Both sucked but the new blood was based on retcons and completely changing the Main character out of the blue to force an outcome they wanted. So new blood finale awful.
Harrison driving away at the end and cracking a smile after murdering his father he spent his whole life trying to find literally made me laugh out loud. What a horrible ending
@@chevgage6210 so he spent the entire season wanting to be closer with his dad and feel loved by him just to kill him? It doesn’t make any sense. If he wanted to kill him he could have at any point, he had a million chances
Angela had a serial killer right under her nose for 20 years, but was able to link Dexter to the BHB by googling Ketamine which he never even used previously. New Blood was fun up until the super lazy writing took over.
I think that final conversation was a little more complicated than that. Yes, Dexter changes his mind several times, but he's not contradicting himself. He's learning things about his son and responding to that. Harrison's darkness wasn't caused by Trinity, but by his absent father. That's the big revelation here. Harrison doesn't want to come with Dexter; he wants his father to turn himself in. When Harrison says "maybe you deserve [to die]", Dexter has this look on his face... He completely changes his tune, and I think he's finally showing his real face. We know from season 1 that the death penalty is his absolute worst fear. In response, he actually tells Harrison: "Ok, I can do this without you". After everything, the ugly truth is that survival is more important to him than being with his son. And that's when Harrison realizes his father only cares about himself - he doesn't want to be abandoned again, so the "only way out for both of us", as he describes, is for him to kill his father. That's when Dexter gives in. The ending wasn't perfect. It was rushed and, personally, I too would have preferred a shot in the leg and a confrontation with Batista, but... it was not as bad as some people are claiming it to be.
@@realkill7928 It definitely did not help that the ending of season 8 was terrible. But as much as I missed Miami, I think they mostly made it work in this new setting.
The series sucked. The last few episodes were too rushed. Angela deduced Dexter was a serial killer by googling a drug he never even used was pathetic.
The villain was pretty creepy and there was all around decent plot but the last few episodes weren’t too good lol how do they mess up the ending twice 😂
Just rewatched remember the monsters and felina and the writing for dexter was so messy and rushed you could barely recognise the show at all not to mention in new blood Debra is dexters biggest hater when in the original she literally told him not to blame himself for what he is and their basically telling us he forgot about that whole hospital scene this is very lazy writing not to mention in the original deb always thinks highly of Dexter in new blood she only sees him as a killer but felina on the other hand was made with pure energy and creativity
What if TV series uses the concept of quantum immortality to rewind its storyline before its controversial finale, then takes a completely different direction. This could either be a brilliant move or pave the way for further disappointment.
You hit the nail on the head. The cautiously optimistic audience being (mostly) won over, only to be massively let down again. It's not "Dexter died ending bad," it's how *undeserved* this ending was. I can't believe I let this show let me down so unceremoniously...again. ☹️
Yeah, from season 7 to New Blood (actually the very end of season 6 with Deb's discovery of romantic feelings for Dexter) the problem was never bad plot ideas (some of them were great which is why the rest of the show is hard to ignore), but they were just implemented incredibly badly. Badly written, illogical, out of character, rushed. Just my take.
The biggest disappointment was Batista not facing Dexter, Yes Dexter had to die, But he also needed to be held accountable for what he had done, Harrison Killing Dexter Was so predictable and didn't make much sense, Like is he just Satisfying a dark passenger like Dexter, I'd probably watch a spinoff but I don't really want one
I really enjoyed the show overall, but that was by far the biggest let down for me. Dexter should have been completely left in the dark about the BHB and it all be revealed when he walked in a room with Batista and Angela there. Batista would have had the closure of Maria’s death too. The second Angela started giving Dexter the info I was pretty sure Batista wasn’t going to show up.
The season was good just got a little rocky in the finale I definitely wanted Batista to confront dexter or have some confrontation other than that him dying by his son makes sense but it sucks he had to die because he’s one of my favorite characters on tv
@@Sancsteq his son was in a rage Kurt killed innocent women he clearly wasn’t thinking straight it’s his father of course he wanted to believe what he was doing was good but when he found out he killed the innocent police officer that was what made him look at his father as a monster I think some people are glossing over that fact it’s not a thing of bad writing it’s just people didn’t want to see there favorite character die
Re-watch the first 2 seasons of Dexter, they are BY FAR my favorite seasons of the show, followed by season 4. Actually, S1&2 are probably my favorite seasons of ANY show, ever. I loved it so much when it first aired,and still do. Dexter is such an intriguing character.
Yeah, I was worried this awful ending would retroactively ruin the show for me, but I managed to wash off the "New Blood" stank by watching season 1 and 2 afterward :P
S3 was great to me too. S1-4 was the best stretch. I did enjoy s5 as well. S7 was also good imo with the exception of Hannah. 6 and 8 were just garbage
once they made the decision to have dexter kill logan was when the finale was screwed. everything after that you knew was gonna be mad. they have never ever had dexter kill an innocent purposefully before. he always finds a way to still get out of situations like that sneakily. there were tons of other directions they could've gone in, but they made him kill logan when that is not his character at all.
I thought that to but then I realized this was an unpresented situation for him hed never been caught like that before, so even though he has a code he is in fact still a psychopath and that means if his back is against the wall and his only options are be arrested which is against the code, or harm a potential innocent-also against the code- then well one of these rules would have to be broken right? and since he is in fact a sociopath it stands to reason hed choose himself over a random even innocent person heck friend of his like logan even so while it was lame and sucked mostly how he died, that part for what it was in hindsight isn't actually out of character we just never saw him in that situation before....
@@antonewatters6967 He killed Liddy in Season 5. The guy Quinn hired to look into him who found out he was killer and tried to force a confession out of him.
The actor who plays batista is so under rated…he was on Oz and also had a let down of ending for him. Some actors have bad luck with great characters with poor endings
yeah, dexter had such great characters in the original seasons, then you have.. harrison 😂😂 just a copy of that other serial killer dexter taught. only new character that i really enjoyed was mr krabs.. i love the "run bitch" he's also such a great actor
@@leroyjenkins7968 Oz was an underrated show in general. A lot of actors that have gone on to great things were in it. I feel like it got pretty messy and kinda fell apart by the end too but I'd say the first 4 seasons were pretty damn solid.
@@leroyjenkins7968 yeah. the writers just ran out of steam. they obviously didn't know where to go with it. you would have a smart or charismatic main character get killed and then quickly replaced by some underling who wasn't very good. lol. Eventually they just decided to just start killing everybody. lol. The last 2 seasons were a bloodbath. lol.
@@leroyjenkins7968 lol. yeah. they did him dirty. I would say Beecher got it the worst in the whole show though. After awhile the whole thing just became the Beecher Torture Hour. Have him raped. Kill his kids. have his wife leave him. Kill her. Kill his parents. lol. Find a friend. have them become gay lovers. have that become some sick plot. lol. on and on. it was a little ridiculous after a certain point. Great performance though. A lot of great performances in that show.
I feel like if they would have gotten Harrison & Dexter to see eye to eye earlier and have two more episodes it wouldn't of felt so rushed. It was as if they only know how to write for 12 episodes, when they reached 9 they were like... "oh no.. We have to end this in one episode."
@@Josh-ks7co My comment is more about the entire season. They spent way too damn long keeping Harrison & Dexter fighting and teasing fans with an Angel/Dexter confrontation (considering he is possibly the last remaining character of the whole series that deserves to bring Dexter down) I feel a lot of the fan base would of been able to accept the ending more if they had at the very minimum 1 scene between Dexter & Angel before he runs and ends up being mercy killed by Harrison. I feel like the audience who has been watching since the first season would have more to eat up than what we got. I'm not saying it was out of character for Harrison to kill Dexter either, in fact I wish they went even MORE down that route and we found out that it was Harrison who killed Hanna after he somehow discovers her past and that she killed others. It's your opinion, I'm actually one of the people that isn't completely destroyed by this ending (while it is annoying how we got here) They can never take away what my personal series ending is (S4 finale "Born in blood, Both of us.")
@@devintingle5892 I mean I know but MCH is done with the role and only wanted to do this, they could of had 3 great seasons of television, and build up even more to the ending they gave us. S1 - Focus on pretty much exactly what they did this season. Just not having Angela find out the BHB, just that she's suspicious of Dexter. Maybe have her asking Batista for consulting on a case, only for him to see a picture of Dexter behind her. He shows up with Laguerta's cases in the very end of this season. S2 - Dexter & Harrison could be on the run, Dex teaching Harrison the code like Harry did. Giving us way more time with Harrison to truly build him up. The end of the season we see Angela & Batista finding Dexter and try to bring him in, leading to Dexter to kill Angela (Something big needs to happen here due to 3rd season) Dexter & Harrison have a huge fight about the code, leading to Dexter having to abandon Harrison again or else he would be caught. (This season doesn't just build up Harrison as the "good guy" but Dexter as the "big bad") S3 - Dexter is now alone in his search for a new life, more on edge than ever. (This could be the whole thing Clyde Phillips was talking about when he said "This is what you get when you cheer for a serial killer" Harrison is after him, tracking down where he could go. & Batista is after him, eventually the two team up and catch Dexter, only for Harrison to kill him out of mercy. This could lead to Harrison & his spin off if they wanted and also, in my opinion, give proper closure to characters we have followed for years and building up the new blood. Sorry It's a lot. Hope it's worth it haha this is what happens when I have nothing better to do while sitting in bed.
I made my GF watch up to and including S5 just to give it a bit of a "wrap up". She was then thankfully happy to not watch more of it. I wish I could delete the memories of those later seasons myself.
No one at the Miami Metro PD apart from Doakes and LaGuerta had a clue that Dex was the BHB but Angela figured it out with one google search about a drug Dex never even used when he was in Miami and talking to Angel once at a conference and Angel could barely even remember Dexter or Harrison? Bullshit. Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap. The writers tried to cram way too much into the last 2 episodes of the show which made the episodes just flat out fucking stupid by rushing not to mention there is no way in hell Harrison would remember ANYTHING about Arthur Mitchell since HE WAS A BABY! babies have 0 clue about anything. Sea sponges get more out of life than a baby does. The only redeeming part of the finale was Deb holding Dexter’s hand as he died.
I wanted that interrogation between Dexter and Bautista. A long tense stand-off between the two would have been incredible. When I saw Dexter go after the officer and try to escape I knew it was about to go off the rails. It didn’t feel like Dexter at all. I was like “What the hell are you doing now?” So dumb.
Peak Dexter was something else, easily one of the best tv shows of all time. Season 5 should've been about someone from Miami metro finding a link between Trinity and Dexter which would've resulted in a manhunt for Dexter after all Trinity visited Dexter at the station and killed a woman who was not fitting the pattern. This would've been amazing.
They started that with Quinn snooping around Dexter's neighbours and Trinity's family, but I think they realised it would just be a not as good version of Season 2's Bay Harbour Butcher storyline (Not as good because Quinn is no Doakes)
Not to mention most of it shouldn't even exist. They retconned Miami metro knowing his Mo. In season 2 he destroyed the bodies before they were thoroughly examined.
@@mynameisjeff512It was the same evidence that María LaGuerta had back in season 6, which was circumstantial even then, and now is the exact same circumstantial evidence except now over 10 years old at this point. It was the reason she was trying to catch him in the act in that season: so that she would have something actionable she could use to get him convicted. She knew what she had wasn't enough, but somehow they're trying to convince the audience that now all of sudden it is.
@@mynameisjeff512Miami metro didn’t know Dexter drugged his victims and Dexter didn’t use ketamine, he used m99. He also destroyed the bodies before Miami metro knew he used drugs at all. The only connection also is really easily explianed by the characters Angela discovered using ketamine being drug dealers who sold dangerous drugs like fentanyl.
It’s not that I didn’t want him to face consequences (cause he does just not proportionate consequences to his actions) but the whole show missed the cat and mouse game and appeal of rooting for someone who is ultimately “the bad guy”
New Blood at the last second implies that Dexter cares little about how many people he inadvertently saves and only murders to satiate his dark passenger, while at the same time implying Harrison's darkness was just regular anger Dexter hoped was the same as his. My problem with that was that Dexter (the series) spent it's whole run solidifying Dexter does feel and part of his murderous ritual is to make sure his targets see and accept what they have done to their victims. New blood spent it's whole runtime establishing that Harrison was the exact same... only in the last five minutes to completely reverse that (and alot of things like the sheriff) and waste the potential for the better story they were clearly heading towards. I wanted to see Dexter be finally caught and plead his case to a world that would understand (like the audience), morally vindicate his choices and ultimately see him in prison surrounded by those who fit the code. Then I wanted to see Harrison and his shaving-knife and his grandfathers code, continue Dexter's work but recontextualized as vigilantism for what happened to his mother rather than impulse to quell his own dark urges, or maybe like his father a balance of both
My thoughts exactly! The fact that both Dexter and Harrison in the last scene come to the conclusion that the Code is bullshit meant to just rationalize killing seemed so far out of field to make the entire thing make both characters feel totally disingenuous. And they imply Harrison can just lead a normal life after everything. As though seeing Kurt die and learning of Logan's death was enough to both: satiate his Dark Passenger and give him dissolution about the Code.
It made ZERO sense. Dexter wanted his son to NOT be like him. So having Harrison kill Dexter would put him on the exact opposite path he wanted. It would LITERALLY make him a killer. F*ck I hated this ending even more than the season 8 finale. Which I didn't think could possibly happen.
To me Dexter ended at Season 4. What a beautiful but haunting finale, ending with Rita's bad bath was a bold but correct decision, good job show runners. I wish the series extended longer.
Nah man, beginning of S5 seeing him genuinly grieve over his wife, and then S7 seeing Deb have to deal with the reality of him was great. Everyone can agree the first half was stronger overall, most of everyone at least, but the latter half had lots of high points too @@fearlessfailure2848
@@fearlessfailure2848 I agree to an extent. Season 6's ending was amazing, Season 7 was fantastic overall and now, after seeing New Blood's ending, it makes Season 8's ending actually great imo lol. New Blood never happened, I guess we'll never get a proper resolution to such a wonderfully crafted character.
At the end of this video, you framed the analysis of the finale of Dexter:New blood perfectly: “it was too neat, too easy, too uninteresting.” You nailed it, friend.
You are when the entire time Dexter is going on about wanting to be there for his son and change to not feel the urge to kill anymore. The entire show is based around him wanting to protect others, even moving to the middle of nowhere and controlling the urges for 10 years straight, why would he be so willing to give up on life instead of focusing on that 10 year no kill streak and trying to out do it? You're sipping the "easy plot twist" juice the writer wanted to give you instead of putting in actual work
7:07 Ironically, original author of Dexter novels, Jeff Lindsay, made the character's final novel titled "Dexter is Dead" and wrote a far more satisfying finale for Dexter Morgan.
Hard disagree but to each their own. I was truly let down by the books. Darkly dreaming Dex is good. the rest progressively lose their identity. 2md to last has dex literally hooking up w a hollywood starlet over his hard won ',family'. Last one spends 1/3 of the book describing a prison layout. I was bitterly disappointed w the books aftet 1st. May be the only time the visual far outweighs the literary, imo.
People saying Dexter getting shot is worse than Dexter DRIVING A BOAT INTO A HURRICANE AND SURVIVING TO BECOME A LUMBERJACK are out of their minds. Sincerely, an OG Dexter fan.
Exactly. Dexter's supposed to be a normal human but the writers give him Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees levels of endurance. Especially in this new Resurrection show they're making where he survived Harrison shooting him at the end of New Blood.
I honestly think it'd have been fine if they had just made one more episode. The New Blood finale would work better as a penultimate episode if it were to end when Dexter escaped from prison (ideally with a Batista confrontation beforehand). Then the actual final episode would've been about Dexter and Harrison on the run. It would've given the characters room to breathe so that the final decision to have Harrison shoot Dexter doesn't come out of left field and feels more earned.
The original series was my favorite show of all time but I was beyond disappointed with the ending. It ruined true greatness of the original run. I liked the new show up until the last 5 minutes but the same thing happened. I was so angry that I vowed not to watch any new episodes if “New Blood” continues. Worst writers ever
listen, i'm gonna watch a season 2 either way since the writing is actually great.. just not the ending. the villain of this season was perfect but god damn the borderline incest plot lines made a return
I was certain that his father's watch was in his pocket and that stopped the bullet from hitting vital organs... Also the bullet that killed the cop in the cell ricocheted of the wall. There is still room for him to "rise up out of the ashes like a Phoenix" as he says. Hopefully not RIP Dex 😭
i enjoyed it too, i enjoyed the main antagonist. loved seeing batista, all we wanted was more cameos and a satisfactory ending, maybe another season to fit that. the lethal injection as dexters body count gets revealed, becoming the most shocking serial killer ever seen but nope 😮😢😢😢😢all we got was utter garbage.. and more borderline incest
@@jkeebla I didn't mind the ending that much... it felt a bit weird... but it kinda was for the best. Dexter had to end. Both the series and the character. And this wasn't such a bad way to bring it about.
I went into the show thinking of it as mostly separate from the first show, hence the bringing in of Harrison and the show being about their relationship and dealing with who they are. I thought the ending might have been just a little rushed but I thought it worked well because the show was no longer about the terrible things Dexter had done, but about the awful things he was doing in essentially trying to turn his son into a monster so he wouldn't be alone anymore.
@melissafaye915 old comment but to be fair although harrison did have anger issues he was in survival mode for several years after having lived alone on the street trying to protect himself, losing all his family, dealing with ptsd, etc - he's never shown to be the same type of person dexter was. when he hurts people it's out of anger, not psychopathy. he likes animals and animals like him, he gets along well with people, shows remorse for hurting ethan, self harms and mentions a past suicide attempt and addiction. he's disgusted by dexter dismembering kurt (remember dexter LOVED that part even from the beginning, and harrison's reaction to it was more similar to harry's when he caught dexter doing it). yes he had his issues but was not like his dad at all. dexter was always going to be a serial killer but harry directed him to target bad guys, while harrison started out targeting bad guys but wouldn't have been a serial killer if it weren't for dexter trying to make him one.
@@FactsWithActs i mean, i also agree that the show had MAJOR faults. it seemed like they had planned for a 13+ episode season and then got cut down at the last minute. audrey was super pointless, as was the random oil tycoon rich guy. dexter's character didn't make sense with how careless he was and how loose his moral code suddenly was (he never would have killed that cop). how did he manage 10 years of not killing when the main idea of the original show was he couldn't resist his urges? they pulled a 180 on harrison, making it seem like he was just like dexter but better at hiding it and then turning that around in the end. why have batista if he wasn't going to interact with dexter, how could angela have figured it out so easily, WHY did angela send harrison away in the end if she was just gonna take the fall anyways. it was a weird show that could have been good if not for the pacing and rushed ending, i'm just saying harrison's character was one of the things that actually did make sense to me at the end.
The oil tycoon was to have you guessing who the serial killer was. A white old guy with blue eyes putting on mask Altho, it was pretty obvious it was kurt
Almost 20 years and 9 seasons later fans around the globe are disappointed not once but twice by two of the worst endings in showbiz history. What a shame…
I loved Dexter seasons 1-8, even named my dog Dexter. I watched season 9 finale once, will never watch it again. Now they want you to buy season 9, as if you would want to watch that fiasco a second time. I cancelled Showtime immediately. Angela wandering aimlessly for 25 years looking and never finding the killer of missing girls who lived in her own town! Wow, glad she isn’t our chief of police. Who finds the killer-Dexter of course. Then Angela wants Dexter electrocuted for the Bay Harbor murders but helps Harrison escape after he has just killed his own father, Dexter. And Dexter wouldn’t have been convicted of the murders anyway. No evidence, Dexter destroyed it. Dexter is still in the log mining camp, season 9 never occurred. I saw a poster with Dexter holding a newspaper saying “I will have to ask Harry if the bad writers of season 9 meet the code”. Yes they do.
I agree, the ending was ruined twice. The whole season of "new blood" felt like they were building up the story just to kill dexter. The end execution of the last episode was lame IMHO. Dexter was a character of protocols and just to end his character, the makers of the show finished off his character just like that. It would made more sense if harrison killed angela and just to protect his son dexter dies. That would make more sense. Anyways, yet another disappointment but hey we got to see dexter in his avatar.
He will take advantage of innocents deaths to not get caught. But here, he breaks the code and directly kills Logan to get away. The first innocent kill directly caused by Dexter. Complete character assassination. What a waste
That's not true at all. Dexter killed several innocent people over the course of the original series. He was fully intending on murdering LaGuerta in season seven
They should’ve let him live and do a trail series where he confesses to the murders of different people and how he stalked them and what he learned ect ect. A lot of potential
The worst part about New Blood is that I literally called the plot after watching the first episode, but I just refused to belive writers would go for something so predictable and utterly stupid, so I kept watching.
The first few episodes got me. So excited that he was actually going to have a proper send off after all those awful later seasons. It ended up being worse than I could have even imagined.
"Clyde Phillips has said in a recent interview that he has too much respect for the audience to dupe them like that and bring Dexter back again" So that was a fucking lie.
Dexter New Blood existed solely because Michael C. Hall was tired of people asking him if Dexter was ever coming back, and based on the uninspired performances of the many of the actors, they knew it.
who else gets to have their show revived just so they can be spiteful? it exists because of the pc white man bad trend. no one who wants to make money would agree to it otherwise.
The entirety of new blood had plotholes and character flaws that didnt make sense. I was curious to see what happened myself but anyone that rated it well wasn’t paying attention.
the thing that is so offensive about Dexter new blood, is that we all know and love dex, we are shown that he IS a good person. it makes no sense to show us how much he actually DOES feel for deb, how he felt for rita, and the kids. he CARED. in fact, his entire moral code and thought process about what and who he was, was given and taught to him by a cop. he was brainwashed into believeing he was evil. the thing that makes dexter interesting is that he is not evil at all. he does good, he saves people, he loves his family. so to just treat him like he doesnt deserve a depthful happy ending is disrespectful to all the people who have been convinced of how good he really is. he DOESNT deserve what happened. this is why the endings we got sucked. he should have realized in a huge epiphany, that he truly was wrong about who he is, and in a swift moment of almost seeing his son die, he realizes he cant fathom murder anymore, realizing he never was empty, and his dark passenger was never real. this could have led him to become a true hero. maybe he turns himself in, and becomes an author, writing about his story, and becomes a hero to all those in the outside world, who love him. he should have found peace in prison, his own little corner of the world. he can live knowing in the end, he made the choice to be better, and do better. he sacrificed his freedom, and told the world the truth. it would have been beautiful to see everyone reading this in a montage, batista reading this book, while we hear dexter narrate. seeing his son reading, seeing everyone he ever knew reading and how shocked they all look, then it could have ended with his son visiting him in prison, and telling him he wish he could be free, and dexter takes his hand and says " i am free now, its over " the show could have ended with them holding hands and the news channel talking about how dexter is the worlds robin hood, with emotional music. this is how i would have ended it. maybe not the best, but much better than the dogshit we got
The writer had the audacity the say the ending of new blood was the best thing he’d ever written. We didn’t want to believe the most obvious predictions was going to be the actual ending
I knew the moment Dexter tried something while Angela arrested him, that the writers didn't put any effort in analyzing his character. Firstly, she had eyes on him and a gun pointed at him, the old Dexter would know to make a move is stupid, and even if the old Dexter could, he wouldn't have KILLED Logan. He could have choked him out and took his keys, because he's smart enough to know that Logan won't give in to what he says, but the writers made him kill him to Justify Harrison killing Dexter and the whole thing is just pathetic and lazy
The whole series was good until the ending and I quite literally got so mad that I wanted to forget it even happened. I still can't believe they made us believe that we might see batista and dexter and then didn't even see it through 😭 didn't even get to see any aftermath either it was just so let down
literally could have added a few episodes and solved everything wrong with new blood the pacing at the end was obviously rushed not even mad that he died we all expected that
It was obvious that he would die by his son's hands. Doesn't get more philosophical and metaphorical as that. What i absolutely hated was how it was portrayed. Harrison is in no way innocent, and the way he "had" to kill Dexter to be free of his legacy was whack. Also, Angela's suspicions of Dexter didn't really make sense, sure she's a good cop or whatever but she jumped to conclusions way too quickly and unrealistically. Also... No Batista reunion, wtf!
I have a 14 yo Ragdoll cat I got at the pound I named Dexter. He was 8 weeks old, caught him in atrium. He's cornered a black Widow I had named him after bad guy on Breaking Bad but this is why he's my beautiful, beloved Dexter!
I think the show made two mistakes. 1. Killing off doakes too early. He was a fun character. and seeing him and Dexter banter back and forth is some of the best moments on the show. 2. The show should have ended a long time ago while it was still good. Like breaking bad ended on a high note. Dexter should have ended around season 5-6 when it was at its height.
I really wanted to see him in court in Miami. The death penalty ending, as Angela suggested, would have been way stronger and made much more sense after what they had been building up. And would have allowed for the Dexter and Batista reunion. Dexter also could have knocked Logan unconscious instead of killing him which would have prevented the Harrison situation.
If they were going to have a terrible ending for the second time, they missed the chance to make the most EPIC terrible ending in history. They should have done the exact same thing to the audience as the first time around, only intentionally - Dexter takes a dogsled directly into an unsurvivable blizzard, only to be shown in the last scene working at a tire shop in Oklahoma. He looks directly into the camera. The end.
I was late to the game and just got around to finishing new blood. I disagree with you, it wasn't just the ending that was bad, they destroyed Dexter's character right from the beginning. He became the clumsy fool that he always pretended to be by screwing up every kill / attempted kill and having almost every character in the show one step ahead of him. Being rusty is one thing but how do you all the sudden become a COMPLETE moron/buffoon?!?!? I personally love Dexter and would have loved for him to have a happy ending. It was just another slap in the face that the show started off with Dexter not killing for 10 years proving that if he was with Hanah and Harrison that it would've been even easier for him not to kill.
Honestly, I didn't even like Harrisons character lol "I traveled all this way to see you and rekindle our relationship", proceeds to continuously threaten to leave.
That character was very poorly written, and even worse cast. Another actor with actual range and the same level of charisma as the Dexter character/Michael C Hall *might* have been able to sell some of the poor writing and the really unlikeable, unredeemable character he was playing; Instead, his inability to elevate the writing fully laid bare how bad it was, and the same is true of the bad writing fully revealing his limited range and total absence of charismatic draw. I was rooting for Harrison's death by the end the sixth episode, just so I could stop hearing him incessantly whine and stop being subjected to that faux-twisted look on his face while listening to his over-sold, over-acted outrage. But yeah, everything the character said and did was illogically contradictory. I have no idea what was going on in that writer's room.
This was absolutely the most horrible ending I could have ever imagined. The endings I was expecting was either that Dexter would finally be caught and thrown in jail and named the Bay harbor butcher which would have been an amazing ending and given leeway for him to make an escape in future spin-off shows . Either by his own accord or his son freeing him. Or that he and his son Harrison would have ran away and assumed new identities continuing their work as a family. But this ending was absolutely horrible and it made me super angry.
I would've rather seen teenage Dexter wake up in a mental asylum with all the characters as fellow patients and all the bad guys as the staff than either of the actual finales. After seeing the second finale, I felt even more angry, disappointed and duped into wasting my time than the time I first saw the first minutes of House of Cards episode 6x01. Five season down the drain.
Man, I actually liked this ending. I definitely would have preferred to see Dex’s confrontation with Batista, but I still think this was a MAJOR improvement over the previous ending and stands as a good addition to the story overall.
I have a feeling they were under timeline to write Dexter dying, because that was probably the only way MCH would return, is if he died in the end. And everyone involved didn't really care how it happened, it just had to happen. Tonight's the night...the final night. Sad. Dexter used to be one of my favorite shows, and still is to this day. It just sucks the last few seasons and NB really just tarnish his character into oblivion that it makes me question rewatching it at all.
Still glad the made another season. I really missed this character and the interesting and funny moments with his inner monologue - the eerie music. Great and unique show overall - shitty endings.
Dexter NB was so disapointing and such poor logic... what he saw in his son? That his son (was he really his son?) Being a specialist in blood and able to hide any possible evidences of his own secret life...how could he let an absolute strander into the main secret of his life - that he was a real serial killer? He saved Harrison twice from death! And this poor miserable creature kills him as if he was a wild animal? Ver, very, very disapointing. Piece of junk to be frank.
Very disappointing finale. Bad writing filled with retcons. I wish they left it alone after season 8 and never brought it back for the spin off if they were going to go the direction they did.
I did not like having dexter die, especially the reasons, I did not think thoe deaths were his fault and finally bonding with his son, to be shot by him
Dexter: I have to live a normal life and stay away from my Dark Passenger and make sure I never ever get caught. Also Dexter: Hey let me work in a store around all thoses weapons and date a Investigator Cop.
The show should have ended after season four with nothing else after. So many shows either stay on too long or were denied one additional season. Other shows that should have ended sooner include: Simpsons after season 8, Supernatural after season 5, 70’s show after season 5, The US The Office after season 3 or 4, to name a few
Pretty sure resurrection will be him finally standing trial. I’d love to see news broadcasts of them revealing him as the bay harbor butcher and finally clearing doakes name. Could give cameos of Astrid and Cody talking about him.
Which Dexter finale do you think was stronger?
non of them maybe first one but still i deny both
old, new one was super cringe.
Both sucked but the new blood was based on retcons and completely changing the Main character out of the blue to force an outcome they wanted. So new blood finale awful.
I watched the original series again just until the end of season 4. Best series finale ever! 😆😂😂
Dexter: i wanna live lets leave son Son: i dont wanna leave Dexter: then kill me and leave Son: Ok
I'm still upset they blue balled us with Batista...Him and Dex in the same room, that would have been a interesting and equally intense scene to see.
blue balled pretty much the first entire half of the season, then when they went somewhere with it, it deflated in minutes...
@@loserorangeorvoremonster8047 incredibly fair point my dude.
I was punching my wall that they didn’t interact with each other
@@rambo1872 2 years later and my disappointment has only grown.. :(
@@xCrackxRabbitx what was the point of having Batista there just to blue ball us?
Harrison driving away at the end and cracking a smile after murdering his father he spent his whole life trying to find literally made me laugh out loud. What a horrible ending
He felt unburdened, by the description of the episode synopsis.
I think he intended to kill him from jump and I also think he killed Hanna.
He's a psycho, man. Whole show is about how monsters can mimic and live in society
It's ok to be wrong. Best ending we could have hoped for.
@@chevgage6210 so he spent the entire season wanting to be closer with his dad and feel loved by him just to kill him? It doesn’t make any sense. If he wanted to kill him he could have at any point, he had a million chances
Angela had a serial killer right under her nose for 20 years, but was able to link Dexter to the BHB by googling Ketamine which he never even used previously. New Blood was fun up until the super lazy writing took over.
Angela was basically a Deb who he could sleep with. She was totally annoying by the end.
Dexter always used the ketamine... it's in episode 1
@@jaxon19kira No, his trademark sedative is M99/Etorphine
@@jaxon19kira no, he used m99. And in the original show, miami metro or the fbi never discovered this part of the his MO
@@bk4eva_876 except Deb is annoyingly loveable
Dexter: I wanna live. Son: I dont wanna leave. Dexter: then kill me and leave. Son: ok
Too true. What the heck was with the screenplay.
@@vedantgupte1863 very bad action logic for poetics💩
I think that final conversation was a little more complicated than that. Yes, Dexter changes his mind several times, but he's not contradicting himself. He's learning things about his son and responding to that. Harrison's darkness wasn't caused by Trinity, but by his absent father. That's the big revelation here. Harrison doesn't want to come with Dexter; he wants his father to turn himself in.
When Harrison says "maybe you deserve [to die]", Dexter has this look on his face... He completely changes his tune, and I think he's finally showing his real face. We know from season 1 that the death penalty is his absolute worst fear. In response, he actually tells Harrison: "Ok, I can do this without you". After everything, the ugly truth is that survival is more important to him than being with his son. And that's when Harrison realizes his father only cares about himself - he doesn't want to be abandoned again, so the "only way out for both of us", as he describes, is for him to kill his father. That's when Dexter gives in.
The ending wasn't perfect. It was rushed and, personally, I too would have preferred a shot in the leg and a confrontation with Batista, but... it was not as bad as some people are claiming it to be.
@@FringeMusic107 Dont forget that previos season bad too and they was tried make some good text based on bad text
@@realkill7928 It definitely did not help that the ending of season 8 was terrible. But as much as I missed Miami, I think they mostly made it work in this new setting.
They had a whole new series to fix it and made it even worse, fuckkkk
It was great what are you talking about
The series sucked. The last few episodes were too rushed. Angela deduced Dexter was a serial killer by googling a drug he never even used was pathetic.
Nah@@josephpa05
Yes for me too, its good@@josephpa05
The villain was pretty creepy and there was all around decent plot but the last few episodes weren’t too good lol how do they mess up the ending twice 😂
In another universe Dexter had a good ending and Breaking Bad had a bad one
I was thinking before watching the vid: In some other universe Dexter had an awesome finale.
Just rewatched remember the monsters and felina and the writing for dexter was so messy and rushed you could barely recognise the show at all not to mention in new blood Debra is dexters biggest hater when in the original she literally told him not to blame himself for what he is and their basically telling us he forgot about that whole hospital scene this is very lazy writing not to mention in the original deb always thinks highly of Dexter in new blood she only sees him as a killer but felina on the other hand was made with pure energy and creativity
Rule of three, in that universe Game of Thrones is still bad as it has nothing to swap with.
So, a universe where the show followed the book series that the first season was based on, even adapting the books that the real show didn't adapt?
What if TV series uses the concept of quantum immortality to rewind its storyline before its controversial finale, then takes a completely different direction. This could either be a brilliant move or pave the way for further disappointment.
You hit the nail on the head. The cautiously optimistic audience being (mostly) won over, only to be massively let down again. It's not "Dexter died ending bad," it's how *undeserved* this ending was.
I can't believe I let this show let me down so unceremoniously...again. ☹️
I thought both ending were great
@@josephpa05 s8 ending wasnt the worst just wish they expanded more on vogel and dropped hannah off a cliff completely
Idea of Harrison killing Dexter is brilliant, execution of it was horrible, out of character and undeserved.
Oh no. The serial killer died. End sarcasm.
Yeah, from season 7 to New Blood (actually the very end of season 6 with Deb's discovery of romantic feelings for Dexter) the problem was never bad plot ideas (some of them were great which is why the rest of the show is hard to ignore), but they were just implemented incredibly badly. Badly written, illogical, out of character, rushed. Just my take.
The biggest disappointment was Batista not facing Dexter, Yes Dexter had to die, But he also needed to be held accountable for what he had done, Harrison Killing Dexter Was so predictable and didn't make much sense, Like is he just Satisfying a dark passenger like Dexter, I'd probably watch a spinoff but I don't really want one
I was so shocked and ready for this big confrontation...then nothing lmao
I really enjoyed the show overall, but that was by far the biggest let down for me.
Dexter should have been completely left in the dark about the BHB and it all be revealed when he walked in a room with Batista and Angela there.
Batista would have had the closure of Maria’s death too.
The second Angela started giving Dexter the info I was pretty sure Batista wasn’t going to show up.
A true tease that never pays off. Horrible
I reeeally wanted to see Dexter have to face Batista!
Dexter has straight-up said he would never do to Harrison what his own father did to him. Did they forget that?
this season was like watching an Olympic athlete faceplant live in the moment. it was the single biggest disappointment to me in all of television
Apparently you didnt watch the ending of season 8🙄 This ending is bittersweet and perfect for this type of series.
The season was good just got a little rocky in the finale I definitely wanted Batista to confront dexter or have some confrontation other than that him dying by his son makes sense but it sucks he had to die because he’s one of my favorite characters on tv
@@Sancsteq his son was in a rage Kurt killed innocent women he clearly wasn’t thinking straight it’s his father of course he wanted to believe what he was doing was good but when he found out he killed the innocent police officer that was what made him look at his father as a monster I think some people are glossing over that fact it’s not a thing of bad writing it’s just people didn’t want to see there favorite character die
@@Sancsteq the cop was also his wrestling coach too
Game of Thrones was way worse though haha
Let's face it - we all wanted the Dexter from seasons 1+2 to go on forever...
I hope AI will one day make this possiblé
For me it's seasons 2+3 ... on repeat. (Though 4 was the best)
@@FactsWithActsAI will ruin it further
+4
1 to 4 were fantastic
Re-watch the first 2 seasons of Dexter, they are BY FAR my favorite seasons of the show, followed by season 4. Actually, S1&2 are probably my favorite seasons of ANY show, ever. I loved it so much when it first aired,and still do. Dexter is such an intriguing character.
Completely agree.
Yeah, I was worried this awful ending would retroactively ruin the show for me, but I managed to wash off the "New Blood" stank by watching season 1 and 2 afterward :P
The first 2 seasons of Dexter are absolutely WILD. I'm currently at the end of s2 lol
I truly believe that S1 of Dexter is the closest thing we will ever get to a perfect season of Television
S3 was great to me too. S1-4 was the best stretch. I did enjoy s5 as well. S7 was also good imo with the exception of Hannah. 6 and 8 were just garbage
once they made the decision to have dexter kill logan was when the finale was screwed. everything after that you knew was gonna be mad. they have never ever had dexter kill an innocent purposefully before. he always finds a way to still get out of situations like that sneakily. there were tons of other directions they could've gone in, but they made him kill logan when that is not his character at all.
I thought that to but then I realized this was an unpresented situation for him hed never been caught like that before, so even though he has a code he is in fact still a psychopath and that means if his back is against the wall and his only options are be arrested which is against the code, or harm a potential innocent-also against the code- then well one of these rules would have to be broken right? and since he is in fact a sociopath it stands to reason hed choose himself over a random even innocent person heck friend of his like logan even so while it was lame and sucked mostly how he died, that part for what it was in hindsight isn't actually out of character we just never saw him in that situation before....
Dexter has killed other innocents. The guy at the truck stop, the private investigator, Hannah Mc Kay's dad.
@@byronsenior6499 He didn't kill the private investigator Hannah did.
@@antonewatters6967 He killed Liddy in Season 5. The guy Quinn hired to look into him who found out he was killer and tried to force a confession out of him.
@@byronsenior6499 i totally forgot about liddy i thought you meant sal price
The actor who plays batista is so under rated…he was on Oz and also had a let down of ending for him. Some actors have bad luck with great characters with poor endings
yeah, dexter had such great characters in the original seasons, then you have.. harrison 😂😂 just a copy of that other serial killer dexter taught. only new character that i really enjoyed was mr krabs.. i love the "run bitch" he's also such a great actor
No, he seriously isn't under rated. He was out of his league in that group of actors.
@@leroyjenkins7968 Oz was an underrated show in general. A lot of actors that have gone on to great things were in it. I feel like it got pretty messy and kinda fell apart by the end too but I'd say the first 4 seasons were pretty damn solid.
@@leroyjenkins7968 yeah. the writers just ran out of steam. they obviously didn't know where to go with it. you would have a smart or charismatic main character get killed and then quickly replaced by some underling who wasn't very good. lol. Eventually they just decided to just start killing everybody. lol. The last 2 seasons were a bloodbath. lol.
@@leroyjenkins7968 lol. yeah. they did him dirty. I would say Beecher got it the worst in the whole show though. After awhile the whole thing just became the Beecher Torture Hour. Have him raped. Kill his kids. have his wife leave him. Kill her. Kill his parents. lol. Find a friend. have them become gay lovers. have that become some sick plot. lol. on and on. it was a little ridiculous after a certain point. Great performance though. A lot of great performances in that show.
I was so excited when the season first started. I ended it up breaking my heart just like the original finale.
Exactly
I was sooo excited for this season...
wish they NEVER made it.
wish they remade it
I was still mad they killed off debra
It felt so forced @@miquelr2353
I feel like if they would have gotten Harrison & Dexter to see eye to eye earlier and have two more episodes it wouldn't of felt so rushed. It was as if they only know how to write for 12 episodes, when they reached 9 they were like... "oh no.. We have to end this in one episode."
@@Josh-ks7co My comment is more about the entire season. They spent way too damn long keeping Harrison & Dexter fighting and teasing fans with an Angel/Dexter confrontation (considering he is possibly the last remaining character of the whole series that deserves to bring Dexter down) I feel a lot of the fan base would of been able to accept the ending more if they had at the very minimum 1 scene between Dexter & Angel before he runs and ends up being mercy killed by Harrison. I feel like the audience who has been watching since the first season would have more to eat up than what we got.
I'm not saying it was out of character for Harrison to kill Dexter either, in fact I wish they went even MORE down that route and we found out that it was Harrison who killed Hanna after he somehow discovers her past and that she killed others.
It's your opinion, I'm actually one of the people that isn't completely destroyed by this ending (while it is annoying how we got here) They can never take away what my personal series ending is (S4 finale "Born in blood, Both of us.")
It did feel like 3 seasons worth of content crammed into one episode
@@devintingle5892 I mean I know but MCH is done with the role and only wanted to do this, they could of had 3 great seasons of television, and build up even more to the ending they gave us.
S1 - Focus on pretty much exactly what they did this season. Just not having Angela find out the BHB, just that she's suspicious of Dexter. Maybe have her asking Batista for consulting on a case, only for him to see a picture of Dexter behind her. He shows up with Laguerta's cases in the very end of this season.
S2 - Dexter & Harrison could be on the run, Dex teaching Harrison the code like Harry did. Giving us way more time with Harrison to truly build him up. The end of the season we see Angela & Batista finding Dexter and try to bring him in, leading to Dexter to kill Angela (Something big needs to happen here due to 3rd season) Dexter & Harrison have a huge fight about the code, leading to Dexter having to abandon Harrison again or else he would be caught. (This season doesn't just build up Harrison as the "good guy" but Dexter as the "big bad")
S3 - Dexter is now alone in his search for a new life, more on edge than ever. (This could be the whole thing Clyde Phillips was talking about when he said "This is what you get when you cheer for a serial killer"
Harrison is after him, tracking down where he could go. & Batista is after him, eventually the two team up and catch Dexter, only for Harrison to kill him out of mercy.
This could lead to Harrison & his spin off if they wanted and also, in my opinion, give proper closure to characters we have followed for years and building up the new blood.
Sorry It's a lot. Hope it's worth it haha this is what happens when I have nothing better to do while sitting in bed.
I mean he asked for the keys and then the guy tries to shoot him so he snaps his neck. So it was an accident.
This would've been great@@filmsnat3428
If Dexter ended at S4 it’s one of the greatest shows of all time
I made my GF watch up to and including S5 just to give it a bit of a "wrap up". She was then thankfully happy to not watch more of it. I wish I could delete the memories of those later seasons myself.
I've never seen past Rita's bath. Dexter is an amazing 4 season show.
@@SongokuJidai Worst part is New Blood did the exact same thing. First few eps felt like vintage Dexter and the ending makes no sense.
I too watched up until season 4. It didnt make sense for me to go on from there.
No one at the Miami Metro PD apart from Doakes and LaGuerta had a clue that Dex was the BHB but Angela figured it out with one google search about a drug Dex never even used when he was in Miami and talking to Angel once at a conference and Angel could barely even remember Dexter or Harrison? Bullshit. Evel Knievel couldn’t have made that leap. The writers tried to cram way too much into the last 2 episodes of the show which made the episodes just flat out fucking stupid by rushing not to mention there is no way in hell Harrison would remember ANYTHING about Arthur Mitchell since HE WAS A BABY! babies have 0 clue about anything. Sea sponges get more out of life than a baby does. The only redeeming part of the finale was Deb holding Dexter’s hand as he died.
I wanted that interrogation between Dexter and Bautista. A long tense stand-off between the two would have been incredible. When I saw Dexter go after the officer and try to escape I knew it was about to go off the rails. It didn’t feel like Dexter at all. I was like “What the hell are you doing now?” So dumb.
Peak Dexter was something else, easily one of the best tv shows of all time. Season 5 should've been about someone from Miami metro finding a link between Trinity and Dexter which would've resulted in a manhunt for Dexter after all Trinity visited Dexter at the station and killed a woman who was not fitting the pattern. This would've been amazing.
They started that with Quinn snooping around Dexter's neighbours and Trinity's family, but I think they realised it would just be a not as good version of Season 2's Bay Harbour Butcher storyline (Not as good because Quinn is no Doakes)
@@NotChukkov it probably should have been someone from the FBI.
The most annoying thing tho is that the evidence they had on Dexter would NEVER hold up in Court
DOES ANGELA EVEN KNOW HOW TO COVER UP A CRIME
Not to mention most of it shouldn't even exist. They retconned Miami metro knowing his Mo. In season 2 he destroyed the bodies before they were thoroughly examined.
She was just a diversity hire 🙄
Why would the evidence not have held up?
@@mynameisjeff512It was the same evidence that María LaGuerta had back in season 6, which was circumstantial even then, and now is the exact same circumstantial evidence except now over 10 years old at this point. It was the reason she was trying to catch him in the act in that season: so that she would have something actionable she could use to get him convicted. She knew what she had wasn't enough, but somehow they're trying to convince the audience that now all of sudden it is.
@@mynameisjeff512Miami metro didn’t know Dexter drugged his victims and Dexter didn’t use ketamine, he used m99. He also destroyed the bodies before Miami metro knew he used drugs at all. The only connection also is really easily explianed by the characters Angela discovered using ketamine being drug dealers who sold dangerous drugs like fentanyl.
I like to imagine that the final season just did not happen at all. Dexter is still out there somewhere... doing his work when necessary. 🤫
Better
Am I the only person that doesn't want Dexter to face any consequences? He didn't do very much wrong, considering what he could have been.
It’s not that I didn’t want him to face consequences (cause he does just not proportionate consequences to his actions) but the whole show missed the cat and mouse game and appeal of rooting for someone who is ultimately “the bad guy”
New Blood at the last second implies that Dexter cares little about how many people he inadvertently saves and only murders to satiate his dark passenger, while at the same time implying Harrison's darkness was just regular anger Dexter hoped was the same as his.
My problem with that was that Dexter (the series) spent it's whole run solidifying Dexter does feel and part of his murderous ritual is to make sure his targets see and accept what they have done to their victims.
New blood spent it's whole runtime establishing that Harrison was the exact same... only in the last five minutes to completely reverse that (and alot of things like the sheriff) and waste the potential for the better story they were clearly heading towards.
I wanted to see Dexter be finally caught and plead his case to a world that would understand (like the audience),
morally vindicate his choices and ultimately see him in prison surrounded by those who fit the code.
Then I wanted to see Harrison and his shaving-knife and his grandfathers code, continue Dexter's work but recontextualized as vigilantism for what happened to his mother rather than impulse to quell his own dark urges, or maybe like his father a balance of both
That would have been better.
My thoughts exactly! The fact that both Dexter and Harrison in the last scene come to the conclusion that the Code is bullshit meant to just rationalize killing seemed so far out of field to make the entire thing make both characters feel totally disingenuous.
And they imply Harrison can just lead a normal life after everything. As though seeing Kurt die and learning of Logan's death was enough to both: satiate his Dark Passenger and give him dissolution about the Code.
That's pretty good
Does Larten know you're indulging in a show with this much blood in it?
Seriously, it wasn't hard writer's.
It made ZERO sense. Dexter wanted his son to NOT be like him. So having Harrison kill Dexter would put him on the exact opposite path he wanted. It would LITERALLY make him a killer. F*ck I hated this ending even more than the season 8 finale. Which I didn't think could possibly happen.
To me Dexter isn't dead the new blood season is just one of Dexter's dreams. I just can't accept it
This is my new had cannon
Better explanation
To me Dexter ended at Season 4. What a beautiful but haunting finale, ending with Rita's bad bath was a bold but correct decision, good job show runners. I wish the series extended longer.
Nah man, beginning of S5 seeing him genuinly grieve over his wife, and then S7 seeing Deb have to deal with the reality of him was great. Everyone can agree the first half was stronger overall, most of everyone at least, but the latter half had lots of high points too @@fearlessfailure2848
@@fearlessfailure2848 I agree to an extent. Season 6's ending was amazing, Season 7 was fantastic overall and now, after seeing New Blood's ending, it makes Season 8's ending actually great imo lol. New Blood never happened, I guess we'll never get a proper resolution to such a wonderfully crafted character.
At the end of this video, you framed the analysis of the finale of Dexter:New blood perfectly: “it was too neat, too easy, too uninteresting.” You nailed it, friend.
Am i the only one understanding the pain of living with consequences of your actions is harder than dying ??
You are when the entire time Dexter is going on about wanting to be there for his son and change to not feel the urge to kill anymore. The entire show is based around him wanting to protect others, even moving to the middle of nowhere and controlling the urges for 10 years straight, why would he be so willing to give up on life instead of focusing on that 10 year no kill streak and trying to out do it? You're sipping the "easy plot twist" juice the writer wanted to give you instead of putting in actual work
Dexter: Worst finally in the history of television.
Game of Thrones: Hold my beer.
yeah as much as people complain about dexter's ending, GoT has it far outbeat in how crappy they can make it end
7:07 Ironically, original author of Dexter novels, Jeff Lindsay, made the character's final novel titled "Dexter is Dead" and wrote a far more satisfying finale for Dexter Morgan.
Hard disagree but to each their own.
I was truly let down by the books. Darkly dreaming Dex is good. the rest progressively lose their identity. 2md to last has dex literally hooking up w a hollywood starlet over his hard won ',family'.
Last one spends 1/3 of the book describing a prison layout. I was bitterly disappointed w the books aftet 1st. May be the only time the visual far outweighs the literary, imo.
People saying Dexter getting shot is worse than Dexter DRIVING A BOAT INTO A HURRICANE AND SURVIVING TO BECOME A LUMBERJACK are out of their minds. Sincerely, an OG Dexter fan.
Exactly. Dexter's supposed to be a normal human but the writers give him Michael Myers and Jason Voorhees levels of endurance. Especially in this new Resurrection show they're making where he survived Harrison shooting him at the end of New Blood.
Dexter is a legend. I will live the rest of my life with his good old memories S1 to S8
I honestly think it'd have been fine if they had just made one more episode. The New Blood finale would work better as a penultimate episode if it were to end when Dexter escaped from prison (ideally with a Batista confrontation beforehand). Then the actual final episode would've been about Dexter and Harrison on the run. It would've given the characters room to breathe so that the final decision to have Harrison shoot Dexter doesn't come out of left field and feels more earned.
The original series was my favorite show of all time but I was beyond disappointed with the ending. It ruined true greatness of the original run. I liked the new show up until the last 5 minutes but the same thing happened. I was so angry that I vowed not to watch any new episodes if “New Blood” continues. Worst writers ever
listen, i'm gonna watch a season 2 either way since the writing is actually great.. just not the ending. the villain of this season was perfect but god damn the borderline incest plot lines made a return
Season 5 is barely watchable at times 😂
@geekgod3947 that is because Michael had cancer and was getting treatment during season 5 and wearing a wig. Plus it was disappointing script too.
I was certain that his father's watch was in his pocket and that stopped the bullet from hitting vital organs... Also the bullet that killed the cop in the cell ricocheted of the wall. There is still room for him to "rise up out of the ashes like a Phoenix" as he says. Hopefully not RIP Dex 😭
It wasn’t great but as a big dexter fan it was nice just seeing him on screen again. I enjoyed the series
Agreed
with you thr
i enjoyed it too, i enjoyed the main antagonist. loved seeing batista, all we wanted was more cameos and a satisfactory ending, maybe another season to fit that. the lethal injection as dexters body count gets revealed, becoming the most shocking serial killer ever seen but nope 😮😢😢😢😢all we got was utter garbage.. and more borderline incest
@@jkeebla I didn't mind the ending that much... it felt a bit weird... but it kinda was for the best. Dexter had to end. Both the series and the character. And this wasn't such a bad way to bring it about.
Harrison might be one of the worst written characters in TV history.
Notice that Dexters mugshot had Michael C. Hall's real birthdate.
A voice over has Angela's daughter call dexter Joe not Jim
I didn't think it was possible to screw up twice, but they managed to clutch the defeat from the jaws of victory.
I went into the show thinking of it as mostly separate from the first show, hence the bringing in of Harrison and the show being about their relationship and dealing with who they are. I thought the ending might have been just a little rushed but I thought it worked well because the show was no longer about the terrible things Dexter had done, but about the awful things he was doing in essentially trying to turn his son into a monster so he wouldn't be alone anymore.
@Melissa Faye By the end I wanted Dexter to gut Harrison.
@melissafaye915 old comment but to be fair although harrison did have anger issues he was in survival mode for several years after having lived alone on the street trying to protect himself, losing all his family, dealing with ptsd, etc - he's never shown to be the same type of person dexter was. when he hurts people it's out of anger, not psychopathy. he likes animals and animals like him, he gets along well with people, shows remorse for hurting ethan, self harms and mentions a past suicide attempt and addiction. he's disgusted by dexter dismembering kurt (remember dexter LOVED that part even from the beginning, and harrison's reaction to it was more similar to harry's when he caught dexter doing it).
yes he had his issues but was not like his dad at all. dexter was always going to be a serial killer but harry directed him to target bad guys, while harrison started out targeting bad guys but wouldn't have been a serial killer if it weren't for dexter trying to make him one.
@@tabaxi if I had the time to explain to you how bad the writing was, I would
@@FactsWithActs i mean, i also agree that the show had MAJOR faults. it seemed like they had planned for a 13+ episode season and then got cut down at the last minute. audrey was super pointless, as was the random oil tycoon rich guy. dexter's character didn't make sense with how careless he was and how loose his moral code suddenly was (he never would have killed that cop). how did he manage 10 years of not killing when the main idea of the original show was he couldn't resist his urges? they pulled a 180 on harrison, making it seem like he was just like dexter but better at hiding it and then turning that around in the end. why have batista if he wasn't going to interact with dexter, how could angela have figured it out so easily, WHY did angela send harrison away in the end if she was just gonna take the fall anyways. it was a weird show that could have been good if not for the pacing and rushed ending, i'm just saying harrison's character was one of the things that actually did make sense to me at the end.
The oil tycoon was to have you guessing who the serial killer was. A white old guy with blue eyes putting on mask
Altho, it was pretty obvious it was kurt
Almost 20 years and 9 seasons later fans around the globe are disappointed not once but twice by two of the worst endings in showbiz history. What a shame…
I loved Dexter seasons 1-8, even named my dog Dexter. I watched season 9 finale once, will never watch it again. Now they want you to buy season 9, as if you would want to watch that fiasco a second time. I cancelled Showtime immediately. Angela wandering aimlessly for 25 years looking and never finding the killer of missing girls who lived in her own town! Wow, glad she isn’t our chief of police. Who finds the killer-Dexter of course. Then Angela wants Dexter electrocuted for the Bay Harbor murders but helps Harrison escape after he has just killed his own father, Dexter. And Dexter wouldn’t have been convicted of the murders anyway. No evidence, Dexter destroyed it. Dexter is still in the log mining camp, season 9 never occurred. I saw a poster with Dexter holding a newspaper saying “I will have to ask Harry if the bad writers of season 9 meet the code”. Yes they do.
Killing Logan was so fucking dumb he had already distracted Angela to Kurt and BHB theory wouldn't really hold.
I agree, the ending was ruined twice. The whole season of "new blood" felt like they were building up the story just to kill dexter. The end execution of the last episode was lame IMHO. Dexter was a character of protocols and just to end his character, the makers of the show finished off his character just like that. It would made more sense if harrison killed angela and just to protect his son dexter dies. That would make more sense. Anyways, yet another disappointment but hey we got to see dexter in his avatar.
I was thinking Harrison would kill Angela to protect Dexter, so Dexter would have to kill Harrison.
A small town sheriff caught Dexter with her marvelous detective skills 🤣🤣
We don't want repercussions. We want our favorite characters to continue entertaining us.
Dopo 9 stagioni, direi anche basta, che dici ?😅
Thank You
Rita dying killed the show for me it was all downhill from from there the whole intrigue of her eventually finding out was gone
So glad I only watched the pilot of New Blood. I couldn't have taken that boomerang bad ending. Dexter season 1-4 is where its at anyhow.
I always felt like seasons 1 and 2 were the only exceptional ones. Season 4 was, overall, rather weak, but was bolstered by a "shocking" ending.
I agree with you wholeheartedly
i mean S7 was banger also
He will take advantage of innocents deaths to not get caught. But here, he breaks the code and directly kills Logan to get away. The first innocent kill directly caused by Dexter. Complete character assassination. What a waste
That part. 💯
That's not true at all. Dexter killed several innocent people over the course of the original series. He was fully intending on murdering LaGuerta in season seven
They should’ve let him live and do a trail series where he confesses to the murders of different people and how he stalked them and what he learned ect ect. A lot of potential
The worst part about New Blood is that I literally called the plot after watching the first episode, but I just refused to belive writers would go for something so predictable and utterly stupid, so I kept watching.
Same.
Fans deserve more? That's the kinda reasoning thay causes toxic fandoms
A piece of art doesn't owe anything anyone
The first few episodes got me. So excited that he was actually going to have a proper send off after all those awful later seasons. It ended up being worse than I could have even imagined.
Both completely disregarded all established logic from the previous show/seasons
"Clyde Phillips has said in a recent interview that he has too much respect for the audience to dupe them like that and bring Dexter back again"
So that was a fucking lie.
I don't think the original ending was bad, but the final ending absolutely was.
Dexter New Blood existed solely because Michael C. Hall was tired of people asking him if Dexter was ever coming back, and based on the uninspired performances of the many of the actors, they knew it.
who else gets to have their show revived just so they can be spiteful? it exists because of the pc white man bad trend. no one who wants to make money would agree to it otherwise.
The entirety of new blood had plotholes and character flaws that didnt make sense. I was curious to see what happened myself but anyone that rated it well wasn’t paying attention.
the thing that is so offensive about Dexter new blood, is that we all know and love dex, we are shown that he IS a good person. it makes no sense to show us how much he actually DOES feel for deb, how he felt for rita, and the kids. he CARED. in fact, his entire moral code and thought process about what and who he was, was given and taught to him by a cop. he was brainwashed into believeing he was evil. the thing that makes dexter interesting is that he is not evil at all. he does good, he saves people, he loves his family. so to just treat him like he doesnt deserve a depthful happy ending is disrespectful to all the people who have been convinced of how good he really is. he DOESNT deserve what happened. this is why the endings we got sucked. he should have realized in a huge epiphany, that he truly was wrong about who he is, and in a swift moment of almost seeing his son die, he realizes he cant fathom murder anymore, realizing he never was empty, and his dark passenger was never real. this could have led him to become a true hero. maybe he turns himself in, and becomes an author, writing about his story, and becomes a hero to all those in the outside world, who love him. he should have found peace in prison, his own little corner of the world. he can live knowing in the end, he made the choice to be better, and do better. he sacrificed his freedom, and told the world the truth. it would have been beautiful to see everyone reading this in a montage, batista reading this book, while we hear dexter narrate. seeing his son reading, seeing everyone he ever knew reading and how shocked they all look, then it could have ended with his son visiting him in prison, and telling him he wish he could be free, and dexter takes his hand and says " i am free now, its over "
the show could have ended with them holding hands and the news channel talking about how dexter is the worlds robin hood, with emotional music. this is how i would have ended it. maybe not the best, but much better than the dogshit we got
So glad I didn't waste my time with this revival, a minirepresentation of the entire series...
This was basically Dexter crossing the street, being hit by a car and dying. Nothing that came before had any kind of payoff.
Dexter is one of that shows I can see over and over, I will like to see even 8 more season with the son as the new Dexter
If the last episode has a retake and ends in the way we all want, that would turn out to be the highest rated episode ever!
Even if dexter had stood trial they could never have proved that he is BHB ....right?......why he had to kill logan and runaway??
The writer had the audacity the say the ending of new blood was the best thing he’d ever written. We didn’t want to believe the most obvious predictions was going to be the actual ending
they need to do a remake of seasons 6-9 seriously
I knew the moment Dexter tried something while Angela arrested him, that the writers didn't put any effort in analyzing his character. Firstly, she had eyes on him and a gun pointed at him, the old Dexter would know to make a move is stupid, and even if the old Dexter could, he wouldn't have KILLED Logan. He could have choked him out and took his keys, because he's smart enough to know that Logan won't give in to what he says, but the writers made him kill him to Justify Harrison killing Dexter and the whole thing is just pathetic and lazy
The whole series was good until the ending and I quite literally got so mad that I wanted to forget it even happened. I still can't believe they made us believe that we might see batista and dexter and then didn't even see it through 😭 didn't even get to see any aftermath either it was just so let down
Okay... that’s the most bull shit ending you could have thought of showtime.
literally could have added a few episodes and solved everything wrong with new blood the pacing at the end was obviously rushed not even mad that he died we all expected that
I get why it might be dissatisfying to a lot of people...
But to say it was worse than Season 8 is insulting to everyone's intelligence.
It was obvious that he would die by his son's hands. Doesn't get more philosophical and metaphorical as that. What i absolutely hated was how it was portrayed. Harrison is in no way innocent, and the way he "had" to kill Dexter to be free of his legacy was whack. Also, Angela's suspicions of Dexter didn't really make sense, sure she's a good cop or whatever but she jumped to conclusions way too quickly and unrealistically. Also... No Batista reunion, wtf!
I have a 14 yo Ragdoll cat I got at the pound I named Dexter. He was 8 weeks old, caught him in atrium. He's cornered a black Widow I had named him after bad guy on Breaking Bad but this is why he's my beautiful, beloved Dexter!
I think the show made two mistakes.
1. Killing off doakes too early. He was a fun character. and seeing him and Dexter banter back and forth is some of the best moments on the show.
2. The show should have ended a long time ago while it was still good. Like breaking bad ended on a high note. Dexter should have ended around season 5-6 when it was at its height.
So many boxes being ticked in the first episode I forgot I was supposed to be watching a thriller
I really wanted to see him in court in Miami. The death penalty ending, as Angela suggested, would have been way stronger and made much more sense after what they had been building up. And would have allowed for the Dexter and Batista reunion. Dexter also could have knocked Logan unconscious instead of killing him which would have prevented the Harrison situation.
Again, he would have to call harisson from logan's phone and he would still have logan's blood on his face.
death of Logan was one of most ridiculous things that happened in the finale. It's just lazy writing
If they were going to have a terrible ending for the second time, they missed the chance to make the most EPIC terrible ending in history. They should have done the exact same thing to the audience as the first time around, only intentionally - Dexter takes a dogsled directly into an unsurvivable blizzard, only to be shown in the last scene working at a tire shop in Oklahoma. He looks directly into the camera. The end.
Imagine if every season ended in Dexter disappearing into some kind of wrath of nature only to appear some other part of the world. Hilarious thought
I was late to the game and just got around to finishing new blood. I disagree with you, it wasn't just the ending that was bad, they destroyed Dexter's character right from the beginning. He became the clumsy fool that he always pretended to be by screwing up every kill / attempted kill and having almost every character in the show one step ahead of him. Being rusty is one thing but how do you all the sudden become a COMPLETE moron/buffoon?!?!? I personally love Dexter and would have loved for him to have a happy ending. It was just another slap in the face that the show started off with Dexter not killing for 10 years proving that if he was with Hanah and Harrison that it would've been even easier for him not to kill.
The last episode of new blood made me feel like I did when I watched the last episode of GOT
Honestly, I didn't even like Harrisons character lol "I traveled all this way to see you and rekindle our relationship", proceeds to continuously threaten to leave.
That character was very poorly written, and even worse cast.
Another actor with actual range and the same level of charisma as the Dexter character/Michael C Hall *might* have been able to sell some of the poor writing and the really unlikeable, unredeemable character he was playing; Instead, his inability to elevate the writing fully laid bare how bad it was, and the same is true of the bad writing fully revealing his limited range and total absence of charismatic draw.
I was rooting for Harrison's death by the end the sixth episode, just so I could stop hearing him incessantly whine and stop being subjected to that faux-twisted look on his face while listening to his over-sold, over-acted outrage.
But yeah, everything the character said and did was illogically contradictory. I have no idea what was going on in that writer's room.
You’re gonna cry when I tell you something 😂
The finale of season 8 and New Blood is not canon. Just a "what if".
No, I will not elaborate.
No, I will not change my mind.
I love how Season 5 Episode 1 was titled "My Bad." It's like they knew it was all downhill from here.
6:18 Meanwhile, Better Call Saul was like, "Fine...I'll do it myself."
this video is everything i felt. Thank you.
This was absolutely the most horrible ending I could have ever imagined. The endings I was expecting was either that Dexter would finally be caught and thrown in jail and named the Bay harbor butcher which would have been an amazing ending and given leeway for him to make an escape in future spin-off shows . Either by his own accord or his son freeing him.
Or that he and his son Harrison would have ran away and assumed new identities continuing their work as a family.
But this ending was absolutely horrible and it made me super angry.
I would've rather seen teenage Dexter wake up in a mental asylum with all the characters as fellow patients and all the bad guys as the staff than either of the actual finales.
After seeing the second finale, I felt even more angry, disappointed and duped into wasting my time than the time I first saw the first minutes of House of Cards episode 6x01. Five season down the drain.
Dexter jumped the shark when his sister found out.
Man, I actually liked this ending. I definitely would have preferred to see Dex’s confrontation with Batista, but I still think this was a MAJOR improvement over the previous ending and stands as a good addition to the story overall.
I have a feeling they were under timeline to write Dexter dying, because that was probably the only way MCH would return, is if he died in the end. And everyone involved didn't really care how it happened, it just had to happen. Tonight's the night...the final night. Sad. Dexter used to be one of my favorite shows, and still is to this day. It just sucks the last few seasons and NB really just tarnish his character into oblivion that it makes me question rewatching it at all.
Still glad the made another season. I really missed this character and the interesting and funny moments with his inner monologue - the eerie music. Great and unique show overall - shitty endings.
Dexter NB was so disapointing and such poor logic... what he saw in his son? That his son (was he really his son?) Being a specialist in blood and able to hide any possible evidences of his own secret life...how could he let an absolute strander into the main secret of his life - that he was a real serial killer? He saved Harrison twice from death! And this poor miserable creature kills him as if he was a wild animal? Ver, very, very disapointing. Piece of junk to be frank.
I love your last statement darlin'. It truly fits the bill. 👍
Very disappointing finale. Bad writing filled with retcons. I wish they left it alone after season 8 and never brought it back for the spin off if they were going to go the direction they did.
I did not like having dexter die, especially the reasons, I did not think thoe deaths were his fault and finally bonding with his son, to be shot by him
Dexter: I have to live a normal life and stay away from my Dark Passenger and make sure I never ever get caught.
Also Dexter: Hey let me work in a store around all thoses weapons and date a Investigator Cop.
Between Logan and the billionaire douche that would have been a perfect season two, I’m just like, “Wtf were the writers thinking?”
The show should have ended after season four with nothing else after. So many shows either stay on too long or were denied one additional season.
Other shows that should have ended sooner include:
Simpsons after season 8,
Supernatural after season 5,
70’s show after season 5,
The US The Office after season 3 or 4, to name a few
Pretty sure resurrection will be him finally standing trial. I’d love to see news broadcasts of them revealing him as the bay harbor butcher and finally clearing doakes name. Could give cameos of Astrid and Cody talking about him.
Yea the 2013 finale just didn't do it for me. And the new one wasn't better..