I’ve waited this long to address the series finale of Dexter.
Normally “laziness” would be the #1 reason why but in this case it’s such a POS (piece of shit) ending it’s not worth even this bit of commentary.
I have no interest in proving how valid my theory is on why it ended on such a sour note, but here it is:
You have a series where the two leads–playing brother and sister in the Dexterverse–MARRY and DIVORCE in real life.
Carpenter has been a pretty good sport about the whole thing, but she’s also fed up with being typecast as Deb, a character she’s played for almost ten years, and done so well that people on the street call her Deb.
It was Carpenter who’d had enough, who demanded Deb be killed off. She didn’t want a Dexter feature film two years later, didn’t want anything to do with it, and so Hall, who probably also had enough, agreed to the shitty ending. According to the wiki, they knew what the ending would be even before Season 7 started.
That’s pretty much it.
I still love Dexter and simply forget Season 8 ever took place.
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