For many, Dexter is one of the best shows to ever air on television. Though many fans would argue that after the incredible 4th Season the show went down hill fast. Dexter's original series finale has gone down as one of the worst TV finales of all time. Finally years later Dexter fans had a shot at a new ending with Dexter: New Blood. Only for the series to miss the mark once again as the season came to an end.
#Dexter #DexterNewBlood #Nerdstalgic
Written by Chris Teregis
Edited by Brian Nappi
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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?
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dexter is a legend. I will live the rest of my life with his good old memories S1 to S8
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.
Um....Harrison WAS a monster...literally EVERYTHING until the last episode screamed Harrison was just like his dad! Like, he literally knifed his ONLY FRIEND at the time for no REASON! He was a fucking asshole the entire season. He literally broke a kids arm right in front of EVERYONE, and when they wanted revenge, he was perfectly prepared to slice and dice them! This was an awful way to go about it. It was clearly character assassination, and 80% was POINTLESS
@@melissafaye915 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.
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
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 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.
Notice that Dexters mugshot had Michael C. Hall's real birthdate.
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 😭
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”
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
Fans deserve more? That's the kinda reasoning thay causes toxic fandoms A piece of art doesn't owe anything anyone
We don't want repercussions. We want our favorite characters to continue entertaining us.
Dopo 9 stagioni, direi anche basta, che dici ?😅
Thank You
Dexter: Worst finally in the history of television. Game of Thrones: Hold my beer.
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 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.
Great analysis. It captures exactly what many of us have been thinking!
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 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
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
So many boxes being ticked in the first episode I forgot I was supposed to be watching a thriller
I very much disagree that he needed to get caught. But I do wish that it did happen.
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
this video is everything i felt. Thank you.
Both completely disregarded all established logic from the previous show/seasons
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.
So glad I didn't waste my time with this revival, a minirepresentation of the entire series...
This may be controversial, but I actually enjoy the ending. I just went through the entire show and re-watched New Blood a second time and it's not bad. The ending is pretty rushed, but as far as what they've been building to, it makes a lot of sense. Dexter will always outsmart his advisory, he finds a way out, and there's some poetic justice in the fact that his son is the one who he ultimately surrenders to. I do wish we got a Batista face-off, but I think this finale did its job. I also quite like Harrison's character and wouldn't be opposed to exploring more of him in a spin-off series.
I never understood why he didnt just keep going north to Canada in some remote town. I loved this series and it broke my heart also...my fav of all time. I had to take a little while before I could watch it again from start to finish...but I think i am ready to start from the beginning again.
I noticed patterns re-emerge as of the 1st episode that rang alarm bells (Harrison, LOL) and I just shut it off
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
I actually thought it was a good ending. I thought it fits that he shows Harrison his world, only to have it all collapse around him like he always feared it would. And then the only person who ever truly made him feel love is the one who has to kill him, though I do wish it was a bit messier than just firing a gun. I feel like the version proposed in the video might sound good in theory but it would have dragged. Still wish we had seen Batista confront him tho. Very weird to bring him back without having the two characters interact at all.
I agree. I loved the new ending. The show has always had weak character writing and that's fine. It's not a deep show! I thought every time they stared a dumbass decision from the season 8 finale in the eyes and confronted it was excellent and fun. I loved how those wild decisions all caught up to him. Dexter always treated the women in his life like empty headed accessories, his new girlfriend being no different despite his cooling off from being hypersexual. Him gifting her the book on investigations was brilliant, Imo. Harrison was so fucked up and that actor was excellent. I loved the whe season. It was campy, over the top, and apologetic about the season 8 shenanigans. What a treat for the fans that have been there since season 1. I didn't think I'd enjoy it at all but it was some of my favourite tv in years.
The name of this video sums up perfectly what I thought about both endings.
How satisfying would it be to see the media outrage of the true Bay harbour butcher’s true identity seeing him go on death row. Hopefully he’s not really dead and we see dexter on the run for a season
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.
Thank you!!! I feel like the first few seasons really set up the promise that we will see consequences and the aftermath for the people around him. Some payoff for Deb always thinking that she was the one who was broken. I don’t know how they failed to understand the premise of their own show so completely.
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.
Killing Logan was so fucking dumb he had already distracted Angela to Kurt and BHB theory wouldn't really hold.
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
Yea the 2013 finale just didn't do it for me. And the new one wasn't better..
All I hear is “boo hoo, piss and moan, it didn’t end the way I wanted it to. “
They literally just needed to have Dexter running away, getting in his car and breathing a breath of fresh air when angel appears. As he's getting arrested, have all the main people from mainline Dexter as ghosts finally watching him get what he deserves. Dexter monologue 'this is it' cut to black
The last episode of new blood made me feel like I did when I watched the last episode of GOT
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.
In my headcanon Dexter is living with Hannah and Harrison down in Argentina feeding Vincent van Goat.
An ideal end to me would be Dexter goes to trial for all of these murders but due to highly effective counsel most of the evidence is inadmissible and he is clearly going to skate on all charges but at the last minute, looking his son in the eyes he pleads guilty and gets life. Would have been an interesting twist that his lawyers were going to spring him based on a series of technicalities that he in the past had killed others for. Far better than that robotic son and simple google searches that ended with him shot…..
The best ending is the aged Dexter sitting on a beach somewhere, watching a sunset. He has a beer in his hand. From the left comes a grandson of one of his victims. He has a knife behind his back. CUT! ... because what happens next should remain as open as the end of "The Sopranos". Such iconic series heroes have a right to interpretation. 😇
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!
The real story here is that Michael Hall wanted to end the character for good. I think he did. Never watched the this season, I saw this coming.
such a shame he wanted to leave a steaming pile of crap on every one of his fans doorsteps. if he didnt like the character, he could do what any normal person would do, STAY gone from it. coming back just to stick it to the fans is kinda petty.
How do u know that?
I know I might catch flak for this but Dexter has had some crazy writing before as well. Remember when in season 5 Quinn is suspicious of Dexter so he hires a guy to tail him and literally that very same episode Dexter goes to kill a man who lured gay men on the internet and injects him with M99 in a very public place...not like an abandoned warehouse or a run down cafe. Any cop worth his salt would be able to see how suspicious that is. He's seen killing that guy while Deb, Masuka and the team are barely 10 feet away from him and he gets away with it. Not a single person hears him choking a man to death or dragging his body. Not even the supposed detective watching his every move. Imo there have been plenty of cases like this where Dexter catches a break and we never questioned it because we were team Dex but since this season the writers were hell bent on killing him off, the inconsistencies pop off even more.
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 re-watched them all (probably 4th time through in entirety), in preparation for New Blood. While season 5 gets so much hate, upon re-watch, it actually has some of the best, and most complex, writing of the entire series. The only problem was it came on the heels of the season everybody loved. As for New Blood, every episode until the finale was great. And somehow, this finale was worse. While Dexter, the character, got a fitting ending, they didn't do enough in one season to build up to that. The biggest issue was that Dexter made several decisions, and took several actions, that nothing in the first 8 seasons, OR every other episode of New Blood, suggested that he would take. They were completely out of character. Plus, a screw that proves nothing was what took him down? Another issue is while his ending was fitting, they didn't do enough to make you care about Harrison, or Angela, or any other characters, to actually appreciate the ending. It just didn't fit. It was too forced. That ending could have been great, with another season of doing more to develop the other characters. Instead, we basically got a story that was the parallel of an alcoholic falling off the wagon.
I love how Season 5 Episode 1 was titled "My Bad." It's like they knew it was all downhill from here.
I don't think the original ending was bad, but the final ending absolutely was.
The story should have ended with him on death row and his son Harrison reading the private journal he later published. And Dexter's new blood should be Harrison taking up the mantel of the vigilante serial killer.
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.
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.
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.
After many people told me, i stopped watching after season 4. But my curiosity got the best of me and now im here to see what horrible things happened
I don't really agree with this idea that he needed to be caught and executed, I mean was Walt ever caught? but we still felt that he payed the price for his actions. What can be worse than your own son deciding to kill you? What can be worse than Dexter himself realising that it would just be better if he'd die, sure they didn't develop this idea as well they should have, but imo it was not a bad ending. It felt a little rushed definitely, but I don't think he needed to get caught for facing consequences of his choices, what would be different if his face plastered on the newspapers before his death, than just dying the way he did, they could have still done the vision thing you talked about even in this version and maybe even better, like his choice to get shot would make more sense after those visions. Though Dexter not facing Batista was definitely really disappointing.
Sure Walt wasn't caught but people still found out what he was doing. We get 8 seasons worth of suspense from Dexter covering up his secret life and then he just gets away with it, lameee.
@@uselessdegenerate7565 Wait, did I misunderstand the ending? I thought Angela had already cracked the case, only reporting it was left. Well, even if we want his crimes to be exposed, that could still be done with him ending up shot by Harrison.
They could of shower the aftermath of his death in news
I would have loved to see Baptist's reaction and the trial.
A subsequent season could've been the trial and sentencing of Dexter, followed by an escape to run away with Harrison to California?
No one wanted Dexter punished but the producers.
Pro tip for watching Dexter - the series ends after season 4. There is only one exception to this and that's for people like me who've loved Julia Stiles for decades. I watch season 5 for her and her alone. I will not watch the new series because I've never forgiven the showrunners for two specific things: having Dexter abandon his son to the "care" of a woman who fit his code and for DUMPING HIS SISTER WHERE HE DUMPED HIS VICTIMS. Revolting on both counts. Shame on them.
I agree that another season where Dexter faced trial and was executed would have been ideal. I would have liked to see him confronted by the various still living characters from the original series (in particular Rita's other children and her mother, I think that would have been extremely powerful), then of course Joey, Batista, and Masuka. That said, I'm probably one of the odd ones out in terms of actually liking the later seasons of the original series and the ending of new blood, even if neither was ideal. I did really hate the ending of the original series, but I wasn't that disappointed by the New Blood ending. Like I said, I would have liked another season, but I still found the ending satisfying. The one thing I always wished they would have done was have "Angry Rita" come back as a "head ghost" (like Harry and Deborah) as he was coming to terms with her death. I just always wanted to see a version of her that was aware of Dexter's secret I suppose.
I thought this ending was much superior to the first. It seemed a little rushed toward the end, but I kinda think that's largely because we aren't privy to Harrison's thoughts like we are to Dexter's... Yep it would be just for him to face the consequences of his actions through his arrest, but that doesn't always happen in real life... I honestly think much of the dissatisfaction for this finale comes down to the fact that people wanted more of the character - which is a testament to the character portrayal.
Superior my ass... Dexter and viewers deserved better.
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.
If anything, I would have liked this show to have a movie length finale. The season could have ended after episode 9 or after Angela arrests Dexter. Just end the season at that heightened moment and then do something different for the next part. Give us the Trail of Dexter Morgan. If OJ or Casey Anthony can get away with their crimes, Dexter could get away with his. I think it would be very compelling to put his whole life on the line and be the face of a major crime. Dexter would be legally innocent but not to the public. Maybe someone kills him as revenge or maybe he lives the rest of his life as a social outcast who would never be hired or able to live anywhere or have anyone who would be close with him again. He could also never kill again due to his infamy, causing the public to always keep an eye on 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.
Umm... No. While I agree the first ending was bad, and the second one was way worse... This just proves why this show can't be ended better than it originally was. There is no one consensus to how best to end it. Your personal view and desire for the narrative is "Dexter is a bad guy and anything less than him getting caught, having his day in court and it ending with him lethally dealt with by the state is un-acceptable!". I DO NOT share that opinion! For me, Dexter the series was always about following a protagonist that working towards overcoming their damage, and lead a normal life. For me, the proper ending is... he lives, and finds he doesn't need to sate his dark passenger anymore. You got new blood wrong too. You mentioned them, but you didn't due the plot holes and poorly written character actions to advance the plot the justice that it deserved. NB, despite showing that Dexter had actually lived the ending Id have wanted (off camera, so it doesnt count...) was actually good when it brought his dark passenger back into action. And yea. 9 really good episodes. The last episode sucked though because of all that bad writing. Angela is the poorest written in the entire series. Shes better than every single person who came before her, yet with NONE of the qualifications to justify that. Dexter himself becomes... not Dexter at the end, and it just feels cheap... His character personality is ignored simply to fast track the ending the writers wanted. It didn't have to end exactly how I wanted, but it for certain could have and should have ended FAR better. But instead... ended far worse than the ending from 2013...
Dexter jumped the shark when his sister found out.
This channel has taught me about so many spin offs from shows that I loved, and I want to watch none of them
I loved the new season. I always thought Dexter dying at the hands of Harrison would make for great poetic justice, after all, the reason Rita and Deb were killed was because Dexter couldn't break free of his dark passenger. He's responsible for what happened to Harrison. I think Dexter getting caught made sense only while Deb was alive. Killing Deb was a terrible direction but I liked what this season did with it. We were never going to get more than one season of New Blood, it was meant to wrap up the series precisely to avoid what happened to the first run: Going on for too long and losing direction. It may feel rushed, but this gives Dexter as a whole a coherent ending. It seems most people who feel betrayed by this ending were expecting Dexter to go back to business as usual. I don't think there was ever a way to go back after Deb's death.
There was a blindingly clear direction that could have been taken of "father and son bond through killing until they realize it's alienated them from everyone else" or "father fights off urges like he did for 10 years trying to give son a normal life" but they didn't. They screwed up the writing in new blood and retconned a lot of facts from the original series until they realized they did too much damage and wanted to end it with an easy to guess bs ending. Despite him using m99 and none of the bay harbor victims having tell of needle punctures, a single Google search says "oh yeah he didn't use m99 he used slow acting ketamine like he's forced to use in your location and here's some clear puncture wounds nobody noticed for 10+ years". Titanium screws and a note saying "he did it" is enough to tie him to a crime and put him in the finale situation, despite him being able to easily manipulate people and explain things. But yeah no, Deb died so I guess the entire justice system is dead as well and the only thing that makes sense is Dexter basically begging for death from his estranged son that was "ride or die", whom he had all the love for in the world wanting to protect his innocence in the original series. Hell yeah man, ruin his innocence even further by making him a part of assisted suicide oh and make sure you DON'T protect him because you're dead. Sounds like a good ending to me.
Very. It should have ended around S3. But anyway, I watched it all.
This reminds me of the character played by Omar Sy on "Burnt": he plays the friend card until the protagonist is about to get the thing he wants the most in his life, then he sabotages his meal and destroys his hope... Clyde didn't want the franchise to continue and blew it up with this ending.
The key to Dexter (as a show and a character) is not about if he can kill a guy, hide the body, and make it to a party to make a toast or whatever. It’s about a man desperate, hungry, and aching in his soul to be near to people and emotionally connect with them. It’s the one thing a sociopath cannot have. But he wants it. Looking at both endings (and his imperfect talent to escape in a digital world and cell phones with cameras) look different and land better. Food for thought. Also remember how Stephen King ended the Dark Tower saga, saying that he, too, was not thrilled with the ending he wrote, but if he was going to be true to the characters, then so much was excluded, and only a few things were possible-so he stands by it. In that way, a Happily Ever After with Dexter and his son killing the occasional murderer doesn’t hold water. But Dexter bonding with his son over his own self-sacrifice? The ultimate emotional connection (in a bloody Dexter way)? That figures.
I whole heartedly disagree. 1. Dexter need to face consequences 2. Emphasize that harrison was not dexter 3. Recognize dexters need will not go away ...ever. Dexter did not need to have a face to face with Batista for any of that to happen. Anyone important is going to know who dexter actually was regardless if he is officially charged at this point. I feel the ending of epiaode 9 was. Lost on way too many people given how shocked people were harrison didnt want to be dexter. Did the show end exactly how i wanted? No Did they mess up the m99 thing? Yes , but its not fundamentally game changing. The way debra harasses him unlike harry did and the way she told him to wipe that smirk off his face when he thought he was gonna get away wkth mats murder. Shows his psyche slipping and how he needs to change , bur doesnt truly want to. Last episode was rushed, but to compare it to the season 8 finale is purely hyperbole.
Exactly, episode 9 was the reason I knew Dexter needed to die, he never wanted Harrison to be like him, this was not the same Dexter from Miami, I think at the end he lost his mind. Such a tragic story for Dexter, I loved this character, one of the most fascinating characters I've ever saw.
This show was so good the first few seasons . I couldn't get past season 3 I stopped a few episodes in . It felt like a teen drama too much romance and sex not enough murder and drama for me . Loved your opinions and video
season 3 kinda sucks but season 4 is the best of the whole show. it’s a must see. no need to go past that.
romance and sex ? i think you're talking about season 2 not 3
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.
Seeing Batista confront Dexter would be uneccessary, because Dexter doesn't care about him. The final scene they have together is Batista giving this emotional talk to Dex before he "leaves" with Hanna. But I find it highly unlikely that in that moment Dexter gives a single crap. He's a psychopath and the only person who got him to understand that was his son. After that he realized that the best thing he could do to protect Harrison, was to die. And Harrison in turn had to let go of the rage caused by his father. Did they have to have Harrison himself kill Dexter to accomplish this? ... no. But this series is so weird it didn't feel TOO absurd. I'm glad Dexter got to let go of his dark passenger and feel remorse for the pain he caused and learned to love the son he abandoned. Also, ain't no way they were setting up a Harrison show lmfao