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What happened and what should have happened!
This season was definitely disappointing, note there will be SPOILERS!

What makes this season a dud, is for a series finale it lacks the conviction to focus and conclude the characters story in a meaningful way, it was wrought with silly story tangents that didn't really add much depth and only wasted time to conclude the story or add character depth to the primary characters.

The driving underlying conflict was never about the serial killers, that was a typical formula that all crime series always conclude, the bad guy gets caught or dies. But the primary conflict that this series had never addressed, only with Deb and Sgt. Doax was Dexter's hidden life and the tension of it being revealed. Instead Season 8 revolves too much on the brain surgeon killer story which probably happens to be the most uninteresting killer ever. He isn't even revealed until near the end of the season, which creates a bland killer that really never had any interesting character...

What a sadistic betrayal of a loyal audience. **SPOILERS**
I would never have given one star to this series, but the finale episode deserves it. I don't mind dark endings. Breaking Bad, for example, had the most heart breaking end imaginable, but it ended exactly as it should have ended. Nothing rang false about it. The finale of Dexter rang false from the start, and never improved. The writers seemed determined to punish the audience for liking Dexter and Deb. It was totally gratuitous to kill off Deb, after taking her to hell and back at the start of the season. She actually appeared to be on the cusp of making an independent life apart from Dexter, with a possibility of happiness. Getting shot by the Brain Surgeon was a surprise, but when her doctor said "the bullet bounced around a lot, but didn't hit anything important", I thought it was just a clumsy device to excuse letting the serial killer prolong the hunt. To suddenly put her in a brain-dead coma felt tacked on and phony. And for Dexter to lumber Hannah with his son and send...

Just Horrible
Seriously, unless you are so rabid a fan that it wouldn't bother you in the least if the writers were to have ended the series by having Dexter retire and open a Yarn Barn in upstate New York, save your money on this last season. Because it is THAT bad and will only p*ss you off that you wasted it.

My wife and I were very big fans of the show and were excited to see the final season available, so we binged on it over the course of 2 days. The dialogue was forced and stunted, the acting was bad, plot depth was all but non-existent, there were a couple dead end sub-plots added that were nothing more than time fillers, etc. I am all but certain they essentially off-the-cuffed this whole season and could not have cared less about rendering a memorable ending to an otherwise superbly creative and out-of-the-ordinary series.

No exaggeration: the worst last season and final episode to a television series I've ever seen. That the words 'brilliant' and 'satisfying' have...

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