Both sucked but the new blood was based on retcons and completely changing the Main character out of the blue to force an outcome they wanted. So new blood finale awful.
It made ZERO sense. Dexter wanted his son to NOT be like him. So having Harrison kill Dexter would put him on the exact opposite path he wanted. It would LITERALLY make him a killer. F*ck I hated this ending even more than the season 8 finale. Which I didn't think could possibly happen.
well he wanted his son to not be like him, but it was pretty obvious throughout the show that he was battling with also wanting to not be alone in his dark desires. that was the whole point of his conflict with the “ghost debra” I don’t like new blood tho😭
Angela had a serial killer right under her nose for 20 years, but was able to link Dexter to the BHB by googling Ketamine which he never even used previously. New Blood was fun up until the super lazy writing took over.
Harrison driving away at the end and cracking a smile after murdering his father he spent his whole life trying to find literally made me laugh out loud. What a horrible ending
@@chevgage6210 so he spent the entire season wanting to be closer with his dad and feel loved by him just to kill him? It doesn’t make any sense. If he wanted to kill him he could have at any point, he had a million chances
The series sucked. The last few episodes were too rushed. Angela deduced Dexter was a serial killer by googling a drug he never even used was pathetic.
The villain was pretty creepy and there was all around decent plot but the last few episodes weren’t too good lol how do they mess up the ending twice 😂
I think that final conversation was a little more complicated than that. Yes, Dexter changes his mind several times, but he's not contradicting himself. He's learning things about his son and responding to that. Harrison's darkness wasn't caused by Trinity, but by his absent father. That's the big revelation here. Harrison doesn't want to come with Dexter; he wants his father to turn himself in. When Harrison says "maybe you deserve [to die]", Dexter has this look on his face... He completely changes his tune, and I think he's finally showing his real face. We know from season 1 that the death penalty is his absolute worst fear. In response, he actually tells Harrison: "Ok, I can do this without you". After everything, the ugly truth is that survival is more important to him than being with his son. And that's when Harrison realizes his father only cares about himself - he doesn't want to be abandoned again, so the "only way out for both of us", as he describes, is for him to kill his father. That's when Dexter gives in. The ending wasn't perfect. It was rushed and, personally, I too would have preferred a shot in the leg and a confrontation with Batista, but... it was not as bad as some people are claiming it to be.
@@realkill7928 It definitely did not help that the ending of season 8 was terrible. But as much as I missed Miami, I think they mostly made it work in this new setting.
You hit the nail on the head. The cautiously optimistic audience being (mostly) won over, only to be massively let down again. It's not "Dexter died ending bad," it's how *undeserved* this ending was. I can't believe I let this show let me down so unceremoniously...again. ☹️
Yeah, from season 7 to New Blood (actually the very end of season 6 with Deb's discovery of romantic feelings for Dexter) the problem was never bad plot ideas (some of them were great which is why the rest of the show is hard to ignore), but they were just implemented incredibly badly. Badly written, illogical, out of character, rushed. Just my take.
The biggest disappointment was Batista not facing Dexter, Yes Dexter had to die, But he also needed to be held accountable for what he had done, Harrison Killing Dexter Was so predictable and didn't make much sense, Like is he just Satisfying a dark passenger like Dexter, I'd probably watch a spinoff but I don't really want one
I really enjoyed the show overall, but that was by far the biggest let down for me. Dexter should have been completely left in the dark about the BHB and it all be revealed when he walked in a room with Batista and Angela there. Batista would have had the closure of Maria’s death too. The second Angela started giving Dexter the info I was pretty sure Batista wasn’t going to show up.
once they made the decision to have dexter kill logan was when the finale was screwed. everything after that you knew was gonna be mad. they have never ever had dexter kill an innocent purposefully before. he always finds a way to still get out of situations like that sneakily. there were tons of other directions they could've gone in, but they made him kill logan when that is not his character at all.
I thought that to but then I realized this was an unpresented situation for him hed never been caught like that before, so even though he has a code he is in fact still a psychopath and that means if his back is against the wall and his only options are be arrested which is against the code, or harm a potential innocent-also against the code- then well one of these rules would have to be broken right? and since he is in fact a sociopath it stands to reason hed choose himself over a random even innocent person heck friend of his like logan even so while it was lame and sucked mostly how he died, that part for what it was in hindsight isn't actually out of character we just never saw him in that situation before....
@@antonewatters6967 He killed Liddy in Season 5. The guy Quinn hired to look into him who found out he was killer and tried to force a confession out of him.
Just rewatched remember the monsters and felina and the writing for dexter was so messy and rushed you could barely recognise the show at all not to mention in new blood Debra is dexters biggest hater when in the original she literally told him not to blame himself for what he is and their basically telling us he forgot about that whole hospital scene this is very lazy writing not to mention in the original deb always thinks highly of Dexter in new blood she only sees him as a killer but felina on the other hand was made with pure energy and creativity
What if TV series uses the concept of quantum immortality to rewind its storyline before its controversial finale, then takes a completely different direction. This could either be a brilliant move or pave the way for further disappointment.
No one at the Miami Metro PD apart from Doakes and LaGuerta had a clue that Dex was the BHB but Angela figured it out with one google search about a drug Dex never even used when he was in Miami and talking to Angel once at a conference and Angel could barely even remember Dexter or Harrison? Bullshit. Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap. The writers tried to cram way too much into the last 2 episodes of the show which made the episodes just flat out fucking stupid by rushing not to mention there is no way in hell Harrison would remember ANYTHING about Arthur Mitchell since HE WAS A BABY! babies have 0 clue about anything. Sea sponges get more out of life than a baby does. The only redeeming part of the finale was Deb holding Dexter’s hand as he died.
Re-watch the first 2 seasons of Dexter, they are BY FAR my favorite seasons of the show, followed by season 4. Actually, S1&2 are probably my favorite seasons of ANY show, ever. I loved it so much when it first aired,and still do. Dexter is such an intriguing character.
Yeah, I was worried this awful ending would retroactively ruin the show for me, but I managed to wash off the "New Blood" stank by watching season 1 and 2 afterward :P
S3 was great to me too. S1-4 was the best stretch. I did enjoy s5 as well. S7 was also good imo with the exception of Hannah. 6 and 8 were just garbage
The season was good just got a little rocky in the finale I definitely wanted Batista to confront dexter or have some confrontation other than that him dying by his son makes sense but it sucks he had to die because he’s one of my favorite characters on tv
@@Sancsteq his son was in a rage Kurt killed innocent women he clearly wasn’t thinking straight it’s his father of course he wanted to believe what he was doing was good but when he found out he killed the innocent police officer that was what made him look at his father as a monster I think some people are glossing over that fact it’s not a thing of bad writing it’s just people didn’t want to see there favorite character die
The actor who plays batista is so under rated…he was on Oz and also had a let down of ending for him. Some actors have bad luck with great characters with poor endings
yeah, dexter had such great characters in the original seasons, then you have.. harrison 😂😂 just a copy of that other serial killer dexter taught. only new character that i really enjoyed was mr krabs.. i love the "run bitch" he's also such a great actor
@@leroyjenkins7968 Oz was an underrated show in general. A lot of actors that have gone on to great things were in it. I feel like it got pretty messy and kinda fell apart by the end too but I'd say the first 4 seasons were pretty damn solid.
@@leroyjenkins7968 yeah. the writers just ran out of steam. they obviously didn't know where to go with it. you would have a smart or charismatic main character get killed and then quickly replaced by some underling who wasn't very good. lol. Eventually they just decided to just start killing everybody. lol. The last 2 seasons were a bloodbath. lol.
@@leroyjenkins7968 lol. yeah. they did him dirty. I would say Beecher got it the worst in the whole show though. After awhile the whole thing just became the Beecher Torture Hour. Have him raped. Kill his kids. have his wife leave him. Kill her. Kill his parents. lol. Find a friend. have them become gay lovers. have that become some sick plot. lol. on and on. it was a little ridiculous after a certain point. Great performance though. A lot of great performances in that show.
New Blood at the last second implies that Dexter cares little about how many people he inadvertently saves and only murders to satiate his dark passenger, while at the same time implying Harrison's darkness was just regular anger Dexter hoped was the same as his. My problem with that was that Dexter (the series) spent it's whole run solidifying Dexter does feel and part of his murderous ritual is to make sure his targets see and accept what they have done to their victims. New blood spent it's whole runtime establishing that Harrison was the exact same... only in the last five minutes to completely reverse that (and alot of things like the sheriff) and waste the potential for the better story they were clearly heading towards. I wanted to see Dexter be finally caught and plead his case to a world that would understand (like the audience), morally vindicate his choices and ultimately see him in prison surrounded by those who fit the code. Then I wanted to see Harrison and his shaving-knife and his grandfathers code, continue Dexter's work but recontextualized as vigilantism for what happened to his mother rather than impulse to quell his own dark urges, or maybe like his father a balance of both
My thoughts exactly! The fact that both Dexter and Harrison in the last scene come to the conclusion that the Code is bullshit meant to just rationalize killing seemed so far out of field to make the entire thing make both characters feel totally disingenuous. And they imply Harrison can just lead a normal life after everything. As though seeing Kurt die and learning of Logan's death was enough to both: satiate his Dark Passenger and give him dissolution about the Code.
I feel like if they would have gotten Harrison & Dexter to see eye to eye earlier and have two more episodes it wouldn't of felt so rushed. It was as if they only know how to write for 12 episodes, when they reached 9 they were like... "oh no.. We have to end this in one episode."
@@Josh-ks7co My comment is more about the entire season. They spent way too damn long keeping Harrison & Dexter fighting and teasing fans with an Angel/Dexter confrontation (considering he is possibly the last remaining character of the whole series that deserves to bring Dexter down) I feel a lot of the fan base would of been able to accept the ending more if they had at the very minimum 1 scene between Dexter & Angel before he runs and ends up being mercy killed by Harrison. I feel like the audience who has been watching since the first season would have more to eat up than what we got. I'm not saying it was out of character for Harrison to kill Dexter either, in fact I wish they went even MORE down that route and we found out that it was Harrison who killed Hanna after he somehow discovers her past and that she killed others. It's your opinion, I'm actually one of the people that isn't completely destroyed by this ending (while it is annoying how we got here) They can never take away what my personal series ending is (S4 finale "Born in blood, Both of us.")
@@devintingle5892 I mean I know but MCH is done with the role and only wanted to do this, they could of had 3 great seasons of television, and build up even more to the ending they gave us. S1 - Focus on pretty much exactly what they did this season. Just not having Angela find out the BHB, just that she's suspicious of Dexter. Maybe have her asking Batista for consulting on a case, only for him to see a picture of Dexter behind her. He shows up with Laguerta's cases in the very end of this season. S2 - Dexter & Harrison could be on the run, Dex teaching Harrison the code like Harry did. Giving us way more time with Harrison to truly build him up. The end of the season we see Angela & Batista finding Dexter and try to bring him in, leading to Dexter to kill Angela (Something big needs to happen here due to 3rd season) Dexter & Harrison have a huge fight about the code, leading to Dexter having to abandon Harrison again or else he would be caught. (This season doesn't just build up Harrison as the "good guy" but Dexter as the "big bad") S3 - Dexter is now alone in his search for a new life, more on edge than ever. (This could be the whole thing Clyde Phillips was talking about when he said "This is what you get when you cheer for a serial killer" Harrison is after him, tracking down where he could go. & Batista is after him, eventually the two team up and catch Dexter, only for Harrison to kill him out of mercy. This could lead to Harrison & his spin off if they wanted and also, in my opinion, give proper closure to characters we have followed for years and building up the new blood. Sorry It's a lot. Hope it's worth it haha this is what happens when I have nothing better to do while sitting in bed.
Peak Dexter was something else, easily one of the best tv shows of all time. Season 5 should've been about someone from Miami metro finding a link between Trinity and Dexter which would've resulted in a manhunt for Dexter after all Trinity visited Dexter at the station and killed a woman who was not fitting the pattern. This would've been amazing.
They started that with Quinn snooping around Dexter's neighbours and Trinity's family, but I think they realised it would just be a not as good version of Season 2's Bay Harbour Butcher storyline (Not as good because Quinn is no Doakes)
Not to mention most of it shouldn't even exist. They retconned Miami metro knowing his Mo. In season 2 he destroyed the bodies before they were thoroughly examined.
@@mynameisjeff512It was the same evidence that María LaGuerta had back in season 6, which was circumstantial even then, and now is the exact same circumstantial evidence except now over 10 years old at this point. It was the reason she was trying to catch him in the act in that season: so that she would have something actionable she could use to get him convicted. She knew what she had wasn't enough, but somehow they're trying to convince the audience that now all of sudden it is.
@@mynameisjeff512Miami metro didn’t know Dexter drugged his victims and Dexter didn’t use ketamine, he used m99. He also destroyed the bodies before Miami metro knew he used drugs at all. The only connection also is really easily explianed by the characters Angela discovered using ketamine being drug dealers who sold dangerous drugs like fentanyl.
I wanted that interrogation between Dexter and Bautista. A long tense stand-off between the two would have been incredible. When I saw Dexter go after the officer and try to escape I knew it was about to go off the rails. It didn’t feel like Dexter at all. I was like “What the hell are you doing now?” So dumb.
At the end of this video, you framed the analysis of the finale of Dexter:New blood perfectly: “it was too neat, too easy, too uninteresting.” You nailed it, friend.
To me Dexter ended at Season 4. What a beautiful but haunting finale, ending with Rita's bad bath was a bold but correct decision, good job show runners. I wish the series extended longer.
Nah man, beginning of S5 seeing him genuinly grieve over his wife, and then S7 seeing Deb have to deal with the reality of him was great. Everyone can agree the first half was stronger overall, most of everyone at least, but the latter half had lots of high points too @@fearlessfailure2848
@@fearlessfailure2848 I agree to an extent. Season 6's ending was amazing, Season 7 was fantastic overall and now, after seeing New Blood's ending, it makes Season 8's ending actually great imo lol. New Blood never happened, I guess we'll never get a proper resolution to such a wonderfully crafted character.
It’s not that I didn’t want him to face consequences (cause he does just not proportionate consequences to his actions) but the whole show missed the cat and mouse game and appeal of rooting for someone who is ultimately “the bad guy”
It's not about him deserving or not, it's about that the development of a character needs moral dilemmas and consequences, and if there's no consequences to their action, then there's no actual development, that's why season 1 and 4 were so good, because all of Dexter's decisions on moral dilemma led to him having consequences, Brian and Rita dying, soon leading to him developing
@@brazilmonke6713 I want realistic consequences, but I also want Dexter to move to a new place and continue plying his trade. This wouldn't work on the show as we ended up getting it, but I would have liked Dexter deciding he's had too many close calls in Miami and ultimately ghosting Deb, Rita, and the kids for their safety. Have him spend a whole season laying groundwork for vague depression and financial issues, then he picks a random moment and runs after getting rid of anything implicating. Leave/send notes that imply a final goodbye and let people assume.
I also wanted him to get away with it, possibly with Hannah and Harrison (and by him not becoming a serial killer) but i guess my take is the hot one in the fandom.
"Clyde Phillips has said in a recent interview that he has too much respect for the audience to dupe them like that and bring Dexter back again" So that was a fucking lie.
I honestly think it'd have been fine if they had just made one more episode. The New Blood finale would work better as a penultimate episode if it were to end when Dexter escaped from prison (ideally with a Batista confrontation beforehand). Then the actual final episode would've been about Dexter and Harrison on the run. It would've given the characters room to breathe so that the final decision to have Harrison shoot Dexter doesn't come out of left field and feels more earned.
The original series was my favorite show of all time but I was beyond disappointed with the ending. It ruined true greatness of the original run. I liked the new show up until the last 5 minutes but the same thing happened. I was so angry that I vowed not to watch any new episodes if “New Blood” continues. Worst writers ever
listen, i'm gonna watch a season 2 either way since the writing is actually great.. just not the ending. the villain of this season was perfect but god damn the borderline incest plot lines made a return
You see, the problem with Dexter is that there's a huge dissonance between what the writers want us to think about Dexter and what they show. What they (claim they) want is to see Dexter as dangerous killer, vicious psychopath blah blah blah. And okay, there's some truth to that... but not full. There's been a lot of character study to show, that Dexter is not so black and white. And going back to what they show is a Punisher-like character, who goes after really really evil people and once we see Dexter killing people like ITK, Trinity and some smaller ones, like the dude who was making snuff films - we get an image of an anti-hero. Sure, he's messed up and kills people... but doesn't he kind of make things better for the overall population? There was even this conversation between him and Lundy. And on top on top of that, there's his actual love for Harrison and him trying to somehow connect with others. It makes us see he has a heart. So, in other words, season 1-8 made Dexter look like Frank Castle. New Blood make im look like Billy Russo. Or, to people who don't understand what I'm saying - season 1-8 made Dexter look like an anti-hero - kind of messed up, but overall doing something good. In New Blood he was just straight up villain. From being this dark, dark anti-hero (btw comic book Punisher is A LOT like Dexter, Punisher is nothing like TV adaptations) to being a villain of his own show. We started watching a vigilante and ended up watching Ted Bundy. And it also could've worked, but this change should happen over time, not in last two episodes (or 15 min of last episode). I know many people wanted trial, Dexter executed, but I don't think this is also the most satisfying, as it ditches completely all the effort he put into trying to connect, to become more human, to grow. It's just focusing on the psycho part.
I loved Dexter seasons 1-8, even named my dog Dexter. I watched season 9 finale once, will never watch it again. Now they want you to buy season 9, as if you would want to watch that fiasco a second time. I cancelled Showtime immediately. Angela wandering aimlessly for 25 years looking and never finding the killer of missing girls who lived in her own town! Wow, glad she isn’t our chief of police. Who finds the killer-Dexter of course. Then Angela wants Dexter electrocuted for the Bay Harbor murders but helps Harrison escape after he has just killed his own father, Dexter. And Dexter wouldn’t have been convicted of the murders anyway. No evidence, Dexter destroyed it. Dexter is still in the log mining camp, season 9 never occurred. I saw a poster with Dexter holding a newspaper saying “I will have to ask Harry if the bad writers of season 9 meet the code”. Yes they do.
They should’ve let him live and do a trail series where he confesses to the murders of different people and how he stalked them and what he learned ect ect. A lot of potential
I went into the show thinking of it as mostly separate from the first show, hence the bringing in of Harrison and the show being about their relationship and dealing with who they are. I thought the ending might have been just a little rushed but I thought it worked well because the show was no longer about the terrible things Dexter had done, but about the awful things he was doing in essentially trying to turn his son into a monster so he wouldn't be alone anymore.
@melissafaye915 old comment but to be fair although harrison did have anger issues he was in survival mode for several years after having lived alone on the street trying to protect himself, losing all his family, dealing with ptsd, etc - he's never shown to be the same type of person dexter was. when he hurts people it's out of anger, not psychopathy. he likes animals and animals like him, he gets along well with people, shows remorse for hurting ethan, self harms and mentions a past suicide attempt and addiction. he's disgusted by dexter dismembering kurt (remember dexter LOVED that part even from the beginning, and harrison's reaction to it was more similar to harry's when he caught dexter doing it). yes he had his issues but was not like his dad at all. dexter was always going to be a serial killer but harry directed him to target bad guys, while harrison started out targeting bad guys but wouldn't have been a serial killer if it weren't for dexter trying to make him one.
@@FactsWithActs i mean, i also agree that the show had MAJOR faults. it seemed like they had planned for a 13+ episode season and then got cut down at the last minute. audrey was super pointless, as was the random oil tycoon rich guy. dexter's character didn't make sense with how careless he was and how loose his moral code suddenly was (he never would have killed that cop). how did he manage 10 years of not killing when the main idea of the original show was he couldn't resist his urges? they pulled a 180 on harrison, making it seem like he was just like dexter but better at hiding it and then turning that around in the end. why have batista if he wasn't going to interact with dexter, how could angela have figured it out so easily, WHY did angela send harrison away in the end if she was just gonna take the fall anyways. it was a weird show that could have been good if not for the pacing and rushed ending, i'm just saying harrison's character was one of the things that actually did make sense to me at the end.
The oil tycoon was to have you guessing who the serial killer was. A white old guy with blue eyes putting on mask Altho, it was pretty obvious it was kurt
7:07 Ironically, original author of Dexter novels, Jeff Lindsay, made the character's final novel titled "Dexter is Dead" and wrote a far more satisfying finale for Dexter Morgan.
Hard disagree but to each their own. I was truly let down by the books. Darkly dreaming Dex is good. the rest progressively lose their identity. 2md to last has dex literally hooking up w a hollywood starlet over his hard won ',family'. Last one spends 1/3 of the book describing a prison layout. I was bitterly disappointed w the books aftet 1st. May be the only time the visual far outweighs the literary, imo.
i enjoyed it too, i enjoyed the main antagonist. loved seeing batista, all we wanted was more cameos and a satisfactory ending, maybe another season to fit that. the lethal injection as dexters body count gets revealed, becoming the most shocking serial killer ever seen but nope 😮😢😢😢😢all we got was utter garbage.. and more borderline incest
@@jkeebla I didn't mind the ending that much... it felt a bit weird... but it kinda was for the best. Dexter had to end. Both the series and the character. And this wasn't such a bad way to bring it about.
You are when the entire time Dexter is going on about wanting to be there for his son and change to not feel the urge to kill anymore. The entire show is based around him wanting to protect others, even moving to the middle of nowhere and controlling the urges for 10 years straight, why would he be so willing to give up on life instead of focusing on that 10 year no kill streak and trying to out do it? You're sipping the "easy plot twist" juice the writer wanted to give you instead of putting in actual work
Almost 20 years and 9 seasons later fans around the globe are disappointed not once but twice by two of the worst endings in showbiz history. What a shame…
I made my GF watch up to and including S5 just to give it a bit of a "wrap up". She was then thankfully happy to not watch more of it. I wish I could delete the memories of those later seasons myself.
I was devastated that they killed off Doakes like that and thought this could have been the perfect 2 season show. The ending of S4 had me at the edge of my seat thinking how wrong I was. In the past few days I have binged the last four seasons and although there were great moments (namely Sirko) it just felt like a waste of time
I agree, the ending was ruined twice. The whole season of "new blood" felt like they were building up the story just to kill dexter. The end execution of the last episode was lame IMHO. Dexter was a character of protocols and just to end his character, the makers of the show finished off his character just like that. It would made more sense if harrison killed angela and just to protect his son dexter dies. That would make more sense. Anyways, yet another disappointment but hey we got to see dexter in his avatar.
I actually don't hate the original ending, I know it's not the most popular thing to say but over time I came to appreciate it even though I did feel there were better options and it was made worse by the fact that the last season was it's weakest in an already declining series. I thought GoT and BCS had worse endings. Then New Blood happened and that season 8 finale started to look as brilliant as the infamous Sopranos cut-to-black. I hate this idea that the good guys have to always win and bad guys have to be punished and everything has to have consequences and all that. Part of the beauty of the anti-hero or whatever ya wanna call it is that it makes the audience complicit in the bad things happening as you root for them to succeed every step of the way. Part of why David Chase said he didn't show Tony dying at the end was that it would be hypocritical to give that to the segment of the audience that rooted for the bad guy the whole time then wanted to see consequences to ease their guilt. That's part of why Oz and The Shield are so great, we are complicit, sometimes there aren't even any good guys around to win, they rarely win when they are, and the bad guys often come out on top - that made for very compelling stories. Not among the top tier greats necessarily imo, but I actually think Peaky Blinders had a good balance of consequences while the anti-hero type still succeeded in some satisfying way, Breaking Bad had this as well in it's own way. I thought Narcos was pretty good and I know it was roughly following a real man in Pablo Escobar, but it felt cheap to be in position to root for him due to the way the story is told and he is portrayed only to see him die brutally and be absolved as an audience. So in avoiding that tired trope and even more worn out moralizing the idea that Dexter just cut himself off to live isolated indefinitely, or even packed up his son and assumed a new identity to take their show on the road to somewhere far away felt better than seeing him die. And if he was gonna die it would have been more honest to have him do so in the defense of another to show that he was more than just a monster, because his story and character are clearly written as more than just a monstrous sociopath despite how he's often described. They either failed miserably to depict sociopathy or he's more complex than that just as Tony Soprano has some antisocial behaviors that seem to stem from trauma and the need for a coping mechanism to deal with this profession but he is not written as a high scoring psychopath and is far more complex and Walter White awakens some very antisocial tendencies as the show begins but he's clearly got a lot more going on inside, etc. You either disliked Dexter and always hoped for his downfall or you liked him and don't deserve to see him punished. Getting it both ways is a copout.
I was certain that his father's watch was in his pocket and that stopped the bullet from hitting vital organs... Also the bullet that killed the cop in the cell ricocheted of the wall. There is still room for him to "rise up out of the ashes like a Phoenix" as he says. Hopefully not RIP Dex 😭
if they didn't had the time or desire to develop a PROPER ending, with Dexter going to trial, and ultimately being convicted and killed by lethal injection, then WHY DID THEY EVEN BOTHERED to make a comeback? Its so upsetting... If you gonna fck up worst than you did last time, dont even try, the right direction was so obvius and easy to figure it out but they went on the wrong one anyway. Personally, im not watching anything related to this franchise again, fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me, well they fooled me twice, so now im too ashamed to go back and watch another Dexter thing LOL maybe someday i'll rewatch the first 5 seasons but that's all
literally could have added a few episodes and solved everything wrong with new blood the pacing at the end was obviously rushed not even mad that he died we all expected that
Hannah should never of come back. Didn’t like her character and turned dexter into a major simp. Should’ve ended up with Debra (I know it’s controversial) and lived happily ever after.
Clyde Phillips in 2022: I have too much respect for the audience to dupe them into thinking Dexters not really dead. He’s 100% dead. Clyde Phillips in 2024: Just kidding, we’re gonna bring Dexter back for ANOTHER show after his prequel series wraps.
At this point, I prefer the lumberjack ending. And with Dexter Resurrection we may get another surprise. Even in the book series the ending was too abrupt. The last book was even titled Dexter is Dead. It was pretty much spoiled. But what I found in the book series was that Dexter was finding his way back to his humanity when his daughter Lily Anne was born and wanted the leave the dark passenger behind. This was a side of him we never saw in the TV or Book series. It happened again when he fell in love with the actress Jackie Forrest and was ready to give up everything to be with her. Too bad that wasn’t developed more, it would have made the best ending.
I just finished watching Dexter: New Blood. All I want to express is that if Dexter were my real and only true Dad, I’d cherish every day with him on this Earth. Life is too short and I’d look forward to spending as much family time together. My Father actually suffered a Covid induced heart attack last month. We almost lost him. He’s slowly becoming physically stronger and appetite is good for 88. That being said and I’m sure many will disagree, but Harrison (especially) + Angela’s actions were unforgivable! The ending made me quite upset. Before the series end, when I realized what was going to happen, a part of me died along with it. Ending was a huge mistake and also left me feeling deceived.
It was obvious that he would die by his son's hands. Doesn't get more philosophical and metaphorical as that. What i absolutely hated was how it was portrayed. Harrison is in no way innocent, and the way he "had" to kill Dexter to be free of his legacy was whack. Also, Angela's suspicions of Dexter didn't really make sense, sure she's a good cop or whatever but she jumped to conclusions way too quickly and unrealistically. Also... No Batista reunion, wtf!
It was amazaing as terrible as how the show ended with him being a lumber jack, New Blood ending was worse. IT fell apart at the jail scene with the cop.
At the end I kept yelling WHAT! he is dead! shot by is son! give me a break , worst ending EVER and the sister talking to him from the grave was just so bad! her laughing at him, and just bitching at him..booo! you can't kill Dexter! Lame! also also, the other thing that was annoying is the son always being pissed at him, Sigh!
I really wanted to see him in court in Miami. The death penalty ending, as Angela suggested, would have been way stronger and made much more sense after what they had been building up. And would have allowed for the Dexter and Batista reunion. Dexter also could have knocked Logan unconscious instead of killing him which would have prevented the Harrison situation.
They had me in the first few episodes but it was not what I was expecting at all. Gosh darn it I wanted to see Harrison and Dex riping into bad guys while bonding as dad and boy. While simultaneously making the world a better place. Damn damn damn just damn. Also eff Dex gf for not realising he was a good person to have around for when the justice system fails.
Why does it seem like every content creator thinks that the right ending would be having Dexter facing justice and the consequence of his acts? I would find it perfectly fine if he gets to walk. I can't be the only one that roots for the bad guy when he is the protagonist, right?
This may be controversial, but I actually enjoy the ending. I just went through the entire show and re-watched New Blood a second time and it's not bad. The ending is pretty rushed, but as far as what they've been building to, it makes a lot of sense. Dexter will always outsmart his advisory, he finds a way out, and there's some poetic justice in the fact that his son is the one who he ultimately surrenders to. I do wish we got a Batista face-off, but I think this finale did its job. I also quite like Harrison's character and wouldn't be opposed to exploring more of him in a spin-off series.
New Blood was okay...but the end was just as bad if not worse then the original end. I would rather of seen him be a lumber jack. I don't why those idiots thought those last 15 minutes made any sense in the Dexter universe. Phillips made it worse.
To everyone still crushed by how bad the last stretch of Dexter was, especially the finale, I have a silver lining for you..... The Blacklist has now concluded, and it's final season and final episode are now the worst ever..... by a landslide. Holy dogshit Batman!
Pro tip for watching Dexter - the series ends after season 4. There is only one exception to this and that's for people like me who've loved Julia Stiles for decades. I watch season 5 for her and her alone. I will not watch the new series because I've never forgiven the showrunners for two specific things: having Dexter abandon his son to the "care" of a woman who fit his code and for DUMPING HIS SISTER WHERE HE DUMPED HIS VICTIMS. Revolting on both counts. Shame on them.
The original ending is not all that bad. They set it up for a reboot at some point. I didn't hate it nearly as much as most and definitely not as much as I hated season 9's ending. What a waste. Batista is on a plane, ready to confront dexter....and they ignore that?
Season 9 was never about the true "Spirit of Dexter". They wanted to see this character die with all their might. It's just a shame that Michael C. Scott made himself available for this shit - peppered with themes that have no place in a series like this. Bullshit-Trash-TV.
The entirety of new blood had plotholes and character flaws that didnt make sense. I was curious to see what happened myself but anyone that rated it well wasn’t paying attention.
Man, I actually liked this ending. I definitely would have preferred to see Dex’s confrontation with Batista, but I still think this was a MAJOR improvement over the previous ending and stands as a good addition to the story overall.
The first episode of New Blood was intriguing. Then it became all about Harrison"s intense and worsening disrespectful behavior toward his father, the condescending entitled teenagers (BORING and annoying) and the overwhelming wokeness of the show. The last episode was the worst with its awful choice of endings. Such a disappointing series. Season 8 was better than this BS.
Umm... No. While I agree the first ending was bad, and the second one was way worse... This just proves why this show can't be ended better than it originally was. There is no one consensus to how best to end it. Your personal view and desire for the narrative is "Dexter is a bad guy and anything less than him getting caught, having his day in court and it ending with him lethally dealt with by the state is un-acceptable!". I DO NOT share that opinion! For me, Dexter the series was always about following a protagonist that working towards overcoming their damage, and lead a normal life. For me, the proper ending is... he lives, and finds he doesn't need to sate his dark passenger anymore. You got new blood wrong too. You mentioned them, but you didn't due the plot holes and poorly written character actions to advance the plot the justice that it deserved. NB, despite showing that Dexter had actually lived the ending Id have wanted (off camera, so it doesnt count...) was actually good when it brought his dark passenger back into action. And yea. 9 really good episodes. The last episode sucked though because of all that bad writing. Angela is the poorest written in the entire series. Shes better than every single person who came before her, yet with NONE of the qualifications to justify that. Dexter himself becomes... not Dexter at the end, and it just feels cheap... His character personality is ignored simply to fast track the ending the writers wanted. It didn't have to end exactly how I wanted, but it for certain could have and should have ended FAR better. But instead... ended far worse than the ending from 2013...
I have a feeling they were under timeline to write Dexter dying, because that was probably the only way MCH would return, is if he died in the end. And everyone involved didn't really care how it happened, it just had to happen. Tonight's the night...the final night. Sad. Dexter used to be one of my favorite shows, and still is to this day. It just sucks the last few seasons and NB really just tarnish his character into oblivion that it makes me question rewatching it at all.
I think new blood was god awful. IMO, I think the entire dexter franchise was 1000% better before it existed. It left a bad taste in my mouth. New blood had very very lazy writing. It had good moments, but that’s about it. The fact that Angela managed to link jim Lindsey to dexter Morgan to being the bay harbor butcher in the matter of what? Two weeks? Really makes dexter look weak and easy. Which is the complete opposite of how we felt about dexter in the first 8 seasons.
Dexter driving a boat, Dexter asking his son to Kill him seemed very much out of character, it's like it was not him thinking, These choices seemed rushed out, I wish if they could reprised every scenario and thought it over before deciding if that would any good.
People saying Dexter getting shot is worse than Dexter DRIVING A BOAT INTO A HURRICANE AND SURVIVING TO BECOME A LUMBERJACK are out of their minds. Sincerely, an OG Dexter fan.
Exactly. Dexter's supposed to be a normal human but the writers give him Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees levels of endurance. Especially in this new Resurrection show they're making where he survived Harrison shooting him at the end of New Blood.
Which Dexter finale do you think was stronger?
non of them maybe first one but still i deny both
old, new one was super cringe.
Both sucked but the new blood was based on retcons and completely changing the Main character out of the blue to force an outcome they wanted. So new blood finale awful.
I watched the original series again just until the end of season 4. Best series finale ever! 😆😂😂
Dexter: i wanna live lets leave son Son: i dont wanna leave Dexter: then kill me and leave Son: Ok
I'm still upset they blue balled us with Batista...Him and Dex in the same room, that would have been a interesting and equally intense scene to see.
blue balled pretty much the first entire half of the season, then when they went somewhere with it, it deflated in minutes...
@@loserorangeorvoremonster8047 incredibly fair point my dude.
I was punching my wall that they didn’t interact with each other
@@rambo1872 2 years later and my disappointment has only grown.. :(
@@OneWingedMavrik what was the point of having Batista there just to blue ball us?
It made ZERO sense. Dexter wanted his son to NOT be like him. So having Harrison kill Dexter would put him on the exact opposite path he wanted. It would LITERALLY make him a killer. F*ck I hated this ending even more than the season 8 finale. Which I didn't think could possibly happen.
well he wanted his son to not be like him, but it was pretty obvious throughout the show that he was battling with also wanting to not be alone in his dark desires. that was the whole point of his conflict with the “ghost debra” I don’t like new blood tho😭
Angela had a serial killer right under her nose for 20 years, but was able to link Dexter to the BHB by googling Ketamine which he never even used previously. New Blood was fun up until the super lazy writing took over.
Angela was basically a Deb who he could sleep with. She was totally annoying by the end.
Dexter always used the ketamine... it's in episode 1
@@jaxon19kira No, his trademark sedative is M99/Etorphine
@@jaxon19kira no, he used m99. And in the original show, miami metro or the fbi never discovered this part of the his MO
@@bk4eva_876 except Deb is annoyingly loveable
Harrison driving away at the end and cracking a smile after murdering his father he spent his whole life trying to find literally made me laugh out loud. What a horrible ending
He felt unburdened, by the description of the episode synopsis.
I think he intended to kill him from jump and I also think he killed Hanna.
He's a psycho, man. Whole show is about how monsters can mimic and live in society
It's ok to be wrong. Best ending we could have hoped for.
@@chevgage6210 so he spent the entire season wanting to be closer with his dad and feel loved by him just to kill him? It doesn’t make any sense. If he wanted to kill him he could have at any point, he had a million chances
They had a whole new series to fix it and made it even worse, fuckkkk
It was great what are you talking about
The series sucked. The last few episodes were too rushed. Angela deduced Dexter was a serial killer by googling a drug he never even used was pathetic.
Nah@@josephpa05
Yes for me too, its good@@josephpa05
The villain was pretty creepy and there was all around decent plot but the last few episodes weren’t too good lol how do they mess up the ending twice 😂
Dexter: I wanna live. Son: I dont wanna leave. Dexter: then kill me and leave. Son: ok
Too true. What the heck was with the screenplay.
@@vedantgupte1863 very bad action logic for poetics💩
I think that final conversation was a little more complicated than that. Yes, Dexter changes his mind several times, but he's not contradicting himself. He's learning things about his son and responding to that. Harrison's darkness wasn't caused by Trinity, but by his absent father. That's the big revelation here. Harrison doesn't want to come with Dexter; he wants his father to turn himself in.
When Harrison says "maybe you deserve [to die]", Dexter has this look on his face... He completely changes his tune, and I think he's finally showing his real face. We know from season 1 that the death penalty is his absolute worst fear. In response, he actually tells Harrison: "Ok, I can do this without you". After everything, the ugly truth is that survival is more important to him than being with his son. And that's when Harrison realizes his father only cares about himself - he doesn't want to be abandoned again, so the "only way out for both of us", as he describes, is for him to kill his father. That's when Dexter gives in.
The ending wasn't perfect. It was rushed and, personally, I too would have preferred a shot in the leg and a confrontation with Batista, but... it was not as bad as some people are claiming it to be.
@@FringeMusic107 Dont forget that previos season bad too and they was tried make some good text based on bad text
@@realkill7928 It definitely did not help that the ending of season 8 was terrible. But as much as I missed Miami, I think they mostly made it work in this new setting.
You hit the nail on the head. The cautiously optimistic audience being (mostly) won over, only to be massively let down again. It's not "Dexter died ending bad," it's how *undeserved* this ending was.
I can't believe I let this show let me down so unceremoniously...again. ☹️
I thought both ending were great
@@josephpa05 s8 ending wasnt the worst just wish they expanded more on vogel and dropped hannah off a cliff completely
Idea of Harrison killing Dexter is brilliant, execution of it was horrible, out of character and undeserved.
Oh no. The serial killer died. End sarcasm.
Yeah, from season 7 to New Blood (actually the very end of season 6 with Deb's discovery of romantic feelings for Dexter) the problem was never bad plot ideas (some of them were great which is why the rest of the show is hard to ignore), but they were just implemented incredibly badly. Badly written, illogical, out of character, rushed. Just my take.
The biggest disappointment was Batista not facing Dexter, Yes Dexter had to die, But he also needed to be held accountable for what he had done, Harrison Killing Dexter Was so predictable and didn't make much sense, Like is he just Satisfying a dark passenger like Dexter, I'd probably watch a spinoff but I don't really want one
I was so shocked and ready for this big confrontation...then nothing lmao
I really enjoyed the show overall, but that was by far the biggest let down for me.
Dexter should have been completely left in the dark about the BHB and it all be revealed when he walked in a room with Batista and Angela there.
Batista would have had the closure of Maria’s death too.
The second Angela started giving Dexter the info I was pretty sure Batista wasn’t going to show up.
A true tease that never pays off. Horrible
I reeeally wanted to see Dexter have to face Batista!
Dexter has straight-up said he would never do to Harrison what his own father did to him. Did they forget that?
once they made the decision to have dexter kill logan was when the finale was screwed. everything after that you knew was gonna be mad. they have never ever had dexter kill an innocent purposefully before. he always finds a way to still get out of situations like that sneakily. there were tons of other directions they could've gone in, but they made him kill logan when that is not his character at all.
I thought that to but then I realized this was an unpresented situation for him hed never been caught like that before, so even though he has a code he is in fact still a psychopath and that means if his back is against the wall and his only options are be arrested which is against the code, or harm a potential innocent-also against the code- then well one of these rules would have to be broken right? and since he is in fact a sociopath it stands to reason hed choose himself over a random even innocent person heck friend of his like logan even so while it was lame and sucked mostly how he died, that part for what it was in hindsight isn't actually out of character we just never saw him in that situation before....
Dexter has killed other innocents. The guy at the truck stop, the private investigator, Hannah Mc Kay's dad.
@@byronsenior6499 He didn't kill the private investigator Hannah did.
@@antonewatters6967 He killed Liddy in Season 5. The guy Quinn hired to look into him who found out he was killer and tried to force a confession out of him.
@@byronsenior6499 i totally forgot about liddy i thought you meant sal price
In another universe Dexter had a good ending and Breaking Bad had a bad one
I was thinking before watching the vid: In some other universe Dexter had an awesome finale.
Just rewatched remember the monsters and felina and the writing for dexter was so messy and rushed you could barely recognise the show at all not to mention in new blood Debra is dexters biggest hater when in the original she literally told him not to blame himself for what he is and their basically telling us he forgot about that whole hospital scene this is very lazy writing not to mention in the original deb always thinks highly of Dexter in new blood she only sees him as a killer but felina on the other hand was made with pure energy and creativity
Rule of three, in that universe Game of Thrones is still bad as it has nothing to swap with.
So, a universe where the show followed the book series that the first season was based on, even adapting the books that the real show didn't adapt?
What if TV series uses the concept of quantum immortality to rewind its storyline before its controversial finale, then takes a completely different direction. This could either be a brilliant move or pave the way for further disappointment.
No one at the Miami Metro PD apart from Doakes and LaGuerta had a clue that Dex was the BHB but Angela figured it out with one google search about a drug Dex never even used when he was in Miami and talking to Angel once at a conference and Angel could barely even remember Dexter or Harrison? Bullshit. Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap. The writers tried to cram way too much into the last 2 episodes of the show which made the episodes just flat out fucking stupid by rushing not to mention there is no way in hell Harrison would remember ANYTHING about Arthur Mitchell since HE WAS A BABY! babies have 0 clue about anything. Sea sponges get more out of life than a baby does. The only redeeming part of the finale was Deb holding Dexter’s hand as he died.
Re-watch the first 2 seasons of Dexter, they are BY FAR my favorite seasons of the show, followed by season 4. Actually, S1&2 are probably my favorite seasons of ANY show, ever. I loved it so much when it first aired,and still do. Dexter is such an intriguing character.
Completely agree.
Yeah, I was worried this awful ending would retroactively ruin the show for me, but I managed to wash off the "New Blood" stank by watching season 1 and 2 afterward :P
The first 2 seasons of Dexter are absolutely WILD. I'm currently at the end of s2 lol
I truly believe that S1 of Dexter is the closest thing we will ever get to a perfect season of Television
S3 was great to me too. S1-4 was the best stretch. I did enjoy s5 as well. S7 was also good imo with the exception of Hannah. 6 and 8 were just garbage
this season was like watching an Olympic athlete faceplant live in the moment. it was the single biggest disappointment to me in all of television
Apparently you didnt watch the ending of season 8🙄 This ending is bittersweet and perfect for this type of series.
The season was good just got a little rocky in the finale I definitely wanted Batista to confront dexter or have some confrontation other than that him dying by his son makes sense but it sucks he had to die because he’s one of my favorite characters on tv
@@Sancsteq his son was in a rage Kurt killed innocent women he clearly wasn’t thinking straight it’s his father of course he wanted to believe what he was doing was good but when he found out he killed the innocent police officer that was what made him look at his father as a monster I think some people are glossing over that fact it’s not a thing of bad writing it’s just people didn’t want to see there favorite character die
@@Sancsteq the cop was also his wrestling coach too
Game of Thrones was way worse though haha
Let's face it - we all wanted the Dexter from seasons 1+2 to go on forever...
I hope AI will one day make this possiblé
For me it's seasons 2+3 ... on repeat. (Though 4 was the best)
@@FactsWithActsAI will ruin it further
+4
1 to 4 were fantastic
I was so excited when the season first started. I ended it up breaking my heart just like the original finale.
Exactly
the original finale was probably a million times better
The actor who plays batista is so under rated…he was on Oz and also had a let down of ending for him. Some actors have bad luck with great characters with poor endings
yeah, dexter had such great characters in the original seasons, then you have.. harrison 😂😂 just a copy of that other serial killer dexter taught. only new character that i really enjoyed was mr krabs.. i love the "run bitch" he's also such a great actor
No, he seriously isn't under rated. He was out of his league in that group of actors.
@@leroyjenkins7968 Oz was an underrated show in general. A lot of actors that have gone on to great things were in it. I feel like it got pretty messy and kinda fell apart by the end too but I'd say the first 4 seasons were pretty damn solid.
@@leroyjenkins7968 yeah. the writers just ran out of steam. they obviously didn't know where to go with it. you would have a smart or charismatic main character get killed and then quickly replaced by some underling who wasn't very good. lol. Eventually they just decided to just start killing everybody. lol. The last 2 seasons were a bloodbath. lol.
@@leroyjenkins7968 lol. yeah. they did him dirty. I would say Beecher got it the worst in the whole show though. After awhile the whole thing just became the Beecher Torture Hour. Have him raped. Kill his kids. have his wife leave him. Kill her. Kill his parents. lol. Find a friend. have them become gay lovers. have that become some sick plot. lol. on and on. it was a little ridiculous after a certain point. Great performance though. A lot of great performances in that show.
I was sooo excited for this season...
wish they NEVER made it.
wish they remade it
I was still mad they killed off debra
It felt so forced @@miquelr2353
@@miquelr2353 why? never understood that
@@woopoganntnt7379 ... i liked debra
New Blood at the last second implies that Dexter cares little about how many people he inadvertently saves and only murders to satiate his dark passenger, while at the same time implying Harrison's darkness was just regular anger Dexter hoped was the same as his.
My problem with that was that Dexter (the series) spent it's whole run solidifying Dexter does feel and part of his murderous ritual is to make sure his targets see and accept what they have done to their victims.
New blood spent it's whole runtime establishing that Harrison was the exact same... only in the last five minutes to completely reverse that (and alot of things like the sheriff) and waste the potential for the better story they were clearly heading towards.
I wanted to see Dexter be finally caught and plead his case to a world that would understand (like the audience),
morally vindicate his choices and ultimately see him in prison surrounded by those who fit the code.
Then I wanted to see Harrison and his shaving-knife and his grandfathers code, continue Dexter's work but recontextualized as vigilantism for what happened to his mother rather than impulse to quell his own dark urges, or maybe like his father a balance of both
That would have been better.
My thoughts exactly! The fact that both Dexter and Harrison in the last scene come to the conclusion that the Code is bullshit meant to just rationalize killing seemed so far out of field to make the entire thing make both characters feel totally disingenuous.
And they imply Harrison can just lead a normal life after everything. As though seeing Kurt die and learning of Logan's death was enough to both: satiate his Dark Passenger and give him dissolution about the Code.
That's pretty good
Does Larten know you're indulging in a show with this much blood in it?
Seriously, it wasn't hard writer's.
I feel like if they would have gotten Harrison & Dexter to see eye to eye earlier and have two more episodes it wouldn't of felt so rushed. It was as if they only know how to write for 12 episodes, when they reached 9 they were like... "oh no.. We have to end this in one episode."
@@Josh-ks7co My comment is more about the entire season. They spent way too damn long keeping Harrison & Dexter fighting and teasing fans with an Angel/Dexter confrontation (considering he is possibly the last remaining character of the whole series that deserves to bring Dexter down) I feel a lot of the fan base would of been able to accept the ending more if they had at the very minimum 1 scene between Dexter & Angel before he runs and ends up being mercy killed by Harrison. I feel like the audience who has been watching since the first season would have more to eat up than what we got.
I'm not saying it was out of character for Harrison to kill Dexter either, in fact I wish they went even MORE down that route and we found out that it was Harrison who killed Hanna after he somehow discovers her past and that she killed others.
It's your opinion, I'm actually one of the people that isn't completely destroyed by this ending (while it is annoying how we got here) They can never take away what my personal series ending is (S4 finale "Born in blood, Both of us.")
It did feel like 3 seasons worth of content crammed into one episode
@@devintingle5892 I mean I know but MCH is done with the role and only wanted to do this, they could of had 3 great seasons of television, and build up even more to the ending they gave us.
S1 - Focus on pretty much exactly what they did this season. Just not having Angela find out the BHB, just that she's suspicious of Dexter. Maybe have her asking Batista for consulting on a case, only for him to see a picture of Dexter behind her. He shows up with Laguerta's cases in the very end of this season.
S2 - Dexter & Harrison could be on the run, Dex teaching Harrison the code like Harry did. Giving us way more time with Harrison to truly build him up. The end of the season we see Angela & Batista finding Dexter and try to bring him in, leading to Dexter to kill Angela (Something big needs to happen here due to 3rd season) Dexter & Harrison have a huge fight about the code, leading to Dexter having to abandon Harrison again or else he would be caught. (This season doesn't just build up Harrison as the "good guy" but Dexter as the "big bad")
S3 - Dexter is now alone in his search for a new life, more on edge than ever. (This could be the whole thing Clyde Phillips was talking about when he said "This is what you get when you cheer for a serial killer"
Harrison is after him, tracking down where he could go. & Batista is after him, eventually the two team up and catch Dexter, only for Harrison to kill him out of mercy.
This could lead to Harrison & his spin off if they wanted and also, in my opinion, give proper closure to characters we have followed for years and building up the new blood.
Sorry It's a lot. Hope it's worth it haha this is what happens when I have nothing better to do while sitting in bed.
I mean he asked for the keys and then the guy tries to shoot him so he snaps his neck. So it was an accident.
This would've been great@@filmsnat3428
Peak Dexter was something else, easily one of the best tv shows of all time. Season 5 should've been about someone from Miami metro finding a link between Trinity and Dexter which would've resulted in a manhunt for Dexter after all Trinity visited Dexter at the station and killed a woman who was not fitting the pattern. This would've been amazing.
They started that with Quinn snooping around Dexter's neighbours and Trinity's family, but I think they realised it would just be a not as good version of Season 2's Bay Harbour Butcher storyline (Not as good because Quinn is no Doakes)
@@NotChukkov it probably should have been someone from the FBI.
The most annoying thing tho is that the evidence they had on Dexter would NEVER hold up in Court
DOES ANGELA EVEN KNOW HOW TO COVER UP A CRIME
Not to mention most of it shouldn't even exist. They retconned Miami metro knowing his Mo. In season 2 he destroyed the bodies before they were thoroughly examined.
She was just a diversity hire 🙄
Why would the evidence not have held up?
@@mynameisjeff512It was the same evidence that María LaGuerta had back in season 6, which was circumstantial even then, and now is the exact same circumstantial evidence except now over 10 years old at this point. It was the reason she was trying to catch him in the act in that season: so that she would have something actionable she could use to get him convicted. She knew what she had wasn't enough, but somehow they're trying to convince the audience that now all of sudden it is.
@@mynameisjeff512Miami metro didn’t know Dexter drugged his victims and Dexter didn’t use ketamine, he used m99. He also destroyed the bodies before Miami metro knew he used drugs at all. The only connection also is really easily explianed by the characters Angela discovered using ketamine being drug dealers who sold dangerous drugs like fentanyl.
I like to imagine that the final season just did not happen at all. Dexter is still out there somewhere... doing his work when necessary. 🤫
Better
I wanted that interrogation between Dexter and Bautista. A long tense stand-off between the two would have been incredible. When I saw Dexter go after the officer and try to escape I knew it was about to go off the rails. It didn’t feel like Dexter at all. I was like “What the hell are you doing now?” So dumb.
At the end of this video, you framed the analysis of the finale of Dexter:New blood perfectly: “it was too neat, too easy, too uninteresting.” You nailed it, friend.
To me Dexter isn't dead the new blood season is just one of Dexter's dreams. I just can't accept it
This is my new had cannon
Better explanation
To me Dexter ended at Season 4. What a beautiful but haunting finale, ending with Rita's bad bath was a bold but correct decision, good job show runners. I wish the series extended longer.
Nah man, beginning of S5 seeing him genuinly grieve over his wife, and then S7 seeing Deb have to deal with the reality of him was great. Everyone can agree the first half was stronger overall, most of everyone at least, but the latter half had lots of high points too @@fearlessfailure2848
@@fearlessfailure2848 I agree to an extent. Season 6's ending was amazing, Season 7 was fantastic overall and now, after seeing New Blood's ending, it makes Season 8's ending actually great imo lol. New Blood never happened, I guess we'll never get a proper resolution to such a wonderfully crafted character.
Am I the only person that doesn't want Dexter to face any consequences? He didn't do very much wrong, considering what he could have been.
It’s not that I didn’t want him to face consequences (cause he does just not proportionate consequences to his actions) but the whole show missed the cat and mouse game and appeal of rooting for someone who is ultimately “the bad guy”
It's not about him deserving or not, it's about that the development of a character needs moral dilemmas and consequences, and if there's no consequences to their action, then there's no actual development, that's why season 1 and 4 were so good, because all of Dexter's decisions on moral dilemma led to him having consequences, Brian and Rita dying, soon leading to him developing
@@brazilmonke6713 I want realistic consequences, but I also want Dexter to move to a new place and continue plying his trade.
This wouldn't work on the show as we ended up getting it, but I would have liked Dexter deciding he's had too many close calls in Miami and ultimately ghosting Deb, Rita, and the kids for their safety. Have him spend a whole season laying groundwork for vague depression and financial issues, then he picks a random moment and runs after getting rid of anything implicating. Leave/send notes that imply a final goodbye and let people assume.
I also wanted him to get away with it, possibly with Hannah and Harrison (and by him not becoming a serial killer) but i guess my take is the hot one in the fandom.
Dexter is a legend. I will live the rest of my life with his good old memories S1 to S8
"Clyde Phillips has said in a recent interview that he has too much respect for the audience to dupe them like that and bring Dexter back again"
So that was a fucking lie.
I honestly think it'd have been fine if they had just made one more episode. The New Blood finale would work better as a penultimate episode if it were to end when Dexter escaped from prison (ideally with a Batista confrontation beforehand). Then the actual final episode would've been about Dexter and Harrison on the run. It would've given the characters room to breathe so that the final decision to have Harrison shoot Dexter doesn't come out of left field and feels more earned.
The original series was my favorite show of all time but I was beyond disappointed with the ending. It ruined true greatness of the original run. I liked the new show up until the last 5 minutes but the same thing happened. I was so angry that I vowed not to watch any new episodes if “New Blood” continues. Worst writers ever
listen, i'm gonna watch a season 2 either way since the writing is actually great.. just not the ending. the villain of this season was perfect but god damn the borderline incest plot lines made a return
Season 5 is barely watchable at times 😂
@geekgod3947 that is because Michael had cancer and was getting treatment during season 5 and wearing a wig. Plus it was disappointing script too.
Dexter: Worst finally in the history of television.
Game of Thrones: Hold my beer.
yeah as much as people complain about dexter's ending, GoT has it far outbeat in how crappy they can make it end
You see, the problem with Dexter is that there's a huge dissonance between what the writers want us to think about Dexter and what they show.
What they (claim they) want is to see Dexter as dangerous killer, vicious psychopath blah blah blah. And okay, there's some truth to that... but not full. There's been a lot of character study to show, that Dexter is not so black and white.
And going back to what they show is a Punisher-like character, who goes after really really evil people and once we see Dexter killing people like ITK, Trinity and some smaller ones, like the dude who was making snuff films - we get an image of an anti-hero. Sure, he's messed up and kills people... but doesn't he kind of make things better for the overall population? There was even this conversation between him and Lundy.
And on top on top of that, there's his actual love for Harrison and him trying to somehow connect with others. It makes us see he has a heart.
So, in other words, season 1-8 made Dexter look like Frank Castle. New Blood make im look like Billy Russo. Or, to people who don't understand what I'm saying - season 1-8 made Dexter look like an anti-hero - kind of messed up, but overall doing something good. In New Blood he was just straight up villain. From being this dark, dark anti-hero (btw comic book Punisher is A LOT like Dexter, Punisher is nothing like TV adaptations) to being a villain of his own show. We started watching a vigilante and ended up watching Ted Bundy. And it also could've worked, but this change should happen over time, not in last two episodes (or 15 min of last episode).
I know many people wanted trial, Dexter executed, but I don't think this is also the most satisfying, as it ditches completely all the effort he put into trying to connect, to become more human, to grow. It's just focusing on the psycho part.
I loved Dexter seasons 1-8, even named my dog Dexter. I watched season 9 finale once, will never watch it again. Now they want you to buy season 9, as if you would want to watch that fiasco a second time. I cancelled Showtime immediately. Angela wandering aimlessly for 25 years looking and never finding the killer of missing girls who lived in her own town! Wow, glad she isn’t our chief of police. Who finds the killer-Dexter of course. Then Angela wants Dexter electrocuted for the Bay Harbor murders but helps Harrison escape after he has just killed his own father, Dexter. And Dexter wouldn’t have been convicted of the murders anyway. No evidence, Dexter destroyed it. Dexter is still in the log mining camp, season 9 never occurred. I saw a poster with Dexter holding a newspaper saying “I will have to ask Harry if the bad writers of season 9 meet the code”. Yes they do.
new blood is terrible
They should’ve let him live and do a trail series where he confesses to the murders of different people and how he stalked them and what he learned ect ect. A lot of potential
7:01 surprise muthafuka! Dexter is somehow alive for a new sequel show 😊
french fries muthafuka!
I went into the show thinking of it as mostly separate from the first show, hence the bringing in of Harrison and the show being about their relationship and dealing with who they are. I thought the ending might have been just a little rushed but I thought it worked well because the show was no longer about the terrible things Dexter had done, but about the awful things he was doing in essentially trying to turn his son into a monster so he wouldn't be alone anymore.
@Melissa Faye By the end I wanted Dexter to gut Harrison.
@melissafaye915 old comment but to be fair although harrison did have anger issues he was in survival mode for several years after having lived alone on the street trying to protect himself, losing all his family, dealing with ptsd, etc - he's never shown to be the same type of person dexter was. when he hurts people it's out of anger, not psychopathy. he likes animals and animals like him, he gets along well with people, shows remorse for hurting ethan, self harms and mentions a past suicide attempt and addiction. he's disgusted by dexter dismembering kurt (remember dexter LOVED that part even from the beginning, and harrison's reaction to it was more similar to harry's when he caught dexter doing it).
yes he had his issues but was not like his dad at all. dexter was always going to be a serial killer but harry directed him to target bad guys, while harrison started out targeting bad guys but wouldn't have been a serial killer if it weren't for dexter trying to make him one.
@@tabaxi if I had the time to explain to you how bad the writing was, I would
@@FactsWithActs i mean, i also agree that the show had MAJOR faults. it seemed like they had planned for a 13+ episode season and then got cut down at the last minute. audrey was super pointless, as was the random oil tycoon rich guy. dexter's character didn't make sense with how careless he was and how loose his moral code suddenly was (he never would have killed that cop). how did he manage 10 years of not killing when the main idea of the original show was he couldn't resist his urges? they pulled a 180 on harrison, making it seem like he was just like dexter but better at hiding it and then turning that around in the end. why have batista if he wasn't going to interact with dexter, how could angela have figured it out so easily, WHY did angela send harrison away in the end if she was just gonna take the fall anyways. it was a weird show that could have been good if not for the pacing and rushed ending, i'm just saying harrison's character was one of the things that actually did make sense to me at the end.
The oil tycoon was to have you guessing who the serial killer was. A white old guy with blue eyes putting on mask
Altho, it was pretty obvious it was kurt
7:07 Ironically, original author of Dexter novels, Jeff Lindsay, made the character's final novel titled "Dexter is Dead" and wrote a far more satisfying finale for Dexter Morgan.
Hard disagree but to each their own.
I was truly let down by the books. Darkly dreaming Dex is good. the rest progressively lose their identity. 2md to last has dex literally hooking up w a hollywood starlet over his hard won ',family'.
Last one spends 1/3 of the book describing a prison layout. I was bitterly disappointed w the books aftet 1st. May be the only time the visual far outweighs the literary, imo.
Even if dexter had stood trial they could never have proved that he is BHB ....right?......why he had to kill logan and runaway??
It wasn’t great but as a big dexter fan it was nice just seeing him on screen again. I enjoyed the series
Agreed
with you thr
i enjoyed it too, i enjoyed the main antagonist. loved seeing batista, all we wanted was more cameos and a satisfactory ending, maybe another season to fit that. the lethal injection as dexters body count gets revealed, becoming the most shocking serial killer ever seen but nope 😮😢😢😢😢all we got was utter garbage.. and more borderline incest
@@jkeebla I didn't mind the ending that much... it felt a bit weird... but it kinda was for the best. Dexter had to end. Both the series and the character. And this wasn't such a bad way to bring it about.
Fans deserve more? That's the kinda reasoning thay causes toxic fandoms
A piece of art doesn't owe anything anyone
Am i the only one understanding the pain of living with consequences of your actions is harder than dying ??
You are when the entire time Dexter is going on about wanting to be there for his son and change to not feel the urge to kill anymore. The entire show is based around him wanting to protect others, even moving to the middle of nowhere and controlling the urges for 10 years straight, why would he be so willing to give up on life instead of focusing on that 10 year no kill streak and trying to out do it? You're sipping the "easy plot twist" juice the writer wanted to give you instead of putting in actual work
Almost 20 years and 9 seasons later fans around the globe are disappointed not once but twice by two of the worst endings in showbiz history. What a shame…
If Dexter ended at S4 it’s one of the greatest shows of all time
I made my GF watch up to and including S5 just to give it a bit of a "wrap up". She was then thankfully happy to not watch more of it. I wish I could delete the memories of those later seasons myself.
I've never seen past Rita's bath. Dexter is an amazing 4 season show.
@@SongokuJidai Worst part is New Blood did the exact same thing. First few eps felt like vintage Dexter and the ending makes no sense.
I too watched up until season 4. It didnt make sense for me to go on from there.
I was devastated that they killed off Doakes like that and thought this could have been the perfect 2 season show. The ending of S4 had me at the edge of my seat thinking how wrong I was. In the past few days I have binged the last four seasons and although there were great moments (namely Sirko) it just felt like a waste of time
I agree, the ending was ruined twice. The whole season of "new blood" felt like they were building up the story just to kill dexter. The end execution of the last episode was lame IMHO. Dexter was a character of protocols and just to end his character, the makers of the show finished off his character just like that. It would made more sense if harrison killed angela and just to protect his son dexter dies. That would make more sense. Anyways, yet another disappointment but hey we got to see dexter in his avatar.
I was thinking Harrison would kill Angela to protect Dexter, so Dexter would have to kill Harrison.
I actually don't hate the original ending, I know it's not the most popular thing to say but over time I came to appreciate it even though I did feel there were better options and it was made worse by the fact that the last season was it's weakest in an already declining series. I thought GoT and BCS had worse endings.
Then New Blood happened and that season 8 finale started to look as brilliant as the infamous Sopranos cut-to-black.
I hate this idea that the good guys have to always win and bad guys have to be punished and everything has to have consequences and all that. Part of the beauty of the anti-hero or whatever ya wanna call it is that it makes the audience complicit in the bad things happening as you root for them to succeed every step of the way. Part of why David Chase said he didn't show Tony dying at the end was that it would be hypocritical to give that to the segment of the audience that rooted for the bad guy the whole time then wanted to see consequences to ease their guilt. That's part of why Oz and The Shield are so great, we are complicit, sometimes there aren't even any good guys around to win, they rarely win when they are, and the bad guys often come out on top - that made for very compelling stories. Not among the top tier greats necessarily imo, but I actually think Peaky Blinders had a good balance of consequences while the anti-hero type still succeeded in some satisfying way, Breaking Bad had this as well in it's own way. I thought Narcos was pretty good and I know it was roughly following a real man in Pablo Escobar, but it felt cheap to be in position to root for him due to the way the story is told and he is portrayed only to see him die brutally and be absolved as an audience.
So in avoiding that tired trope and even more worn out moralizing the idea that Dexter just cut himself off to live isolated indefinitely, or even packed up his son and assumed a new identity to take their show on the road to somewhere far away felt better than seeing him die. And if he was gonna die it would have been more honest to have him do so in the defense of another to show that he was more than just a monster, because his story and character are clearly written as more than just a monstrous sociopath despite how he's often described. They either failed miserably to depict sociopathy or he's more complex than that just as Tony Soprano has some antisocial behaviors that seem to stem from trauma and the need for a coping mechanism to deal with this profession but he is not written as a high scoring psychopath and is far more complex and Walter White awakens some very antisocial tendencies as the show begins but he's clearly got a lot more going on inside, etc. You either disliked Dexter and always hoped for his downfall or you liked him and don't deserve to see him punished. Getting it both ways is a copout.
Extrajudicial murder followed by grotesque dismemberment of pedos, grapists and murderers is absolutely based and dexter is 100% a heroic character
I was certain that his father's watch was in his pocket and that stopped the bullet from hitting vital organs... Also the bullet that killed the cop in the cell ricocheted of the wall. There is still room for him to "rise up out of the ashes like a Phoenix" as he says. Hopefully not RIP Dex 😭
it doesnt ricochet, dexter snaps his neck
So glad I only watched the pilot of New Blood. I couldn't have taken that boomerang bad ending. Dexter season 1-4 is where its at anyhow.
I always felt like seasons 1 and 2 were the only exceptional ones. Season 4 was, overall, rather weak, but was bolstered by a "shocking" ending.
I agree with you wholeheartedly
i mean S7 was banger also
No one wanted Dexter punished but the producers.
Notice that Dexters mugshot had Michael C. Hall's real birthdate.
A voice over has Angela's daughter call dexter Joe not Jim
Killing Logan was so fucking dumb he had already distracted Angela to Kurt and BHB theory wouldn't really hold.
I don't think the original ending was bad, but the final ending absolutely was.
if they didn't had the time or desire to develop a PROPER ending, with Dexter going to trial, and ultimately being convicted and killed by lethal injection, then WHY DID THEY EVEN BOTHERED to make a comeback? Its so upsetting... If you gonna fck up worst than you did last time, dont even try, the right direction was so obvius and easy to figure it out but they went on the wrong one anyway. Personally, im not watching anything related to this franchise again, fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me, well they fooled me twice, so now im too ashamed to go back and watch another Dexter thing LOL maybe someday i'll rewatch the first 5 seasons but that's all
We don't want repercussions. We want our favorite characters to continue entertaining us.
Dopo 9 stagioni, direi anche basta, che dici ?😅
Thank You
Man he could have just choked out Logan and took his keys. Why did he have to kill him.
literally could have added a few episodes and solved everything wrong with new blood the pacing at the end was obviously rushed not even mad that he died we all expected that
Hannah should never of come back. Didn’t like her character and turned dexter into a major simp. Should’ve ended up with Debra (I know it’s controversial) and lived happily ever after.
I didn't think it was possible to screw up twice, but they managed to clutch the defeat from the jaws of victory.
So many boxes being ticked in the first episode I forgot I was supposed to be watching a thriller
Clyde Phillips in 2022: I have too much respect for the audience to dupe them into thinking Dexters not really dead. He’s 100% dead.
Clyde Phillips in 2024: Just kidding, we’re gonna bring Dexter back for ANOTHER show after his prequel series wraps.
At this point, I prefer the lumberjack ending. And with Dexter Resurrection we may get another surprise. Even in the book series the ending was too abrupt. The last book was even titled Dexter is Dead. It was pretty much spoiled. But what I found in the book series was that Dexter was finding his way back to his humanity when his daughter Lily Anne was born and wanted the leave the dark passenger behind. This was a side of him we never saw in the TV or Book series. It happened again when he fell in love with the actress Jackie Forrest and was ready to give up everything to be with her. Too bad that wasn’t developed more, it would have made the best ending.
this video is everything i felt. Thank you.
I just finished watching Dexter: New Blood. All I want to express is that if Dexter were my real and only true Dad, I’d cherish every day with him on this Earth. Life is too short and I’d look forward to spending as much family time together. My Father actually suffered a Covid induced heart attack last month. We almost lost him. He’s slowly becoming physically stronger and appetite is good for 88. That being said and I’m sure many will disagree, but Harrison (especially) + Angela’s actions were unforgivable! The ending made me quite upset. Before the series end, when I realized what was going to happen, a part of me died along with it. Ending was a huge mistake and also left me feeling deceived.
It was obvious that he would die by his son's hands. Doesn't get more philosophical and metaphorical as that. What i absolutely hated was how it was portrayed. Harrison is in no way innocent, and the way he "had" to kill Dexter to be free of his legacy was whack. Also, Angela's suspicions of Dexter didn't really make sense, sure she's a good cop or whatever but she jumped to conclusions way too quickly and unrealistically. Also... No Batista reunion, wtf!
It was amazaing as terrible as how the show ended with him being a lumber jack, New Blood ending was worse. IT fell apart at the jail scene with the cop.
A small town sheriff caught Dexter with her marvelous detective skills 🤣🤣
At the end I kept yelling WHAT! he is dead! shot by is son! give me a break , worst ending EVER and the sister talking to him from the grave was just so bad! her laughing at him, and just bitching at him..booo! you can't kill Dexter! Lame! also also, the other thing that was annoying is the son always being pissed at him, Sigh!
3:55 was sick and creepy and when I stopped watching Dexter;;;;;
Wonder if the new series will be the third strike. Paramount is milking the Dexter cash cow dry.
The finale of season 8 and New Blood is not canon. Just a "what if".
No, I will not elaborate.
No, I will not change my mind.
This aged well considering original sin and Dexter’s resurrection
I really wanted to see him in court in Miami. The death penalty ending, as Angela suggested, would have been way stronger and made much more sense after what they had been building up. And would have allowed for the Dexter and Batista reunion. Dexter also could have knocked Logan unconscious instead of killing him which would have prevented the Harrison situation.
Again, he would have to call harisson from logan's phone and he would still have logan's blood on his face.
death of Logan was one of most ridiculous things that happened in the finale. It's just lazy writing
Great analysis. It captures exactly what many of us have been thinking!
Both completely disregarded all established logic from the previous show/seasons
They had me in the first few episodes but it was not what I was expecting at all. Gosh darn it I wanted to see Harrison and Dex riping into bad guys while bonding as dad and boy. While simultaneously making the world a better place. Damn damn damn just damn. Also eff Dex gf for not realising he was a good person to have around for when the justice system fails.
Third time's the charm I guess. Welcome Dexter resurrection
Why does it seem like every content creator thinks that the right ending would be having Dexter facing justice and the consequence of his acts?
I would find it perfectly fine if he gets to walk. I can't be the only one that roots for the bad guy when he is the protagonist, right?
Agreed
This may be controversial, but I actually enjoy the ending. I just went through the entire show and re-watched New Blood a second time and it's not bad. The ending is pretty rushed, but as far as what they've been building to, it makes a lot of sense. Dexter will always outsmart his advisory, he finds a way out, and there's some poetic justice in the fact that his son is the one who he ultimately surrenders to. I do wish we got a Batista face-off, but I think this finale did its job. I also quite like Harrison's character and wouldn't be opposed to exploring more of him in a spin-off series.
New Blood was okay...but the end was just as bad if not worse then the original end. I would rather of seen him be a lumber jack. I don't why those idiots thought those last 15 minutes made any sense in the Dexter universe. Phillips made it worse.
Dexter is one of that shows I can see over and over, I will like to see even 8 more season with the son as the new Dexter
To everyone still crushed by how bad the last stretch of Dexter was, especially the finale, I have a silver lining for you..... The Blacklist has now concluded, and it's final season and final episode are now the worst ever..... by a landslide. Holy dogshit Batman!
Pro tip for watching Dexter - the series ends after season 4. There is only one exception to this and that's for people like me who've loved Julia Stiles for decades. I watch season 5 for her and her alone. I will not watch the new series because I've never forgiven the showrunners for two specific things: having Dexter abandon his son to the "care" of a woman who fit his code and for DUMPING HIS SISTER WHERE HE DUMPED HIS VICTIMS. Revolting on both counts. Shame on them.
If the last episode has a retake and ends in the way we all want, that would turn out to be the highest rated episode ever!
Yea the 2013 finale just didn't do it for me. And the new one wasn't better..
Season 1-2...is just really beautiful man😭
Such good execution
So glad I didn't waste my time with this revival, a minirepresentation of the entire series...
The original ending is not all that bad. They set it up for a reboot at some point. I didn't hate it nearly as much as most and definitely not as much as I hated season 9's ending. What a waste. Batista is on a plane, ready to confront dexter....and they ignore that?
Season 9 was never about the true "Spirit of Dexter". They wanted to see this character die with all their might. It's just a shame that Michael C. Scott made himself available for this shit - peppered with themes that have no place in a series like this. Bullshit-Trash-TV.
The entirety of new blood had plotholes and character flaws that didnt make sense. I was curious to see what happened myself but anyone that rated it well wasn’t paying attention.
Man, I actually liked this ending. I definitely would have preferred to see Dex’s confrontation with Batista, but I still think this was a MAJOR improvement over the previous ending and stands as a good addition to the story overall.
The first episode of New Blood was intriguing. Then it became all about Harrison"s intense and worsening disrespectful behavior toward his father, the condescending entitled teenagers (BORING and annoying) and the overwhelming wokeness of the show. The last episode was the worst with its awful choice of endings. Such a disappointing series. Season 8 was better than this BS.
Set up a spin off? There isn't going to be one
Dexter jumped the shark when his sister found out.
Umm... No.
While I agree the first ending was bad, and the second one was way worse... This just proves why this show can't be ended better than it originally was. There is no one consensus to how best to end it.
Your personal view and desire for the narrative is "Dexter is a bad guy and anything less than him getting caught, having his day in court and it ending with him lethally dealt with by the state is un-acceptable!". I DO NOT share that opinion! For me, Dexter the series was always about following a protagonist that working towards overcoming their damage, and lead a normal life. For me, the proper ending is... he lives, and finds he doesn't need to sate his dark passenger anymore.
You got new blood wrong too. You mentioned them, but you didn't due the plot holes and poorly written character actions to advance the plot the justice that it deserved. NB, despite showing that Dexter had actually lived the ending Id have wanted (off camera, so it doesnt count...) was actually good when it brought his dark passenger back into action. And yea. 9 really good episodes. The last episode sucked though because of all that bad writing. Angela is the poorest written in the entire series. Shes better than every single person who came before her, yet with NONE of the qualifications to justify that. Dexter himself becomes... not Dexter at the end, and it just feels cheap... His character personality is ignored simply to fast track the ending the writers wanted. It didn't have to end exactly how I wanted, but it for certain could have and should have ended FAR better. But instead... ended far worse than the ending from 2013...
I have a feeling they were under timeline to write Dexter dying, because that was probably the only way MCH would return, is if he died in the end. And everyone involved didn't really care how it happened, it just had to happen. Tonight's the night...the final night. Sad. Dexter used to be one of my favorite shows, and still is to this day. It just sucks the last few seasons and NB really just tarnish his character into oblivion that it makes me question rewatching it at all.
they need to do a remake of seasons 6-9 seriously
I think new blood was god awful. IMO, I think the entire dexter franchise was 1000% better before it existed. It left a bad taste in my mouth. New blood had very very lazy writing. It had good moments, but that’s about it. The fact that Angela managed to link jim Lindsey to dexter Morgan to being the bay harbor butcher in the matter of what? Two weeks? Really makes dexter look weak and easy. Which is the complete opposite of how we felt about dexter in the first 8 seasons.
I very much disagree that he needed to get caught.
But I do wish that it did happen.
Dexter driving a boat, Dexter asking his son to Kill him seemed very much out of character, it's like it was not him thinking,
These choices seemed rushed out, I wish if they could reprised every scenario and thought it over before deciding if that would any good.
People saying Dexter getting shot is worse than Dexter DRIVING A BOAT INTO A HURRICANE AND SURVIVING TO BECOME A LUMBERJACK are out of their minds. Sincerely, an OG Dexter fan.
Exactly. Dexter's supposed to be a normal human but the writers give him Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees levels of endurance. Especially in this new Resurrection show they're making where he survived Harrison shooting him at the end of New Blood.