When the final episode of the Showtime series aired in September , it was widely panned by critics and viewers. Vulture literally put in their headline that it was a "terrible end" to the drama, while Variety called it a "sloppy send off" to Dexter Michael C.
Hall and Debra Morgan Jennifer Carpenter. Even Hall admitted in a Reddit AMA that he felt "sadness" when reading the script for the episode. The writers have since been given the opportunity to redeem themselves with Dexter: New Blood , but the ending remains the same.
Viewers have to live with the fact that Deb is dead and Dexter decided to fake his death by driving his boat, A Slice of Life, straight into a hurricane before becoming a lumberjack. That being said, we want to give the reboot a chance to entertain and thrill us, so we revisited the entire last season in the hopes of understanding what the writers wanted to achieve. Rewatching Dexter hunt and track down Oliver Saxon, while balancing his personal relationships was annoying since we already know the end result.
It felt like teasing a kid by dangling something within their reach and then snatching it away before they can enjoy it. First, we were led to believe that Dexter was going to be taken down by his own sister, who killed Maria LaGuerta in season seven. Those initial episodes of season eight followed Deb as she quit her job, became a private investigator and developed a drug addiction thanks to an unauthorized undercover sting.
This all seemed to be leading to the moment when she'd turn herself in for murder and, in the process, spill the beans on Dexter's murderous tendencies. Little did she know Dexter was involved with psychologist Evelyn Vogel Charlotte Rampling , who had helped Dexter's dad and dark passenger Harry James Remar come up with his code.
From that point on, Deb was treated like Vogel's patient and coaxed into believing that Dexter was a good person at heart. Additionally, she accepted his relationship with serial killer Hannah Yvonne Strahovski. Michael C Hall has reprised the role of Dexter Morgan, the blood spatter analyst who moonlights as a serial killer, in the limited series New Blood, which sees Dex living under the name Jim Lindsay in the small community of Iron Lake.
Dexter has abandoned his murder-y ways and is happy dating the local chief of police Julia Jones , working at a fishing and hunting store and sticking to a strict routine to quell the desires of his dark passenger. New Blood — which is a limited series, rather than a ninth season — picks up a decade after the events of season eight, and the finale that left fans rather baffled and frustrated.
Dexter began in and followed a blood-spatter analyst with the Miami Police Department who moonlighted as a killer who targeted bad guys. Over the eight seasons, Dexter played by Hall lost loved ones, murdered psychopaths and was even found out by his adoptive sister Debra Jennifer Carpenter , and the final series saw Dexter facing off with serial killer Oliver Saxon, aka the Brain Surgeon.
In the last episode, Remember The Monsters? Meanwhile, Dexter goes to the hospital where Debra has undergone surgery after being shot by Saxon, but she suffers a stroke and is left in a vegetative state. Dexter is consumed by rage and heads to the jail to kill Saxon — who has already been arrested by Angel Batista David Zayas — and stabs him with a ballpoint pen in the jugular in full view of the security cameras.
Dexter then sails off into the storm, and the shattered remains of the Slice of Life are later found. Dexter had already been a single father for the past four seasons, and recognized he could never rid himself of his Dark Passenger after falling in love with Lumen in season 5.
When looking at just the finale episode, audiences and critics were extremely divided on how Dexter resolved the core character arcs. If Deb was going to die in the series, she also deserved a heroic ending that gave closure to her rollercoaster story.
Showtime's Dexter season 8 finale gave poor resolutions to both Morgans, with Dexter finishing his story by abandoning his son, faking his death, and moving to Oregon to become a lumberjack under a different alias. Dexter never paid for any of his crimes nor concluded his humane and conflicted growth in morality the series had been building to.
The series was about Dexter wrestling with his own confused humanity and concluded with no real answer to his internal conflict. New Blood is also going back to the relationships that made Dexter a more complex character, having his significant other being the police chief instead of season 8 pairing him with another disliked serial killer.
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