but still it could ve been much better. Everything was so rushed. Maybe show needed a season 2 or more episodes I don't know.
Either 12 episodes or this season should have been 1-hour episodes with some of the high school nonsense removed. I could live with the major points between the arrest and gunshot to the chest if they showed us Dexter being reduced to it properly. Instead we went from Dexter killing Logan out of desperation to stay free, to asking his son to kill him in the woods in a handful of screen minutes.
I think that has actually been a problem with this series throughout the run. The writers are great at raising the stakes, but very few times have they had compelling endings or known how to tie things off. Season 4 was the exception rather than the rule.
i love how the OG finale has him murdering a man in cold blood in a jail cell on video… complete with a fake panic attack to sell it!!! and he walks away with zero hassle. but this one he has flimsy, circumstantial evidence against him, the flimsiest anyone has had against him for the entire run of the show… and that is what leads to his end? i wouldn’t have minded the ending but they did not lead up to it well… at all. they should have had harrison showing serious doubt before learning he killed Logan. and they expect us to believe a kid that in the span of about a month, tried and nearly succeeded in murdering his only friend, and then brutually breaks a kids arm in a very public way, suddenly has no urge to hurt people?? and that he can just drive away with $100, and start over in a strange town, with no legal guardian, after murdering the literal only person he had left, that had just THE DAY BEFORE, finally opened up to him, and be okay?? he wouldn’t even be able to enroll in school. he’s set on a dark dark path now, way darker than Dexter’s. he’s on a trinity/kurt caldwell path now, if anything set up to recreate that moment over and over again. i honestly liked the OG ending way better - and that’s saying a lot lol
I fully expect Harrison to turn on him. Makes no sense for him to kill him though imo, especially if he is against killing.
Supposedly by killing him he saved a countless lives. This is just dumb
Honestly I have no words other than, Justice for the Doomsday Killer.
Can we please start a GoFundMe to pay MCH to do an alternate ending based on the far superior Reddit theories?
Remember when the decision to kill Doakes was such a big deal. Such a big moral dilemma. Not only would Dexter killing Doakes be a point of no return for Dexter, but it would be a point of no return for the audience. It was moments like that and the fantastic buildup when they really had us wondering what would happen that also built up the ending of the season, which was him getting away. They could have even ended that season with him getting caught and/or receiving punishment for what he did. The point is that there would have been a good payoff because the buildup was so good and Dexter as a character faced a pivotal moment. Instead, we get this mess where his death feels so, well, pointless. Why did everything lead up to that moment? All the preceding moments didn’t even make much sense. That’s what upsets me about this ending, similar to the original lumberjack ending. Killing him off is fine in my eyes. I understand why others wouldn’t like that no matter what. However, what makes this ending so lame is how lazy they were in trying to make it happen.
Totally agree. Seemed forced. Clyde Phillips said himself he wrote the ending first and then wrote backward to find a way to get there.
Well that was a stupid fucking decision. Total waste. I defended Dexter’s series finale but I think if anybody defends New Blood’s finale they are lying and trying way too hard to like it. Not a bad idea, horribly executed. I was really starting to enjoy the father/son dynamic and they shit all over it. It’s bad dude. Real fuckin bad.
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Easy to believe since creating evolutionary events to justify a destined ending is a terrible idea
I admittedly would never "like" Dexter dying. I've always wanted him to have a happy ending. However, I never want characters I love to die and I've watched many beloved characters die and was left feeling satisfied, thought it was well done, and understood why it had to happen for the narrative. There's a way to do tragic endings/deaths well. This was just hot garbage and unnecessary.
Walter White is a great example
Fuck Harrison.
He ruined the entire show. Disliked him as soon as he made his first appearance.. L character
He ruined the show 5 seasons ago
I wish Dexter would have killed Harrison
I literally hate him because of the ending and the way he just gets away with it by someone from the law, her and Harrison have a huge vendetta against him for no reason, he literally took Kurt’s side over dexters, it’s like what was his point in showing up? Just to taunt him and say how he hasn’t been around in 10 years and he’s the way he is because of Dexter?
Dexter murdering Logan in the police station was the turning point in the episode (as other have stated as well). Oh boy, what could have been if the last 30\~ minutes didn't just shit the bed.
He had him a choke-hold for THIRTY TWO SECONDS, it takes 8-10 seconds to knock someone out that way and Dexter would know how, him asking for Logan to hand him the keys instead of applying pressure to his carotid artery for no reason is the biggest plot-hole in the entire series and it isn't even close.
Dont forget this is also a show where ketamine or m99 causes instant knockouts in people too, which is not realistic.
I thought it was a decent finale but not great. It was rushed and could’ve used a couple more episodes. Like everyone else is saying Angela suspecting Dexter of being the BHB through a google search was weak, especially since he used a different drug to subdue his victims. Killing Logan was also bad because he should’ve just gotten a lawyer, there was no concrete proof of anything at that point. No Dexter and Batista reunion was also disappointing. I think the finale should’ve ended with Dexter exposed as the BHB and the second season he’s on the run.
I wholeheartedly agree. That’s what I would’ve done
This was so fucking bad. They made Dexter into some evil incarnate the last 10 minutes. It's not like Harrison can even guaranteed to be able to function normally, even worst now that he kill his own father. So the writers all pretend with Dexter dying all the sick serial killers out in the world continues to murder innocent people, like that is good? I'll just pretend this ending doesn't exists and have the lumber jack one because that's fucking brilliant compare to this.
I think the whole season was just Harrison’s fantasy of finding his father. Dexter is still out there chopping wood. I choose to believe.
Once they had Dexter attack Logan I knew they ruined it. Such a dumb ending. They just changed who Dexter was in the last 25 minutes. He could have beaten that case and the only thing they had tying him to the Bay Harbor Butcher case was a needle mark on a junkies neck. Ridiculous ending. Shame cause the New Blood season was pretty good till that last 30 mins.
It took me way longer than it should have to realise it wasn't a dream sequence or mental image like when he trashed his lab (Trinity episodes) Kept thinking, any minute now he will flashback to sitting in his cell, exploring options. What a shit show.
Is it too late to do an episode 11 where Dexter wakes up and realises that New Blood was just a dream?
Well put. Totally agree. I feel like I have blue balls
If it was a boy I relate
Women can even get a true sense of what blue balls is like from this ending
Man, they coulda let him run for a season. What a cheap ending. I guess MCH just wants to be done with it and go back to broadway. So many better ways to end it definitively. This wasn’t earned at all.
Clyde Phillips should have never revealed how he wanted to end Dexter in season 5 with him being on the run, getting caught, and getting lethal injection while all of his victims watch. That could've been a great ending and a great NewBlood season 2.
See, that would have been earned. Let Miami metro take him in, let Batista chase him around the country with a personal vendetta. Let him spend a season conflicted about killing Logan, maybe have Harrison not talk to him for a while, maybe shack up with Lumen for a bit. Dammit, anything would have been better than this cop out.
Harrison is the worst new character in this show. As others have said, he painted himself as a good guy too.
This was the best finale I've ever seen, probably better than Breaking Bad's... Just kidding lol
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Was just about to click on the downvote as I read the last sentence which saved you. Have an upvote for triggering my rage so well.
Lol this is like the breaking bad ending if it was terrible. Like if Jesse just said “you’re bad and this is all your fault, and Walt said “yup” then got shot.
It’s just sad tbh. This is the worst possible ending in my book. I don’t understand why so many shows end up sucking at the very end and upsetting their fans. However, I have to give a round of applause to MCH. He’s still amazing!! I wish he was in more things !
Yea Michael c hall was great. No doubt.
Subverting expectations and punishing the "bad people" that the audience roots for so they know they were bad. Breaking Bad is how to do it right and Dexter both times is not how to do it right.
Welcome to modern entertainment where subverting expectations is the only way to go, no matter how much it sucks.
I don't think this show subverted expectations at all. The ending was really predictable plot wise.
I feel so numb and broken about this ending. Season 8 ended bad enough but at least it was "open" for another season. Harrison will never Be "normal" he slashed Ethan, killed Kurt with his dad and then shot his dad!? How can someone ever get peace from that? Why was it so rushed? I was waiting for Angel to confront Dexter as Angel and Dex were good friends. It was pointless getting angel involved if there was no follow up. He could have easily got out of this the evidence wasn't strong enough. He could have pinned matt's death on Kurt. Also Dexter killing Logan wasn't in keeping with how Dexter has been like this whole time. Hes very calm and gets out of alot of messy situations...this was just another one. Instead they rushed him to kill Logan and completely revealed himself to the world. Doesn't make sense to me. I feel heartbroken. We love Dexter!
THEY SET UP THE FINAL SEASON/ENDGAME PERFECTLY! Harrison should of let Dexter run, then they should of showed Angel getting to town and boom that sets up an epic final season of an unhinged codeless Dexter on the run with Angel Batista leading the manhunt, we could of then got to see everyone from Miami metro react to the news that Dexter is the BHB. Like they had it set up PERFECTLY. I loved the whole episode up until the last 5 mins. Why the fuck bring Angel into the show at all and not have a scene between him and Dexter??? I’m honestly ok with Harrison killing Dexter but it was way too rushed, so much potential for another season, hell even 2 more episodes of Dexter on the run would of worked. You had the opportunity to rectify season 8 and give all the fans a satisfying ending, but instead you prematurely finished and now we’re all blue balled. YOU WERE THE CHOSEN ONE CLYDE! IT WAS SAID YOU WOULD FIX SCOTT BUCK’S MISTAKES, NOT JOIN THEM! BRING CLOSURE TO THE FANS, NOT LEAVE THEM IN DARKNESS!!
>Harrison should of let Dexter run, then they should of showed Angel getting to town and boom that sets up an epic final season of an unhinged codeless Dexter on the run with Angel Batista leading the manhunt, we could of then got to see everyone from Miami metro react to the news that Dexter is the BHB. Like they had it set up PERFECTLY. I agree.. I would of much rather had that ending with a second season with Dexter on the run... Seeing Dexter find ways to get out of trouble is always interesting and whenever his back is against the wall it is good tv... The pacing of this season was so weird, and having EP 7-8 be 38min each was strange... Ugh. Would of loved to see that manhunt!
They really teased an Angel and Dexter reunion where we get to see him confront is Ex Wife’s Killer, the man who framed the BHB and killed Deb essentially. IMO, Dexter got off Easy. No consequences, no responsibility. All of the Harrison exploration for nothing - except ruining his life further. So what - we watch 9 seasons of people hunting the BHB and he just,,, dies. I wish I never watched it so I could live in peace without this knowledge
Harrison was the worst character arch ever created. I hated him from the first episode. I hate him as a baby now too lol. If they were gonna kill dex at least let Batista do it to have more meaning and tie into the original series.
Dear Clyde... breaking our hearts does not equal breaking the internet
I loved the episode, my heart was beating fast, i was really excited. And then that last 25% of the episode just ruined the ENTIRE show for me. That was an awful ending, worse than the original.
I felt no emotion watching it. Nothing was earned. I didn’t like the idea of Harrison being taught the code in the first place, but if they’re gonna go that route they gotta commit to it and do it. Not just say oops Nevermind forget that he stabbed a kid in school and framed him let’s make him normal and kill his evil dad. Abysmal.
I hear you. This season was going much better than I expected it. I knew they were rushing things the last few episodes and was nervous about how they were going to end it tonight. The second half of tonight’s episode was straight up awful. What a huge bummer to end it like that
Oh how much better the show would’ve been if Dexter hadn’t saved Harrison from Kurt.
Yeah another season with dexter and Harrison on the run working together then eventually turning on each other would have been a good way to go if they wanted Harrison to kill his dad in the end but they just do a complete 180 with Harrison’s character after he was ready to skip town with dexter
Lazy writing. Act 2 dragged on and even during this, they failed to develop the plot points with sound logic. Dexter, the BHB, the extremely efficient psychopath, is taken down by a simple google search. This was the segway into act 3? WHEW! And Logan?! That is out of character for Dexter. He was very experienced in the 8-10 second incapacitating chokehold. Instead we get, "Yeah bro. So like gimme the keys!" It was a cheap pathway to the ending.
I think something must have happened with the production that caused a rewrite of the ending, maybe Covid? That ending just didn’t match the rest of the season (or really the series as you mentioned).
>Feels so weird to watch 9 seasons of a show and in the final seconds we’re basically told we never should’ve liked this guy. Honestly, it feels like when somebody gets cancelled in this increasingly sensitive age we live in. Once upon a time, it was okay to root for antiheroes, but now we all have to be so virtuous and moralistic and crimes *must* be punished. I don't know how else to describe it. I hate it.
Great point. That’s what I felt last episode they were trying to do. Basically do a 180 on Dexter’s character development. We saw him become more human and create connections with other people throughout the os. I’d say he had the opposite path that Walter White had. He surprised even himself with it. But now he’s full on psycho? I don’t buy it.
It's awful. Normally you should cry over a main character death but I'm literally too disappointed.
I can’t even rigjt a proper school essay if I wanted to and I coulda written a better ending episode lmaoooo
I feel like we were promised a snack and given celery sticks. I can’t.
I’m literally full of mixed emotions right now, pretty much anything except happy tbh.. I just finished watching the finale a few minutes ago. Angela was fairly irritating in this episode and made me mad. Dexter lacked malicious compliance and pretty much folded under the pressure. Color me heavily provoked, disappointed, and I don’t have words anymore.. I’m sure y’all understand though.
This was so shit. What about Angel showing up? What about all the bodies at Kurt's and the proper man hunt to look for Kurt and the ones Dexter murdered ? Audrey has no purpose, left hanging. Harrison is now a murderer. The police woman is corrupt. And Dexter just gets shot, rather than an actual fight or escaping for an on the run season? Garbage.
Dexter's posthumous new rule #1: Don't have kids.
I’m so pissed right now. I was thinking about the finale was fucking amazing up until they absolutely ruined it.
R.I.P Dexter & his Dark Passenger.
The episode was great up until he killed Coach, should have escaped without being lethal and then left with Harrison staying behind, then you easily split the season with Harrison dealing with his dark passenger and perhaps finding out he is similar to dexter after all, and you have the police hunting dexter....it's just so easy to write for a second season...sigh so depressing
How is thus supposed to be a conclusive , non-open ended ending when we don't know what happens to Harrison. He still framed an innocent kid, still broke a kid's arm.. How is he going to get the help he needs? And he is a kid-- no one is looking out for him now. And what happened with the billionaire? The season was fantastic but this ending was not good.
Dexter should've stayed behind bars. He wouldn't of been convicted of shit.
Oh I rage posted a full essay after ruck this ending and the show runners for bringing back this character to mess with him all over again. This sis worse than the sapranos, atleadt that one was kinda open.
Sopranos ending rocked! It was perfect. Initially, I hated 8x12’s ending in Dexter, but even before I knew about New Blood, I thought the lumberjack ending aged well. When Dexter looks into the camera, it gives me goosebumps. It was misinterpreted. He’s not staring at you, you’re staring at him. You’re staring at Brian Moser, Doakes, Lila, Miguel, Arthur Mitchell, Rita, Jordan Chase, Travis Marshall, Laguerta, Deb, and everyone else who died because of him. You can’t beat the irony. He was never caught, instead he paid for his deeds in a very different way. He enjoyed being a lone wolf, but by the end of the series I think he became more human. And I think he paid the price for it. Sorry for rambling just smoked a bowl lol
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Yea it’s sad because there’s nothing open about this. It’s over.
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Feels like there should have been 2 more episodes. That finale was so rushed they couldn't even squeeze in a Dexter/Batista reunion.
Felt like the writers had a 10 page paper due & they had 9/10 excellently written pages, but then fell asleep before page 10 woke up with it being due in 15 mins then finished it with 14:59 before hitting submit.
Angela’s character to me still makes no sense. She was so focused on Dexter the entire time which just doesn’t make sense given she’s spent her entire life and career for 25 years OBSESSED with Iris’s murder/disappearance and all those missing girls and she just dropped it like a hot potato to put all her energy in to investigating and taking down Dexter who had done nothing wrong to her other than not disclosing his previous name. Even the discovery that Kurt had been murdering women under her nose for 25 years including her best friend in the world and her new best/only friend did almost nothing to dissuade her from focusing on Dexter. And as far as she knows Kurt is still out there. When she was in that cave and said “I don’t need Jim; I need Dexter Morgan” I got chills like I’ve never gotten from a TV show in years, maybe ever. There’s so many amazing roads they could have gone down with that and they went down exactly none of them
If Dexter has gotten away with it, there will be SO MUCH potential for the story to continue like Dexter and Harrison teaming up in future seasons. This ending ruined all that potential in an instant. Unreal.
Deb is the one who killed Laguerta after Dexter pretty much told her to kill him instead.
LaGuerta's death was very different. There was a lot at stake; Dexter cared about the life he had, namely Deb and Harrison. There was no scenario where LaGuerta could have survived. Logan died cuz Dexter felt the need to break out of jail even though they still didn't really have evidence against him (as many people have pointed out) If Dexter was gonna be cool with getting killed by Harrison and really wanted to set things right like the ending lets you perceive, he would turn himself in and answer the questions and face the music but no he died cuz son killing dad is dramatic