Should have known what was coming when Dexter appeared wearing his old uniform. Next on the checklist: Cruise up to the hospital in his boat for one last visit with Deb. Batista, ever a bro, not only buys his story, but encourages Dexter to take off immediately (because really, who’s going to miss the former Miami Metro employee who just murdered a serial-killing suspect in police custody?).
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First, he kills Saxon with a ball-point pen to the jugular, in full view of surveillance cameras (minus the audio, of course). Now Dexter realizes what we’ve wondered since the Argentina plan was concocted - how can he separate his bloody, tragic past from this bright-and-sunny future he sees?Īs it turns out, he can’t.
There’s some mushy stuff that she’d told him a million times already, like how he’s always made her feel safe.
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Or if the marshal had any clue that Saxon was the focus of a state-wide manhunt when he stumbled across him tied to a chair.ĭexter’s spent the last few episodes talking about his future, but with Deb’s turn for the worse, he’s fixed on the past - specifically, a series of flashbacks to Harrison’s birth, right in the same hospital Deb’s laid up in. If only Dexter had killed Saxon when he should have. Cue the “complication in surgery” - suddenly Deb’s prognosis goes from looking good to life in a vegetative state, owing to a stroke. After all she’s been through, a bullet to the gut should be a minor setback. Then there’s Deb, who takes a sudden horrible turn after surgery for what seemed to be a relatively minor wound. When Harrison said he loved Hannah, it was over now we, the audience, have been informed that the little guy will be just fine with his new mommy - and without his dad. The moment he agrees to let Harrison go along, you know trouble’s ahead. Finally, Dexter decides it’s wise to send Hannah away ahead of him -a realization that seems about two episodes overdue, considering all the heat that’s on her. But as much as we grew to like Batista and the rest of the Miami Metro crew, to wrap things up with no resolution or hint of their future feels incomplete.įor the moment, let’s overlook all of the implausible moments (we’ll get some of those later) and focus on the big stuff. Only five characters mattered in the end - the Morgans, Harrison, Saxon, and Hannah. Some story lines, like Masuka’s relationship with his daughter and Quinn being passed up for promotion, were complete dead ends. The writers managed to tie up everything and nothing all at once. Dexter’s final episode wasn’t that bad, but it came close. Two examples come to mind for me personally: Alias, a fresh, exciting show that became so ludicrous that I bailed on it (cue the Rambaldi device/floating kickball/zombie-maker) and Lost, a fresh, exciting show that I should have bailed on long before its ludicrous ending (one of the worst finales in television history in my opinion, though let’s not make the comments about Lost, okay?). It’s the kind of anger you feel after investing so much time into a show that you once loved, only to watch it fizzle out in the most unsatisfying of ways. It’s more fueled by outrage than actual rage. As the closing scene faded from my television screen, my reaction wasn’t shock or sadness. Still, I was optimistic that this final hour would be a redemption of sorts, a fitting end to the story of Dexter Morgan and his sister. This season started off strong, then took a turn for the worse. It’s hard to fully process one’s feelings about the end of a television series that’s lasted as long as Dexter has.