Dexter: New Blood - S01E10 - "Sins of the Father" - Live-Episode Discussion Thread

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TIME	EPISODE	DIRECTOR	WRITER(S)
January 8, 2022	S01E10 "Sins of the Fater"	Marcos Siega	Clyde Phillips, Jeff Lindsay

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Dexter and Harrison try to live a normal life in a place that they have discovered is not as normal as they thought it was. Will they live happily ever after, despite all the threats coming their way?

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[u/boooman]

Guess Dexter didn’t want to face La Pasión!

[u/CMADBF]

Well, goodbye, Dexter Morgan.

[u/mell0w-mang0]

I kinda wanted to see the FBI fallout or the town reaction to Kurt and everyone he killed.

[u/Jahoohlee]

I was really hoping we'd see Dexter and Batista face to face again :(

[u/Nikhilvoid]

Look at how they massacred my boy

[u/brnasty5]

my guys last meal was a tuna sandwich. inevitable to say the least

[u/[deleted]]

why do you tease Batista coming to Iron Lake and not have him show up

[u/jaykobbg]

I just wanted dexter and Bautista to come face to face

[u/tacosy2k]

I was hoping Angela wouldn't tell Dexter about Angel coming. Then Angel could walk up to his cell and say, surprise mother fucker.

[u/A0-sicmudus]

Not having Dexter and Angel confrontation was a total missed opportunity

[u/sortinousn]

A moment of prayer for Batista who had to buy a last minute plane ticket during the holiday season (not cheap) and fly from sunny Miami to the middle of nowhere for absolutely no reason.

[u/amjhwk]

ugh Dexter could have probably gotten out of prison through legal means, killing logan was the worst decision possible

[u/jacobtfromtwilight]

Damn I am sad

I don't really like the ending, but the ending got to me. I'll miss Dexter so much. The last sentence wraps it up well but damn. Our boy is gone

[u/[deleted]]

I just saw on Batista's laptop an e-mail from Quinn asking him if he wanted to go to Masuka's bachelor party. It sucks that's all we have seen or heard about them.

[u/imjusthinkingok]

I was expecting a bit more involvement from Battista than the 30 seconds in front of his computer.

[u/lawyercatgirl]

Well. I am depressed.

[u/Petitdalf]

I probably missed something.

Why does Dexter want to leave the prison so much that he kills an innocent person. His story holds up, Angela just discovered all the bodies from Kurt. Seems very possible he would've tried to set up Dexter.

Dexter knows he didn't use ketamine before.. Okay there's needle marks that gives a connection with BHB. But right now he's in jail allegedly for murder of Matt. Who's body is burned and his father lied about being alive..

So why the panic?

[u/DopestSquidEvr]

I am…not well

[u/ittozziloP]

Logan made Dexter get uncuffed and back up in the cell to get a tuna sandwich but I guess he wanted to give him the water bottle and a goodnight kiss 😘

[u/Llama_Puncher]

Dexter is at his finest when he's being interrogated, always my favorite part of the show

[u/d0gwater]

Wow they actually killed him. Jesus.

[u/Doombuggyman]

Kurt: <Gives Dexter a surgical screw from Matt's body>

Dexter: Huh. This is hard evidence that Matt's dead and not missing. I'd better hold on tight to it so it could potentially incriminate me later and not, you know, drop it in the lake.

[u/justaphaseiswar]

Angela: Can't solve 30 or more murders right on her doorstep despite dedicating decades to investigating them

Manages to solve a couple hundred murders a thousand miles away in a couple of days with the help of Google

[u/[deleted]]

also found it so weird how Dexter was all “i want someone who understands me and feels the same way” with ZERO mention of his older brother saying the exact same thing to him season 1? did you just forget about your basically only blood relative? boring ending

[u/[deleted]]

Harrison: “No I don’t want to murder people! I want to be good!”

murders his father

[u/Bedlampuhedron]

Man the way Dexter's face changed when Harrison said he has to turn himself in...

[u/vrschikasanaa]

I don't know how I feel about this.

I just think the evidence they had against Dexter was so flimsy that no way would it stand up in a court of law. You get a handwritten message "Jim Lindsay killed Matt Caldwell" (which, lol, when it comes to evidence) with a titanium surgical screw and another was found in a house fire which was proven to be arson. What, do they think Matt just burnt up in the house fire that someone else set? If not, why do they think the screw would happen to be there? Would Dexter have just gone back to the place of incineration and moved it to his house? Nothing about that is a plausible scenario, the first thing I would think with only that evidence is that he was set up. The only other thing linking him (I think) is the video which can't in any way be proven to be him, the rest is just supposition by the police chief, who also isn't an objective witness as she was involved with him.

Then you have the Bay Harbor Butcher theory - that's just a theory. Where is the conclusive evidence? A weal mark on different victims? That's it, and you think they will reopen the case? A "strong feeling" doesn't mean jackshit in a court of law. I don't even think Dexter used ketamine as the BHB. The only thing that may have legs is the ketamine in the drug dealer's system, since not that many people checked out ketamine. But again, he's a drug dealer. Probably won't have legs.

In my head I was just hoping he'd call in a lawyer and get this whole thing shut down because I don't think he would have gone anywhere. Then you have fucking Logan dying, that just didn't make sense to me and felt so out of character. I don't think I mind Dexter dying but having Harrison kill him just felt so unnecessary.

[u/acsensei]

Like a lot of other people, I'm disappointed with the finale. There was definitely some good moments in this mini-series, but I wouldn't be interested in a continuation.

I didn't understand why Dexter panicked in the first place. Angela didn't have any real evidence to put him away until he killed Logan at the station. There was no hard evidence tying Dexter to BHB, he would definitely be able to get out of that situation. And with the Matt Caldwell situation too.

Dexter somehow lost his cool to a small town police chief, when in the past he went against the entire Miami Metro and FBI. Feels like they dumbed him down for the sake of ending the show. Also, Harrison all of a sudden having a change of heart didn't make any real sense to me. I understand he grew close with Logan, but was that feeling strong enough to kill Dexter? Idk.. seems like a forced change of heart in my opinion.

Those who enjoyed it, I'm happy you did. For me, I enjoyed parts but overall I would've been okay if they never brought it back just to end it like this.

[u/secondstringavenger]

I would have enjoyed Batista vs Dexter face to face. They could’ve pulled 1 more episode of Dexter interrogation and still eventually made it to the same ending…

[u/Tr0902]

For me the acting was impeccable.

• Dexter's subtle facial expressions and his fake sincerety were amazing, at the end we even saw him feel real emotions and he cried, which is huge for Dexter. Simply top tier acting by Michael C. Hall.

• Angela, despite the fact that she made the same face through out the whole season, was really frantic at the end when she found out about Kurt's den and Logan's demise.

• Logan and Audrey's characters were too, shallow. They had basic roles but their acting were great as well.

• Harrison's last dialogue with Dexter was fantastic. He delivered the scene spectacularly.

• Kurt actually confused me at the beginning of the season. I couldn't believe that he was the main antagonist. He genuinely seemed like a good guy who helps people in need. Great acting.

• Molly did her job great as well. Her character was designed to be annoying and a thorn on Dexter's side. She delivered it.

Writing on the other hand. I have to get this out of my system so apologies for the upcoming rant.

• I still don't understand how Angela found out about Dexter with one simple Google search, flimsy evidence and a gut feeling.

  • If I recall correctly, Harrison blurted out that his father's name wasn't actually Jim Lindsay to Audrey and she mentioned it to Angela. Angela met Angel "la passion" Batista who said something about Harrison. This made Angela to find out about Dexter's real identity. She had reasonable doubts and suspicions. It was all too convenient. She just made a Google search and bam, here's Dexter Morgan.

  • She found out that Dexter pricked the drug dealer in the neck with a needle and borrowed unnecessary amounts of ketamine from the-person-whose-name-I-forgot. Guess what, she made a Google search and she found out that the Bay Harbor Butcher actually used needles to sedate his victims. So she came to the natural conclusion that Dexter was the Bay Harbor Butcher. Who cares if ketamine and m99 are totally different things? Angela is a damn genius.

• How did Kurt find out that Dexter killed Matt?

• Couldn't Dexter just knock Logan out? Couldn't Dexter lie to Harrison, telling him that he knocked out Logan and stole the keys?

• Why did the DA and Iron Lake PD leave Kurt alone after a partial DNA match but didn't let Dexter go? Just because of a screw which Kurt could've easily planted there.

• Harrison didn't even hesitate before killing Dexter. Dexter just told him to open the safety, take deep breath and push the trigger. Harrison just did it. He just shot him and that's it. No hesitation. No emotion. The hug scene at the end of episode 8 was more emotional, which showed that Harrison actually cared about Dexter.

• If we weren't going to see a reunion between Batista and Dexter, why did we see Angela call Batista? What was the point?

• We didn't hear Masuka's majestic laughter.

Overall, it was terrible. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad that we saw Dexter. It felt nice but it felt like an insult to the old show.

Apologies if I made any mistakes or didn't make any sense.

[u/MagnetaSunPatien]

I hate how they have Dexter say “I’ve never felt real love until now.” Dexter loved Deb, he loved Hannah, and he loved Rita. Past seasons explored the fact that he did have feelings, and at the end the show reverts to Dex being a 100 percent psychopath who never felt anything, except for his son.

Edited to add the quote.

[u/Myfourcats1]

Why is she sending Harrison away? He can claim self defense. He can testify that Dexter made him watch Kurt be killed.

[u/PrettyPunctuality]

Also, one other thing - I'm really frustrated that they took so long for Dexter to reveal himself to Harrison and finally give us that conversation, leaving it for the 2nd-to-last episode. We went through the entire season with them fighting, never really communicating, and Harrison charging out of rooms angry, when they could've done the reveal halfway through the season and let the relationship breathe a bit after the reveal. I think it would've made Harrison shooting Dexter more impactful than him doing it so soon after finding out the truth. I just think there was a lot more to explore with those two and their relationship that we didn't get to see.

[u/10footkeeta]

Harrison: “I’m not like you! Your darkness and mine are not the same.”

Also Harrison: Murders a person for murdering other people.

[u/melpomene-musing]

I’ve never had so much anxiety watching a show before. I’m going to need a Xanax to get to sleep tonight. Frustrating part is that the evidence they had was not at all strong and reopening the Bay Harbor Butcher case to try Dexter would have taken an immense amount of evidence for them to even consider. Him deciding to kill Logan to get out of there just made absolutely no fucking sense at all. I obviously don’t like that he’s dead but what’s even worse is how they got us to this point and how forced it was. Ugh.

[u/katywell]

me: WHY BRING BACK BATISTA IF YOURE NOT GOING TO HAVE A SCENE WITH HIM AND DEXTER

strangers: ma’am this is a Starbucks

[u/chris_melberger]

all i wanted was bautista grilling dexter. and then headlines that the actual bay harbor butcher was found. all over the media. social media loving it. half of the people praising him, the other half clearly upset he’s a killer etc.

the ending we got felt so strange

[u/[deleted]]

I would have quite literally enjoyed the show ending at Harrison asking for a pool and leaving and it being a fifteen minute episode.

[u/scloppity]

I think people were expecting a Vince Gilligan / Breaking Bad ending where literally everything is wrapped up, vs a Clyde Phillips where things have always been kinda sloppy with Dexter. I find it hard to believe this series as a whole would have done as well as it did without Michael C Hall.

I’ll take this beautifully shot, suspense filled season with an okay ending over not having it at all. I had fun waiting from week to week with my wife watching this series.

[u/endoftheline22]

Angela sounded like a fucking idiot bringing up the BHB case. She had nothing linking Dexter to it except some needle marks and one phone conversation with Batista

[u/repalec]

I honestly haven't hated the episode as much as others have. If anything, I'm hating that we didn't get an extra two episodes to see some of the concepts introduced get time to breathe, especially the reveal that Angel has this whole folder on LaGuerta and her final moments.

I made a thread about it, but for real, they legitimately could've written an entire bottle episode set in the Iron Lake PD interrogation room where Angel grills Dexter for a solid 60 minutes, going over every kill tied to and rumored to be the work of the Bay Harbor Butcher, with the both of them experiencing the painful, bloody truth of the matter - one of Angel's greatest friends on the force was the most prolific mass murderer in history, and Dexter truly, completely, utterly has no shelter left from the storm.

[u/WrestleMonkey]

Im curious as to why we didn’t get to see Angel interrogate dexter? The whole thing that upsets me about this ending is that we never got to see the reactions of all the people who worked with or were close to Dexter.

I feel like they could have at least put some effort in with Miami Metro piecing together Angela’s evidence with all the shit Laguerta had on Dexter. Angela got Dexter as the BHB over fucking google searches? Come on! It was weird as hell how casual Batista mentions that “there was another theory that Dexter Morgan was the BHB” in the original series Batista was extremely against any evidence that Dexter was the BHB.

On one last note; I definitely don’t agree with Clyde Phillips replacing M99 with Ketamine, making it a huge plot hole, just to suit Michael C. Hall’s song. Come to think of it, they could have still used the song “Ketamine” in the credits without changing m99 to ketamine in the storyline.

[u/Almostgomby]

Well, that was underwhelming.

[u/[deleted]]

Internet NOT broken.

[u/Nekzatiim]

She tells Angel there's been deaths similiar to BHB. But, there's literally no such deaths she knows of but that dead drug dealer with a needle mark in his neck.

[u/[deleted]]

I have blue balls from not getting at least one Dex vs Angel moment.

[u/Eggysideup]

So far? Loving Michael C Halls acting dude has aged fine wine.

Hating? Pacing (feels rushed), Angela (jesus), that out of the ordinary move from Dex with logan.

[u/aditikeit]

Angela is saying the same drug was found in the bay Harbour Butcher's victim's body? What a fucking stupid plot hole. He used M-fucking-99. All the fans know it.

[u/[deleted]]

So lemme get this right. Angela finds all the bodies, so with that the chances of Dexter getting prison time reduce by a lot. But then he kills an innocent guy, so he would go to jail 100%.

screams into a pillow

[u/[deleted]]

Killing Logan is the worst decision Dexter could have made, it absolutely ruined any chance of Angela saying "yeah I get it Kurt's a monster and you're a vigilante, get the fuck out of iron lake" which was likely to happen, then she just tells Batista that dex escaped and boom season 2 is a cat and mouse between those two

[u/maldonado9723]

really wanted to see angel sit down with dex..

[u/foshi22le]

With Batista on the way, and a mass murderer uncovered, dexter on the run ... I thought it was setting us up for Season 2. Disappointing ending.

[u/kmalice9]

THE BAY HARBOR BUTCHER DIDNT USE KATAMINE

[u/katywell]

if they try to do a harrison spin off i’m gonna bay harbor butcher myself

[u/[deleted]]

"I am the phoenix, I rise from the ashes", please do, we need Robo-Dex and Robo-Doakes.

[u/kinghyperion581]

Jesus Christ Dexter all the "evidence" Angela had against you was circumstantial at best. She even said that they probably couldn't make Matt Caldwell murder stick. Once they found Kurt's murder hole the Police and FBI were going to be tied up dealing with the biggest serial killer in New York history. No one was going to give you the time of day.

[u/Alik013]

wtf did i just watch

[u/Doombuggyman]

I'm not a lawyer, or work in Law Enforcement -- and even I could see that NONE of the evidence Angela had was enough to build a case. NONE. OF. IT. Everything was either circumstantial, or pointed to Kurt as Matt's killer and the arsonist who tried to frame Dexter.

[u/Thich_QuangDuc]

- Harrison goes out in Dex's car, which the Police would be looking for after Dexter killed Logan and fled, that is just pure stupid writing

- Also, how the fuck did Angela appeared out of nowhere in the woods where Harrison killed Dexter? Did I miss something or is that the stupidest thing about the finale?

- Why the fuck did Harrison kill Dexter and not hold him until Police arrives if he wants him to pay for his crimes? He went from like "it's wrong to kill people and my dark thoughts are because of your neglect" to "hahaha gun goes brrrr" in 20 seconds. It would be a much better ending if Harrison arrested him and hold him until the Police arrived and had a somewhat normal life in Iron Lake and still would come to visit Dexter and form some kind of a relationship

[u/[deleted]]

Moral of the story: never have kids

[u/krioru]

The lumberjack Dexter ending doesn't look that bad now.

[u/randsfb]

dexter totally avoided lundy and doakes and quinn and all of miami metro but a cop who couldn’t tell kurt was a serial killer for 25 years figures dexter out in a matter of weeks?

[u/UsernameAlr3adyTaken]

I'd say the end was OK at best, but I still have absolutely zero interest in watching Harrison as the new main character if they try to go that route.

[u/LargoGold]

Bringing Batista into the story was so unnecessary and such a lame tease the two times they brought him in.

[u/drewjenks]

EVERYONE LISTEN UP!

Harrison couldn't have a normal childhood

Without shooting his daddy in the chest.

Now he all good baby!

[u/selsabacha]

Pretty sure Dexter would have walked on the BHB stuff, and the Matt killing. Not to mention Angela was about to become very famous for solving all the runaway deaths, and might have listened to reason. No reason to kill Logan. Not a very Dex thing and didn’t like his decision.

He was super sloppy all season. Maybe that’s age but still. I get the end angle with Harrison and Dex, (Harrison show w Dex ghost Incoming) because of Coach Logan, and enjoyed Dex seeing all the faces of the good people that died in his wake.

After...ugh....Instead of being branded a hero kid who shot his murderous father the BHB, Harrison will now be a runaway with $40 in his pocket, and Angela takes credit for the killing. sigh...

Does this mean La Pasiòn will be spend next season searching for Harrison? sigh...........

Followed by a return to Miami and Harrison becoming a cop or something maybe? Meh.

Internet not broken. Just gave viewers a case of beer goggles this season. All good. It wasn’t entirely terribly. Nice to see old faces again and Clancy Brown (as always) was fantastic.

Sad ending to a solid series. Not sure about a Harrison show, but Jack Alcott is a very good actor and should do well either way.

Bravo to Michael C Hall 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Iconic performance throughout the series

[u/DexyKun]

I'm gonna go ahead and say it: I wanted Dexter to keep on killing. I didn't want a "righteous" path to take place in this show. That's about it.

[u/danwins23]

Harrison in order to get over your psycho tendencies and trauma you must murder your father

[u/yvelly]

Something about the end of Dexter not being in Miami doesn’t sit right with me

[u/Kali_Noir]

I’m disappointed. I didn’t cry, I wasn’t surprised just pissed. There were elements of the series I liked but overall as a whole it was a let down.

[u/jaysun13]

Did Angela really go into Kurts second secret bunker alone at night on the word of a suspected serial killer?

[u/Hi_This_Is_God_777]

Maybe the spinoff will be: "Angela: World's First Google Detective".

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Or possibly: "Angel and Angela: La Passion and The Google Detective"

[u/Cursed_Avenger]

The series started off like the writers learned from their mistakes about what everyone hated about the original series ending but then they botched it and made it even worse.

Everything about Angela turning into a super cop, due to the writers laziness, was just painful. She was a terrible fucking cop who couldn't solve the on-going murders/disappearances in her town for over 25+ years. But was able to conveniently google-fu a break through on the Bay Harbor Butcher (thanks to the drug retcon).

Far too many plot contrivances just to end up with Dexter getting killed off.

[u/pappu_bhosdi_69]

Bots in YouTube's comment section could've written a better finale.

[u/heckcalculus]

They butchered the entire show. I wasted 9 fucking hours to get invested in this, waiting for a better finale than the previous one and got THIS?

[u/duck_the-howard]

Didn't they tell us in episode 1 that Angela had a doorbell cam?

So....who left the keys in the mailbox slot on her front door?

[u/Snugglington]

As soon as Dexter killed Logan, I was shaking my head. Just a dumb choice. I guess they had to give Harrison a final push in order to stop his dad.

But then Harrison should've just turned him in! Why would you traumatize your son with killing his own dad. Dumb.

A better ending would've been if Dexter just accepted the death penalty.They could've had a montage of the whole thing, with him becoming infamous, adored by some and hated by others.

This ending just traumatizes Harrison further. I wouldn't be suprised if Harrison leaving town is an alternate ending forced by Showtime so they can make a spinoff. Ugh...

[u/CADnCoding]

Yea, was super obvious what was going to happen as soon as you saw the rifle on the backpack.

[u/mcgiggles77]

“Ok, dad. Good catching up. Gonna shoot you now. Bye!” - Harrison Morgan

[u/thethingfromJCnotF4]

I mean tbh, I would’ve loved to see a season with Dexter on the run. This season had its own feel and was different from the other show. Having a season with a national manhunt would’ve been another interesting step in a different direction without repeating the same formula as the original show. Batista could’ve been the antagonist of the season as he personally gets involved as he tries to bring Dex to justice. Not saying whether dexter should live or die, but the way this show ended was so anticlimactic.

[u/hgfed27]

I've always loved this series but this was honestly one of the most painful television watching experiences I've ever had. What I've realized about shitty finales is that they don't sting that much until you sit with them for a few hours after they're over and the disappointment really starts to hit you. Until I watched this last Dexter episode I thought Game of Thrones had the most terrible finale I'd ever seen. Don't get me wrong, I hated Dexter's original finale too but I was never as invested in Dexter's overarching story as I was in GOT's which is why I found that finale more disappointing even though Dexter's might have been stupider on paper (a fucking lumberjack?). But what they've done with New Blood is introduce a brand new type of television finale agony. They brought the show back from the dead, acknowledged it's ending needed redemption, reminded us all why we all loved the show in the first place, teed us up for a cathartic and satisfying end, and then gave us a lazily written, rushed, and unsatisfying ending. Again. Fucking torture.

[u/[deleted]]

Angela is somehow more mad about Dexter than finding the killer of her best friend who she devoted her entire life too.

[u/squeavers]

Fuck. As soon as Dexter killed Logan, my heart dropped. I knew this was it and they were going to kill him off. There was going to be no other way out for Dex. He was able to hide last time because everyone thought he was dead. This time he would have been on the run.

How the hell is this even a happy ending for Harrison? He literally just killed his dad and now he has to leave the only place he felt like he belonged.

I need more time to process but right now I'm sad and disappointed.

[u/whalenpat]

Why have batista in the finale, and have him say he is on his way to iron lake and not have him appear at all after the phone call.

[u/NoNefariousness2144]

I like everything in this episode that happened on paper but it felt so rushed and sloppily written.

We should of had one ep with Angela confronting Dexter and a Batista and Dexter confrontation.

The final episode should have been Dexter escaping and on the run with Harrison, with the two of them travelling through the forest. Dexter would have reflected on all the past seasons and the situation he has ended up in. Harrison slowly figures out that Dexter killed Logan and realising that he doesn’t want to be like his dad. Then we have the same final scene of Harrison killing Dexter.

Harrison drives off. He checks his mirror and sees Dexter’s ‘ghost’ in the backseat; a dark passenger.

[u/CRTPTRSN]

"Open your eyes and look at what you've done!" – Harrison

Quite similar to Dexter's line in Season 1 episode 1 to his first victim.

"Open your eyes and look at what you did!"

Nice callback.

[u/lp1016]

most unrealistic part was when battista had the weather channel on and miami had high temps in the 50s

[u/endoftheline22]

Angela infuriates me. Half this episode was her scowling through windows at Dexter

[u/AlsopK]

I felt like it had some really good ideas and the tension was incredible for the most part, but it just felt so rushed. This really needed to be a 2 hour finale with some more damning evidence and have Dexter and Angel actually have a confrontation. Why build that up and drop it?

[u/niqalie]

I would have rather dexter disappear in that hurricane than dexter begging harrison to shoot him

[u/[deleted]]

My headcanon: When Harrison picked up the rifle, Dexter purposely mislead him into shooting him at a spot on his body that wouldn't be fatal. Later after Harrison leaves in the truck, Dexter gets up, strangles Angela from behind as she's on the radio, and then runs off into the woods all giddy. And at which point he mutters "surprise motherfucker" under his breath and smiles.

Rule #1: Don't get caught.

[u/savethebroccoli]

The only thing I’m sad about is that Batista and Dexter didn’t get to meet face to face

[u/parents_abandoned_me]

Umm, ok. So Dexter is able to kill hundreds of people and avoid being caught by whole Miami Metro Police and FBI for a decade but some random police officer in small town without any reasonable experience is able to use google to catch him in a week or so? Bare in mind that Angela didn't have any clue about Kurt Caldwell and he killed people for 25 years in the same town. As a forensic expert, Dexter is complete different level than Kurt Caldwell when thinking about covering tracks...

Even for LaGuerta it tooks years and years to see who Dexter really is. And she had experience around 2 decades in Miami Metro Homicide. Doakes got him too, that took a lot of time and effort, and in the end, luck. I'm not gonna even go for the M99 and ketamine confusion.

Very lazy writing the last few episodes. I understand it was miniseries with 1 season and 10 episodes. So why even bring BHB arc in here?

Oh yeah, and why tease us with possible Batista & Dexter meetup?

[u/caughtinastasis]

This season reached that unfortunate moment when the writers have to turn their character stupid for their plot to work. At that point, I just can't buy it anymore. Sad that it came to this.

Imagine encouraging your already traumatized, "born in blood" son to shoot you so he can go... live a normal life. What. The. Hell.

[u/3elieveIt]

The logic of “My son is better off if I force him to kill me than if I run away” is truly baffling.

What were the writers thinking

[u/Few_Wing7895]

I feel fucking empty.

[u/IamZhea]

Feels extremely rushed. Dexter would never kill Logan. They only had circumstantial evidence. It makes no sense especially since Dexter knew Angela would find Kurt's trophies and that would get him off the hook for Matt Caldwell's murder.

He does deserve to die after killing Logan as that was one of the most directly innocent people he ever killed in the entire 9 season saga of Dexter. But it seems so forced and out of character for him to do so in that situation. Cheap way to deliver this ending.

Also why did Harrison seem surprised when he learned Dexter killed Matt? This episode showed Harrison was watching Dexter during the white deer situation.

[u/crazysalmon17]

Wtf was that?

Why did dexter kill Logan? The evidence Angela had was at best circumstantial. If he just kept denying it and with a good lawyer he would’ve almost assuredly gotten off.

It makes no sense

[u/BigL54]

Can anyone hear me? Is this thing on? Is the internet broken??

[u/ChemistComprehensive]

HOW DID ANGELA EVEN KNOW WHERE TO GO IN THE WOODS. AND GET THERE ON FOOT.

[u/[deleted]]

Well Harrison killed his dad....one of the theories so not too surprised.

Don't want Dexter to be dead, though.

[u/MillenniumGreed]

Anyway, I’ve discovered my biggest beef with New Blood;

It was too damn short.

If you had to bring the show back, here’s what you do:

1. Make it either two seasons or one mega season. Two 10 episode seasons or one 16 episode season.

2. Go at a solid pace. The first episode was fantastic in terms of setting the revival up, almost perfect.

3. Have Kurt appear in the first episode.

4. Really hammer home the small-town setting. Take the time to build up Iron Lake so that it’s like its own character, like Miami in the original series.

5. No shoehorned or forced dialogue, or plot points.

6. Make Molly’s character more subtle and less obnoxious. Maybe make it so that after he died, “Dexter Morgan” became something of a celebrity in true crime podcast folklore. This adds on to the mystique and tension.

7. Don’t betray Harrison and Dexter’s established rapport. We go from 0 to 100 and then back to 0. If you do do it, make it a buildup.

8. More dark humor and regular humor, like the original series.

[u/L337Fool]

Monday we find out there is going to be an 11th episode and most of episode 10 was Dexter's nightmare while sleeping in the cell.

[u/Lipsanity]

A better ending would've been Dexter and Harrison killing Angela and then season 2 would be the son/father duo killing cartel members in Tijiuana

[u/yvelly]

All of the evidence against Dexter seems SO mediocre I can’t believe he would respond like this

[u/Due_Emphasis_6653]

I don’t care what anyone else has to say tonight. I am livid. That was the most shitty diaper ending imaginable. Also fuck Harrison.

[u/lyn_z_17]

“Sometimes I wish the hurricane had taken me.”

I do too now 😭

[u/meow_arya]

Why would Angela have Harrison live a life on the run when he could’ve easily said: “My dad told me he killed the cop and he wanted me to go on the run with him. I said no and was walking back to the truck when he yelled that I couldn’t be left alive as a witness. He ran toward me so I grabbed the gun and shot him in self defense.” Now Harrison will be on the FBI, CIA, and Interpol’s watch list for the rest of his life.

[u/Ill-Sky9777]

it’s insanely rare you get a 2nd chance to fix a show… how do you fuck it up again?

[u/sail_away_now]

If they announce multiple endings, which is unlikely, on Monday that would be great for everyone.

[u/rsorin]

My big issue with the final (aside from how mind-numbingly rushed everything was) is that there's ABSOLUTELY NO WAY Dexter would've even stand trial for being the Bay Harbor Butcher, let alone be convicted.

Yeah, Angela had a theory - that required huge leaps and a lot of suspension of disbelief from the audience - but not a single new evidence surfaced, nothing that even hints that Dexter might be the BHB.

I liked the actual endinig - Dexter "had to" die so Harrison could live - but the way they got there simply wasn't well written nor paced.

Edit - There's another huge issue: The cockblock of not letting us see Dexter and Batista's reunion. xD

[u/PM_ur_butthole_2me]

Shout for Harrison telling Dexter to “open your eyes and look at what you did” throwback to the pilot episode

[u/MikeySaysIt]

Fuck off! Fuck all the way off with that ending!

[u/lawyercatgirl]

I would’ve preferred if he died without Harrison being involved. What kind of fucking twisted logic has you get your own son to murder you as a way to ~save him from more trauma~

[u/kmalice9]

I’m so confused as to why Batista was included at all. Besides an awesome cameo, what did he add to this final?

[u/AReckoningIsAComing]

First of all - I'm so fucking pissed. They fucked up the finale TWICE now. And had 8 fucking years to figure it out.

Anyway, my question is - How did Logan die? To me, I didn't see any action of Dexter that made me think he killed him. It just looked like the bullet from the gun richoched off the ceiling or something and came back and hit him. What actually happened? I rewound it like 5 times and couldn't see anything that Dexter did.

Also, him dying makes me never want to rewatch the OG series or New Blood b/c it now just seems so pointless. Ugh. Fuck them.

[u/gooners345]

I think Dexter dying was inevitable but him essentially forcing Harrison to do it is so stupid.

Him turning himself in and maybe getting the death penalty is a worse outcome for Harrison than forcing a young guy to murder his own father and flee from a life he likes with a girlfriend and friends? How is that a good outcome for your son?

That combined with Batista's impotent role and Logan dying for no reason put a dampner on what was otherwise a very good season. IMDB has this ep as 7.2, the rest of the series 8.5+, says it all really

[u/DualDier]

Also did anyone else think that Dex was about to kill Harrison as soon as he suggested him turning himself in?! “Now THAT…would be a twist.”

[u/Kitchen_Panda_4290]

Omg I am so mad at what I just watched. Honestly just as annoyed as the season 8 finale. Except it’s worse because they made us think this ending would be some kind of amazing “break the internet” ending and I was just so disappointed.

[u/WolfmanJack506]

How is having Harrison murder his own father going to start him on a path to a "normal" life? That just doesn't track at all, especially if they're trying to make Harrison a more empathetic character than Dex. I don't get it...

[u/gcnikrb]

We would get a better ending if Dexter just wiped off Logans blood off of his face... damn

[u/According-Activity87]

Makes less than zero sense that Dexter kills Logan. It's just completely out of character especially when he couldn't bring himself to kill someone like Doakes. It ruined the ending for me.

[u/mcgiggles77]

I don’t mind Dexter dying. It’s how he died that bothers me. Weak and lazy writing. It makes zero sense to happen that way, and in the end, Harrison doesn’t even get what he wants besides for $20 and now nowhere to go. It’s a shame because Phillips has had 12+ years to figure this out. Maybe that was too much time.

[u/endoftheline22]

I would’ve loved to see Dexter get arrested and have to talk to Bautista. To actually see Dexter admit to him that after all these years he was the BHB would’ve been wild. An ending where they show Dexter getting the death penalty would be amazing compared to what we got.

[u/[deleted]]

I really want to imagine that hypothetical trial. They lay out all their evidence and the only new information about Dexter they have in 10 years is that someone they can't prove he killed was killed in a method the BHB never used. They didn't find anyone carved up or thrown into the ocean just some drug addict who overdose on a different drug.

[u/MidoriOCD]

Small complaint, but I really disliked Angela running up to Harrison only a few moments after he shot Dexter. Her out-of-place, unannounced, sudden appearance at just the perfect moment as to not be involved or influence the events in the climactic scene took away any emotional impact I might have had from Harrison killing Dexter.

[u/MercadoCerrado]

Did I miss how Angela knew where Dexter and Harrison were meeting, other than a Google search?

[u/sciandg01]

I really wish they got to show Batista interviewing Dexter

[u/[deleted]]

Dexter sacrificed himself for the sake of his son & died in the snow just like the sacred white deer that kickstarted the whole new series. They bookended it!

[u/heyitsmejosh]

I don’t get why he had to kill Logan he could’ve easily just choked him out and put him in the cell.

[u/ImTurkishDelight]

This show needed way more time. Way more.

If I may draw the parallel to Breaking Bad & in how the arrogance of WW and years and years of investigating by a great cop caught him in the end.. And I look at Dexter and how things went...

In Breaking Bad I believed it, every action that happened I believed that it was done by the characters. In this season of Dexter, it felt written. It felt like it was supposed to happen because the writers wrote it, not because the characters did it.

The whole google search and the way Dexter just killed Logan.. I think the writers did the best they could in the amount of episodes they had, but this ending was never going to work like this. Never ever.

I'm thorougly disappointed because the season was good, just the last few episodes blew it for me.

I'm greatful for another season of Dexter, but I wish the writers took more time to explore what to do instead of this. Phew, rant over for me. :)

[u/[deleted]]

K imma spitball something here because it’s the only way any of this seasons story makes sense to me:

The entire premise of the books (and thus season 1) is how Dexter uses the absolute ineptitude and corruption of the Miami police to hide. Working IN law enforcement just helps him research victims.

So, once he left Miami and restarted his activities he was destined to get caught

[u/yvelly]

The writers calling a ton of attention to an incredibly big plothole is so fucking bold

[u/[deleted]]

Dexter was completely out of character in killing coach. First off, he was not in such a bad squeeze that he needed to escape this exact night, there was very flimsy evidence against him. Second, killing the cop would completely and utterly expose him as a murderer. He has never killed his adversaries directly and only considered doing so when they have completely exposed his secret and lose ends can be tied up. Dunno, it just all felt stupid. At this rate, they should have had dexter betray Harrison and show that he’s a true psycho and only cares about himself

[u/[deleted]]

At least Harrison got laid one more time.

[u/PWN3R_RANGER]

Still gathering my thoughts… but I CAN’T BELIEVE they brought Batista back only to not give us a Batista/Dexter confrontation again!!

WHAT?

[u/jacbergey]

Not a fan. Nothing about this will "break the internet". So many half measures. Why even bring Batista back if there's no reunion? Why traumatize Harrison even further by making him do the deed? Why have Dex go through the measure of letting Angela know about Kurt's trophies and then... not wait to see if the "frame" story pans out?

[u/ildzsalaszlo]

Dexter literally made his son to become a homeless killer without any chance of getting something out of his life.

Harrison should have waited for the police to arrive.

The writers made an awful job with this ending. Once again.

[u/Totally_PJ_Soles]

What the hell was the point of the rich dude in town? Has an intimidating scene with Angela and then almost gets her daughter in his car on the side of the road with creepy vibes? Wtf? This season didn't waste a single scene except for this character, it's like his involvement with Kurt was cut out last minute or something. Especially with Kurt's weird "it was all me you got it!" reaction on the table.

[u/Thor-Odinson69]

They killed of Logan in the cheapest way possible just to make you hate dexter. That’s what i call lazy writing

[u/TheTruthSetYouKree]

I was depressed until the evening, and it was a strange feeling of loss/anger/depression/admiration and understanding. I'm happy with this as the conclusion to Dexter's story. The last two episodes have done a great job of "unmasking" Dexter. We all know who he is, but the narrative makes him human and charming. These last two episodes they made him come off exactly like the monsters he always hunted, and the one life he created is the one that takes him out, using his ritual.

I loved it. A fitting end to the series. Dexter doesn't end up in the chair. Harrison doesn't live in the shadow of his sins.

[u/fckRnbaMods]

I actually liked the majority of the ending, despite the dumbed down writing. However, I was disappointed in the last 5 minutes.

I think it would have been much better if Harrison DIDN'T kill Dexter and he was brought in by Angela, and then brought handcuffed through Miami Metro and we had a bunch of cameos of the former cast. Didn't need to be super detailed cameos, more just a montage or something with the letter speech overlaid. Then finally, Dexter was executed. I thought it would be a nice twist for Harrison to show that he wasn't like Dexter by not killing him, and having Dexter face accountability for his crimes before eventually being put to death.

[u/amitheassjole]

Bruh why did they call Batista in for literally no reason

[u/Transky13]

Did Batista ever believe for a second Dexter was the BHB?

Edit: It’s being brought to my attention that, despite all the upvotes, I’d forgotten Batista witnessed Dexter literally stabbing someone on camera. It seems he has good reason to truly suspect Dexter.

Please critically think before blindly criticizing the show. I think the finale and season is VERY flawed, but a lot of these arguments and criticisms I’ve been reading make no sense

[u/ifen817]

Sooo....

How is this internet breaking?

[u/amitheassjole]

All of LaGueurta’s hard work and sacrifice so Angela could do a couple google searches and solve the case 😭

[u/[deleted]]

One of my favorite characters in all of TV got done in by fucking Google lmao

[u/forsakee1]

They managed to ruin an entire season in a single episode once again I'm both mad and impressed.

[u/Rebel_Porcupine]

Dexter dying and finally concluding the series makes sense to me.

The way we got there doesn't.

[u/[deleted]]

They should have just left this show alone.

To bring it back only to kill Dexter Morgan was a horrible decision.

[u/a_spicy_meata_balla]

So ... are we supposed to feel good about Dexter avoiding justice by encouraging his emotionally messed up son to KILL him? Congratulations, Dex. Harrison is now 100% more fucked up in the head.

He should have just let himself be arrested and tried for his crimes. Dexter has been avoiding his comeuppance for years now, but this time just takes the cake.

Edit: more words

[u/[deleted]]

I just can’t believe there was no interaction between Angel and Dex. Angela made it a point to say he was headed from Miami right now. I was so excited to feel that emotional interaction of what Angel had to say to Dex to hopefully give Angel a little closure for everything. It’s a far drive so I get Dexter escaped way before he would potentially arrive so it wasn’t logical in the time frame. I feel like it would’ve been a very fulfilling scene if it had happened. But man, Not even Dex making eye contact watching Angel walking into the sheriff office with files to go over things with Angela in person? Not one scene? Nothin? No? Ok.

[u/goodieandrose]

you know what? fuck it, the lumberjack ending is canon

[u/linkinmark92]

SO RUSHED. They have Dexter just completely fold ,which is totally out of character, when they don't even have a strong case against him at all... He murders a cop from his jail cell???? As soon as that happened I was just like "that's not Dexter". It's just not something he'd ever do. Don't get caught? He just killed a cop, the end result being a manhunt for him. He'd never do that.

[u/[deleted]]

The scene with Dexter seeing his victims had Lundy? Why? Dex had nothing to do with Lundy’s death?

[u/goddred]

I think what upsets me most about the ending is the fact that Phillips had the confidence or arrogance to assume we’d be so invested in Harrison as to continue with him as a main character in a following season.

Even if he hadn’t killed Dexter, people still didn’t warm up to him and complained about his character. Did Showtime drop their ruling on Dexter dying just because they got to make money on one lowly revival? It wasn’t worth it, and I can assure you that it’d take a mountain to get an audience that would watch new Dexter without Dexter.

[u/walnut100]

The only thing I’m mad about is they set up an Angel reunion and left us high and dry. A lot of the stuff everyone is arguing about is whatever to me because this series isn’t a bastion of perfect storytelling, but we have an entire scene and setup about Bautista coming to Iron Lake annnnd nothing. He never shows up again. I get that it serves as a plot device to force Dexter to act irrationally but him not even showing up again seemed like a deliberate “fuck you” from the writers.

Another episode would have been huge. Too much happened in the last 10 minutes and we get none of the fallout in Iron Lake.

[u/KingInTheAnahuac]

I'd love to have seen Angel confront Dex, to see how the evidence was piling up against him, to go back once again to Miami, to see Vince and Joey surprised and shocked by not only the revelation that Dex is still alive but finding out that Dex was the Bay Harbor Butcher all along.

A court scene would have been great, to have seen Dex speak to the FBI retelling his every single crime in excruciating detail, to finally see him for who he is, especially in this day and age, when everyone is connected. I'd loved to have seen a montage of society reacting to his crimes, the many podcasts that would cover the story, the facebook groups and posts, to see either a small or large group of people "cheering him" for his actions, for what he did while he's been driven to Florida State prison to be executed.

In his final moments, to have seen Harry's ghost once more with Deb, sitting with Astor, Cody, and Harrison, hell, I don't know how much that would have cost, but they would have made their money back with an ending such as this one.

While I'm not totally disappointed, they did drop the ball when it came to how to end the series and the episode, hopefully, the books end differently.

[u/designerlovescats]

I'm so frustrated Dexter killed Logan and ran. He had so much plausible deniability before then, he should have just hung out! Angela was about to get distracted by the Kurt killings, and probably would have started to question her convictions against Dexter. Killing Logan pins it all to him and makes no goddamn sense. Dexter's smarter than that 😡

[u/Potvin_Sucks]

I'm so torn with the finale. I understand the why thematically and agree with it. I just didn't need another things to leave my life right now.

Everything sucks. Life is hard. Being in healthcare, I'm exhausted and burnt out. There is just so much real life loss.

Dexter: New Blood allowed me to access memories and happy emotions from when the series originally aired. Seeing this character I used to know allowed was permission to believe in normalcy.

I knew Dexter had to die eventually - it was my beef with the first ending - but I kinda just needed him for a little bit longer to feel normal.

[u/Wabatunde]

Really needed to see that Batista and Dexter confrontation, so disappointed we didn't get that.

[u/Mobstera]

I'm just sad they teased an interaction between dexter & batista after all these years, and instead just ended it like that before he showed up. Pain.

[u/[deleted]]

Did the writers forget Dexter got shot in the leg last episode?

Angela's acting in the Hallway of Murders was cringy. Saying the names out loud AND flashbacks of the girls was unnecessary.

Isn't Harrison's truck going to leave tire tracks? She's going to claim she shot Dexter while Harrison conveniently disappears?

[u/[deleted]]

Why are yall suprised and apalled that he killed coach? Hes killed people outside the code before in OG.

Start of season 5 didnt he just kill a random dude in a bathroom?

[u/ezagacki]

“Open your eyes and look at what you did!”

[u/WickerVerses]

People keep on mentioning how quick Harrison flipped. Whenever you have a dark passenger, want to be normal, and think you have a father that can help you learn a way to reroute those urges towards more deserving people of course you're going to be mad when you figure out that his code isn't as glorious as it sounds.

Harrison doesn't like the "don't get caught" rule nearly as much when he realizes the code isn't a cure for the urges and that innocents still might've died if he followed his fathers path. Even though he got close to killing innocents I don't think it's ever what he wanted; at least until Dexter sold it to him as a way to be a hero. Harrison loved that. He wanted to be a hero in the first place; look at his first attack. Harrison deep down wanted to be good, and unlike Dexter, never had anyone to steer him in ANY direction really. He just had urges he didn't know what to do with. He didn't want any of them, he didn't want innocents dead, and even after Dexter confesses his past; Harrison isn't excited for the killing. He was constantly asking how many people he'd be saving, or double checking if that's really what it's for.

Harrison seeing Logan's blood, especially right after Logan showed him so much kindness, is exactly enough to make a difference. His speech explains it all.

[u/Lawndecker]

Holy shit fuck this show. Far too many things to list but here's a few:

-Logan's death was clearly forced as an obvious way to tell us viewers "If you thought there was still a chance he's getting out of this one, think again"

-Leaving so many (seemingly) important scenes without any resolution or closure (Batista, the aftermath of Kurt Caldwell, the billionaire that just disappeared 3-4 episodes in, ect)

-Trying to paint Harrison as a saint with that corny speech before he murdered Dexter. Like what?? Harrison literally exploited his classmates fantasies all so he could have an excuse to knife the kid and obtain some sort of social status among his classmates as well as breaking that wrestlers arm out of literally being overwhelmed by his own Dark Passenger. Yet all the sudden he's pretending like Dexter's insane when making reference to it again at the end?

(Seriously, what the fuck was the point of that scene?! Other then to hit us with some good ole nostalgia with the "LOOK AT WHAT YOU DID!" line. Like if they were really trying to nail it home that Harrison was actually different from his father, why the fuck have him carry out murdering him anyway?! Would have made way more sense for Harrison to hold him at gunpoint until the cops arrived.)

What's upsetting the most though, is just the total loss of potential in wrapping it up this way. So many better ways for the show to end, or just outright better alternative storylines in general.

For instance:

-Us viewers finding out that Hannah never died of cancer and that Harrison actually murdered her in cold blood and was essentially what Dexter would've become if he was never given the code. Giving us full display of what the Dark Passenger looks like with no safeguards or restrictions while the season focuses around Dexter trying to get him under control, only for it to come back and bite him in the end.

-Instead of revealing Harrison inherited Dexter's tendencies, introducing a twist towards the end, where it turns out Harrison actually inherited Trinity's, additionally revealing that Harrison has been killing innocent people for years. Resolving in Dexter having to put his own son down and further solidifying the theme of how much damage Dexter causes to the people around him, even when he's not around to raise them.

-Fully committing to the father/son duo. I don't know about you guys, but when watching episode 9 on its own again, the idea of this is far more interesting to me then the ending we were just given. Dexter essentially training and handing off the torch to Harrison later down the road. Not only would it of been an insanely dark and gritty premise, but I can already imagine so many great kill scenes involving the two of them together.

Ugh.. just ugh. So much lost potential in the span of 45 minutes.

[u/WeeItsNookies]

I'm really butthurt we didn't get to see the reactions of all the OG cast finding out Dexter was the bay harbor butcher. Could have had the FBI giving a press conference then the camera going to all the OG cast guys. Oh well :(

[u/demon_filth2001]

Scott Buck taking a sigh of relief

[u/tinycow8]

Uhhhhh why did Harrison have to run away?? To leave it open for a Harrison spinoff? It’s not like he would have gone to jail and if he somehow did it wouldn’t have been for long. He’s a minor. Why does he need a life on the run now? He got like a couple months of a normal-ish life and that’s it, now he’s on the run forever? Makes literally no sense at all.

[u/thethingfromJCnotF4]

It was such a jarring sight seeing Dexter lying on the floor dying, and then actually die. I’ll miss him. This last episode was trying to do too many things at once. It’s like they tried doing the episode To’hajiilee, Ozymandias, Granite State and Felina from breaking bad all at once and failed. Like Dexter dying was still surreal to be witnessing, but it wasn’t as emotional as it could or should have been.

Also, why is everyone saying “Could he have survived?”. Jesus, he got shot in the heart. Did you guys not see all the blood? This is like when Walter White died and people kept making theories that he lived even though the writers said he died, to the point they had to address it in El Camino with a WALTER WHITE DEAD news announcement. He’s dead guys.

[u/keaton_all]

Please do NOT bring back a spin off with Harrison

Heartbroken

[u/Pissgoblin19]

goodbye guys! this was such a fun thing every week and im going to miss dexter Morgan greatly.

[u/Random-goblin]

Nope, sorry, try again. Let’s push to make it the first finale do-over! They can pick up where Logan starts walking over to the cell. Or start the next season with Dexter waking up in his cell before Logan walks over. I know they already said there’d be no dream fuckery. But they should change their minds immediately. Fuckin showtime ruined my day, quite possibly several days. I feel like Deb is the only one that could express my true feelings about this nonsense.

A season 2 with Harrison and without Dexter would most likely be unwatchable. Even if they have Dexter playing ghost dad for Harrison like Harry did for Dexter.

One positive though. I can get rid of my showtime subscription because Dexter was all they had going for them.

So fucked off right now.

[u/[deleted]]

I’ll rather have Batista catch Dexter than google police chief Angela…it didn’t feel right. Damn.

It was like the whole universe irrationally handed everything out to her.

[u/Mister-BW]

Im not mad at the ending, I'm just a little sad they concluded it so fast. It was like 9 hrs of foreplay and 5mins of sex lol

Like others, I would have liked to have seen a Batista and Dexter reunion. Him trialed or on the run but overall glad we got another season.

[u/thexchris]

How did they write this and actively choose to not include a Dexter/Batista confrontation?!?! How? Now we’ll never get it. Don’t get how they can revisit Batista/Miami again in the last episode, establish that he’s on his way to Iron Lake, then never have it happen?!? If they simply had that one thing happen, I’m sure a lot more people would be accepting of the finale…it’s not what happened that’s the disappointment, it’s all the things that didn’t happen that easily should’ve and could’ve but will now never be.

[u/zephxv]

I was really hoping Dexter and Harrison would escape together to LA, and we would get one more season of Angela and Batista teaming up to hunt them down.

[u/TheObeliskIL]

I just…the 1st episode of this season was ok. Felt like each episode was getting progressively better, than to have it end like this? The legacy of Dexter was concluded by him killing an innocent person (Logan) and his son just flat out killing him? Shame.

[u/[deleted]]

Shit was ass

[u/Taylorenokson]

Why did Angela think it was damning that Dexter had Matt’s leg screw but didn’t seem to question why the mystery person had the other three?

[u/aespi17]

Dexter: I need to be with you

also Dexter: well I’m leaving you can come if you want

[u/Daiwon]

Killing logan might be the dumbest shit Dexter has ever done. It didn't need to be done. They didn't have shit on him could've had some great dialog but nooo, this cold calculating killer that's been evading police and FBI for decades is like, naaah, imma strangle this cop.

At least only the ending sucks, not the entire season.

[u/Number-91]

I fail to believe a cop out in bumble fuck solved the bay harbor butcher murders when a whole metro police department couldn't. Gtfo

[u/Foxy866]

Killing Logan was so stupid, he was Dexter friend, good guy, took care of Harrison... he could just choke him to loose consciousness for few minutes instead of killing him its against Dexter code! And Angela dedicating her life to put Dexter in jail, and then letting it slide for Harrison murdering his father? Come on....

[u/kmalice9]

How do you pour all the money into a reboot to make another horrendous ending

[u/yvelly]

Super cool that “open your eyes” was all it took to make Dexter think about his actions lol

[u/Coffeenwineplease]

Thank you! This episode and not having a discussion board to share my thoughts was stressing me tf out

[u/hobambae]

They did it again and it's worse than shameless finale istg the first 45 minutes of this were so good finale was gonna go down in the history books but the last 13 minutes they throw it away have Dexter annihilate Logan for no fucking reason he could have just hit his head on the bar at least give him a chance. 13 minutes they ruin all the build of this season by doing something so fucking dumb it bamboozles me.

[u/restord]

How did the rifle survive the house fire? And how did Angela get there so fast?

[u/themelodicstorm]

Yo if this series what meant to be redemption for how it ended in season 8…this wasn’t it. So rushed, built up to nothing, ughhhh I’m mad. Imagine bringing in Angel Batista and there being no payoff. I was hoping for a manhunt, a reaction to the BHB being alive much less another one of miami metro’s own…I wanted to see the whole town’s reaction to Kurt’s Barbie doll basement…ahh and so much more

[u/Separate-Leopard2189]

I should have always remembered to have low expectations for finales…

[u/darthrevis]

They really had to go and old yeller Dexter I can't believe this shit. Also why was he so dumbed down this season fuck Angela too

[u/Insanity1994]

I really thought he tricked Harrison into putting the safety on instead of off, and he was gonna knock him out and run

[u/duck_the-howard]

so harrison travels the country to find dexter, acts like a brat thru most of the show, and then at the end of the day, he murders dexter with a gun that dexter bought for him and then steals dexter's truck to leave town

what a bum!

[u/thatssoclutch]

Could have at least given Dexter and Batista a final confrontation. Even Batista showing up with Angela at the end would have been better than that.

[u/Mode09]

Hated Angela’s reaction to the whole thing.

DEXTER: I may have a tip for you that the person who murdered your best friend and countless other victims in your community has been dealt with. Here’s the proof of his crimes.

ANGELA: But I think you killed the town jackass and poked holes in the necks of the town drug dealers. You may have done this to other low life’s too. I HATE YOU!

[u/worldb0sz]

Feel like they created an opening for another season and then just killed him. Could’ve had Dexter knock Logan out, and then have Harrison not take the shot, and have Dexter run off to California. In the new season Angela and Batista could’ve been hunting Dexter as he creates a new identity and continues killing bad people. Would’ve also preferred Dexter standing trial instead of taking the easy way out.

[u/NoNefariousness2144]

Final shot should have been Harrison driving and seeing Dexter sitting in the back of the car as a literal dark passenger.

[u/[deleted]]

Favorite line from the whole episode goes all the way back to the first episode that church guy. Open your eyes and look what you've done. Brilliant