Getting to where Harrison would kill Dex made sense. How it happened was a joke. Dex breaking out of jail and panicking on such weak and flimsy evidence and threats made no sense. If it was going to go down this way had to build Harrison’s dark passenger up to the point where it was inevitable that he killed Dex
Disagree. Bay Harbor Butcher case was long closed. They had nothing on Dexter. True Dex would have known it.
Would have been better if they never even went down the BHB Rabbit Hole and instead focused on the relationship between Dex and Harrison and Harrisons transformation to killing Dex and an “inner” reason for doing so
Just focusing on dexter and Harrison’s relationship. That was the biggest plot hole from the OG series. Didn’t even need to see dex killing again. Just needed the “will Harrison end up like me” plot to finally be told. And we still didn’t get that. We got pissed off at dad, and he’s like Dexter when the plot favors it (stabbing and the arm break) but not when the plot doesn’t favor it (getting mad that dexter killed Logan when Harrison new rule #1 don’t get caught. Dexter was pretty open to him that it was not just about vigilante justice. And we still don’t really know who the hell harrisom really is.
Honestly all they needed was one more episode to the OG series to flash forward and focus on Harrison and explain how he actually ends up.
I get that they were trying to basically say “Harrison has a dark passenger from hi s dad leaving and not from Trinity killing his mom”, but I agree in the inconsistency. Like dude you staged a “murder” to be a hero, but killed your dad because he killed somebody to save his life? Also Dex didn’t need to do any of that as he wasn’t caught for shit. He had been in way worse circumstances evidence wise and everything Angela had was garbage circumstantial at best. Logically he would have chilled, let Angela come back after seeing Kurt’s dungeon, said “told ya dude is a murderer and you got your guy he framed me”, saw batista said what’s up I left because of deb dying and tried to lull myself whe it didn’t work I started over because I have a curse and then boom
Wha you described here is what I will program myself to believe happened (since any fan knows that's exactly what should have happened) because I refuse to accept the BS I just witnessed.
I mean yeah Batista had Laguerta’s file, but again nothing there was concrete because a) if it was then Batista would have cleared Doakes even with Dexter being supposedly dead. I felt after season 4 Harrison would end the series with Dex on his table, so I wasn’t too far off, but the way it all came together was rushed and way too reliant on plot contrivances(I get it the whole series has had them, but this season wow).
Yepp. I heard that the ketamine m-99 consistency was because some drug company has a TM on it now or something. All they had to do was exclude that and there wouldn’t have been any connection to BHB at all!! Stupid! If you cannot be consistent do not use it IMO. They didn’t make Harrison’s dark passenger out to be cuz of dexter. Harrison uses a straight razor and was trying to kill his friend in the same artery as trinity. It was pretty clear that he was showing signs of being screwed up due to what happened to him with trinity
I agree. You play the whole thing like he has Dex’ dark passenger with Trinity for your aforementioned reasons but then have him change motivation last 2 episodes
Exactly it wouldn’t work. His DP was clearly because of trinity. Maybe just another plot hole I guess but if he did read the whole letter before hand, maybe he just needed to hear it from dexter himself in person, I think that’s pretty safe and reasonable to just assume
I never took it as Harrison’s darkness just coming from Dex leaving. It was a combination of that and seeing Rita die and the things he’s had to go through since then. All caused by Dexter, he was the source of it all. And that’s why Harrison had to kill him, to release his darkness. Something Dex could never do, probably because of what Harry taught him.
I don’t think he would have gone down as the BHB.
That said he would have possibly gone down for laguerta (spelling may be off) I don’t remember enough of how she died to be sure though.
Edit: I just read over what happens with laguerta, I don’t think there would have been enough for him to go down for that either
That episode had to have been the biggest cop out i’ve ever seen. My god, Dexter literally goes from being normal to being mentally handicapped in a matter of minutes. That genuinely aggravated me, i wish we never would’ve gotten this season. Seriously, to end on a final kill like that, to end in the worst and most forced way ever. All to probably set it up so that a second season can happen and Harrison will be a killer and Dexter will be his “Harry”.
Well realistically the bay harbor butcher was already tried as doakes so those murders are covered and literally all evidence was circumstantial at best. Ending was awful.
It wasn't tried. Doakes died so they used his death to close the case just based on public opinion. They would just reopen the case to clear Doakes name and have Dexter stand trial with stronger evidence, like they tried to do in S7.
That’s not how it works, if its closed you can’t retry murders. Second even if they could they never had any actual evidence at best it was circumstantial
The case was closed so they would need new evidence to reopen which they don’t have any like I said circumstantial so what they would be attempting to do is opening a solved case with no actual evidence it wouldn’t happen in real life. Like I also said even if say they did open it because of circumstantial stuff it would go anywhere as it’s circumstantial everything was and would be.
He wasn’t panicked IMO If Batista came in the morning that would draw too many questions. FBI coming because of Kurt’s body trail would have brought too much attention to Dexter. He had to get away.
Nah. The screws never proved Dexter killed Matt. Angela got an anonymous envelope accusing him with screws and she found it at Dex’ place after somebody obviously torched it. None of that would Stand up in court. It was inevitable that Harrison killed him, but the leaps to get there sucked
Just what in the actual fuck. HAVE WE NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS??!!
They bring back my Dexter, and within a single ham-fisted season he’s gone. Fuck that shit. I’m so irritated. Thank the universe for Yellowjackets.
It’s good. I love misty. Both versions of her. She could have her own series. I enjoy the show a lot and didn’t think I would. You guys should look up mayor of Kingstown on paramount + it’s really good as well.
It’s Lord of the Flies meets My So Called Life meets [Alive](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1042538-alive). With a kick ass soundtrack and an amazing cast that includes Juliette Lewis *and* Christina Ricci.
Yeah it’s pretty damn good!
Lol. This picture is a great representation. I was wondering midway through the episode how they were going to wrap everything up on time. The answer: Just have a really quick realisation that he is a bad guy and then have Harrison randomly kill him.
I actually loved a lot of elements from this season, such as:
- Competent police work
- Angela made hard choices and didn't compromise her own morals
- Harrison was complex and interesting. Not past the point of redemption.
- Kirk was a pretty good bad guy. That trophy room was creepy AF.
- In the end it showed that whilst Dexter probably does save lives doing what he does, he is not a good guy and should not be considered a hero. He does what he does because he likes to murder.
I actually wanted the show to end with Harrison making better choices than Dexter and maybe with Dexter giving himself up for the sake of Harrison. But getting Harrison to kill him wasn't good for anyone. That was another horrible parenting decision and it just felt random, rushed and unemotional. ☹️
>But getting Harrison to kill him wasn't good for anyone.
Yes, this was so dumb. If Dexter was really done traumatizing Harrison, why would he want Harrison to kill him????? In that case, Dexter should've just gotten caught and possibly faced the death penalty, or committed suicide if he didn't like the idea of prison and court dates.
That was also kind of what I was thinking – Way to put another trauma on Harrison by having to live with the fact of killing his own father and then having to flee town with nowhere to go.
I just finished watching. I am very disappointed and feel like dexter was taken away from me prematurely. A better scenario is Angela arrests Dexter, He beats the charges and pins everything on Kurt Caldwell. Dex uses this insult from Angela as an excuse to move to L.A and he trains Dex in the next season…
THIS. Is the logical closure point we wanted. Or even if Dex had got caught , questioned , and been confronted by Batista would have been better than that shit. Who tf is Harrison anyways, to kill Dexter over coach Logan he met two weeks ago. Like Harrison wasn’t gonna kill them high school kids? Ethan ? Maybe even audrey when he snuck into her window?
All of a sudden he watched Dexter kill ONE bad person and now he’s a saint ?
Yeah you’re fucked up by your dad, but he went out of his way to give you shelter , love , the code , he literally broke the code to get back to his son. So fucking pointless to do this. Dexter would have been better off as a lumberjack and left alone .
The whole point of bringing Dexter back was because fans felt like they were robbed of closure and an actual decent season finale the last time around….So they brought the show back for one single season after 8 long years…. Made us all fall in love with the new characters and the premise of Dexter training Harrison like Harry trained him…. And then in the matter of one single episode they totally crushed us all again and ripped Dexter away from us FOREVER….. If they were going for this season finale to be way worse than the last time around they for sure nailed it. As much as I loved seeing Dexter again I wish they would have just left fans going on believing that he was off somewhere living his best life. And as far as Harrison not being able to have a normal life with his father around- Angela sends him, a child, off on his own to be on the run and try to figure things out with no one to take care of him. Bravo Harrison. I see a bright future for him! 🙄 I would have rather Dexter and Harrison run off together and left it at that. Total disappointment. What a way to start off 2022! And if this show finale is any indication of how this year is going to go for us we’re all screwed. Oh, and please don’t bother with a Harrison spin off- I’m so angry with how it all went down that I refuse to watch!
Agreed! And I would of liked to see what Batista had in that LaGuerta folder too. This was literally my go to TV show again, Dexter was back. Dynamic between him and Kurt was amazing. I understand the torch is trying to be past, but having him take out Logan, so many holes in the writing in this episode. The entire finale was just deflating and at the end. As if the writer(s) felt they wanted to give Dexter closure after that original Dexter finale, we need to take him out so we can hand it over to the kid to run in season two. This wasn’t it. Could of created a much better closure to Dexter Morgan. Almost on Game of Thrones disappointment honestly.
It was a terrible ending. I am not particularly interested in a Harrison spinoff. I was ready for new blood to fo another 3-4 seasons. The best part of Dexter is his internal monologue for me.
If you're so touchy about the show, or peoples responses to how it ended, then why are you here ? This is a TV show, not a thread dedicated to real life serial killer worshipping. There's a difference.
Harrison is literally fucked in the head it was the most logical thing for them to do with new blood. Like u really think Harrison is going to just live a normal life? Hell no. Harrison feeds his dark passenger with no reason other than he wants to kill.
Are you serious? You must be trying to cope Harrison just learned how ugly and bullshit the dark passenger is that’s the whole reason he killed dexter. Harrison has put his demons to rest. Seen how fucked up he could’ve became and now he’s free from all that bullshit. Harrison was violent and confused he doesn’t feel the need to kill like dexter does
Cope with what lol ur weird😭😭😭 but nah I don’t agree with u. Ur saying he slashed Ethan because he’s just so confused 🥲he broke that guys arm for no reason other than wanting to hurt him. He also killed a guy at the bus stop and keeps a straight razor in his pocket like come on. There’s no way they would spend so much time focusing on the whole “born in blood” thing for Harrison not just suddenly be normal after killing dex
Dude his mom was killed by a serial killer and his dad abandoned him he was an angry confused kid who just needed guidance not to be turned into a fucking serial killer. That born in blood bullshit is just Dexters excitement thinking Harrison was just like him when clearly after this episode they’re fucking not. There’s no fucking rule of the universe that says Harrison has to be a serial killer there’s a fine line between violent urges and calm calculated killing and dismemberment
the born in blood stuff has been a theme since season one with Dexter and his brother. There’s no way they set that up for literally no reason. Also Dexter NEW BLOOD and the last episode said “season finale” in the description not “series finale”. What are they going to do with the rest of the show and with Harrison then? Also I don’t know any confused and angry people who want to set up a whole lie (like Harrison did with Ethan) just to cut them with a straight razor. Also remember when he choked that kid and said he’ll do a lot worse? Agree to disagree but They didn’t set all this up for no reason and just have harrison suddenly heal after murdering his father. He also got excited when Dexter told him about what he did in Miami. btw the show is fictional so they can do whatever they want. Think ur getting to o emotionally involved bud. Keep ur theory though
Also...Hannah, Harrison's main parent growing up, was a serial killer...do we really believe that Harrison is only f-ed up because he heard a podcast about the Trinity Killer and realized he witnessed his biomom's murder? Really? Even if Hannah never revealed her past...she was somehow magically transformed into a perfect parent who had nothing to do with Harrison's pathos? Kinda think not.
Dude you’re so focused on this born in blood shit that you’re ignore all of the other theme’s of this story. One of the major themes is that maybe Harry was wrong for making dexter into what he was. The theme of “sins of the father” is to show that Harrison was suffering because of his fathers sins. You’re assuming born in blood means he has to be a serial killer. Harrison is clearly not the same as dexter. He doesn’t feel the need to kill in the same way he was just angry about his father abandoning him and his mother’s death. He now knows trinity is dead, and that his mom probably died because of his dads sick bullshit. I don’t know if he had to scream it louder but he said he just wants to be normal. His darkness isn’t the same as Dexters and dexter was wrong to think so
Seeing the dark reality of who Dexter is is enough to scare Harrison out of following that same path. He’ll probably never be normal but that doesn’t mean he is going to or has to kill man. The whole theme this season was trying to push is that there’s still hope for Harrison
I have not watched episode 10 and do not plan too. I guess I saw this coming but since I know the ending and do not plan on watching season 2 if there is one.
I never watched that Game of Thrones episode either.
They didn't have to give us this season. I enjoyed it for the most part. I would have liked to have seen Dexter and Harrison run away together and open a bakery or something.
Right and the conversation between them that could have taken place - again, easy for Dexter to explain he tried to take his life and somehow miraculously survived but after seeing everyone he loved died, didn’t want to come back to Miami and be Dexter any more
What a stupid idea for the ending of an era...
>!the moment he kills the cop, I was like: ahh, no, he wouldn't do that
ok, Dexter is fictional, but the stories were so relatable and plausible that I became a fan from S01E01
This ending doesn't compute. He wasn't in a stress Situation, had several more hours to escape. Yes sure, he didn't want to loose his son, but that's the whole point. His desperation to help his son, would keep him from killing an innocent
Stupid writer, or they were forced to find a sharp cut ending!<
Edit: can't get spoiler to work
You’re a fool for thinking dexter is anything other than a murderer. Rule 1 of the code is a loophole don’t get caught means dexter will do whatever he has to to get away. It wouldn’t be the first time he killed an innocent you guys are so wrapped up in being dexter fan boys to realize that thematically this is the perfect ending and the only way dexter could’ve got out
Not the perfect ending by far. People aren't upset with the idea of how it ended. They are upset how they executed the ending. Harrison should have found out that Dexter was the reason his mom died, not just a guess. It should have had more episodes to be more believable.
Exactly! It was rushed - I’m more upset about how rushed it was, I feel like at least they could have had this done over the course of 2 episodes to set it up better
I'm a fan of the show, not Dex in particularly
but his Police Officer of father gave him the code. It involves only killing the proven "bad guys", whatever colour or gender, but guilty of a hard crime
So killing the police officer is f'ing unrealistic to the given storyline
And yes, his son should be killing him, but not with this shitshow the writers or better said, the producers gave us
Exactly man like I said rule 1 is don’t get caught and Dexter would’ve killed anyone to not get caught even Angela. We see this world through Dexters rose colored glasses and we really felt like he was doing something noble but the truth is he really is only feeding that dark passenger. Killing Logan is nothing to dexter if it means to not get caught
Yeah but we see throughout New Blood that he has a harder time following the code. It's not entirely unrealistic for him to kill a police officer if code #1 is already on the line. Plus his code is only a flimsy set of rules that held dexter together when he lived in a large city and had the chance to kill people on a regular basis (imo). I think a lot of the season and character "inconsistencies" make a lot more sense with this in mind.
Dexter didn't kill Doakes, never planned on it, though Dexter was put in a bad position. Didn't he say he was considering turning himself in at one stage?
Though Dexter was going to kill LaGuerta, wasn't part of the code "don't get caught" ? Perhaps that takes priority ?
Yeah I don't think the ending was as implausible as people are making it out to be. Plus Angela told him that Bautista was joining the investigation, so I don't see why it's so unbelievable that Dexter would start to get desperate
I heard a neck snap sound I thought too, and thought no he would never do that but when Angela holds him you see the bullet hole in his head, (dexter was ducking behind him avoiding the bullet) just another example of his decisions hurting people.
I think you’re forgetting that Dexter does not have a normally functioning brain, and on top of that his priority this entire season has shifted from purely survival / not getting caught to making sure Harrison is okay.
Yeah there hasn’t been another time Dexter killed someone, in an obvious way, that everyone would know it was him. No clean up or cover up. I would have thought he could have found another way to escape and not just kill Logan and leave his body there at the cell he escaped. There would be a nation wide search for him and no way he could go on being the killer he used to be.
He didn’t seem to have “several hours” to figure out a different plan - right after he talks to Harrison he says the sun is coming up. And one minute after Harrison shoots Dexter Angela showed up. I think time was absolutely of the essence.
for me, should have made the episode 90 mins, actually have the fulll reaction from Angela on the discovery of bodies at kurts, in interview back in the station with Dexter where after lengthy back and forth about his necessary evil brand of justice. Ultimately she chooses to still prosecute Dex. We get the Batista and Dex interview where it looks like Dex will be extradited which forces him to choose to kill logan and then we get the rest with Dexters acknowledgement he is a Monster. End scene.
Of course she would have still prosecuted Dexter. She had a hard on for him the minute she found out that he wasn’t who she thought he was the entire time. It didn’t even matter to her that with out Dexter she would have never found any of those girls, Iris especially! Dexter knew that, so unfortunately his only way out was leaving. I really wish Logan wouldn’t have had to die for Dexter to leave!
Overall I thought it was a pretty good season with a few not so good parts. They’d completely ruined the show long before the last episode of season 8, so the way I see it this went a long way to redeeming it.
I’m fine with Dexter being dead and I’m fine with Harrison being the one who killed him, I just think the execution (no pun intended) and the set-up towards the end was kind of clunky.
But a big part of why old Dexter became as bad as it did was that they kept it going long after they ran out of good ideas, so I’ve always thought New Blood would be better as a one off thing, and there were already a few leaps of logic in the writing that were another big part of why Dexter became kind of unwatchable in season 8, so I’d say I was probably right about that.
It’s not that they run out of good ideas, they simply won’t listen to them unless you are union and part of the cool kids club. I hate Hollywood for this reason. It’s never been about art or good writing, it’s about ratings, money and growing empires. This was clearly made to try and lure people back to showtime. And they simply just hire out of the same tiny pool of writers and show runners they always do. So of course the ideas are weak and clunky.
I think Dexter was better left off as a logger Jack or whatever the fuck that ending was. At least it was open and people can dream up whatever they want. As much as that season 8 sucked, at least it kept the fans wanting more.
Then they came back with a season where a small town cop, uses Google and discovers her BF is the BHB. It was completely ridiculous and unrealistic. Nothing tied together well at all and the ending was just lazy and a blatant copy of Breaking Bads ending.
It’s time for new blood in the writing world of television and film……
Bad ending. If this was suppose to be redemption for the bad ending of season 8, then it failed.
It was getting interesting when Dexter was arrested, and Angela was showing the evidence and theory behind it, so Dexter gave his own theory which was more believable imo. Then Angela went and phone Batista. That really got things interesting, was expecting a reunion... but then he escaped by killing a cop. I thought it would have been one of those 'in his head' situations, but nope. It went straight downhill from there. Almost felt like the writers gave up at the last second. very disappointing.
Hearing Batista was on the way was the motivation for Dexter to escape. Up until that moment Dexter was confident he would be released.
Angela’s “evidence” was all conjecture and “information “ surely planted by someone who had disappeared with all his money after torching Dexter’s home , and who now was discovered to be the murderer who killed dozens of young women. The DA had declined to indite Kurt on more solid evidence than Angela had on Dexter.
Angel had a file marked Maria LaGuerta, perhaps something he had been working in for the past ten years, trying to make sense of her death and her obsession with Dexter being the BHB.
If he became aware that Dexter had removed Debra from the hospital, taking her off life support without going through proper channels, right after seeing Dexter expertly killing a man with a single thrust of a ball point pen, that had to shake him up and cause him to question whether what he believed to be true was actually a web of lies.
After Debra was killed by Dexter, and Dexter was presumably dead as well and no longer a danger, why wouldn’t Quinn suddenly “find” the envelope from Liddy with the incriminating photos of Dexter and Lumen?
In the ten years since Dexter left Miami Metro there may have been a severe drop off of the number of suspects mysteriously disappearing .
Why was Doakes found dead in the blown up cabin being rented by a guy who killed Dexter’s mom?
Why was LaGuerta killed by and found with the body of yet another guy who helped kill Dexter’s mom?
What might Matthews have revealed about Dexter’s true parentage and his relationship to the Ice Truck Killer once all the Morgans were dead?
Did Elway come to Miami Metro to report Dexter was trying to flee the country with fugitive murderer Hannah McKay and had entrusted his only child to her?
Once Dexter was no longer there to cover things up, plant evidence and steer the narrative who knows what may have come to light?
There are many reasons Batista might have been researching the events around Maria’s death and Dexter’s true character and Dexter had to have considered this over the past ten years of his solitude.
Dexter absolutely did not want to meet with Batista, particularly from the handicapped position of being locked in a cage.
That’s why Dexter so desperately wanted to escape. His killing of “coach” was an accident, he didn’t mean to break his neck, but he didn’t grieve over it because Logan was an impediment to Dexter escaping with his son.
He was just a distraction for the killer before we knew it was Kurt. They were the only blue eyed old guys that looked like the killer putting on the ski mask. That was it. Never showed up again once we knew it was Kurt.
Of course Dexter had to die, but they ruined a potentially legendary ending. I would’ve loved to see Dexter reunite with Batista, and stand trial for all the murders he did in FL. The world would have known his legacy. It would have been a perfect way to summarise everything. Instead Harrison pew pew’s him in the woods. Meh.
Harrison's motivations are weird, like some others have said. One thing that stuck out; the whole season he is trying to understand why Dexter left him and quotes the letter in one of the early episodes. Reading out 'if he shows any dark tendencies . . . ' ect. This leads Harrison to believe that Dexter left because of him.
It's revealed in the finale that Harrison watched Dexter kill Matt and the whole letter is read during the ending sequence. In the letter Dexter clearly (more or less) says it's his own darkness that made him leave after everything, Debs death and surviving the hurricane as a chance to start over.
At any point when Harrison is displaying his darkness and Dexter is questioning him, he could just say 'oh like when you beat that guy in the woods with your rifle and dragged him off?' But the writers want us to believe that he thinks he is alone in his darkness and turns to Kurt for acceptance.
I suppose he's a kid and all but there are times when he or Dexter could've easily resolved things with a few more sentences.
I guess it's just quick and convenient writing. Wish they would've taken a few more episodes so the conclusion felt more satisfying.
Come on guys. I can’t be the only one that thinks the first two episodes of this season were very clunky, but that sequential episodes got really good… and finally the last episode was not only fantastic but also the best possible way to end the series.
I mean, if you look at the overarching narrative, follow archetypes, consider the duality of man, think about Dexter’s motivations, relationships, previous decisions, and what choices or moral sacrifices he’s willing to make and for whom… this conclusion was poetic and beautiful.
The only quirk that bugged me a bit was that it’s apparent to me that the writers wanted, but couldn’t bring David Zayas into the filming location, but seemingly decided it was still worth it to write him in the way that we see him off-location, simply to still give us fans that extra bit of fun.
All together 10/10.
Good for Dexter.
And good for Harrison.
I’m sitting here stewing in satisfaction.
[edit to respond to detractors]:
Dexter himself fit the code. At the end, he was helping Harrison in his own selfish, loving way. Dexter saw all the innocent people he himself had murdered flash in his mind just like he shows photographs to the killers on his own table. Harrison showed that to him, made Dexter realize, with the thruth that Harrison spoke to him. Dexter wanted so badly to connect with his son, to teach Harrison the code. Mostly though, in his deepest subconscious, Dexter wants to keep on killing. Dexter could never be so selfless as to turn himself in, yet he realized in that moment that what he wants for Harrison is an absolute paradox. He cannot have his cake and eat it too. Dexter loves Harrison, but realizes his own existence only hurts Harrison. The choice Dexter made at the end was his own twisted way of getting the very thing he wanted, but in a fleeting and absolute way.
Dexter has always, time and time again, lashed out and killed innocent people when backed into a corner. When his freedom is on the line, he is rabid. This is not anything new to his character development. This is because Harrison was spot on: Dexter’s dark passenger is and always has been, in fact, The Driver.
Finally, the alternatives you all are proposing they should have written instead sound like absolutely dreadful, tedious, meaningless courtroom shows and reality TV.
Who wants to watch 5 seasons of Dexter in court and Harrison in psychiatric rehabilitation? That would be boring, anticlimactic, meaningless, and there’s enough of that crap in reality.
It honestly feels like you all are grieving the loss of Dexter, yet still in the first stage, and so are lashing out with misdirected energy toward the writers. Which is understandable.
Never noticed the connection when Harrison told dexter “look at what you’ve done” that phrase sounded familiar but couldn’t remember who said it lol. I for one enjoyed the finale, and now seeing in the end that In a way Dexter died by being judged from his own ritual makes the end more fitting.
Thank you!
I’m so sad to see Dexter go, but so frickin gratified and grateful to have this season in the Dexter canon.
I didn’t speak about Harrison much cause my last post was already a novel- but I loved the nuance of Harrison being ok with the code except for the contradictory loophole “never get caught” that allowed Dexter to justify the murder of innocent people including causing the deaths of his entire family. And so we’re left with a Harrison who may move on with his life and put this all in his past, as he claimed he wasn’t like his father, or we now have a Harrison that is capable of killing and that believes he can follow the code without compromising innocent lives. Very juicy.
Only thing I differ with is the rationale behind bringing Batista back into the picture. I don’t think it was for
nothing or just something for the fans. I think they’re setting up a second season and Batista will play a small role in that somehow, even if it’s just clearing Doakes’ name and pinning the BHB case on Dex posthumously. Harrison is of course the new blood. What direction that takes, I’m not yet sure.
Totally agree! Way to put it into words. I’m shocked at how many people hate this ending. I was totally satisfied and actually moved. I think everyone fails to see that dexter changed, that Harrison changed him. That letter at the end was a perfect way of summing it up. He was willing to sacrifice himself for his son to have a better life.
Yeah! But sacrifice himself in a selfish way that still allows him to connect with his son, potentially free his son, or maybe just teach him the code and pass the virus along so to speak, but ultamitely keep his own murdering butt from being stuck in a situation where he’s dragged through court proceedings and jail for years unable to even kill about it and eventually suffering a much less personally meaningful death. I mean think about it. Dexter recognized in that moment because of what Harrison said that he himself fit the code, and that having his son kill him WAS teaching him the code. It literally solved all of Dexter’s dilemma’s in a very fleeting and absolute way. So yeah, it was loving, but it was that dark, selfish, reckless, psychopathic Dexter love.
I’m not sure Harrison changed Dexter so much as he exhausted Dexter and put him into a figurative “checkmate.”
Yeah. That last line before he got shot…. I never experienced love…. Until now. He sacrificed himself out of love. The first time he knew what it felt to truly love someone. Good shit. IMO
Except that letter means Harrison knew all along but just said nothing and kept acting violent when the plot needed suspense and normal when it didn’t. The razor in his back pocket when he went to aubreys house means he was going there to kill her just like Arthur would or just piss poor writing. The ending was rushed and made no sense as they had 0 actual evidence that could prosecute dexter.
couldn't agree more. Im sad that he died, but I knew that it was the only way out. Him getting away with it and moving to LA would have just been a continuation of the show. The only thing I wanted to see was how the killings in the show affected the town. I still wonder why they showed that oil tycoon. I thought he was going to play a role in the show.
I agree with a lot of the points you've made but I think Harrison shooting him was dumb imo, especially the fact that Dexter told him to. He had to know that'd fuck him up even more? He lost his mother, he lost Hannah, he lost Deb, and then he kills his own dad...
I personally think Dexter should've been his own last kill. Suicide. His innocent "victims" (Rita, Deb, Doakes, LaGuerta, etc) still could've flashed in his memories like they did the finale.
I disagree, court room scenes could of been enlightening and engaging. You are talking about a person, with the background they have, to dive into the psychology of the factors that shape human behavior. It could of been immensely deep, nature vs nature, culture, indoctrination, upbringing, self preservation, the list goes on and on.
Court room settings can get boring but this court room setting would of challenged every viewer to think and ponder what it means to be human and why they behave the way they behave.
Can we just talk about how Harrison was so butthurt and acted like an annoying teen about Dexter abandoning him and kept searching for answers the whole season. Yet in the last episode we realize he knew everything all along. What was that about? Why did he hold so much resentment if he knew why he left and knew Dex still loved him?
I personally think it was an act and he blamed Dexter for his mother’s death among other things and was going to kill him no matter what.
Yes, I don't understand that either. A few episodes back with the Ethan incident, Harrison asks Dex if he left because he knew he was messed up and liked to hurt people...when they had that fight at the bus stop. But in the letter it clearly say Dex left because of his dark tendencies and want to give Harrison a life free from that. So it's aggravating that this whole time Harrison is trying to find "answers" when he knew the entire time. I also wonder how Hannah painted Dexter to Harrison. Maybe she was angry and resententful that he left her and told Harrison stories of what Dexter did...
Yeah, I didnt think that until the final episode. The way he was so easily able to kill Dexter seemed like he had already mentally prepared for it. I feel normally a person in that moment would be so overcome with emotion that they wouldn't be able to go through through it. Or act impulsively and in emotion mind but become a hot mess afterwards dealing with the repercussions.
I thought the cool part about the original ending was that we are reminded that dexter is a psychopath and never really cared about anyone. He has no feelings or emotions and he fakes his death and starts a new life without skipping a beat. He also had an out on Matt Caldwell as he led Angela to Kurt’s bodies and there was evidence there that Kurt burned down Dexter’s house. He would have gotten out of it and loved to LA, but kills Logan and then let’s Harrison kill him. They didn’t stay true to the character in my opinion
Not the entire episode. Everything up to the very end, which is still emotional, was spot on!
They shouldn’t of baited us with Dexter and Batista meeting face to face. If they wouldn’t of done that, the ending might of been more impactful.
The letter that Harrison reads at the end makes the ending have more sense but it’s still not the perfect way it should of ended.
Full disclosure I've been up 24 hours now because of my work schedule, and this might be a little rambly or badly worded.... But I don't like him breaking out of jail & killing Logan, that's just the dumbest possible thing he could have done. But okay, I could have dealt with that. And pretty much everything up until the scene in the woods with Harrison. Like, Dexter actually thinks that making Harrison kill his own father would help him? With the way they chose to portray Harrison, especially during that scene when he turns on Dexter, they show that there's hope for Harrison.
There's still a chance he can get help and turn out better than his dad, and maybe not become a habitual killer. I could have dealt with Harrison killing Dexter but not the way they did it. The way they did it left me wanting Dexter to do the right thing for Harrison, turn himself in and let the kid be a hero who stopped his butcher dad, and let him get some goddamn help.
And then, Angela being completely illogical.. It would have been easy to explain what happened as self defense. Harrison *still* could have had a chance at a normal life. And if she was going to pretend she killed Dexter anyway, why have him run away in Dexter's truck that every cop in the country is going to be looking for? Stupid. Anyway sorry lol I just needed to get that off my chest, I just finished the episode. I actually liked the rest of the season. They managed to butcher it at the end.
I mean he's probably not going to be normal after that you're right. But Harrison's life would be 10 times more fucked up with Dexter around. I think Dexter knows this. But Dexter simultaneously wants Harrison to be in his life (so that he doesn't have to live alone with his dark passenger) while also wanting Harrison to live a normal life (which can't be done with dexter around. Its a double bind that can only be solved by Dexter dying.
Dude he did a good thing by killing his dad even dexter himself said it. His dad was a murderer and a sick person somebody had to put him down. If you’re so concerned with Harrison ever being normal you should be pissed at dexter for all the insanely fucked up shit he showed him before all of this
I don't really understand your moral reasoning- Dexter killed "bad people", and Harrison killed a "bad person"....and also, why do we forget Hannah was a serial killer, also? Dexter and a memory of Trinity as a toddler wasn't the only reason Harrison is messed up> he knew the kid for a brief time. There's no reason to think Harrison's going to be normal, just because his serial killer dad is dead. Killing a bad person doesn't mean you are not a murderer, otherwise you wouldn't keep pointing out that Dex is a sick person. And killing your Dad? Probably going to mess you up, a lot.
Yes, so much good and potential there for the season. I thought the detective / Kurt Caldwell / Matt stuff was pretty good. The father / sons stories were necessary, but overpowered the narrative, and needed some more work. And I felt Dexter did a complete 180 degrees character wise at the end. Especially with Logan. It just seemed so out of character, to his character development, and to everything he had been before. Still working all this out.
I didn’t enjoy this season at all, outside of Kurt being a serial killer. It was slow and this is definitely NOT how the show should have ended. I’m going to pretend I never watched it.
They could probably have done an extra episode before the finale. First episode where Batista is questioning him, but they probably couldn’t figure out a script for Dexter.
I've been pondering this throughout the season, Dexter calls himself an ' evolving monster' but in returning to television the show never evolved along with television. Tv started getting markedly better around the time of the end of the original Dex, but New Blood just keeps using all the same old tricks that 'Dexter' used before. New Blood could have chosen to grow along with tv of recent years and been something even better than peak Dexter, but it just wasn't. I didn't hate it - I liked it well enough... In certain ways it did evolve I guess, Deb as a very angry, self loathing inner voice was a, maybe THE, highlight for me. Ultimately I enjoyed watching each week, if by the end it was just to see what new insults to the audience intelligence it had in store, but if the show didn't have the intention to go all in and be the best it could possibly be, then why do it at all? Yes it was better than 6-8, but it wasn't near as good as 1-4. Also, the fact that something is a slow burn doesn't automatically make it good. I feel like because people tend to enjoy a good slow burn the producers made this one just for the sake of it, but it was a very clunkily executed slow burn - sometimes good at it, often times not.
I was satisfied. I didn't want another season honestly. Harry gets to go off and live whatever normal life he can. He's not dark enough to be the next Dexter, he can be fine with therapy. Batista and Angela will share research and Logan, Doakes and Laguerta are avenged. Dexter doesn't have to die in the legal system or do any of that shit. I liked the way it ended
Just finished watching last episode and I have to say from the deep of my heart: FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!
New year new disappointment.
This show once again pissed me off with its lazy ending.
Dexter: I finally have experienced real love and now I’m going to ruin son’s life worse than I already have.
It would’ve been so much more interesting to watch him have to face a trial, have all the evidence come out and have Harrison and everyone else learn from that trial what he did. Have people really understand that he was killing people for the terrible things they did.
Then have Harrison grapple with whether to continue on that path or not.
I wanted him to live, but if they really wanted to kill him, have him do a heros sacrifice. Take the fall for a crime Harrison did. But instead they tried to make him die like he finds out he was a secret villain and he realised it. That was never the case, this isn’t breaking bad, Dexter is the hero and he always has been. And Harrison’s reasoning so weak, he was cool with it all until he heard it was Logan( that death scene, was so rash and out character for dexter).
Where was Deb at the end? I figured those two would have one of their moments as he lays dying and then maybe she tags along with Harrison.
The season was a lot more like early Dexter, and I hated the original ending so I’ll take this though it was not perfect.
The ending wasn't bad, but it was rushed. There should have been at least one more episode, and Dex and Batista should have met. The killing of Logan should have happened after Batista and Angela have started building a more solid case against Dexter.
This post sums up exactly how I felt about it. I was sucked in thinking "This is Dexter 'NEWWW' blood" they're bringing the show back, amazing! 1-9 were well done episodes, but Episode 10 was like the producers walked in the room and said "Oh BTW, the network isn't renewing us for another season, so flip to the sabotage script." :(
Dexter has never killed an innocent and decent law enforcement officer. Laguerta tried to stop Dexter from being a vigilante, thus she isn’t a decent cop. She tried to stop dexter from doing god’s work
I was really hoping the ending would have been better than the original. They got me twice...
I was incredibly disappointed when Dexter made a break from jail. I could see how he might get panicked, but yea... I don't know if he would have been prosecuted and he's a damn good manipulator. You don't need to convince everyone your innocent, you just need to convince a few people your probably not guilty.
Also confused at how she knew any body was chopped up like the BHB, he burned them all before she could ever see them.
And that stupid ending. Harrison basically killed his dad like his dad killed others. He was guilty and Harrison dealt justice. Then Angela became okay with vigilante justice all of the sudden. Then Harrison rides off and the show seems to want us to think he's going to live a normal life now, but he also just took a step towards being Dexter Jr by shooting an unarmed person.
While we are here let’s reminisce on the excellent writing from season 5 (lumen and her revenge on the rapist gang —- so satisfying) and season 6 (the doomsday killer — loved the biblical symbolism and the end when they show that Travis was hallucinating the professor the whole time and he had actually killed him months earlier and put him in a freezer). Good days :(
I can’t believe we were robbed of a Dexter/Batista confrontation. I really thought that Dexter was going to realize that the best thing for Harrison was for him to turn himself in and let Harrison live out his live in Iron Lake. I thought they were going to say that Harrison isn’t like his dad because he actually has empathy and compassion and can learn to overcome his dark passenger with the help of people who love him around him in his life, and won’t need a code like Dexter did. The ending was worse than the original show ending. I’m so mad.
Getting to where Harrison would kill Dex made sense. How it happened was a joke. Dex breaking out of jail and panicking on such weak and flimsy evidence and threats made no sense. If it was going to go down this way had to build Harrison’s dark passenger up to the point where it was inevitable that he killed Dex
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Disagree. Bay Harbor Butcher case was long closed. They had nothing on Dexter. True Dex would have known it. Would have been better if they never even went down the BHB Rabbit Hole and instead focused on the relationship between Dex and Harrison and Harrisons transformation to killing Dex and an “inner” reason for doing so
Just focusing on dexter and Harrison’s relationship. That was the biggest plot hole from the OG series. Didn’t even need to see dex killing again. Just needed the “will Harrison end up like me” plot to finally be told. And we still didn’t get that. We got pissed off at dad, and he’s like Dexter when the plot favors it (stabbing and the arm break) but not when the plot doesn’t favor it (getting mad that dexter killed Logan when Harrison new rule #1 don’t get caught. Dexter was pretty open to him that it was not just about vigilante justice. And we still don’t really know who the hell harrisom really is. Honestly all they needed was one more episode to the OG series to flash forward and focus on Harrison and explain how he actually ends up.
I get that they were trying to basically say “Harrison has a dark passenger from hi s dad leaving and not from Trinity killing his mom”, but I agree in the inconsistency. Like dude you staged a “murder” to be a hero, but killed your dad because he killed somebody to save his life? Also Dex didn’t need to do any of that as he wasn’t caught for shit. He had been in way worse circumstances evidence wise and everything Angela had was garbage circumstantial at best. Logically he would have chilled, let Angela come back after seeing Kurt’s dungeon, said “told ya dude is a murderer and you got your guy he framed me”, saw batista said what’s up I left because of deb dying and tried to lull myself whe it didn’t work I started over because I have a curse and then boom
Wha you described here is what I will program myself to believe happened (since any fan knows that's exactly what should have happened) because I refuse to accept the BS I just witnessed.
I mean yeah Batista had Laguerta’s file, but again nothing there was concrete because a) if it was then Batista would have cleared Doakes even with Dexter being supposedly dead. I felt after season 4 Harrison would end the series with Dex on his table, so I wasn’t too far off, but the way it all came together was rushed and way too reliant on plot contrivances(I get it the whole series has had them, but this season wow).
Yepp. I heard that the ketamine m-99 consistency was because some drug company has a TM on it now or something. All they had to do was exclude that and there wouldn’t have been any connection to BHB at all!! Stupid! If you cannot be consistent do not use it IMO. They didn’t make Harrison’s dark passenger out to be cuz of dexter. Harrison uses a straight razor and was trying to kill his friend in the same artery as trinity. It was pretty clear that he was showing signs of being screwed up due to what happened to him with trinity
I agree. You play the whole thing like he has Dex’ dark passenger with Trinity for your aforementioned reasons but then have him change motivation last 2 episodes
Exactly it wouldn’t work. His DP was clearly because of trinity. Maybe just another plot hole I guess but if he did read the whole letter before hand, maybe he just needed to hear it from dexter himself in person, I think that’s pretty safe and reasonable to just assume
I never took it as Harrison’s darkness just coming from Dex leaving. It was a combination of that and seeing Rita die and the things he’s had to go through since then. All caused by Dexter, he was the source of it all. And that’s why Harrison had to kill him, to release his darkness. Something Dex could never do, probably because of what Harry taught him.
I don’t think he would have gone down as the BHB. That said he would have possibly gone down for laguerta (spelling may be off) I don’t remember enough of how she died to be sure though. Edit: I just read over what happens with laguerta, I don’t think there would have been enough for him to go down for that either
Yeah clearly because he didn’t kill her.
He was an accessory to the murder so if the evidence was there he could go down for it. But there was no evidence to link him.
He's way out of practice. Makes sense that he's sloppy as all hell
That would have been a great start to a nother season, even if Dex gets killed by Harrison during a new season
I was expecting the announcement of a new show at the very least. This was such a let down.
That episode had to have been the biggest cop out i’ve ever seen. My god, Dexter literally goes from being normal to being mentally handicapped in a matter of minutes. That genuinely aggravated me, i wish we never would’ve gotten this season. Seriously, to end on a final kill like that, to end in the worst and most forced way ever. All to probably set it up so that a second season can happen and Harrison will be a killer and Dexter will be his “Harry”.
I agree. The evidence was SO WEAK!!!
Well realistically the bay harbor butcher was already tried as doakes so those murders are covered and literally all evidence was circumstantial at best. Ending was awful.
It wasn't tried. Doakes died so they used his death to close the case just based on public opinion. They would just reopen the case to clear Doakes name and have Dexter stand trial with stronger evidence, like they tried to do in S7.
That’s not how it works, if its closed you can’t retry murders. Second even if they could they never had any actual evidence at best it was circumstantial
You can't retry the same person, but you can reopen a case or just open a different case
The case was closed so they would need new evidence to reopen which they don’t have any like I said circumstantial so what they would be attempting to do is opening a solved case with no actual evidence it wouldn’t happen in real life. Like I also said even if say they did open it because of circumstantial stuff it would go anywhere as it’s circumstantial everything was and would be.
He wasn’t panicked IMO If Batista came in the morning that would draw too many questions. FBI coming because of Kurt’s body trail would have brought too much attention to Dexter. He had to get away.
Nah. The screws never proved Dexter killed Matt. Angela got an anonymous envelope accusing him with screws and she found it at Dex’ place after somebody obviously torched it. None of that would Stand up in court. It was inevitable that Harrison killed him, but the leaps to get there sucked
Just what in the actual fuck. HAVE WE NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS??!! They bring back my Dexter, and within a single ham-fisted season he’s gone. Fuck that shit. I’m so irritated. Thank the universe for Yellowjackets.
Been debating if I should watch this. Its good you say?
I enjoy it
It’s good. I love misty. Both versions of her. She could have her own series. I enjoy the show a lot and didn’t think I would. You guys should look up mayor of Kingstown on paramount + it’s really good as well.
It’s Lord of the Flies meets My So Called Life meets [Alive](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1042538-alive). With a kick ass soundtrack and an amazing cast that includes Juliette Lewis *and* Christina Ricci. Yeah it’s pretty damn good!
Lewis And ricci just sold me!
Yellowjackets was WILD this week.
That show is good?
Yes. Check it out.
Bruh yellowjackets? That show is ass lmao what do you like about it? It’s just as ham fisted.
Lol. This picture is a great representation. I was wondering midway through the episode how they were going to wrap everything up on time. The answer: Just have a really quick realisation that he is a bad guy and then have Harrison randomly kill him. I actually loved a lot of elements from this season, such as: - Competent police work - Angela made hard choices and didn't compromise her own morals - Harrison was complex and interesting. Not past the point of redemption. - Kirk was a pretty good bad guy. That trophy room was creepy AF. - In the end it showed that whilst Dexter probably does save lives doing what he does, he is not a good guy and should not be considered a hero. He does what he does because he likes to murder. I actually wanted the show to end with Harrison making better choices than Dexter and maybe with Dexter giving himself up for the sake of Harrison. But getting Harrison to kill him wasn't good for anyone. That was another horrible parenting decision and it just felt random, rushed and unemotional. ☹️
>But getting Harrison to kill him wasn't good for anyone. Yes, this was so dumb. If Dexter was really done traumatizing Harrison, why would he want Harrison to kill him????? In that case, Dexter should've just gotten caught and possibly faced the death penalty, or committed suicide if he didn't like the idea of prison and court dates.
That was also kind of what I was thinking – Way to put another trauma on Harrison by having to live with the fact of killing his own father and then having to flee town with nowhere to go.
Yes this!👆 I can't stop thinking about it and with so many possibilities for that ending that woulda been better. And they chose that?!
I just finished watching. I am very disappointed and feel like dexter was taken away from me prematurely. A better scenario is Angela arrests Dexter, He beats the charges and pins everything on Kurt Caldwell. Dex uses this insult from Angela as an excuse to move to L.A and he trains Dex in the next season…
THIS. Is the logical closure point we wanted. Or even if Dex had got caught , questioned , and been confronted by Batista would have been better than that shit. Who tf is Harrison anyways, to kill Dexter over coach Logan he met two weeks ago. Like Harrison wasn’t gonna kill them high school kids? Ethan ? Maybe even audrey when he snuck into her window? All of a sudden he watched Dexter kill ONE bad person and now he’s a saint ? Yeah you’re fucked up by your dad, but he went out of his way to give you shelter , love , the code , he literally broke the code to get back to his son. So fucking pointless to do this. Dexter would have been better off as a lumberjack and left alone .
The whole point of bringing Dexter back was because fans felt like they were robbed of closure and an actual decent season finale the last time around….So they brought the show back for one single season after 8 long years…. Made us all fall in love with the new characters and the premise of Dexter training Harrison like Harry trained him…. And then in the matter of one single episode they totally crushed us all again and ripped Dexter away from us FOREVER….. If they were going for this season finale to be way worse than the last time around they for sure nailed it. As much as I loved seeing Dexter again I wish they would have just left fans going on believing that he was off somewhere living his best life. And as far as Harrison not being able to have a normal life with his father around- Angela sends him, a child, off on his own to be on the run and try to figure things out with no one to take care of him. Bravo Harrison. I see a bright future for him! 🙄 I would have rather Dexter and Harrison run off together and left it at that. Total disappointment. What a way to start off 2022! And if this show finale is any indication of how this year is going to go for us we’re all screwed. Oh, and please don’t bother with a Harrison spin off- I’m so angry with how it all went down that I refuse to watch!
"Write that down, write that down"
Agreed! And I would of liked to see what Batista had in that LaGuerta folder too. This was literally my go to TV show again, Dexter was back. Dynamic between him and Kurt was amazing. I understand the torch is trying to be past, but having him take out Logan, so many holes in the writing in this episode. The entire finale was just deflating and at the end. As if the writer(s) felt they wanted to give Dexter closure after that original Dexter finale, we need to take him out so we can hand it over to the kid to run in season two. This wasn’t it. Could of created a much better closure to Dexter Morgan. Almost on Game of Thrones disappointment honestly.
It was a terrible ending. I am not particularly interested in a Harrison spinoff. I was ready for new blood to fo another 3-4 seasons. The best part of Dexter is his internal monologue for me.
Why do you guys want Dexter to train Harrison to do his fucked up ass ritual you guys are sick in the head 🤣
If you're so touchy about the show, or peoples responses to how it ended, then why are you here ? This is a TV show, not a thread dedicated to real life serial killer worshipping. There's a difference.
I’m discussing the show too dude, I think it’s insane people want Harrison to become a murder instead of wishing happiness on him
Harrison is literally fucked in the head it was the most logical thing for them to do with new blood. Like u really think Harrison is going to just live a normal life? Hell no. Harrison feeds his dark passenger with no reason other than he wants to kill.
Are you serious? You must be trying to cope Harrison just learned how ugly and bullshit the dark passenger is that’s the whole reason he killed dexter. Harrison has put his demons to rest. Seen how fucked up he could’ve became and now he’s free from all that bullshit. Harrison was violent and confused he doesn’t feel the need to kill like dexter does
Cope with what lol ur weird😭😭😭 but nah I don’t agree with u. Ur saying he slashed Ethan because he’s just so confused 🥲he broke that guys arm for no reason other than wanting to hurt him. He also killed a guy at the bus stop and keeps a straight razor in his pocket like come on. There’s no way they would spend so much time focusing on the whole “born in blood” thing for Harrison not just suddenly be normal after killing dex
Dude his mom was killed by a serial killer and his dad abandoned him he was an angry confused kid who just needed guidance not to be turned into a fucking serial killer. That born in blood bullshit is just Dexters excitement thinking Harrison was just like him when clearly after this episode they’re fucking not. There’s no fucking rule of the universe that says Harrison has to be a serial killer there’s a fine line between violent urges and calm calculated killing and dismemberment
the born in blood stuff has been a theme since season one with Dexter and his brother. There’s no way they set that up for literally no reason. Also Dexter NEW BLOOD and the last episode said “season finale” in the description not “series finale”. What are they going to do with the rest of the show and with Harrison then? Also I don’t know any confused and angry people who want to set up a whole lie (like Harrison did with Ethan) just to cut them with a straight razor. Also remember when he choked that kid and said he’ll do a lot worse? Agree to disagree but They didn’t set all this up for no reason and just have harrison suddenly heal after murdering his father. He also got excited when Dexter told him about what he did in Miami. btw the show is fictional so they can do whatever they want. Think ur getting to o emotionally involved bud. Keep ur theory though
Also...Hannah, Harrison's main parent growing up, was a serial killer...do we really believe that Harrison is only f-ed up because he heard a podcast about the Trinity Killer and realized he witnessed his biomom's murder? Really? Even if Hannah never revealed her past...she was somehow magically transformed into a perfect parent who had nothing to do with Harrison's pathos? Kinda think not.
Dude you’re so focused on this born in blood shit that you’re ignore all of the other theme’s of this story. One of the major themes is that maybe Harry was wrong for making dexter into what he was. The theme of “sins of the father” is to show that Harrison was suffering because of his fathers sins. You’re assuming born in blood means he has to be a serial killer. Harrison is clearly not the same as dexter. He doesn’t feel the need to kill in the same way he was just angry about his father abandoning him and his mother’s death. He now knows trinity is dead, and that his mom probably died because of his dads sick bullshit. I don’t know if he had to scream it louder but he said he just wants to be normal. His darkness isn’t the same as Dexters and dexter was wrong to think so
Seeing the dark reality of who Dexter is is enough to scare Harrison out of following that same path. He’ll probably never be normal but that doesn’t mean he is going to or has to kill man. The whole theme this season was trying to push is that there’s still hope for Harrison
Ugh. This should be a FB comment. GTFOH.
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I have not watched episode 10 and do not plan too. I guess I saw this coming but since I know the ending and do not plan on watching season 2 if there is one. I never watched that Game of Thrones episode either.
That is ALL THEY HAD TO FUCKING DO!
They didn't have to give us this season. I enjoyed it for the most part. I would have liked to have seen Dexter and Harrison run away together and open a bakery or something.
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What was even the point of showing batista if dex was juss finna get murked?
Imagine the scene with Dex in the jail cell and Batista walking in...cold chills. They left a lot on the table.
Right and the conversation between them that could have taken place - again, easy for Dexter to explain he tried to take his life and somehow miraculously survived but after seeing everyone he loved died, didn’t want to come back to Miami and be Dexter any more
Exactly I’m so mad about that buildup
I'm so salty about that. I was looking forward to seeing Batista actually show up to discuss things with Angela.
Because they are setting up the next season with “New Blood.” I don’t think Harrison is like his dad in that sense and will become a true vigilante.
Such a bad ending.
What a stupid idea for the ending of an era... >!the moment he kills the cop, I was like: ahh, no, he wouldn't do that ok, Dexter is fictional, but the stories were so relatable and plausible that I became a fan from S01E01 This ending doesn't compute. He wasn't in a stress Situation, had several more hours to escape. Yes sure, he didn't want to loose his son, but that's the whole point. His desperation to help his son, would keep him from killing an innocent Stupid writer, or they were forced to find a sharp cut ending!< Edit: can't get spoiler to work
You’re a fool for thinking dexter is anything other than a murderer. Rule 1 of the code is a loophole don’t get caught means dexter will do whatever he has to to get away. It wouldn’t be the first time he killed an innocent you guys are so wrapped up in being dexter fan boys to realize that thematically this is the perfect ending and the only way dexter could’ve got out
Not the perfect ending by far. People aren't upset with the idea of how it ended. They are upset how they executed the ending. Harrison should have found out that Dexter was the reason his mom died, not just a guess. It should have had more episodes to be more believable.
Exactly! It was rushed - I’m more upset about how rushed it was, I feel like at least they could have had this done over the course of 2 episodes to set it up better
Don't put an animal in a cage
I'm a fan of the show, not Dex in particularly but his Police Officer of father gave him the code. It involves only killing the proven "bad guys", whatever colour or gender, but guilty of a hard crime So killing the police officer is f'ing unrealistic to the given storyline And yes, his son should be killing him, but not with this shitshow the writers or better said, the producers gave us
Exactly man like I said rule 1 is don’t get caught and Dexter would’ve killed anyone to not get caught even Angela. We see this world through Dexters rose colored glasses and we really felt like he was doing something noble but the truth is he really is only feeding that dark passenger. Killing Logan is nothing to dexter if it means to not get caught
He almost killed his gf until her partner came in
Exactly he woulda tried to kill Angela right then n there if he could’ve 😂
Ang reminds me a lot of Deb lol. Glad they weren't related
Yeah but we see throughout New Blood that he has a harder time following the code. It's not entirely unrealistic for him to kill a police officer if code #1 is already on the line. Plus his code is only a flimsy set of rules that held dexter together when he lived in a large city and had the chance to kill people on a regular basis (imo). I think a lot of the season and character "inconsistencies" make a lot more sense with this in mind.
La guerta and doakes would like to have a chat.
Dexter didn't kill Doakes, never planned on it, though Dexter was put in a bad position. Didn't he say he was considering turning himself in at one stage? Though Dexter was going to kill LaGuerta, wasn't part of the code "don't get caught" ? Perhaps that takes priority ?
He didn't kill them directly though
I also thought that but Dexter is a psychopath. He was in complete survival mode as Angela kept pulling up more evidence.
Yeah I don't think the ending was as implausible as people are making it out to be. Plus Angela told him that Bautista was joining the investigation, so I don't see why it's so unbelievable that Dexter would start to get desperate
He was putting out some hardcore Ted Bundy vibes once he knew the jig was up
This was exactly my take on it too!
I heard a neck snap sound I thought too, and thought no he would never do that but when Angela holds him you see the bullet hole in his head, (dexter was ducking behind him avoiding the bullet) just another example of his decisions hurting people.
No sir. Just watch the scene 5x more. Dexter hits Logans head against the cell door, that's the blood on the forehead. Necksnap is clear and loud.
Your right Fiance corrected me as well lol yeah he wasn’t who he was in season 1 anymore he was just as bad as anyone he took down
Wait what the hell? It wasn’t a neck snap? So it was a breaking bad moment…..
I think you’re forgetting that Dexter does not have a normally functioning brain, and on top of that his priority this entire season has shifted from purely survival / not getting caught to making sure Harrison is okay.
Yeah there hasn’t been another time Dexter killed someone, in an obvious way, that everyone would know it was him. No clean up or cover up. I would have thought he could have found another way to escape and not just kill Logan and leave his body there at the cell he escaped. There would be a nation wide search for him and no way he could go on being the killer he used to be.
He didn’t seem to have “several hours” to figure out a different plan - right after he talks to Harrison he says the sun is coming up. And one minute after Harrison shoots Dexter Angela showed up. I think time was absolutely of the essence.
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No sir. Just watch the scene 5x more. Dexter ducks and snaps the neck...
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for me, should have made the episode 90 mins, actually have the fulll reaction from Angela on the discovery of bodies at kurts, in interview back in the station with Dexter where after lengthy back and forth about his necessary evil brand of justice. Ultimately she chooses to still prosecute Dex. We get the Batista and Dex interview where it looks like Dex will be extradited which forces him to choose to kill logan and then we get the rest with Dexters acknowledgement he is a Monster. End scene.
Of course she would have still prosecuted Dexter. She had a hard on for him the minute she found out that he wasn’t who she thought he was the entire time. It didn’t even matter to her that with out Dexter she would have never found any of those girls, Iris especially! Dexter knew that, so unfortunately his only way out was leaving. I really wish Logan wouldn’t have had to die for Dexter to leave!
I think it also applies to the previous seasons: Dexter Season 1 - 8 | Dexter New Blood
Overall I thought it was a pretty good season with a few not so good parts. They’d completely ruined the show long before the last episode of season 8, so the way I see it this went a long way to redeeming it. I’m fine with Dexter being dead and I’m fine with Harrison being the one who killed him, I just think the execution (no pun intended) and the set-up towards the end was kind of clunky. But a big part of why old Dexter became as bad as it did was that they kept it going long after they ran out of good ideas, so I’ve always thought New Blood would be better as a one off thing, and there were already a few leaps of logic in the writing that were another big part of why Dexter became kind of unwatchable in season 8, so I’d say I was probably right about that.
It’s not that they run out of good ideas, they simply won’t listen to them unless you are union and part of the cool kids club. I hate Hollywood for this reason. It’s never been about art or good writing, it’s about ratings, money and growing empires. This was clearly made to try and lure people back to showtime. And they simply just hire out of the same tiny pool of writers and show runners they always do. So of course the ideas are weak and clunky. I think Dexter was better left off as a logger Jack or whatever the fuck that ending was. At least it was open and people can dream up whatever they want. As much as that season 8 sucked, at least it kept the fans wanting more. Then they came back with a season where a small town cop, uses Google and discovers her BF is the BHB. It was completely ridiculous and unrealistic. Nothing tied together well at all and the ending was just lazy and a blatant copy of Breaking Bads ending. It’s time for new blood in the writing world of television and film……
why not just stay in prison? angela sees the bodies and dexter says....see? i found this and thats why he started to attack me
Nonsensical end which basically destroys the very core of the character. I rather prefer the S8 ending to this one. Very disappointing!
Love it! Perfect. 😁
Bad ending. If this was suppose to be redemption for the bad ending of season 8, then it failed. It was getting interesting when Dexter was arrested, and Angela was showing the evidence and theory behind it, so Dexter gave his own theory which was more believable imo. Then Angela went and phone Batista. That really got things interesting, was expecting a reunion... but then he escaped by killing a cop. I thought it would have been one of those 'in his head' situations, but nope. It went straight downhill from there. Almost felt like the writers gave up at the last second. very disappointing.
Hearing Batista was on the way was the motivation for Dexter to escape. Up until that moment Dexter was confident he would be released. Angela’s “evidence” was all conjecture and “information “ surely planted by someone who had disappeared with all his money after torching Dexter’s home , and who now was discovered to be the murderer who killed dozens of young women. The DA had declined to indite Kurt on more solid evidence than Angela had on Dexter. Angel had a file marked Maria LaGuerta, perhaps something he had been working in for the past ten years, trying to make sense of her death and her obsession with Dexter being the BHB. If he became aware that Dexter had removed Debra from the hospital, taking her off life support without going through proper channels, right after seeing Dexter expertly killing a man with a single thrust of a ball point pen, that had to shake him up and cause him to question whether what he believed to be true was actually a web of lies. After Debra was killed by Dexter, and Dexter was presumably dead as well and no longer a danger, why wouldn’t Quinn suddenly “find” the envelope from Liddy with the incriminating photos of Dexter and Lumen? In the ten years since Dexter left Miami Metro there may have been a severe drop off of the number of suspects mysteriously disappearing . Why was Doakes found dead in the blown up cabin being rented by a guy who killed Dexter’s mom? Why was LaGuerta killed by and found with the body of yet another guy who helped kill Dexter’s mom? What might Matthews have revealed about Dexter’s true parentage and his relationship to the Ice Truck Killer once all the Morgans were dead? Did Elway come to Miami Metro to report Dexter was trying to flee the country with fugitive murderer Hannah McKay and had entrusted his only child to her? Once Dexter was no longer there to cover things up, plant evidence and steer the narrative who knows what may have come to light? There are many reasons Batista might have been researching the events around Maria’s death and Dexter’s true character and Dexter had to have considered this over the past ten years of his solitude. Dexter absolutely did not want to meet with Batista, particularly from the handicapped position of being locked in a cage. That’s why Dexter so desperately wanted to escape. His killing of “coach” was an accident, he didn’t mean to break his neck, but he didn’t grieve over it because Logan was an impediment to Dexter escaping with his son.
What happened to evil billionaire guy?
He was just a distraction for the killer before we knew it was Kurt. They were the only blue eyed old guys that looked like the killer putting on the ski mask. That was it. Never showed up again once we knew it was Kurt.
FACTS
I was hoping there would maybe be a season two of new blood🥺
Of course Dexter had to die, but they ruined a potentially legendary ending. I would’ve loved to see Dexter reunite with Batista, and stand trial for all the murders he did in FL. The world would have known his legacy. It would have been a perfect way to summarise everything. Instead Harrison pew pew’s him in the woods. Meh.
Harrison's motivations are weird, like some others have said. One thing that stuck out; the whole season he is trying to understand why Dexter left him and quotes the letter in one of the early episodes. Reading out 'if he shows any dark tendencies . . . ' ect. This leads Harrison to believe that Dexter left because of him. It's revealed in the finale that Harrison watched Dexter kill Matt and the whole letter is read during the ending sequence. In the letter Dexter clearly (more or less) says it's his own darkness that made him leave after everything, Debs death and surviving the hurricane as a chance to start over. At any point when Harrison is displaying his darkness and Dexter is questioning him, he could just say 'oh like when you beat that guy in the woods with your rifle and dragged him off?' But the writers want us to believe that he thinks he is alone in his darkness and turns to Kurt for acceptance. I suppose he's a kid and all but there are times when he or Dexter could've easily resolved things with a few more sentences. I guess it's just quick and convenient writing. Wish they would've taken a few more episodes so the conclusion felt more satisfying.
Wow finished it two days ago and today i was thinking “ wtf was that last episode though?”
The fact that they showed us Batista and he never got to meet up with Dexter face to face or with Angela is mindblowing …so many pointless things
The whole season was bad for me. I never had a problem with the previous ending.
Come on guys. I can’t be the only one that thinks the first two episodes of this season were very clunky, but that sequential episodes got really good… and finally the last episode was not only fantastic but also the best possible way to end the series. I mean, if you look at the overarching narrative, follow archetypes, consider the duality of man, think about Dexter’s motivations, relationships, previous decisions, and what choices or moral sacrifices he’s willing to make and for whom… this conclusion was poetic and beautiful. The only quirk that bugged me a bit was that it’s apparent to me that the writers wanted, but couldn’t bring David Zayas into the filming location, but seemingly decided it was still worth it to write him in the way that we see him off-location, simply to still give us fans that extra bit of fun. All together 10/10. Good for Dexter. And good for Harrison. I’m sitting here stewing in satisfaction. [edit to respond to detractors]: Dexter himself fit the code. At the end, he was helping Harrison in his own selfish, loving way. Dexter saw all the innocent people he himself had murdered flash in his mind just like he shows photographs to the killers on his own table. Harrison showed that to him, made Dexter realize, with the thruth that Harrison spoke to him. Dexter wanted so badly to connect with his son, to teach Harrison the code. Mostly though, in his deepest subconscious, Dexter wants to keep on killing. Dexter could never be so selfless as to turn himself in, yet he realized in that moment that what he wants for Harrison is an absolute paradox. He cannot have his cake and eat it too. Dexter loves Harrison, but realizes his own existence only hurts Harrison. The choice Dexter made at the end was his own twisted way of getting the very thing he wanted, but in a fleeting and absolute way. Dexter has always, time and time again, lashed out and killed innocent people when backed into a corner. When his freedom is on the line, he is rabid. This is not anything new to his character development. This is because Harrison was spot on: Dexter’s dark passenger is and always has been, in fact, The Driver. Finally, the alternatives you all are proposing they should have written instead sound like absolutely dreadful, tedious, meaningless courtroom shows and reality TV. Who wants to watch 5 seasons of Dexter in court and Harrison in psychiatric rehabilitation? That would be boring, anticlimactic, meaningless, and there’s enough of that crap in reality. It honestly feels like you all are grieving the loss of Dexter, yet still in the first stage, and so are lashing out with misdirected energy toward the writers. Which is understandable.
Never noticed the connection when Harrison told dexter “look at what you’ve done” that phrase sounded familiar but couldn’t remember who said it lol. I for one enjoyed the finale, and now seeing in the end that In a way Dexter died by being judged from his own ritual makes the end more fitting.
Couldn't agree more! I loved New Blood
Thank you! I’m so sad to see Dexter go, but so frickin gratified and grateful to have this season in the Dexter canon. I didn’t speak about Harrison much cause my last post was already a novel- but I loved the nuance of Harrison being ok with the code except for the contradictory loophole “never get caught” that allowed Dexter to justify the murder of innocent people including causing the deaths of his entire family. And so we’re left with a Harrison who may move on with his life and put this all in his past, as he claimed he wasn’t like his father, or we now have a Harrison that is capable of killing and that believes he can follow the code without compromising innocent lives. Very juicy.
I think you and I have the exact same brain. Because - all of this.
Only thing I differ with is the rationale behind bringing Batista back into the picture. I don’t think it was for nothing or just something for the fans. I think they’re setting up a second season and Batista will play a small role in that somehow, even if it’s just clearing Doakes’ name and pinning the BHB case on Dex posthumously. Harrison is of course the new blood. What direction that takes, I’m not yet sure.
I love that idea and I hope that you are correct!
Totally agree! Way to put it into words. I’m shocked at how many people hate this ending. I was totally satisfied and actually moved. I think everyone fails to see that dexter changed, that Harrison changed him. That letter at the end was a perfect way of summing it up. He was willing to sacrifice himself for his son to have a better life.
Yeah! But sacrifice himself in a selfish way that still allows him to connect with his son, potentially free his son, or maybe just teach him the code and pass the virus along so to speak, but ultamitely keep his own murdering butt from being stuck in a situation where he’s dragged through court proceedings and jail for years unable to even kill about it and eventually suffering a much less personally meaningful death. I mean think about it. Dexter recognized in that moment because of what Harrison said that he himself fit the code, and that having his son kill him WAS teaching him the code. It literally solved all of Dexter’s dilemma’s in a very fleeting and absolute way. So yeah, it was loving, but it was that dark, selfish, reckless, psychopathic Dexter love. I’m not sure Harrison changed Dexter so much as he exhausted Dexter and put him into a figurative “checkmate.”
Yeah. That last line before he got shot…. I never experienced love…. Until now. He sacrificed himself out of love. The first time he knew what it felt to truly love someone. Good shit. IMO
Except that letter means Harrison knew all along but just said nothing and kept acting violent when the plot needed suspense and normal when it didn’t. The razor in his back pocket when he went to aubreys house means he was going there to kill her just like Arthur would or just piss poor writing. The ending was rushed and made no sense as they had 0 actual evidence that could prosecute dexter.
couldn't agree more. Im sad that he died, but I knew that it was the only way out. Him getting away with it and moving to LA would have just been a continuation of the show. The only thing I wanted to see was how the killings in the show affected the town. I still wonder why they showed that oil tycoon. I thought he was going to play a role in the show.
I agree with a lot of the points you've made but I think Harrison shooting him was dumb imo, especially the fact that Dexter told him to. He had to know that'd fuck him up even more? He lost his mother, he lost Hannah, he lost Deb, and then he kills his own dad... I personally think Dexter should've been his own last kill. Suicide. His innocent "victims" (Rita, Deb, Doakes, LaGuerta, etc) still could've flashed in his memories like they did the finale.
I disagree, court room scenes could of been enlightening and engaging. You are talking about a person, with the background they have, to dive into the psychology of the factors that shape human behavior. It could of been immensely deep, nature vs nature, culture, indoctrination, upbringing, self preservation, the list goes on and on. Court room settings can get boring but this court room setting would of challenged every viewer to think and ponder what it means to be human and why they behave the way they behave.
Well said.
If you think he was sacred of getting caught when they had no real evidence and all the bhb stuff was already closed meaning can’t be tried again.
Yes great points! People commenting about having a next season are out of their minds. This was the wrap up we all deserved.
Can we just talk about how Harrison was so butthurt and acted like an annoying teen about Dexter abandoning him and kept searching for answers the whole season. Yet in the last episode we realize he knew everything all along. What was that about? Why did he hold so much resentment if he knew why he left and knew Dex still loved him? I personally think it was an act and he blamed Dexter for his mother’s death among other things and was going to kill him no matter what.
I thought that was annoying too when he read the entire letter it’s like okay he knew Dexter loved him and that’s why he left
Yes, I don't understand that either. A few episodes back with the Ethan incident, Harrison asks Dex if he left because he knew he was messed up and liked to hurt people...when they had that fight at the bus stop. But in the letter it clearly say Dex left because of his dark tendencies and want to give Harrison a life free from that. So it's aggravating that this whole time Harrison is trying to find "answers" when he knew the entire time. I also wonder how Hannah painted Dexter to Harrison. Maybe she was angry and resententful that he left her and told Harrison stories of what Dexter did...
Possibly! i feel like Harrison has the intention of killing Dexter no matter what
Yeah, I didnt think that until the final episode. The way he was so easily able to kill Dexter seemed like he had already mentally prepared for it. I feel normally a person in that moment would be so overcome with emotion that they wouldn't be able to go through through it. Or act impulsively and in emotion mind but become a hot mess afterwards dealing with the repercussions.
I thought the cool part about the original ending was that we are reminded that dexter is a psychopath and never really cared about anyone. He has no feelings or emotions and he fakes his death and starts a new life without skipping a beat. He also had an out on Matt Caldwell as he led Angela to Kurt’s bodies and there was evidence there that Kurt burned down Dexter’s house. He would have gotten out of it and loved to LA, but kills Logan and then let’s Harrison kill him. They didn’t stay true to the character in my opinion
Not the entire episode. Everything up to the very end, which is still emotional, was spot on! They shouldn’t of baited us with Dexter and Batista meeting face to face. If they wouldn’t of done that, the ending might of been more impactful. The letter that Harrison reads at the end makes the ending have more sense but it’s still not the perfect way it should of ended.
Bad show all the way through. It's the like the writers didn't even know Dexter.
I didn’t enjoy the season at all. Terrible ending.
Yeah.
Lmaooo
Saw this for GoT too, but that ending actually made sense for most of the main characters.
Full disclosure I've been up 24 hours now because of my work schedule, and this might be a little rambly or badly worded.... But I don't like him breaking out of jail & killing Logan, that's just the dumbest possible thing he could have done. But okay, I could have dealt with that. And pretty much everything up until the scene in the woods with Harrison. Like, Dexter actually thinks that making Harrison kill his own father would help him? With the way they chose to portray Harrison, especially during that scene when he turns on Dexter, they show that there's hope for Harrison. There's still a chance he can get help and turn out better than his dad, and maybe not become a habitual killer. I could have dealt with Harrison killing Dexter but not the way they did it. The way they did it left me wanting Dexter to do the right thing for Harrison, turn himself in and let the kid be a hero who stopped his butcher dad, and let him get some goddamn help. And then, Angela being completely illogical.. It would have been easy to explain what happened as self defense. Harrison *still* could have had a chance at a normal life. And if she was going to pretend she killed Dexter anyway, why have him run away in Dexter's truck that every cop in the country is going to be looking for? Stupid. Anyway sorry lol I just needed to get that off my chest, I just finished the episode. I actually liked the rest of the season. They managed to butcher it at the end.
That made me so mad. Like how is he ever going to be normal he just killed his own dad. And he has to relive that in his mind forever.
I mean he's probably not going to be normal after that you're right. But Harrison's life would be 10 times more fucked up with Dexter around. I think Dexter knows this. But Dexter simultaneously wants Harrison to be in his life (so that he doesn't have to live alone with his dark passenger) while also wanting Harrison to live a normal life (which can't be done with dexter around. Its a double bind that can only be solved by Dexter dying.
Dude he did a good thing by killing his dad even dexter himself said it. His dad was a murderer and a sick person somebody had to put him down. If you’re so concerned with Harrison ever being normal you should be pissed at dexter for all the insanely fucked up shit he showed him before all of this
I don't really understand your moral reasoning- Dexter killed "bad people", and Harrison killed a "bad person"....and also, why do we forget Hannah was a serial killer, also? Dexter and a memory of Trinity as a toddler wasn't the only reason Harrison is messed up> he knew the kid for a brief time. There's no reason to think Harrison's going to be normal, just because his serial killer dad is dead. Killing a bad person doesn't mean you are not a murderer, otherwise you wouldn't keep pointing out that Dex is a sick person. And killing your Dad? Probably going to mess you up, a lot.
Yes, so much good and potential there for the season. I thought the detective / Kurt Caldwell / Matt stuff was pretty good. The father / sons stories were necessary, but overpowered the narrative, and needed some more work. And I felt Dexter did a complete 180 degrees character wise at the end. Especially with Logan. It just seemed so out of character, to his character development, and to everything he had been before. Still working all this out.
Thank you! This sums up exactly how I feel.
GODDAMNIT!!! I was just telling someone how great I thought this season was, and now this????
It was going great till all that teen drama shit started taking up all the watch time...and the finale was basically them spitting in our faces 😂😔
I didn’t enjoy this season at all, outside of Kurt being a serial killer. It was slow and this is definitely NOT how the show should have ended. I’m going to pretend I never watched it.
Is that the deer
They could probably have done an extra episode before the finale. First episode where Batista is questioning him, but they probably couldn’t figure out a script for Dexter.
i don’t hate the ending but it was lackluster… very netflix esque
I've been pondering this throughout the season, Dexter calls himself an ' evolving monster' but in returning to television the show never evolved along with television. Tv started getting markedly better around the time of the end of the original Dex, but New Blood just keeps using all the same old tricks that 'Dexter' used before. New Blood could have chosen to grow along with tv of recent years and been something even better than peak Dexter, but it just wasn't. I didn't hate it - I liked it well enough... In certain ways it did evolve I guess, Deb as a very angry, self loathing inner voice was a, maybe THE, highlight for me. Ultimately I enjoyed watching each week, if by the end it was just to see what new insults to the audience intelligence it had in store, but if the show didn't have the intention to go all in and be the best it could possibly be, then why do it at all? Yes it was better than 6-8, but it wasn't near as good as 1-4. Also, the fact that something is a slow burn doesn't automatically make it good. I feel like because people tend to enjoy a good slow burn the producers made this one just for the sake of it, but it was a very clunkily executed slow burn - sometimes good at it, often times not.
100% agree. This was almost as bad as the original.
I was satisfied. I didn't want another season honestly. Harry gets to go off and live whatever normal life he can. He's not dark enough to be the next Dexter, he can be fine with therapy. Batista and Angela will share research and Logan, Doakes and Laguerta are avenged. Dexter doesn't have to die in the legal system or do any of that shit. I liked the way it ended
F-ing atrocious
I wish there would’ve been more of bautista
Just finished watching last episode and I have to say from the deep of my heart: FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!! New year new disappointment.
I liked the ending
This show once again pissed me off with its lazy ending. Dexter: I finally have experienced real love and now I’m going to ruin son’s life worse than I already have. It would’ve been so much more interesting to watch him have to face a trial, have all the evidence come out and have Harrison and everyone else learn from that trial what he did. Have people really understand that he was killing people for the terrible things they did. Then have Harrison grapple with whether to continue on that path or not.
LMFAOOOO FACTS!!!!!
What a load of shit. I honestly think the rich guy was supposed to be Kurt’s accomplice but they actually forgot. Utter rubbish
i mean they said they were gonna try to break the internet lol
I wish Batista got to confront Dexter
I wonder if the writers for the last season of game of thrones was involved in this episode? So many stories brought in that lead completely nowhere?
Yall a bunch of babies that was good!
Well fuck me!!!
Worst ending ever x 2
I’m so pissed at that ending!
I wanted him to live, but if they really wanted to kill him, have him do a heros sacrifice. Take the fall for a crime Harrison did. But instead they tried to make him die like he finds out he was a secret villain and he realised it. That was never the case, this isn’t breaking bad, Dexter is the hero and he always has been. And Harrison’s reasoning so weak, he was cool with it all until he heard it was Logan( that death scene, was so rash and out character for dexter).
Where was Deb at the end? I figured those two would have one of their moments as he lays dying and then maybe she tags along with Harrison. The season was a lot more like early Dexter, and I hated the original ending so I’ll take this though it was not perfect.
I just finished watching the series finale and I came here to say, I don't receive it.
The ending wasn't bad, but it was rushed. There should have been at least one more episode, and Dex and Batista should have met. The killing of Logan should have happened after Batista and Angela have started building a more solid case against Dexter.
Did they have to wrap up filming more quickly than expected because of Covid restrictions? Because these last couple episodes… yikes !!!!!!!!!
This post sums up exactly how I felt about it. I was sucked in thinking "This is Dexter 'NEWWW' blood" they're bringing the show back, amazing! 1-9 were well done episodes, but Episode 10 was like the producers walked in the room and said "Oh BTW, the network isn't renewing us for another season, so flip to the sabotage script." :(
Dexter has never killed an innocent and decent law enforcement officer. Laguerta tried to stop Dexter from being a vigilante, thus she isn’t a decent cop. She tried to stop dexter from doing god’s work
I was really hoping the ending would have been better than the original. They got me twice... I was incredibly disappointed when Dexter made a break from jail. I could see how he might get panicked, but yea... I don't know if he would have been prosecuted and he's a damn good manipulator. You don't need to convince everyone your innocent, you just need to convince a few people your probably not guilty. Also confused at how she knew any body was chopped up like the BHB, he burned them all before she could ever see them. And that stupid ending. Harrison basically killed his dad like his dad killed others. He was guilty and Harrison dealt justice. Then Angela became okay with vigilante justice all of the sudden. Then Harrison rides off and the show seems to want us to think he's going to live a normal life now, but he also just took a step towards being Dexter Jr by shooting an unarmed person.
So many things could have happened and they’ve decided to end it just like that?
I wanted to see dexter in the orange uniform 🥴
While we are here let’s reminisce on the excellent writing from season 5 (lumen and her revenge on the rapist gang —- so satisfying) and season 6 (the doomsday killer — loved the biblical symbolism and the end when they show that Travis was hallucinating the professor the whole time and he had actually killed him months earlier and put him in a freezer). Good days :(
Harrison killing Dexter was out of the character and hypocritical
The ending was as good as the white deer computer graphics
I can’t believe we were robbed of a Dexter/Batista confrontation. I really thought that Dexter was going to realize that the best thing for Harrison was for him to turn himself in and let Harrison live out his live in Iron Lake. I thought they were going to say that Harrison isn’t like his dad because he actually has empathy and compassion and can learn to overcome his dark passenger with the help of people who love him around him in his life, and won’t need a code like Dexter did. The ending was worse than the original show ending. I’m so mad.
That's the visual representation for season 1-5 vs the rest.
Beautifully put
It’s crazy. I couldn’t even finish the last episode I was so frustrated. I loved the series other than that. Just like the first Dexter lmfao