It was Harrison's way of saying "I can see it in your eyes. You want to abandon me and go become a lumberjack while I'm stranded in a foreign country with a different murderer. Go get 'em, Dad."

I feel like this is a real possibility. Considering how much the spin-off talk has ramped up, it's quite possible that the writers waited until the last minute, then created this very non-committal ending to leave themselves options for a spin-off, companion series or whatever.

I want a log with the Dexter logo carved into it. Make it so.

My biggest issue with the ending…wait, no, my biggest issue was the beard. My second biggest issue with the ending is that it was ambiguous about whether or not Dexter went on killing, because that's the only way of evaluating whether or not it was a happy ending for him. If he's wherever he is logging by day and…

I wasn't leaning towards an F for most of it. I try not to evaluate cumulatively, and I was firmly in the D range until the last five minutes or so and then…Lumberjack Dexter. I probably wouldn't have given it an F if the writers had just committed to Dexter going to Argentina and living out his days. It's not the…

This explains why I got so much shit when, in my recent review of the Bible, I referred to Jesus Christ as "the Ned Stark of the New Testament."

No one cares about LaGuerta. She was just a horrible person who tried to get Dexter in trouble, so she deserved what she got. That's why she only got a bench. Vogel will get a life-sized bronze statue right in front of Miami Metro, where everyone will see it daily and reflect on how sad it is that Dexter's beloved…

Why did a character in Dexter do something that makes no earthly sense? It's a valid question, but if you tug on that thread, you'll pull the whole sweater apart.

"Nebraska" was a disaster, and a perfect example of how this show became so awful. They teased the return of Brian Moser only to abandon it literally one episode later. The writers are petrified of any story that might cause the audience to feel ambiguous about Dexter.

If there had been a shot of Ghost Harry fading away slowly as he walked away, I'd have bumped this up to a C. Don't ask me if that was sarcastic because I'm not entirely sure.

This is the text I sent to a buddy at 9:17: "Do you know what it's like to have to sit through Dexter while a new BB is on? DO YOU EVEN KNOW?!?!" He sent back a sad face Emoji.

I think we'll have to agree to disagree if the argument is premised on the idea that, in an age of television consumption in which everything is close-read, analyzed, theorized, recapped, reviewed, screen-capped, gif'd, meme'd and combed for Easter eggs, then sprinkled in every direction within hours of an episode,…

The show definitely got out of its own way with regard to being terrible.

I think that's absolutely what he was asking for. Dexter never stopped killing, but he was rehabilitated insomuch as Vogel and Harry redirected his compulsion in a less destructive way. Saxon said "I want you to help me like you helped Dexter," which wasn't to say "I want you to help me stop killing," but rather, "I…

Sho nuff! Though I'm more of a Dionne Warwick kinda guy. A purist, y'know.

Right. This. Ghost Harry can't be a manifestation of the Dark Passenger because the show abandoned that concept last season and haven't mentioned it since, and because historically Ghost Harry has talked Dexter out of killing people more often than talking him into it. That's why this particular use of Ghost Harry…

I certainly didn't have to reference it, but I didn't have any reservations about doing so, and still kinda don't, if I'm being honest. For all the advantages of living in the time-shifted, live-Tweeted age of TV viewing, the consequence of not watching things live or near-live is that things will occasionally and…

I thought it would be more fitting for Dexter if it seemed like things were getting a little better before going to absolute shit.

This review suffered from my inability to channel my irritation fully in a short space. But this line represents one of my biggest gripes with the episode. The problem all season has been that Dexter's basic motivation has been murky. There's no apparent motivation for anything he does anymore, and when they try to…

Exactly. After going for so long showing Dexter suffer no consequences for murdering people, or even indirectly murdering them, the writers came up for new consequences to act like he might suffer but then doesn't at all.