The timeline is completely effed, by the way. Nobody in this super crowded parking lot saw me knock out a guy and take his truck.” You know how I know? Because Saxon looked around the crowded parking lot, which is the universal shot for, “Nope. He walks into a crowded grocery store parking lot and knocks a guy out with the butt of his gun and takes his truck. Elsewhere, Saxon is on the loose, bleeding from the gunshot wound in the arm that Debra gave him last week. The captain calls Dexter to let him know that Debra’s been shot, which ruins what are already completely ruined plans. But we have to go through the motions anyway, don’t we? Meanwhile, Debra is taken to the hospital, and she seems to be OK. Alas, Elway was detained for questioning, but the bomb threat also backfired when the Miami airport is completely evacuated. Dexter comes up with a brilliant plan to blame a bomb threat on Elway by placing a few things in a backpack (I had hoped against hope that he was planning a cool MacGyver move, but then I remembered that this is Dexter). So, Elway is onto Hannah, and he’s scouting out the airport in search for her. God, what a disaster of a final season.įirst off, I love this SUBTLE reminder in the airport about where Dexter and Hannah are going, because the fact that Hannah and Dexter have managed to say that they want to go to Argentina 109 times during the past three episodes wasn’t enough to drill it into our heads. Remember Masuka and his daughter, Nikki? What the hell was that about? Did it matter at all, to anything? ANYTHING? Or what about Quinn’s competition with the black detective for the promotion? Just wheel spinning, huh? Killing time. The Dexter series finale crashed and burned into a giant bowl of dicks 100 miles from the airport.īefore we get into last night’s episode, let’s take a moment to remember a few plotlines that DIDN’T F***KING MATTER. A LUMBERJACK?ĭexter couldn’t stick the landing. Dexter pussed out, dropping a post-script that was even dumber than what came before it. Hall’s old show, Six Feet Under, but in the end, it couldn’t even go all the way into the darkest timeline. The series tried to give us a dark finale, borrowing a fake-out plot contrivance from Michael C. At this point in the series, with the show having fallen as far as it has, there was literally no ending that could’ve salvaged the final season, short of one that miraculously rewrote the last four seasons. What happened was wholly unpredictable, but that’s only because it’s impossible to predict endings as dumb as Dexter’s. find him out? Would they discover his blood slides? Would he become the subject of a manhunt? Would he die in a spray of machine gun bullets? Or would he get away with everything, ending Dexter with just another day at the office: Analyzing blood, killing bad people. Would Debra finally take down Dexter? Would he finally meet a serial killer better at it than him? Would the Miami P.D. Despite the upsetting reaction to that final episode, some things have aged pretty well about it.Eight years we’ve watched Dexter (or at least, those who didn’t quit and are checking this recap just to see what happened: Spoiler Alert: It was dumb), and for eight years, we’ve often wondered what the endgame would be. The entire season 8 was poorly received but the actual series finale was truly disliked by the majority of the fans of the show. Updated on September 5th, 2022 by Kevin Pantoja: 2022 saw the release of Dexter: New Blood, which acted as a continuation of the iconic Showtime series and looked to make good on a final season that a lot of people didn't like. This will also prepare fans for the revival as the events shown here should play a role in the future. Analyzing the points presents the episode in a different way from what many have been perceiving it with and should reassert how the finale has aged well. These have turned out to be arguments in favor of the finale due to these aspects presenting something viewers didn’t realize back then. However, it would be unfair to criticize it entirely, considering there were several points that have become apparent over the years. It’s become a common practice to criticize the initial series finale of Dexter, as the episode left a sour taste for fans in many ways.
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