Greg is a Senior Features Writer at Screen Rant. He majored in Film Production at Chapman University and worked in Development at ABC Television.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Now that it's been over a decade since the original Dexter finale aired, I can finally make peace with it, especially with the finale of Dexter: New Blood to compare it to. Dexter has one of the most notoriously disappointing series finales in modern television history, arguably right up there with Game of Thrones and How I Met Your Mother.
It made sense that Dexter had a tragic outcome as the anti-hero he was, but to cause his own downfall seemed completely out of his character when the entire series was built on his self-preservation. He lost Harry, Rita, his biological brother Brian, his spiritual mother Dr. Vogel, both of his biological parents, etc. He would have made peace with his guilt for Debra's death eventually, which is demonstrated in New Blood, especially since he's, you know, a psychopath.
Dexter: New Blood has several loose ends that don't get wrapped up in its finale and also missed the perfect opportunity to reintroduce Hannah McKay, one of the more compelling characters of the later seasons. Instead, the New Blood creatives just wrote her off, saying she died of cancer when it would have added a whole new layer of tension to the series to have Hannah in it and might have offered her retribution or clarity.
The final episode of Dexter was still fairly compelling leading up to its ending. Dexter was about to get on a bus with Hannah and Harrison, one on which Elway also boarded and nearly busted Hannah, when he felt compelled to visit Deb at the hospital for an unexpected face-off with Saxon. Angel was able to arrest Saxon before he got to Debra, but the greatest threat to Debra wound up not being Saxon at all, but fate.
Much of the focus was on Dexter during the original finale, but other characters deserved stronger resolutions as well, particularly series regulars such as Quinn, Angel, and Vince. It would also have been nice to have given Dexter a chance at redemption rather than subject him to a forced sense of martyrdom. A more personal confrontation between Debra and Dexter might have allowed Debra to redeem herself at Miami Metro after killing LaGuerta.
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