This pandemic has opened up an enormous amount of time for us working from home. Usually people use the soothing sounds of music to work to, I use movies or shows, that I have been meaning to watch (listen to — not so much watch) as I do some mindless work. I had never watched Dexter from beginning to end, so I took the opportunity afforded to me by my Amazon Prime account proceeded to venture into the world of the supposed most loved TV serial killer ever.
Man, everyone was right. We loved Dexter dishing out the justice! We loved it when he chose Deb over Brian. We loved it when he stuck it to that obnoxious chick in France and still made his flight. We loved season 5 and Lumen — bringing someone along for the justice! We loved when he killed Trinity… even the asshole in diapers with the tooth fetish and the nasty attitude… he needed to go. We cried when he lost Lumen… But we cheered when he found love three times in the series… and we so wanted him to live happily ever after with Hannah and Harrison! Hello that was the arc that Dexter fans wanted. There is not a single fan of Dexter that wanted him dead!
This was the POINT! We wanted a HAPPILY EVER AFTER. But no, in comes Dexter: New Blood, which required yet another subscription from me, this time to Showtime. New Blood: was the supposed “closure”, that people were looking for. What people exactly? Some people were unhappy that the original series ended the way it did, because we wanted more! But what these writers did not seem to grasp was that we wanted to see him happy — in Argentina — with Hannah and Harrison, or continuing to do the good work of cleaning up the world out of the killers of the innocent!
Nope you take our favorite paranoid psychopath hero and you throw him totally off his game. Dexter — after all those years of grooming and experience — all of a sudden he is leaving evidence behind??? Maybe Jim Lindsey was a rookie, but DEXTER, he was a pro… Dexter managed to fool a whole town with line dancing, and wood cutting, and living in the cold after a life in Miami. Selling guns… when he loved his knives… If you read the reviews of the first few episodes you would have realized that people were mad that he was off his game!
Then we get what we want — sort of — Harrisons return… and what do you do? You killed off Hannah! Why? Hannah was the endgame. Show could have been one long episode, confess to Harrison, kill off the big bad serial killer in his cave of trophies, and buy a plane ticket to Argentina and start hunting Argentinian killers as a family… smh…
Someone somewhere decided that the world needed to find out that the only serial killer that killed bad people needed to be caught. A Shakespearean nightmare. That Batista out of nowhere decided to question if Doakes was the true Bay Harbor Butcher. Batista has doubts but Lundy the genius didn’t? I love Batista — and as a latina am willing to overlook his horrid accent… So many mistakes with this…
- Dexter doesn’t do his research when he kills Matt. DEXTER didn’t know you can’t burn titanium screws. Really. A forensics guy who has killed hundreds of people? None of the people who were offed by him and not by him at Miami metro for years had screws in their body. Something dad simply forgot to mention his whole life? What!
- Dexter killing on impulse? Stop it.
- Dexter leaving body parts AT HIS CABIN — without a disposal plan? What show did you watch? Bye.
- Dexter going to borrow ketamine and signing the book with the amount he took. LOL. Lazy writing.
- Dexter never killed an innocent person!
- M99 is NOT KETAMINE!
- Dexter had won… he wasn’t getting caught. Angela had nothing on him and neither did Batista… with his little folder full of nothing.
- You thought a cop out of the boondocks solved the Bay Harbor Butcher case with one seminar and google! HAHAHA…
Only thing they got right was that Deb would turn into a neurotic hallucination/ghost. Girl couldn’t chill even as a hallucination. Sometimes I wanted him to choke the hallucination — character’s neurosis was so annoying.
Whoever wrote this series — limited series — poor excuse for a conclusion of a great story should take their side by Debra as being annoying and destroying all sorts of happiness for us, happiness for Dexter and Harrison. How can you possibly believe that — justice — could be served by killing the adjudicator! The dude that solved the longest kidnapping/murder spree in the small town of Iron Lake! The dude caught and that killed the big bad rich serial killer who kept whole bodies as trophies. The dude that took vengeance for the death of the beautiful white deer. This dude who has been doing this for decades… who has not made a single mistake… now all of a sudden leaves a trail of body parts and titanium screws straight to the southernmost part of the country to Batista’s living room.
I needed at least two more seasons of Jim Lindsey pushing his very annoyed finger into someones forehead while spatting out sarcastic comments to a person in need of some adjudication! We all loved when he screamed, YOU SHOT MY DEER.!” *drives angry finger into Matt’s forehead with passion*
How
Could
You
Kill
Him
I am disgusted. No one who loved this show wanted it to end this way. What have you done? You destroyed Dexter for us… =( AGAIN!
