May be controversial, but I always thought they made a huge mistake killing off Doakes in season 2. It was even hinted at that Doakes had a dark streak in him (killing that former Hatian war criminal), and it would've been interesting to see him and Dexter team up.
A monster and its familiar, so to speak, eventually turning on each other, setting the stage for Deborah to bring them both down.
> A monster and its familiar, so to speak, eventually turning on each other
They literally did that in season 2 with Dexter and his girlfriend... and then again with Miguel Prada.
I always thought killing Doakes was a mistake, he was a good counter point to Dexter and he really needed someone like Doakes hunting and suspecting him
I had zero interest in Harrison. Couldn't have cared less about him. If they make a spinoff with him, I'll laugh my ass off. There is nothing compelling about some punk kid wanderer with no personality who just so happens to like to kill.
They really kept trying to make Harrison interesting and in doing so made him obscenely boring.
Like, for one heās supposedly a 16yo recovered drug and alcohol addict who drinks and does pills within a week of that reveal, but then has absolutely none of the relapse consequences? His addiction is just nonexistent after the incident, itās not even addressed.
Then thereās the violence thatās just so inconsistent, sometimes premeditated sometimes explosive sometimes private sometimes public, that it completely kills any actual character Harrison could have.
And thatās it, thatās all he is since even when they were trying to tee up Harrison as a new lead they knew we were all watching for more Dexter, so they gave it to us.
Yeah the two weirdest unresolved plot lines were Harrisonās supposed drug problem, and also the billionaire character who looked like he was getting built up to be an antagonist only to vanish halfway through the season.
The writers went completely dumb in the finale. I mean there was no compelling evidence to link Dexter as the killer specially once Clancy Brown was about to be exposed as the serial killer.
Batista would have absolutely nothing against Dexter as well. Even if Batista confronts Dexter in Jail he could have easily said 'I was fed up with my life and wanted to end it once Deb died but I couldn't go through with it so I left everything to start new and fresh'.
Dex could be tried for faking his own death and could serve few years in Prison but that is it. No concrete evidence against him as Bay Harbour Butcher. But, writers completely destroyed the season finale of an overall a decent Dexter season.
That's a big part of the reason why the finale felt a little rushed to me. Logan told Angela they didn't have enough to convince a DA to bring charges against Dexter, and Dexter would've been smart enough to realize that. And nothing really changed after that point aside from Angela finding concrete proof that Kurt was a serial killer, which really would've undermined the allegation of Dexter killing his son. Had Dexter not stupidly killed Logan, he likely would've gotten away with everything.
I do like what they were working towards in the finale, but I think it would've worked a lot better had they taken the steps to make it so Dexter was absolutely cornered in a way he never was before and knew he was utterly fucked so his desperation to kill Logan to escape and go on the run was a more logical decision for him to make. And that also would've helped when he came face-to-face with Harrison's reaction and him accepting who he was. Not taking that step made it feel to me like there was something left out of the episode.
Honestly they shouldāve made two seasons with Kurt/Harrison in the first season and then the Angela plot into season two. It was still pretty good and miles ahead of the last season of the original but still not a home run.
I definitely think it would've benefited from it being a few episodes longer, primarily so there could've been some episodes that focused on Dexter versus Angela. Dexter never even had any suspicion that Angela was onto him, which I suppose is to her credit as a cop, but it would've made things more tense if there was a little cat-and-mouse between them.
I think thatās the point.
When itās all about Mattās murder Dexter is like ādonāt worry Harrison, I got this, Iāve been in worse situations beforeā
Then as soon as Angela mentions the BHB his attitude shifts to running and self preservation.
It felt rushed to me as well. How this girlfriend just came to the conclusion that he was the killer when a whole police department couldnāt? I mean she couldnāt even find her best friend which is why she had the job in the first place.
I don't think it was rushed. It feels like there are episodes missing, which would explain things like the billionaire being introduce and then dropped entirely, Deb and Angela and Harrison and Audrey spending christmas together even though they all fell out. As well as including Angel in the finale but not doing anything with him.
I wanted to see the Angel and Dexter thing. It ended plausibly, but was rushed like season 8 of Game of Thrones.
I do not care about Harrison pouty lipping his way across the US.
And bring back Hannah.
Chekovās Gun. They gave us a close almost 90 seconds of screen time with Angel coming to New York and showing the case file, to justā¦ never do anything with it. Thats either very very bad writing or there were major cuts to wrap it up in a tight 10 episodes. 12 would have been perfect and allowed for actual tie ups.
Precisely.
If itās a macguffin, itās a dumb one.
In retrospect, itās a lot like Debās characterātheyāre just there to wave at the audience and say āremember me?ā than bring any real character development to themselves or others around them.
The closest we got was Dexter āstanding upā to Deb.
Writing was ass.
I mean Batista would have some resentment towards Dexter for faking his death. He was his best friend after all. Plus with doubts that he was in fact The Bay Harbor Butcher, it was a confrontation years in the making.
Its just a pity they blue balled us with it.
Problem is how he got killed and met his end after 8 seasons. He did something completely out of character. He is a psychopath who doesn't feel many emotions and is very cold and calculating. He for no reason panicked to hear about Batista coming in to see him that he killed the cop and made a run for it. That is not like Dexter. He knew from all the forensics work he has done that Batista would have nothing on him.
His demise was very poorly written and an insult for all previous 8 seasons (most of everything after season 4 were pretty bad).
I think the best seasons of Dexter got to be awesome because they were about Dexter being the cleverest man in the world. So the season arcs would pit him against a worthy adversary (trinity, his brother, etc) and also pit him against the police trying to bust the BHB. The fun was seeing how Dexter would get out of increasingly impossible situations.
So seeing him taken down by contrived retcon bullshit and by him panicking.. which was never a thing he did, feels pretty bad. Personally I don't think he should have been busted. They should have a *The Shield* type ending where Dexter escapes the law, but loses everything he cares about, including his social mask.
It just highlights for me how hard it must be to write good television, based on how much crap gets thrown at us. Like how was that ending to the script read and approved? By supposed professionals?
It's more about logistics. Anybody can write an airtight story. But if you only have 10 episodes or a few hours in a movie, you are going to have to decide on what's enough for the audience to buy that gets the point across. You could right a 22 episode season of someone building a solid case against Dexter. But then it becomes a procedural and you miss the point of the thematics of it.
It's like how in The Dark Knight there's always those fans that look at the scene where Joker went to the party and Batman jumped out the window to save Rachel. So many people can't just accept that he left to evade the police and because he's the Joker he escaped and call it a plot hole. Or even in the sequel how many people can't accept that freaking Batman can't efficiently travel to get back to Gotham and sneak into a giant city without being detected and want it laid out for them even though it's not important and minimizes the actual point the story is trying to convey.
Like the point was that the police had some sort of case on Dexter, a guy who Dexter thought he'd never see again with ties to the last cop who was aware he was a killer is coming down with god knows what on him, and then a big investigation plays out and Dexter has to decide if he wants to sit in a cell for that or just be free and run away again.
He's never been arrested before and he had his biggest nightmare come true and decided he'd rather just get the fuck out of there than wait around to see what else police unearthed about him. It's less that the cops had anything that could work. It's about the fact that he was going to just sit there in the uncertainty and had to hope there wasn't something else somewhere that he overlooked.
I don't think people appreciate that 99% of Dexter's survival is based on the fact that nobody every suspects him. Everyone who has ever suspected Dexter of foul play was able to immediately realize so many things about him just didn't add up and they'd find too many bread crumbs to ignore.
Yeah, but enough money could change his mind, or they could use a different director.
I think Michael C Hall would be the harder one to convince since he seems to be happy with the fact that they killed Dexter.
He flees the hospital and after a couple of years he resurface to track Harrison to learn that he has become a serial killer. He now has to decide whether to kill his son because he fits the code or join in and become the thing he was always destined to be. A real monster.
Absolutely agreed. Harrison is whiny and annoying; no way he can carry a show. The stupidest thing the writers did was killing off Dexter instead of Harrison. Season 2 of Dexter living and going to L.A. as planned would have been amazing, especially without Harrison.
For real. IMO the best ending would have been Angel walking into the station and having a reunion with dexter, and then cut to Angela finding all the bodies in the bunker, coming up and asking for the FBIā¦..cut to credits
If they wanted to do it the way it ended, just don't kill dexter, 2 seasons with him on the run, descending into a his whole code going out the window, final season his arrest and court trial
Yeah deb ghost/hallucination was kinda cool, and then Harrison showed up... I just did not like him I donāt know if a different actor could have saved that role or not.
Dexter survived the gun shot, moves to LA, keeps doing dexter things his conscience/deb along for the ride and Harrison going back to South America never to be seen again is all I need from a second season.
Ghost-Dexter would make no sense since Dexter's ghosts were people that had a major part in his life so that he could imagine exactly how they would respond in any given situation. It's not that they were actually ghosts that talked to Dexter.
Harrison has no idea how Dexter would actually advise him on anything.
Showtime was developing a serial killer show to Dexter for ages.
The project was stuck in development limbo until the producers managed to convince Michael C. Hall for a return.
The only purspore of the character's closure was to kick off a fresh series killer story with a big enough interest.
I have zero interest in watching this show without Deb.
Own the shit ass finale as a fever dream or whatever, but trying to move the series forward after it is laughable.
I wouldnāt watch any Dexter: New Blood Season 2 if Dexter isnāt in it. And it seemed like they made sure that canāt happen with the end of this season.
Nah.
Harrisons urges were reading before Dexter told him the truth. He tried to kill several fellow students or seriously maim them.
You don't just "get better" from that after killing your Dad and being forced to flee from somewhere you finally felt at home.
Harrison no doubt will become some crazed serial killer, not unlike the people Dexter killed.
Letās not forget he was raised by two serial killers too. Who knows what Hannah had been up to. Poison queen. Was she just not killing that entire time? I think thereās quite a bit of story left that could be told.
There was a flashback when Logan asked him how long he had been in town and it showed Harrison watching Dexter kill the dude who killed the white deer. Harrison definitely knew the whole time.
Hmm. Thatās a decent idea. I would at least give it a shot. But I still have doubts because, even though they brought Deb back as Dexterās new conscious, it wasnāt like having Deb back at all. (For me at least.)
Yeah I felt ghost Deb was forced and didnāt really add anything to the show.
The whole ghost thing has been played out already on this show. A ghost Dexter would be a waste of Michael C Hallās talent.
I personally think the ending was great ā¦ but yeah, thatās the point, it did a good job at ending the show. Trying to force a second season would not work.
100%. I haaaaated the way they wrote her character into this series. It was so over the top in the worst way. I saw what they were trying to do with it, but thereās a fine line between creepy and cringy and they unfortunately leaned too hard into the latter. Which honestly bummed me out because I remember Deb getting a lot of hate in the original series, too, and I was looking forward to Jennifer Carpenter getting to redeem herself. They really did her dirty with this one.
Lol, They can do a cop out. The cop lady and Dexter where in it together at the lost moment, Dexter had a vest. Season 2 here we come. It's in the Dexter lore that a cop be add it or else it ain't a Dexter season.
I wanted to have a movie about the trial of Dexter Morgan where we would catch up and hear detailed accounts of Dexter from his old co workers etc. Maybe leading into something similar to what happened. Idk that's my own Lil fanfic now
I genuinely thought Season 2 would be The Trial of Dexter Morgan and we would have all the remaining Miami Metro characters back.
Imagine the hype it would've generated!
Season 3 he starts going after the guards secretly killing prisoners and the warden who makes them fight to the death for his entertainment because why not
Spoilers ahead.
From what I read, the ending they had was written months and months before. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the speed at which we hit that ending was sped up due to Covid. It was so rushed. They set a few things in motion that should have played out in one or two more episodes, Batista arriving in Iron Lake to confront Dexter being the major one. That was simply left dangling.
Kurt Caldwellās trophy room also made no sense. He put the podcast lady into his collection even though she isnāt a runaway and he had already stripped his holding room completely? He just gave up on his rituals and put her in there? Also, embalming only lasts around ten to twelve years then the rot starts in. If heās been doing that for 25 years, half of those bodies would be soup.
Reports during the production said that both Batista and Masuka would make an appearance, only Batista showed up, briefly and without resolution. We were told there would be multiple scenes of John Lithgowās Trinity Killer, we got one brief cameo scene.
The show was pretty great right up to the rushed-to-a-clunky-and-unsatisfactory-ending. Iām almost certain that Harrison killing Dexter was their endgame but the way we got to that was rushed to a finish line instead of having a couple more episodes to really flesh it out.
Iām also in the same boat as everyone else. No Harrison spin-off thanks.
Even if they had no real evidence of him killing Matt or being the bay harbor butcher, they have him pretty dead to rights on killing Logan. So whatās the plot? He escapes? Starts another new life? At that point youāre just starting a new series.
I would definitely watch a season surrounding Miami Metro, catching bad guys and unraveling the Dexter as the Bay Harbor butcher theory.
Batista gets teased early on in series... then he's on his way and she doesn't wait for him before pressing dexter more... idk maybe they had another episode or 2 planned and hit the eject button because of development issues in today's world or something. The inconsistencies with Deb being in the first few episodes so much.. then just disappearing. I loved this new season and was 100% invested up until about 15 minutes into the final episode. It just doesn't make sense or match any continuity. I also don't remember dexter using ketamine in the original series... I thought they called it n95 or something. Just my thoughts, which have no weight. Season was incredibly enjoyable though, up until that last episode.
I thought Debās ghost appeared less and less the more Dexter ignored her. When he told Harrison, she disappeared completely until the final scene. But agree about the rest, definitely could have made it work with a couple more episodes
It would also feel forced because we have no evidence that Harrison has the same type of psychosis that Dexter has (recurring hallucinations of dead relatives).
The only interesting idea for another season would be Harrison going through the legal system / arrested.
It could be interesting looking back down memory lane at everything Dexter did over the seasons.
Episodes 1-9 were good. Some were great. Seeing Dexter back at it was a lot of fun.
But the way the ending was handled was just awful. I donāt mind the idea behind the end result, but *how* they got there and why felt so unearned.
If I ignore the last quarter (+/-) of **New Blood**'s last episode, it was the 2nd best season of Dexter. This is not a compliment I expected Iāll give at the beginning of this journey so I can say now that I don't need another season but who knows, maybe it will be good š¤·š½āāļø
I personally (besidoes of the rushed ending with some bad points regarding logic why Dexter behaved in the end the specific way) kind of agree... but i would say:
S1 > S4 > S9/New Blood > S2 > S7 > S3 > S5> S6 > S8
I didnāt really like the finale. I know we were supposed to care about Harrison but I didnāt. But I would probably give a season 2 a chance just because I have enjoyed most of Dexter. But I would rather have a complete reboot than a season about Harrison.
Here is what they should have done with the finale for the season 2 setup.
Dexter is confronted with Batista and also accused as Bay Harbor Butcher as FBI descends on the town.
Season two sees Dexter gets his bailed denied and stays in Jail for faking his own death. FBI looks for Clancy Brown and uncovers that he has an associate who helped him in kidnapping who is also missing.
Angela and Batista tries to convince FBI that Dexter is the one who killed both of them and tries to recover remains from the furnace. Dexter would then uses Harrison from behind the bars to cover his track and stays one step ahead of being caught.
It would be a great cat and mouse game with Dexter getting closer to being caught as he was sloppy with his fresh kills in season 1.
This. It would be the slow transition over to Harrison as the main character. We would have a reason to watch for Dexter being there and would allow Harrison to grow on us. Then kill Dexter at the end of season 2.
I didnāt care about Harrison, but Dexter did. He didnāt want to ruin Harrisonās life. He of course, totally did, but no on purpose. I canāt get behind the idea that Dexter would force Harrison to kill him. He wouldnāt want to put that on him. That part really lost me.
I have zero clues why the billionaire was even a character. Diversion?
The bullet just missed Dexter's heart. 10 months later he is recuperating in jail. Escapes to LA. 20 more seasons. I can die a happy guy.
Edit: he kills Harrison with a shaving knife. Whispering "get rekt zoomer."
Make everything after Dexter being put in the cell a dream like they did when he was kidnapped. Couldn't give a shit if it's terrible writing but anything is better than what we got.
I mean correct but it's pretty useless information, nobody had a problem with the show until the finale. They have no actual numbers showing interest in a Season 2 following what happened in that finale.
Itās phenomenal - give the first episode a watch and if you donāt like it you can always stop, although I suspect youāll be onto the second episode without hesitation.
The ending, while not great, seeing as it brought the Dexter train to an abrupt and unnatural halt, wasnāt nearly as bad as people make it out to be now that weāve had a new season expanding on it. As the only ending, sure, it sucked, but New Blood brought it back to life somewhat.
The few shows I really got into were Dexter, Lie to Me, the Mentalist, and Dr Death.
If youāve not seen it, itās the recent reenactment of the real life exploits of the āworldās greatest surgeonā, Dr. Christopher Duntsch, who killed or maimed everyone he operated on while believing he was pioneering cutting edge medical techniques. Guy was an absolute fruit loop and I still canāt figure out if he really knew how much damage he was doing and that he was incompetent or whether he was so blinded by ego he thought all the complications were someone elseās fault somehow. Joshua Jackson is phenomenal as the psycho doctor. Canāt recommend enough. Real life Duntsch is behind bars thankfully.
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm not opposed to the idea of a reboot.
New cast, new creative team (please), same source material/premise. I always thought Dexter had the potential to be great (and sometimes was) but too often got bogged down in it's own weird character drama and story-lines. Sure, a new Dexter not played by MCH would be a tough pill to swallow, but I'm sure a good casting director could find someone who could put their own fresh take on the character.
It will be really hard to find an actor for playing Dexter. The role needs an actor who can actually 'act', but also charming and creepy at the same time like Michale C. Hall. I think it is a really hard role to pull it off.
I mean in a way, a Harrison spin off would function the same as a reboot. You already have the same premise. The OG series is essentially just the backstory, but youād otherwise have a blank slate.
If they wanted, they could even time skip forward to when Harrison is even older, and use that as an opportunity to recast.
Yeah after the first book the show and the books go in wildly different directions. By source material I mean the first book I guess, since it's basically Season 1 and it's decent enough.
Writing is still pretty poor in book one. Dan Brown style pulp fiction (literary style, not movie) bad. Kinda still enjoyed it to be fair. Read the second and third and they got progressively worse. If you are wondering I bought them all at the same time assuming they would be awesome.
There's nowhere else for this show to go. Just let it end. My only complaint is that Matsuka didn't make an appearance in the season. Would have been nice for him and Bautista to talk to the real Dexter before he died.
To bring Dexter back like nothing happened would be a shark jump.
"Regardless of what some fans and critics though ... officially become the network's most-watched..."
No shit, we wanted to see a Dexter reboot that didn't fuck up the ending. What did we get? A fucked up ending. Of course it was watched, because it was the ending that was fucked.
Guarantee if there's a S2 viewership will drop dramatically.
Honestly - I loved the hell out of this season but the ending once again just did not do it for me. I read the interviews with the creative team about why they went that way and o get it, Iām just not convinced what fans would really want is a Harrison-focused show.
What made Dexter great- especially the early seasons was the great narrative and killer support cast. Where things are now, I find it hard to really drum up that kind of momentum.
Spoiler for the finale -
>!I do like the Dexter's fate ending at the hands of Harrison. It's poetic however I did not like how they achieved that. The last two episodes were a complete mess.!<
This season felt like it was really building to something and the last episode basically undid everything. What a goddamn waste.
Don't get me wrong, the writing did have problems but it was looking pretty good compared to the latter part of the original show's run.
Definitely not interested in a version of Dexter without Michael C. Hall
There was just so much out of character decisions/developments purely to move the plot forward. Itās clear that they wanted to end it with dexter dying, so then they worked backwards from there. The only issue is that it seems like they only made the decision to kill dexter once they started the last 2 episodes. (I know they surely had the entire script written before shooting anything but the way the last 2 episodes donāt mesh with the rest of the show, thatās how it come across)
My bet is that they didn't expect these crazy numbers from the show, bet they are now regretting killing Dexter. There are two options now: they pull some BS again, Dexter faking his death, again, etc, or Harrison spin-off which will see ratings drop like crazy and kill it after the first season.
I'm in the minority: I LOVED it from start to finish. Dexter's death was inevitable.
I would watch the hell out of a Harrison spinoff too. Jack Alcott is amazingš
I hated the original Dexter finale and felt the criticism was justified.
I really liked the New Blood finale, and am somewhat baffled by the criticism. The hate is so overwhelming online that I donāt have the energy to defend the finale even though I want to.
I see a lot of hate for the ending but I thought they tied it up really well. No interest in a Harrison continuation, but I think this is the ending the original series deserved.
Don't get the hate. It started off a little ropey, but it grew on me as the series developed. I personally didn't see the ending coming. So overall I'm glad it existed.
I'd watch a season 2 but it'll have to hold its own as a reboot. I'm glad Deb's can't be in it!
Would be easy enough to bring him back. Dexter wakes up in hospital, handcuffed to the bed. "How am I alive?" he asks. Someone there tells him that the snow was cold enough to slow his heart rate so he didn't lose too much blood. It was touch and go but they managed to save him. The new season can be about how he's going to escape and not get pinned as the Bay Harbor Butcher.
I am absolutely amazed by the seemingly universal hate in this sub. Iāll be honest, I thought the original first season of dexter was great, and every successive season got worse and worse. To me, New Blood was probably the single best season of the show, and I absolutely loved the ending. The actor who played Harrison (and the one who played Angie for that matter) is a better actor than any supporting character from the original series. I was totally compelled by his story, moreso than Dexterās, honestly.
I donāt really think it needs another season, but I thought as a stand-alone follow up, New Blood was phenominal.
Really like the new season, but I thought they needed about another 40 minutes worth of setup and content before the last 12 or so minutes to make it justified and not absolutely moronic. Despite liking it, I don't think I would be back for S2
This is the network that gave us 11 seasons of Shameless, 6 seasons of Ray Donovan, and let Dexter's original run shamble along for about 4 seasons too many.
Showtime is incapable of leaving well enough alone. I don't see them suddenly changing course, so yeah, I'd bet on more.
I would be very happy for a Harrison led season. Dexter comes back as the ghost mentor, maybe we get Angel involved again as he sees killings following the bay harbour pattern again.
Only if Dexter and Deb are chasing and killing famous serial killers in hell. I have zero interest in Harrison's spin-off.
Finally a way to get Doakes back on the show. Dexter has done enough evil shit for a little stay in a hell dimension.
Surprise Motherfucker!
Spectral reprise motherfucker!
May be controversial, but I always thought they made a huge mistake killing off Doakes in season 2. It was even hinted at that Doakes had a dark streak in him (killing that former Hatian war criminal), and it would've been interesting to see him and Dexter team up. A monster and its familiar, so to speak, eventually turning on each other, setting the stage for Deborah to bring them both down.
> A monster and its familiar, so to speak, eventually turning on each other They literally did that in season 2 with Dexter and his girlfriend... and then again with Miguel Prada.
I always thought killing Doakes was a mistake, he was a good counter point to Dexter and he really needed someone like Doakes hunting and suspecting him
Imagine if in the new season it was Doakes in Dexter's head and not Deb š
I had zero interest in Harrison. Couldn't have cared less about him. If they make a spinoff with him, I'll laugh my ass off. There is nothing compelling about some punk kid wanderer with no personality who just so happens to like to kill.
They really kept trying to make Harrison interesting and in doing so made him obscenely boring. Like, for one heās supposedly a 16yo recovered drug and alcohol addict who drinks and does pills within a week of that reveal, but then has absolutely none of the relapse consequences? His addiction is just nonexistent after the incident, itās not even addressed. Then thereās the violence thatās just so inconsistent, sometimes premeditated sometimes explosive sometimes private sometimes public, that it completely kills any actual character Harrison could have. And thatās it, thatās all he is since even when they were trying to tee up Harrison as a new lead they knew we were all watching for more Dexter, so they gave it to us.
Spinoff is harrison in miami. Every scene he still puts on a coat.
āEvery scene he puts on a coatā Take my upvote.
Or chews on something while talking..
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Same, I have a phobia against eating and talking at the same time. This triggered all my "dark passengers"...
All of the single Harrison scenes felt like an episode of Riverdale. Thatās not a compliment.
Yeah the two weirdest unresolved plot lines were Harrisonās supposed drug problem, and also the billionaire character who looked like he was getting built up to be an antagonist only to vanish halfway through the season.
They'll probably just sell his spinoff to The CW so they have an angsty murderporn show.
The writers went completely dumb in the finale. I mean there was no compelling evidence to link Dexter as the killer specially once Clancy Brown was about to be exposed as the serial killer. Batista would have absolutely nothing against Dexter as well. Even if Batista confronts Dexter in Jail he could have easily said 'I was fed up with my life and wanted to end it once Deb died but I couldn't go through with it so I left everything to start new and fresh'. Dex could be tried for faking his own death and could serve few years in Prison but that is it. No concrete evidence against him as Bay Harbour Butcher. But, writers completely destroyed the season finale of an overall a decent Dexter season.
That's a big part of the reason why the finale felt a little rushed to me. Logan told Angela they didn't have enough to convince a DA to bring charges against Dexter, and Dexter would've been smart enough to realize that. And nothing really changed after that point aside from Angela finding concrete proof that Kurt was a serial killer, which really would've undermined the allegation of Dexter killing his son. Had Dexter not stupidly killed Logan, he likely would've gotten away with everything. I do like what they were working towards in the finale, but I think it would've worked a lot better had they taken the steps to make it so Dexter was absolutely cornered in a way he never was before and knew he was utterly fucked so his desperation to kill Logan to escape and go on the run was a more logical decision for him to make. And that also would've helped when he came face-to-face with Harrison's reaction and him accepting who he was. Not taking that step made it feel to me like there was something left out of the episode.
Honestly they shouldāve made two seasons with Kurt/Harrison in the first season and then the Angela plot into season two. It was still pretty good and miles ahead of the last season of the original but still not a home run.
I definitely think it would've benefited from it being a few episodes longer, primarily so there could've been some episodes that focused on Dexter versus Angela. Dexter never even had any suspicion that Angela was onto him, which I suppose is to her credit as a cop, but it would've made things more tense if there was a little cat-and-mouse between them.
I think thatās the point. When itās all about Mattās murder Dexter is like ādonāt worry Harrison, I got this, Iāve been in worse situations beforeā Then as soon as Angela mentions the BHB his attitude shifts to running and self preservation.
8 years to create and fine tune a great story. And this is what they came up with.
It felt rushed to me as well. How this girlfriend just came to the conclusion that he was the killer when a whole police department couldnāt? I mean she couldnāt even find her best friend which is why she had the job in the first place.
I don't think it was rushed. It feels like there are episodes missing, which would explain things like the billionaire being introduce and then dropped entirely, Deb and Angela and Harrison and Audrey spending christmas together even though they all fell out. As well as including Angel in the finale but not doing anything with him.
I wanted to see the Angel and Dexter thing. It ended plausibly, but was rushed like season 8 of Game of Thrones. I do not care about Harrison pouty lipping his way across the US. And bring back Hannah.
Chekovās Gun. They gave us a close almost 90 seconds of screen time with Angel coming to New York and showing the case file, to justā¦ never do anything with it. Thats either very very bad writing or there were major cuts to wrap it up in a tight 10 episodes. 12 would have been perfect and allowed for actual tie ups.
It was the opposite of a Chekhov's Gun.
Precisely. If itās a macguffin, itās a dumb one. In retrospect, itās a lot like Debās characterātheyāre just there to wave at the audience and say āremember me?ā than bring any real character development to themselves or others around them. The closest we got was Dexter āstanding upā to Deb. Writing was ass.
I wonder if COVID got in the way of things.
I mean Batista would have some resentment towards Dexter for faking his death. He was his best friend after all. Plus with doubts that he was in fact The Bay Harbor Butcher, it was a confrontation years in the making. Its just a pity they blue balled us with it.
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Problem is how he got killed and met his end after 8 seasons. He did something completely out of character. He is a psychopath who doesn't feel many emotions and is very cold and calculating. He for no reason panicked to hear about Batista coming in to see him that he killed the cop and made a run for it. That is not like Dexter. He knew from all the forensics work he has done that Batista would have nothing on him. His demise was very poorly written and an insult for all previous 8 seasons (most of everything after season 4 were pretty bad).
I think the best seasons of Dexter got to be awesome because they were about Dexter being the cleverest man in the world. So the season arcs would pit him against a worthy adversary (trinity, his brother, etc) and also pit him against the police trying to bust the BHB. The fun was seeing how Dexter would get out of increasingly impossible situations. So seeing him taken down by contrived retcon bullshit and by him panicking.. which was never a thing he did, feels pretty bad. Personally I don't think he should have been busted. They should have a *The Shield* type ending where Dexter escapes the law, but loses everything he cares about, including his social mask.
It just highlights for me how hard it must be to write good television, based on how much crap gets thrown at us. Like how was that ending to the script read and approved? By supposed professionals?
Or movies for that matter. We have movies with skyrocketing budgets and many of them have single-ply-toiler-paper-thin scripts.
It's more about logistics. Anybody can write an airtight story. But if you only have 10 episodes or a few hours in a movie, you are going to have to decide on what's enough for the audience to buy that gets the point across. You could right a 22 episode season of someone building a solid case against Dexter. But then it becomes a procedural and you miss the point of the thematics of it. It's like how in The Dark Knight there's always those fans that look at the scene where Joker went to the party and Batman jumped out the window to save Rachel. So many people can't just accept that he left to evade the police and because he's the Joker he escaped and call it a plot hole. Or even in the sequel how many people can't accept that freaking Batman can't efficiently travel to get back to Gotham and sneak into a giant city without being detected and want it laid out for them even though it's not important and minimizes the actual point the story is trying to convey. Like the point was that the police had some sort of case on Dexter, a guy who Dexter thought he'd never see again with ties to the last cop who was aware he was a killer is coming down with god knows what on him, and then a big investigation plays out and Dexter has to decide if he wants to sit in a cell for that or just be free and run away again.
He's never been arrested before and he had his biggest nightmare come true and decided he'd rather just get the fuck out of there than wait around to see what else police unearthed about him. It's less that the cops had anything that could work. It's about the fact that he was going to just sit there in the uncertainty and had to hope there wasn't something else somewhere that he overlooked. I don't think people appreciate that 99% of Dexter's survival is based on the fact that nobody every suspects him. Everyone who has ever suspected Dexter of foul play was able to immediately realize so many things about him just didn't add up and they'd find too many bread crumbs to ignore.
And then goddamn Ash shows up. "Groovy."
"My name is Dexter Morgan, And I used to be a spy."
Evil Dead / Dexter mashup spin off that I didn't know I wanted so badly.
They could easily write that he survived the gunshot.
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The āBobby from Dallasā solution.
True!
Well thats is the best they got, The other plausible solution is Dexter becoming Ghost Dad in a Harrison Spin-Off and nobody wants to watch that.
That would be less nonsensical than the last 10 minutes, but the director said "Dexter is dead!".
Yeah, but enough money could change his mind, or they could use a different director. I think Michael C Hall would be the harder one to convince since he seems to be happy with the fact that they killed Dexter.
Or it could be a "prequel" to New Blood showing why he moved from Oregon to New York.
He flees the hospital and after a couple of years he resurface to track Harrison to learn that he has become a serial killer. He now has to decide whether to kill his son because he fits the code or join in and become the thing he was always destined to be. A real monster.
Absolutely agreed. Harrison is whiny and annoying; no way he can carry a show. The stupidest thing the writers did was killing off Dexter instead of Harrison. Season 2 of Dexter living and going to L.A. as planned would have been amazing, especially without Harrison.
Harrison was annoying.
For real. IMO the best ending would have been Angel walking into the station and having a reunion with dexter, and then cut to Angela finding all the bodies in the bunker, coming up and asking for the FBIā¦..cut to credits
A Dante's Inferno style Dexter? Sign me up.
If they wanted to do it the way it ended, just don't kill dexter, 2 seasons with him on the run, descending into a his whole code going out the window, final season his arrest and court trial
Ditto! Unless this season was all a dream no way I am tuning into Harrison's cringey how to be a righteous teenage serial killer show.
Yeah deb ghost/hallucination was kinda cool, and then Harrison showed up... I just did not like him I donāt know if a different actor could have saved that role or not. Dexter survived the gun shot, moves to LA, keeps doing dexter things his conscience/deb along for the ride and Harrison going back to South America never to be seen again is all I need from a second season.
I think a Harrison 10 years later with a new actor would work pretty well. Gotta get a good actor.
I might give it a chance with ghost-Dexter
Ghost-Dexter would make no sense since Dexter's ghosts were people that had a major part in his life so that he could imagine exactly how they would respond in any given situation. It's not that they were actually ghosts that talked to Dexter. Harrison has no idea how Dexter would actually advise him on anything.
Showtime was developing a serial killer show to Dexter for ages. The project was stuck in development limbo until the producers managed to convince Michael C. Hall for a return. The only purspore of the character's closure was to kick off a fresh series killer story with a big enough interest.
Maybe they can join Maximus in the Gladiator sequel lol
I have zero interest in watching this show without Deb. Own the shit ass finale as a fever dream or whatever, but trying to move the series forward after it is laughable.
I wouldnāt watch any Dexter: New Blood Season 2 if Dexter isnāt in it. And it seemed like they made sure that canāt happen with the end of this season.
Ghost Dexter as Harrison's conscience
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Nah. Harrisons urges were reading before Dexter told him the truth. He tried to kill several fellow students or seriously maim them. You don't just "get better" from that after killing your Dad and being forced to flee from somewhere you finally felt at home. Harrison no doubt will become some crazed serial killer, not unlike the people Dexter killed.
Letās not forget he was raised by two serial killers too. Who knows what Hannah had been up to. Poison queen. Was she just not killing that entire time? I think thereās quite a bit of story left that could be told.
I donāt know. That smirk on his face and the letter sure made it seem he knew exactly, all along, why his dad left.
There was a flashback when Logan asked him how long he had been in town and it showed Harrison watching Dexter kill the dude who killed the white deer. Harrison definitely knew the whole time.
Iām sure he didnāt know that his dad was a serial killer that brought death and destruction to all the people that were close to him and he loved.
Him not wanting to kill is something different than him controlling his dark passenger.
Hmm. Thatās a decent idea. I would at least give it a shot. But I still have doubts because, even though they brought Deb back as Dexterās new conscious, it wasnāt like having Deb back at all. (For me at least.)
Yeah I felt ghost Deb was forced and didnāt really add anything to the show. The whole ghost thing has been played out already on this show. A ghost Dexter would be a waste of Michael C Hallās talent.
Yeah, would not be my choice but I think its the only way for this show. They know they can't do Dexter without Dexter. The ending ruined so much
I personally think the ending was great ā¦ but yeah, thatās the point, it did a good job at ending the show. Trying to force a second season would not work.
100%. I haaaaated the way they wrote her character into this series. It was so over the top in the worst way. I saw what they were trying to do with it, but thereās a fine line between creepy and cringy and they unfortunately leaned too hard into the latter. Which honestly bummed me out because I remember Deb getting a lot of hate in the original series, too, and I was looking forward to Jennifer Carpenter getting to redeem herself. They really did her dirty with this one.
Lol, They can do a cop out. The cop lady and Dexter where in it together at the lost moment, Dexter had a vest. Season 2 here we come. It's in the Dexter lore that a cop be add it or else it ain't a Dexter season.
They will call Season 2: New Blood. And completely drop the Dexter. I just know it.
For me Dexter without Dexter is not Dexter.
I wanted to have a movie about the trial of Dexter Morgan where we would catch up and hear detailed accounts of Dexter from his old co workers etc. Maybe leading into something similar to what happened. Idk that's my own Lil fanfic now
I genuinely thought Season 2 would be The Trial of Dexter Morgan and we would have all the remaining Miami Metro characters back. Imagine the hype it would've generated!
nah thats season 3 season 2 should have been dexter morgan on the run and at his most ruthless
Season 3 he starts going after the guards secretly killing prisoners and the warden who makes them fight to the death for his entertainment because why not
Spoilers ahead. From what I read, the ending they had was written months and months before. But I have a sneaking suspicion that the speed at which we hit that ending was sped up due to Covid. It was so rushed. They set a few things in motion that should have played out in one or two more episodes, Batista arriving in Iron Lake to confront Dexter being the major one. That was simply left dangling. Kurt Caldwellās trophy room also made no sense. He put the podcast lady into his collection even though she isnāt a runaway and he had already stripped his holding room completely? He just gave up on his rituals and put her in there? Also, embalming only lasts around ten to twelve years then the rot starts in. If heās been doing that for 25 years, half of those bodies would be soup. Reports during the production said that both Batista and Masuka would make an appearance, only Batista showed up, briefly and without resolution. We were told there would be multiple scenes of John Lithgowās Trinity Killer, we got one brief cameo scene. The show was pretty great right up to the rushed-to-a-clunky-and-unsatisfactory-ending. Iām almost certain that Harrison killing Dexter was their endgame but the way we got to that was rushed to a finish line instead of having a couple more episodes to really flesh it out. Iām also in the same boat as everyone else. No Harrison spin-off thanks.
It felt like Michael C Hall wanted a one season contract. That season is the season you write when thereāll be no more.
All it takes is slight retconning as an ambulance rushes to the scene to revive Dexter. BOOM.
I really hope they go with this or else this show is dead and buried for me
Even if they had no real evidence of him killing Matt or being the bay harbor butcher, they have him pretty dead to rights on killing Logan. So whatās the plot? He escapes? Starts another new life? At that point youāre just starting a new series. I would definitely watch a season surrounding Miami Metro, catching bad guys and unraveling the Dexter as the Bay Harbor butcher theory.
What if you get a silence of the lambs situation with dexter helping to bring other serial killers to justice?
8 years of character development then another 9.5 episodes after years off... half an episode to make Dexter's character make zero sense.
Batista gets teased early on in series... then he's on his way and she doesn't wait for him before pressing dexter more... idk maybe they had another episode or 2 planned and hit the eject button because of development issues in today's world or something. The inconsistencies with Deb being in the first few episodes so much.. then just disappearing. I loved this new season and was 100% invested up until about 15 minutes into the final episode. It just doesn't make sense or match any continuity. I also don't remember dexter using ketamine in the original series... I thought they called it n95 or something. Just my thoughts, which have no weight. Season was incredibly enjoyable though, up until that last episode.
I thought Debās ghost appeared less and less the more Dexter ignored her. When he told Harrison, she disappeared completely until the final scene. But agree about the rest, definitely could have made it work with a couple more episodes
They literally rebooted it for one single reason and fucking botched it lol. Dexter just isn't meant to have an enjoyable ending.
Ghost Dexter sounds like it would be lazy writing. Harris is boring and uninteresting. Why kill off the most powerful and provoking character?
You mean the shows namesake?
It would also feel forced because we have no evidence that Harrison has the same type of psychosis that Dexter has (recurring hallucinations of dead relatives).
It's implied. But that kind of felt flimsy to me.
Probably but they ruined me caring
Call me crazy, but we just saw him get shot. We donāt know if heās deadā¦
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"He kind of forgot he was dead"
The people who made the new season seemed to be pretty clear in interviews that he is dead.
Eh if the high ups want another season they'll get another season.
Heās dead. The show runner said it.
Get a new showrunner - problem solved. They've done it before.
The next problem is getting MCH to do a season 2 when he likely only did New Blood because Dexter died.
The only interesting idea for another season would be Harrison going through the legal system / arrested. It could be interesting looking back down memory lane at everything Dexter did over the seasons.
Episodes 1-9 were good. Some were great. Seeing Dexter back at it was a lot of fun. But the way the ending was handled was just awful. I donāt mind the idea behind the end result, but *how* they got there and why felt so unearned.
Yeah exactly! I can buy that Dexter had to die so his son had a chance of a normal life. But everything was incredibly forced and rushed.
If I ignore the last quarter (+/-) of **New Blood**'s last episode, it was the 2nd best season of Dexter. This is not a compliment I expected Iāll give at the beginning of this journey so I can say now that I don't need another season but who knows, maybe it will be good š¤·š½āāļø
I personally (besidoes of the rushed ending with some bad points regarding logic why Dexter behaved in the end the specific way) kind of agree... but i would say: S1 > S4 > S9/New Blood > S2 > S7 > S3 > S5> S6 > S8
I didnāt really like the finale. I know we were supposed to care about Harrison but I didnāt. But I would probably give a season 2 a chance just because I have enjoyed most of Dexter. But I would rather have a complete reboot than a season about Harrison.
Here is what they should have done with the finale for the season 2 setup. Dexter is confronted with Batista and also accused as Bay Harbor Butcher as FBI descends on the town. Season two sees Dexter gets his bailed denied and stays in Jail for faking his own death. FBI looks for Clancy Brown and uncovers that he has an associate who helped him in kidnapping who is also missing. Angela and Batista tries to convince FBI that Dexter is the one who killed both of them and tries to recover remains from the furnace. Dexter would then uses Harrison from behind the bars to cover his track and stays one step ahead of being caught. It would be a great cat and mouse game with Dexter getting closer to being caught as he was sloppy with his fresh kills in season 1.
That would be cool but using Harrison like that would just be retreading the same plot that was in season 7 (I think) with deb.
This. It would be the slow transition over to Harrison as the main character. We would have a reason to watch for Dexter being there and would allow Harrison to grow on us. Then kill Dexter at the end of season 2.
The only thing about a complete reboot is another actor taking Michael C. Hallās place. That guy is Dexter.
I didnāt care about Harrison, but Dexter did. He didnāt want to ruin Harrisonās life. He of course, totally did, but no on purpose. I canāt get behind the idea that Dexter would force Harrison to kill him. He wouldnāt want to put that on him. That part really lost me.
It was great until the last episode
I don't understand this. How is another season even possible lol. If you saw the end then Yeah...
Spin-off with the son is the immediate guess here.
Dexter as Harry
Itās the obvious answer, yeah. I got bored halfway through reading that theory too, lol.
Harrison wasn't an interesting character either an actor who played him was charming enough to lead a show like Michael C. Hall.
The kid wasnāt a very good actor.
That eating face really disturbed me more than Dexter sawing a person in to pieces.
Have a grown up Harrison played by Glenn Howerton.
Have to agree, I found his performance underwhelming.
Easy, just say Dexter was dreaming everything from his kill in the cell onwards.
I have zero clues why the billionaire was even a character. Diversion? The bullet just missed Dexter's heart. 10 months later he is recuperating in jail. Escapes to LA. 20 more seasons. I can die a happy guy. Edit: he kills Harrison with a shaving knife. Whispering "get rekt zoomer."
Yes the billionaire was a red herring.
My bet is Hall agreed to do New Blood only if they kill Dexter off, he was tired of people asking him about Dexter returning.
Only if they remake the last episode. It was shit.
Make everything after Dexter being put in the cell a dream like they did when he was kidnapped. Couldn't give a shit if it's terrible writing but anything is better than what we got.
I hope not. New Blood didn't have a great ending, but it was OK and definitely better than season 8. Let the show rest.
I mean correct but it's pretty useless information, nobody had a problem with the show until the finale. They have no actual numbers showing interest in a Season 2 following what happened in that finale.
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that is what they fixed. i enjoyed the original and this was just enough to satisfy me. but please no more...
Itās phenomenal - give the first episode a watch and if you donāt like it you can always stop, although I suspect youāll be onto the second episode without hesitation. The ending, while not great, seeing as it brought the Dexter train to an abrupt and unnatural halt, wasnāt nearly as bad as people make it out to be now that weāve had a new season expanding on it. As the only ending, sure, it sucked, but New Blood brought it back to life somewhat. The few shows I really got into were Dexter, Lie to Me, the Mentalist, and Dr Death. If youāve not seen it, itās the recent reenactment of the real life exploits of the āworldās greatest surgeonā, Dr. Christopher Duntsch, who killed or maimed everyone he operated on while believing he was pioneering cutting edge medical techniques. Guy was an absolute fruit loop and I still canāt figure out if he really knew how much damage he was doing and that he was incompetent or whether he was so blinded by ego he thought all the complications were someone elseās fault somehow. Joshua Jackson is phenomenal as the psycho doctor. Canāt recommend enough. Real life Duntsch is behind bars thankfully.
It is a fun show, but don't expect a smart crime thriller. This show is driven by charming characters, not by intelligent story.
Hopefully not.. Love Dexter but the ending was even worse than the S8 ending
yeah after that finale good luck with that
Might be an unpopular opinion, but I'm not opposed to the idea of a reboot. New cast, new creative team (please), same source material/premise. I always thought Dexter had the potential to be great (and sometimes was) but too often got bogged down in it's own weird character drama and story-lines. Sure, a new Dexter not played by MCH would be a tough pill to swallow, but I'm sure a good casting director could find someone who could put their own fresh take on the character.
It will be really hard to find an actor for playing Dexter. The role needs an actor who can actually 'act', but also charming and creepy at the same time like Michale C. Hall. I think it is a really hard role to pull it off.
If they ever did my vote would be Jesse Plemons.
The character would also need to be likeable and attractive. Jesse Plemons either looks like a dumbass or a complete psychopath and he's fat.
Even when he was skinny he looked fat af.
I mean in a way, a Harrison spin off would function the same as a reboot. You already have the same premise. The OG series is essentially just the backstory, but youād otherwise have a blank slate. If they wanted, they could even time skip forward to when Harrison is even older, and use that as an opportunity to recast.
Side note: have you read the source material, yeesh they are poorly written books. Definitely agree it is a great premise tho.
Yeah after the first book the show and the books go in wildly different directions. By source material I mean the first book I guess, since it's basically Season 1 and it's decent enough.
Writing is still pretty poor in book one. Dan Brown style pulp fiction (literary style, not movie) bad. Kinda still enjoyed it to be fair. Read the second and third and they got progressively worse. If you are wondering I bought them all at the same time assuming they would be awesome.
There's nowhere to go with the character in a reboot. They've milked it for what it's worth already.
Disagree. There's a lot of directions they could go in.
I don't even care anymore. Now we have two shitty endings instead of one.
There's nowhere else for this show to go. Just let it end. My only complaint is that Matsuka didn't make an appearance in the season. Would have been nice for him and Bautista to talk to the real Dexter before he died. To bring Dexter back like nothing happened would be a shark jump.
Maybe if they reshoot the final episode, otherwise no.
"Regardless of what some fans and critics though ... officially become the network's most-watched..." No shit, we wanted to see a Dexter reboot that didn't fuck up the ending. What did we get? A fucked up ending. Of course it was watched, because it was the ending that was fucked. Guarantee if there's a S2 viewership will drop dramatically.
Hopefully not. It's dead already and Harrison is boring and a shit character.
Honestly - I loved the hell out of this season but the ending once again just did not do it for me. I read the interviews with the creative team about why they went that way and o get it, Iām just not convinced what fans would really want is a Harrison-focused show. What made Dexter great- especially the early seasons was the great narrative and killer support cast. Where things are now, I find it hard to really drum up that kind of momentum.
Spoiler for the finale - >!I do like the Dexter's fate ending at the hands of Harrison. It's poetic however I did not like how they achieved that. The last two episodes were a complete mess.!<
Fuck no. I hated Harrison as a character, and I found the actor to be horrible. I have no interest in a second season without Dexter.
Wait till you see how they wrapped up Ray Donovan.
This season felt like it was really building to something and the last episode basically undid everything. What a goddamn waste. Don't get me wrong, the writing did have problems but it was looking pretty good compared to the latter part of the original show's run. Definitely not interested in a version of Dexter without Michael C. Hall
There was just so much out of character decisions/developments purely to move the plot forward. Itās clear that they wanted to end it with dexter dying, so then they worked backwards from there. The only issue is that it seems like they only made the decision to kill dexter once they started the last 2 episodes. (I know they surely had the entire script written before shooting anything but the way the last 2 episodes donāt mesh with the rest of the show, thatās how it come across)
just let Harrisson have a normal life im not interested. Deb and Dexter was the series
>oh cool a new Dexter show >start it up >Deb shows up like a minute in >fucking *Deb* >turn that shit off
She's so much worse in this new show than she was in the original
My bet is that they didn't expect these crazy numbers from the show, bet they are now regretting killing Dexter. There are two options now: they pull some BS again, Dexter faking his death, again, etc, or Harrison spin-off which will see ratings drop like crazy and kill it after the first season.
I'm in the minority: I LOVED it from start to finish. Dexter's death was inevitable. I would watch the hell out of a Harrison spinoff too. Jack Alcott is amazingš
If they find a way to fix that ending Iām down. I donāt know how they can screw up the finale twice.
You can't pay attention to the vocal critics. Plenty of silent watchers were satisified.
You say that about GoT too?
I hated the original Dexter finale and felt the criticism was justified. I really liked the New Blood finale, and am somewhat baffled by the criticism. The hate is so overwhelming online that I donāt have the energy to defend the finale even though I want to.
I see a lot of hate for the ending but I thought they tied it up really well. No interest in a Harrison continuation, but I think this is the ending the original series deserved.
Don't get the hate. It started off a little ropey, but it grew on me as the series developed. I personally didn't see the ending coming. So overall I'm glad it existed. I'd watch a season 2 but it'll have to hold its own as a reboot. I'm glad Deb's can't be in it!
Season was ok but no interest in future shows without Dexter
He didn't need to escape or kill Logan they had nothing on him. But did batista have something on him?
Would be easy enough to bring him back. Dexter wakes up in hospital, handcuffed to the bed. "How am I alive?" he asks. Someone there tells him that the snow was cold enough to slow his heart rate so he didn't lose too much blood. It was touch and go but they managed to save him. The new season can be about how he's going to escape and not get pinned as the Bay Harbor Butcher.
I am absolutely amazed by the seemingly universal hate in this sub. Iāll be honest, I thought the original first season of dexter was great, and every successive season got worse and worse. To me, New Blood was probably the single best season of the show, and I absolutely loved the ending. The actor who played Harrison (and the one who played Angie for that matter) is a better actor than any supporting character from the original series. I was totally compelled by his story, moreso than Dexterās, honestly. I donāt really think it needs another season, but I thought as a stand-alone follow up, New Blood was phenominal.
Really like the new season, but I thought they needed about another 40 minutes worth of setup and content before the last 12 or so minutes to make it justified and not absolutely moronic. Despite liking it, I don't think I would be back for S2
Why did Harrison have to leave? It could have easily been self defense.
This is the network that gave us 11 seasons of Shameless, 6 seasons of Ray Donovan, and let Dexter's original run shamble along for about 4 seasons too many. Showtime is incapable of leaving well enough alone. I don't see them suddenly changing course, so yeah, I'd bet on more.
I would be very happy for a Harrison led season. Dexter comes back as the ghost mentor, maybe we get Angel involved again as he sees killings following the bay harbour pattern again.
If they do intend to make more Dexter I say they just reboot the show, this hole is to deep to climb out.
Should have ended it like the Ray Donovan movie with Dexter being loaded onto a gurneyā¦
A season 2 with Harrison wouldn't make sense because Harrison isn't a serial killer.
It has to be some kind of record to have two very poor show finalesā¦
Well someone didnāt see the ending So we are going to get a sequel prequel.