I think Deb has always been annoying, so her character is at least consistent. Her potty mouth always seemed pretty forced to me, but at least she's not as pointless as Musuka. After 8 seasons, that dude had absolutely no arc and never got involved in any worthwhile plotlines. Talk about a filler character.

But as we're all well aware, Clancy Brown is an ominous motherfucker! Latest episode was good and things are getting intense. Very cat and mouse. Who knows how that cliffhanger will play out. Plus, the cameo was pretty neat.

Episode 8 thoughts?

All I can say is... FINALLY! Fun cat and mouse stuff, but this definitely ought to be a turning point since things came to light to several characters. Only 2 episodes left, so they better cram these episodes full!

I wish we'd get Dexter action like that more often. I wondered how exactly he's going to explain himself, and hopefully they won't skip right over it in the next episode, such as beginning with him saying, "and that's the whole story."

Also not sure how he's going to explain his leg. Hopefully not with, "I'm a clutz."

I'm thinking Dexter will let Harrison's first kill be Kurt. It will be a significant moment for him considering Kurt was a friend turned enemy. I really don't know what direction the cop lady plot is going though. Will she hunt Dexter down or side with him? Or will Dexter weasel his way out of it like he often does? Also, since the season is almost over, I've heard it was a one-off, so will Dexter die? Or will he go on to teach his code?

Episode 9 spoilers... Glad we didn't skim over that conversation. Plenty of good material covered in that discussion. Could've gone either way, but I think it went the direction all the fans would have wanted. And with things handled, we have one episode left and a sort of Doakes situation all over again. I agree that it would be great to have this show keep going, and that all leans on what happens in the next episode. Like he said about his kill count... Go big or go home.

My sister is in the same boat. She thinks they fucked up big time. Me? I just finished it, and hmmm.... still processing. I'll formulate some thoughts on this shitshow later.

I've had time to stew over the finale while I was tossing and turning in my daytime slumber, and my thoughts are in. SPOILERS, if you're too dumb to know it already:


As far as all things go, I'm not terribly mad about this finale. I was a little stoic when I was watching, but with all things considered, it's a more definitive ending than season 8's non-ending. I remember when the original run was nearing its end, everyone wondered how it could end and I think the most satisfying means was for something dramatic to happen, and that would be Dexter getting fucking CAUGHT. And/or dying. And in this case, both.

Sure, we all felt a little bad for him since he was finally feeling happy about things, and damn that Angela was a bitch. He did her a favor after all, helping solve her sister's death and avenging that murder (and many others), but leave it to annoying strong-woman police characters to have no sympathy in these situations. If he never got caught, we would always be wondering what that ending would have looked like otherwise.

And with that said, it played out pretty well. Well, for the most part. Dexter was keeping his cool pretty well until he decided to escape jail like an ass and make himself irredeemable to his son by killing an innocent. He was pretty sloppy in a lot of the season, but he could have held out and made for a potentially interesting follow-up series about Dexter on trial and everyone's reactions to the news that not only is he alive, but he may be the most notorious serial killer ever.

I'd love to see him try to explain himself to lawyers and old colleagues, and I also love that Doakes will finally be exonerated and all the dots will get connected. What would Cody and Astor think? No matter, they don't even exist.

The characterizations were a bit all over the place though. Dexter again was pretty sloppy. He never killed anyone truly innocent before as far as I can remember, and he started to veer back into the love of killing for the sake of killing. And Harrison was quite a hypocrite. He was hung up on "saving lives", yet he's the one who framed an otherwise innocent kid in a school shooting, and would have killed who knows how many regular people if his dad didn't step in, so fuck him. Sometimes, writers just got to write in some bullshit arcs for the sake of the overall narrative, and it is what it is.

I'm gonna miss Dexter Morgan. This was the first show I started watching that got me into tv dramas and I'll always have a special place for it in my heart. Even in the bad seasons, Michael C. Hall made them entirely watchable and he'll probably never have another character nearly as popular as this, so he'll be missed.

Spin-offs starring Harrison going nuts? No thanks.

I don't think I could get into a Harrison show because the whole time, I'd be thinking that this guy is the reason there's no more Dexter! How dare!