I saw it! And thank you for taking the time to write out your catharsis, because you said everything I think, too.

The show is clearly working with a reduced budget compared to seasons past. For example, the closed captioning data now doubles as Dexter's voiceovers. In the past, the Slice of Life was a real boat in real water. Now it looks like a green screen from a Youtube video.

Even if everything else goes south in Dexter, any episode without Ghost Harry has to be worth at least a B. It is an immutable law of mathematics.