Yeah don't kid yourself Dexter. You and Hannah aren't soulmates. It's just that she's ridiculously hot. Typing that sentence just now makes me wish that Hannah was played by someone unanimously ugly but had the same personality. Maybe then I'd buy his love for Hannah.

Despite how much flak the past few seasons got (the only one I didn't really like all that much was 6), it blows my mind that scenes like the one with Ted and the Mother still work so well. I'm personally excited for the season. I can see a handful of episodes flopping pretty hard, but the main cast's synergy is on…

Well I finally got around to actually watching the episode, and I didn't hate it as much as I thought I would. Michael C. Hall's acting I thought was exceptional (he actually doesn't seem to be phoning it in this episode as opposed to the rest of the eighth season). He helped sell what Dexter was going through, and…

Yeah, it's not so much the final scene as it is Clyde Phillips implying that Dexter inevitably faces consequences for everything he's done instead of escaping via natural disasters.

Was it always Dexter's plan to survive after he sailed into the hurricane?
 "He knows exactly what he's doing there; he's putting his boat in the path of the hurricane, which will then allow him to escape in this way."

A couple people on Reddit are also saying that this episode was boring, as if they were expecting something on the same level of last week's episode. And as if an episode where Gretchen and Elliot make an appearance and Jesse is forced to watch Andrea die is somehow boring.

For anyone interested, Clyde Phillips (the showrunner of the first four seasons) reveals how he would have personally ended the series:

I don't think there has ever been a more outright offensive 180 degree turn in quality in television history.

I'm waiting for that F grade for the Dexter finale as much as the next person, but I'm afraid I can see the writers actually putting a little bit of effort into the final episode and turning it into something like a C or B- grade.

I actually like season 5 too (up until the moment Dexter and Lumen become a couple), and don't like to group it with seasons 6-8 because there is a sharp drop once Scott Buck takes over. I just tend to leave 5 out of the list of "good seasons" is because all of the potential it had and could have brought was…

Anyone who tells me that season 3 is worse than anything post season 4 (go to the subreddit, because they exist), their opinion of this show is automatically void to me. I don't mean "Oh, I don't like season 3 as much as 6 or 7." That's understandable. We all have preferences. I mean in terms of actual quality, season…

I'm getting really fed up with the references to earlier seasons. Stop reminding me that one of my favorite shows became… this.

Vince Gilligan has said in several interviews that the best ending is sometimes the most predictable ending. I couldn't agree more. The reason this episode worked so well was not because these things happened, but because these things had to happen. Of course Hank had to die. Of course Jesse had to find out about…

we are witnessing possibly the biggest betrayal in television history right now

where the fuck is my new dexter review

A lot of people don't understand pacing. You can't be the second season of Homeland and have shit go down every episode or else it just becomes disorienting. And a slow, methodical episode of Breaking Bad is 10x better than a "crazy cray" episode of any other show on right now. Most of the scenes in last night's…

Yeah and the revelation of Rudy as Dexter's brother made sense in that I can buy that someone would repress the memory of watching their mother being chopped to pieces with a chainsaw at the age of 3. Not to mention that the buildup leading to that moment where Dexter is standing in his childhood yard as everything…

I think that's the worst part of this season, and why I personally think even the sixth season is less annoying. Dexter (the show) has such an interesting premise that you really have to go out of your way to fuck up the execution — which, at this point, I'm guessing is Scott Buck's endgame. And it's working, almost…

I'd love to watch a Breaking Bad/Dexter crossover where Scott Buck is diagnosed with lung cancer and takes over as the Dexter showrunner so that he can provide money for his family after he's gone, but along the way he destroys the lives of everyone around him and causes the fanbase to turn on the show.

It blows my mind how easily Walt can reach a new level of shithead with every new episode this season. I love it.