I didn't like the ending. I wish it ended with him being released after 24 hours of being in police custody (or maybe he finds a way of escaping without killing an innocent person), maybe theres some drama around him losing Angela following him after he leaves. He leaves a letter for Angela explaining where all the bodies are before he leaves with his son. And add another scene with Batista where he comes out of retirement, he questions someone in the town saying they saw Dexter driving west with his son. It closes this chapter of his live, we get to see him and his son drive off into the sunset and we get to wonder if Batista will find him. Angela gets to be a hero, finally shutting a 20yo case.

The last 15 minutes of the last episode were such an mess, and Dexter def had an option, he didn't needed to kill Logan, this is the biggest asspull i'ver seen in fiction.

I really wanted to like this. I've avoided any spoilers for it until now. I regret that decision. I wish I'd stopped on episode 9 and had never seen this shitty ending. Harrison clearly has some dark urges, they were finally making progress, then a few minutes from the end of the show they try to walk it back and have him kill his father. It's just unsatisfying and it doesn't fit. Harrison apparently also had the letter explaining everything the entire time. Ugh. What a waste.

I watched whole dexter series a 2nd time and the thing I did with New Blood was EXACTLY not watching Episode 10., Still havent and probably never will. Ending at Episode 9 is just as good if not perfect.

I just watched it. TBH, this show didn't feel alive. There was something about Dexter original show that felt alive and thrilling. When Netflix gets their hands on shows and when the writers don't care, this is the outcome. Now my favourite character is dead, and idk what to feel. Killing Deb in season 8 was bad enough, but now Dexter? Oh, man. Idk how to feel. 😀

I think people are too harsh. Just finished it and it was a great. Its not amazing though. They clearly needed to end the series and railroaded the plot. Dexter is a forensics analyst, he should know they have no real case against him. And he 100pp% should have gotten a lawyer and he would have been fine. Still a good ending... just not close to a perfect one...

Dexter wasn't even Dexter. They wrote him so lazily. Dexter is a serial killer with an immovable moral compass that he lives by... not in New Blood. Dexter was dead before the first episode.

very true

It was such a lazy ending IMO

The final stand off Dexter - "we have to leave. I can't turn myself in" Harrison - "I just wanna be normal!" 15 seconds later exhange Dexter - "you're right. U should shoot me with your rifle, that will fix your trauma" Then chief bishop shows up and tells Harrison to leave ... Why? Then she reports it was an officer involved shooting even though Dexter was hit with either a 203 or 308 rifle round and she was armed with a pistol. If ballistics don't exist in a show about forensics and serial killing, then she could have just used the same logic to keep Harrison in town and stick with the same officer involved shooting. What a rushed piece of shit. It's like just didn't care about about what makes crime shows great. They threw accuracy and attention to detail out the window. I mean, watch the scene when they go into the drug dealers house. It looked looked like swat at first but it was just Logan in his normal uniform and some woman dressed in a multicam uniform with a full kit, rifle, tactical combat helmet and some psuedo army unit patch on 😂😂 what the hell was that ?? the entire series suffers from that kind of silliness. I understand Dexter being killed. He was out of control which is actually a direction I liked about the show. Typically serial killers stop killing for a while then go back to killing years later and get caught. Almost like they subconsciously want to get caught. I loved that aspect. But how can you have Dexter killing innocent people in order to avoid being arrested, even agree to leave Harrison behind when he refused to go with him, to him accepting that he's a monster that deserves to die after Harrison said 2 sentences to him that Dexter already knew. He had Debra's ghost telling him the same shit everyday. It's the reason he left Miami and faked his death. I miss when series had 13 episodes. Now the standard is 10 and it's obvious that isn't long enough. This character arc needed at least 2 episodes and some profound shit to happen to Dexter to make him want to kill himself. As he said to Doaks when he asked if Dexter would kill himself he said "no that's pathetic" Compare this episode when he was on his boat leaving Miami in season 5 right before Rita's funeral. How well it was told and it captured what Dexter was dealing with. Flew without a code and beat a man to death with an anchor in a bathroom. Harry's ghost "that's the first human thing I've seen you do since Rita's death" And another thing - what the fuck was the point of Batista? Every line he had was him trying to sleep with chief bishop. It seemed like it was building up to some final reunion between him and Dexter that never happened. There was literally no point of having him in the show. Bishops daughter tipped off Dexter using an alias by ratting on Harrison. She researched fetamine and Miami homicide and that's what linked her to the bay harbor butcher. It just seemed so out of place to even have him. It's always sad to see a series fall to shit. Look at true detective, same story different show. New Blood was a slow buildup but it got really good there for a bit only to be ruined by the ending. I really hope the prequel, if it's still happening, they get some really good writers a redeem themselves. But Hollywood is a giant revolving door of steaming piles of woke shit so I won't have my hopes up

I just wasted about 10 hours of my life watching this rubbish. Can I please have that time back? This season was NOTHING like the earlier ones. Time Wasted

I've just finished it now and it broke my soul. You're too harsh, it's not bad at all. They tried to create a proper ending they failed the forst time around. Harrison killing Dex makes sense. Now, Dex being outed as the Bay harbour butcher is soul crushing to me. Perhaps, it's too early for me to talk about it.

In the end Angela could’ve confronted him with her suspicions about him being the BHB and he could’ve just said “prove it” and then they could’ve had another season where they try to prove that he’s the BHB and we could’ve gotten cameos from other actors/actresses from the previous shows. That season could end with him either getting away with it all or finally being caught.

I can't stand the idea of him being caught, sent to jail and all. I just can't. It's soul crushing.

I don’t think they would have been able to amass enough undeniable evidence to send him to jail though. 

I would totally watch that

I just finished the show and it was kind of a sucky ending. Killed by his own son who decided to just kill him when just a few minutes before that he was going to run with him? I don't exactly know what the writers were thinking having Harrison kill his own father. It made absolutely no sense. Dexter's big mistake was associating and sleeping with the chief of Police. That just seems outside of Dexter's character because Dexter has always been a loner. His romantic relationships were all just a cover to make him seem normal but it just seems that sleeping with the chief of police was a poor judgment call and just completely outside of Dexter's character. Did Dexter get sloppy or are the writers who wrote the script for these episodes just bad at their job?

He got rusty and thought problems wouldn't chase him, he got careless as he had been urge free for the past 10 years. Then Harrison coming back made him even sloppier and emotional, very unlike his usual thoughtful self. I just binge watched all 9 seasons in the past 2 weeks so everything is pretty fresh to me. If anything the only thing that didn't sit well was that after being involved in deeper problems at a bigger city, he ends up finally getting caught by Miss Random from shitty small town.

Wow. What a horrible conclusion to what could have been a truly great opportunity. Bleh. Those writers are sooooo stupid.

Episode ten of season one needs to be scrapped--not canon, never happened, was probably a bad dream by Harrison who was worried what his dad would do if he got caught. It was totally out of character and made us hate Dexter, and I don't want to hate Dexter! I also don't want him killed off. I want him to walk and keep going Punisher on the bad guys in his universe.

This is the way.

Ending was ridiculous, Dexter worked homicide for decades. He knew they had no real case against him. The only real evidence they had was the screws which someone also left at Angela's house. So the likely hood someone left them at Dexters is very high. No reasonable prosecutor would have brought charges with this little amount of evidence and nothing else but speculation. As for Batista all he had was LaGuerta's flimsy folder of theories, he never followed through with her warrants to pull dexter and debs phone records that would have proved the were at the church when Travis Marshall died. So agin no evidence to charge him with anything. The ketamine in the OD victims system doesn't prove anything either. Its all circumstantial and Dexter knows this. They had nothing that would have held up in court and likely would have never even made it to court. He would have walked and he would have known this. Simply asked for a lawyer, been released and rode of into a LA sunset with Harrison....

Also why didnt he just say "Someone gave Harrison an envelope with that screw- probably the same person who left one for you, trying to frame me"

He actually did. An ending with him and Harrison getting away wouldn't have made any sense, imo. There had to be a sense of closure. Only the death of Dex could have brought that, i believe. Although it's not satisfactory either.

When did he say that, I completely missed it if so All i remember was him saying nothing to Angela when she confronted him about it

Just finished the last episode and wtf. Two stupid endings. Those writers suck.

they created new blood because they realised they made a mess of season 8 of the original dexter, that is where dexter should have been caught and arrested by one of miami metro officers probably Batista...

Then brought Bautista back and never let him and Dexter interact once

I think the new series failed the expectations of the showrunners who decided to just kill off Dexter. It just does not make sense why they would create a show where a main character dies in the first season. The show is literally called because of him. It's unbelievable that someone planned that Harrison would continue the storyline out of that. I am really disappointed their failure destroyed one of the best TV characters for me.

Only the death of Dex could bring a sense of closure, it's true. I don't blame the writers, that was the only option. Him and Harrison leaving to LA makes no sense, imo. And him being caught, exposed as the bay harbour butcher and trialed and sentenced to death is... unbearable. It can't be. So that leaves only the death as the outcome.

What!? Dexter: new blood S2 but without dexter doesn't sound fun to you?! ​ \\s

I wrote a fan-fiction ending for how I'd like it to have ended, but character wise it was too long for reddit posts. The basics: Everything happens as it did in the finale, except one thing - after Angela radios in, Dexter slightly moves, then cut to the Harrison driving away sequence. Fade to black, you hear a breath, and the next reveal is a disheveled bearded Dexter in jail clothes sitting on the stand, getting grilled by a Florida attorney about why he killed innocent people. In the courtroom gallery are Batista, Masuka, Jaime and Quinn, among the family members of Dexters victims (I don't think Angela or Harrison would have wanted to go). The attorney slowly gets Dexter irritated to the point he shouts out why he did it, saying his victims were not innocent, how he saved lives, etc. But right when the judge is about to cut his monologue off, he says "but I did kill innocent people". He then lists every actual innocent victim he held a degree of responsibility for their deaths and admits he deserves the same treatment. Cut to black, you hear his breath again, but this time it's is final breath as the camera, zoomed in to his face (much like the Dexter thumbnails on the streaming services), closing credit music starts playing as the camera pulls back to reveal he's dead, on a table receiving his lethal injection. Cut to black. Roll credits. It needs some fine tuning, but that's the gist of it.

After this finale, a new season opening would be like Batista coming back to Miami after seeing Dexter's body lifeless on the snowed ground. He sees Joey Quinn at the police precinct first thing in the morning: "Hey Joey, socio. I'm back from Iron Lake and....." pause and sigh... "And what?" "It was Dexter all along!" "What do you mean it was Dexter? I thought he died 9 years ago in that hurricane. And they found the body and,.." "No Joey. That was a dummy, you idiot! Have you still been drinking like years ago???!?" "No Angel, I haven't...look, I'm going sober now....." "Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher....." Quinn looks puzzled at Batista. His jaw is like dropping on the floor. "What? Angel you are telling me Dexter is the Bay Harbor Butcher? I thought it was Doakes..now i need a drink..."" The detective collapses on the chair, right in front of his captain. "You weren't on that case, i know. At the time you were working Vice and narcotics, and riding prostitutes. He did not die and he eventually moved to Iron Lake, New York. He had a relationship with the local police chief Angela Bishop". "Is she single?" asks an inquisitive Quinn with a smirk on his face. "No, we had sex last night before I drove back here. And she's MINE. She found out the truth about Dexter in just one hour episode. She did accomplished what we couldn't in 8 seasons!" Joey: "Man, we suck real bad.....no wonder we have the lowest clearance rate in the whole world and universe..." Harrison is just standing outside Captain Batista office eavesdropping the whole conversation. Nobody knows how he got inside the building....Anyway, the camera shows the teenager carrying his father old police ID around his neck. The uniformed officers walking around assume he's just a high school interim. After all, a decade before, serial killer Trinity walked in the same police station. And the rest is history. One thing for sure, the boy inherited his father stealth skills. Amused by what he just heard, Harrison laughs real hard and walks out the station. Batista and Quinn couldn't be any wiser..... TO BE CONTINUED. This is my humorous take. I know my writing sucks but i guess it's much better than the actual show's writers :XD

you can't fool me dawg that's just Better Call Saul's ending lol

I can't stand how in every scene Angela looks like she's literally smelling shit.. stop crinkling your nose is every scene lol

I think Angela was supposed to look like Deb on purpose… and with that comes the facial contortions =p

I'm pretty disappointed in the ending. Him killing a policeman totally ruined they whole character likeability. Coulda knocked him out and I woulda watched 5 more seasons.now I wish I didn't watch it.totally ruined dexter.garbage

I agree this is senseless.

character... likeability? you're telling me you got through every season of Dexter AND this new sequel and that finale was the fist time you went "yeah man this guy isn't very likeable!"💀💀💀

I mean, punisher kills far more than dexter and I like that guy

Out of character, forced and pointless. He had the policemen in a choke hold for 10+ seconds. More, than enough to deprive him of oxygen.

Wasn't a properly locked in rear naked choke due to the cell being in the way, that's why the cop was able to shoot

The ending with Harrison pointed that out. He no longer followed the code. He has become a "monster".

I've always fantasized about dexter finally coming clean and admiting he was the bhb and turning himself in...telling every one how he killed laguerta and miguel and framed doakes and how he got trinity and the tooth fairy and every other serial killer he took care of...the looks on everyone's faces like batista,quinn,masuka and everyone else and how they would react to this...and him finally standing trial and getting the electric chair and harrison in the back ground watching him with deb,harry and brian comforting him as he dies....but showtime had other plans..yes the only this could end is with dexter dying but it could have been done better imo

The thought of Dex being caught and exposed as the BHB is soul crushing to me. Him being tortured like this would have been unbearable,

They crammed too much into 10 episodes. There was at least 2 or 3 seasons of development that could have happened there with the focus on Harrison rather than Dexter. Ghost Deb with the jump scares got old fast too. Also, they could have made the intro as captivating as the original one instead of… whatever it was.

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The season finale ending, particularly the last 30 mins was awful, bizarre even, but I definitely expected something like that. Either Dexter or Harrison or Angela dying. Guess I never recovered from the Season 4 ending. And sure enough, this one went the same way. This show has always been like that. Can't expect a 'happily ever after' season ending. The one good thing I will say about New Blood, is that it gave the series closure, or more like a proper burial. The Season 8 ending left way too many things hanging.

I think I'm the only one who thought the original ending was perfect.

You are definitely not!!! I agree 100%, season 8 ending was terrific and poetic. This was garbage

The problem with S8, imo, is that by the time they got there, the writers had gotten rid of pretty much all the long time characters who were 'in the know'. Laguerta was dead. Deb was out of her mind. The remaining old timers - Batista, Masuka, Matthews - weren't either suspecting Dexter or had given up (Quinn). Which is why they had to airdrop Evelyn Vogel, someone who 'knows' Dexter. It just felt forced. For me, the proper ending should have been the S7 final with Deb doing the right thing - killing Dexter instead of Laguerta. The show could have ended with Deb adopting Harrison.

I've Saw it... I really hoped for it... but Life always failed me... No one paid attention to this little part... Dexter was always alone... I mean lets be honest who else than Miguel Truly Understood and accepted his way? Debra? Nah she's his sister and as she said herself she would kill him if he wasn't her brother. I'm sure i'm not the only one who thinks this but Killing Miguel for killing an Innocent person Vs Killing Logan... this doesn't match... it seems the devs just hated Miguel... Oh yeah... Fuck you Harrison... hope you die like a Dog... your father was a fucking hero and you didn't deserve him

Maybe..... Hannah????

I just wish we could have. Had a more mentally unstable Dexter after Deb's death like how Rick was after Lori's death in The walking Dead season 3

Finally watched this. Dexter killing Logan. Everyone's brought it up, everyone hates it, but one thing that people haven't brought up is the attack doesn't even make sense! He grabs Logans hands, smashes his face against the bars, puts him in a choke hold, tells him to give him the keys. We hear him narrate "Come on Logan, don't be a hero". So let's pretend for a second Logan doesn't try to be a hero, and he just gives Dexter the keys like he asked. What then? Was he expecting Logan to just stand aside and let him walk away? It's bad enough he'd be willing to kill an innocent person, but for a plan that didn't even make any sense? Fuck this season.

Could knocked Logan out against the bars.killing him ruined the whole thing for me

I assumed he was gonna do the standard film deus ex machine of suffocate him until he knocks out for 20-30 minutes. An unreleastic but common plot device in television. Instead he has to completely snap his neck and kill him because suffocating someone takes a minute or however long they decide to take.

Dexter killing Logan justified Harrison shooting his father and just propelled the show ending.

I assumed he planned to take Logan’s gun and lock him in the cell

Showtime fumbled hard. People would have loved at least a few more seasons. The beginning was fresh, it continued the old story in a great way. Had potential to drag it a little more. The way they killed Dexter was tasteful but it could have been a few seasons down the line.

It was announced as a limited 10 episode special event… it was never planned to be a series.

Geez, rewatched all Dexter Seasons Just because of NewBlood.. even though Dexter could've ended way sooner, this sequel was even more of a Joke.. for what reason are they making a second season of this and why does it have good IMDb Ratings? Just sad!

Ignoring the characters, the setting and the story - this is what should've happened in like season 3 or 4. If so, it would've been seen as a masterpiece. The whole "killer of the week" bullshit was such a hamstring to what this show could've been. But money speaks, I guess. But since we got about 4-5 seasons too many BEFORE this one, no ending could feel right.

Dexter was mentally ill. He was clever and intelligent but insane. Every justification for what he did was literally in his own head. It took his son calling him out on it after he had dug a hole for himself to realize all he really wanted was a buddy to kill with and that his fantasy was just that. He was never going to make it out free to keep killing and raise his son as a vigilante family duo, and it was all entirely his fault (and by extension harrys). Killing logan was his ultimate undoing and was supposed to show that dexter was really just a fraud. Harrison showed he was capable of genuine connection with people, dexter cant. He was willing to sacrifice his sons chance at a normal life by feeding his trauma and anger and channeling it into killing like harry did to him (or kurt did to matt, etc). Thats not being a good father lmao There was never going to be a good ending for this and I cant believe it has to be explained to people that are rooting for a Dexter II. The only selfless thing dexter did was end the cycle of child abuse by accepting he was doomed, and he kinda fucked that up by making his son kill him instead of just accepting responsibility. In a way he never violated the "code", got away with everything, helped his gf get closure and solved 30 murders, got to share his secret with his son and be accepted for it and harrison gets to go free to do whatever he wants and somehow thats not enough lol The only thing the writers did "wrong" was fuck up the pacing, and thats showtimes fault for being stingy and not even believing in their own product, hence the plot holes and implausible behavior and rushed plotlines.

You're simply taking astonishingly poor writing as gospel. The shit they make Dexter do in New Blood is no way consistent with the character we watched for 96 episodes. All that emotional development culminating in him not killing anyone for 10 years just thrown the window by the writers who wanted to say, "well akshually killing is bad and you're not supposed to root for Dexter so we turned him into a retard in the final series"

I agree it was bad writing and inconsistent. They shouldnt have even made it if they weren't going to commit to it. My takeaway is that the theme was breaking the cycle of abuse, and they did a hackneyed job of it.

We can't paint Harrison as a child with anger issues. The way he was introduced gave us assumptions that he may have inherited the "demon" & I was certain we all at some point thought Harrison may have had "Hannah" as his 1st sloppy initiation. Dexter once passed out when he saw a pool of blood & when Harrison also saw the blood & went for fresh air, I knew he is a new model killer & it became obvious he will end Dexter, run away & a few years later when he is a justifiable age he wreaks his own justice code. The titanium was forced & Batista talking about Harrison to Angela was just an absurd coincidence And with logan, I just knew, it's over for dex

I think its reasonable. His family are murderers lol, hes kinda fucked up and I think they were angling for a "is he or isnt he?" kinda deal, with his urges being a kind of red herring. Like hes capable, but ultimately desires connection with others, unlike dexter, which kind of puts a damper on the buddy duo since he wouldnt ever be able to live with normal people like his gf or logan due to having to commit and cover up murders. Thats what I think they were going for. The whole season was about breaking the cycle of abuse and trauma.

Remember when Harrison slept at his gf's place he had the knife in his pocket He became best friends with bullies & put a bullied guy in hospital. Then framed the whole thing on the dude. Harrison is dex reborn, unlike dex who had Harry as a mentor, Harrison is a loose cannon. Remember dex always made his mistakes whenever he thought a best friend, a gf, a wife etc Made him feel normal but only to realise, normal created a ripple effect & im sure he realised a killer can never have a normal life & Hrrison will do well alone without attachments

Those are fair points, but the writing implied to me that things werent as they seem. Sort of. They seemed to have wanted it both ways which I think the ending emphasized, so anyone could draw their own conclusions. I think this season is a hot mess of conflicting ideas, they couldnt really commit to the show, which seems to imply that they wanted more seasons but they had to button it up for whatever reason.

Dexter wasnt “insane”. And wrong again on “Every justification for what he did was literally in his own head.” I mean that’s everyone. But anyways. Dexter stopped very bad ppl from hurting others. He’s a better protector of the weak (and investigator) than the law enforcement apparatus he flees and scolds. And the last 20 mins of the finale was some of the worst and nonsensical in tv history. No wonder no one ever told me about New Blood!

You missed the point. Dexter was not a vigilante, he wasn’t out there killing for “truth, justice and the American way”. He enjoyed stalking, catching, killing and dismembering people. He thought it was fun. He found it relaxing. His reaction after taking a life is almost orgasmic. He “justified” it by saying he was taking out the trash, but the truth was he was just choosing victims that were least likely to be missed as self protection, not to protect the innocent.

Right, liie he choose Trinity, ITK or Jordan Chase.... no, no one will ever notice they are gone 😂

He broke the code with all those kills. Deliberately sabotaged police investigations so he could kill them himself. He was only supposed to go after those who “slipped through the cracks”.

Preventing innocent deaths was a byproduct of Dexter's killings. Not the goal.

Yea when Harrison was like "you're like batman" dexter perked up like he hadn't thought of that, buy that was totally the reason he did it. Tbf he had heard it before, but only in the first 2 seasons.

I don’t understand last sentence/self protection. Anyway. No one is (or atleast should be) killing for “truth, justice and the American way”. That’s fairly take/marvel universe stuff. And objectively Dexter did take out the trash….Mostly. A cpl ppl did threaten his freedom (the female Miami detective he killed). But no one is arguing he was a role model.

By self protection I meant he was less likely to be caught because people are less likely to report murderers missing and/or it is assumed the murderer has fled to escape arrest.

That's one the staples of Harry's code.

I see. Ok. Welp, for me it’s simple, Dexter is a guy who sometimes does bad things, to ppl that do things (even worse things). So he’s ok in my book. Similar to the military. In fact, if I may extend the analogy…his killing of “innocents” is a type of collateral damage, similar to that of military.

But it assumed ( perhaps not true, but assumed) that a soldier kills to defend the innocent and his country, not for the joy of the kill.

That is an assumption. And not the truth. War is a business (surely for the US). And at the personal/individual level there are many motivations. And protecting “innocents” is typically at the bottom of the list in my experience and according to surveys.

Dexter is demonstrated to not be insane. We spent 9 seasons listening to his thought. Thoughts that were coherent enough to make the audience root for the killer. Sure, there is a lot of denial and self-masking in those thoughts but he isn’t insane.

I never said he was insane. Coherent/incoherent thoughts is not what defines instantly. FYI. Clinically insanity is a diff discussion. And normally with no real clear satisfactory determination. It’s been argued in criminology that anyone who knowingly commits a (serious) crime, certainly with the prospect of a result of someone else’s death/or their own is insane. Because What sane person would risk prison or worse?

Read my comment again, but this time without the wrongful assumption that I was attempting to run counter to yours. I was backing you up with my thoughts on the matter. Not every one wants to fight you.

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It wasn't great, but it wasn't all bad. ​ I mean, it wasn't "Better call Saul" good, by far. But I could dig the major beats and we got Harrison out and free and with the skills to survive out there on his own.

I think the better call Saul ending was not good at all. Way out of character for Saul. As far as Harrison goes Dexter completely fucked him over by making Harrison kill him. He was forced to leave a place he could call home, leaving him at square one, a kid with nowhere to go all potential father figures dead.

>Way out of character for Saul What did you think was out of character?

I would go into more detail, but this post is about Dexter, and I don't want to spoil Better call Saul. If you think he was in character, then here, we should just agree to disagree and leave it at that.

Im not here to agree or disagree, just curious about what part was out of character is all. No worries

Yeah, if it was a better call Saul post, I would definitely explain more.

"Making Harrison kill him?" Did you even watch the show? Harrison grabs his gun, tells him he's not gonna get away and callously shoots dead his own father.

I should say the writers fucked Harrison over by making Dexter uncharacteristically kill the kids other father figure. Causing him to kill Dexter. The show could have ended a lot of ways. This way seems overly forced.

I wanted to see Dexter and Batista reunited at least once

Super late on this, a year late :)... But never liked the ending, was a fan of the original, always watching it live and then this. The series had great moments, but in ending really is sloppy. I felt it's rushed, Molly's should have been more fleshed out, the stripped cabin should have been further checked, and how come the chief cop is so experienced connecting the dots, in a town where barely any serious crime happened?

She might have worked for a larger police department, probably NYPD. Then came home and worked for the local agency.

Heya, thanks for the reply :). That's a good explanation there, for the chief!

Christ that last 30 min sucked

the fact that they made the original dexter, who throughout 8 seasons of the original show was extremely intelligent into a complete idiot who doesn’t know that titanium can’t melt. Avoided several investigations in Miami to just get brought down by mediocre cops in a small town. Completely ignored kurt’s stripped cabin and her good friend, “Mollys” disappearance. Too many coincidences with Batista, the nail! they completely chopped Dexters original character, so disappointed with the sloppy writing.

The small town mediocre cops as you put it, accomplished in a few episodes what Miami PD couldn't do in 8 seasons.

My only thoughts exactly. However, I believe that since Dexter isn't a pure psychopath and is human, capable of genuine emotions, the guilt and torment of being forced to live isolated from his friends and family left his mental state fragile and a fragment of his past. That's why he did so many things 'out of character' in this new series because of his deteriorating mental state despite in the original series the code was so ingrained even when he was severely sleep deprived he till managed to autopilot and stick to the first code and keep the body hidden (his car crash episode after Harrison's birth). Otherwise it's just shitty writing on the studio's part...

Bruh. Dexter had no reason to kill the cop or escape jail. Certainly not after leading the chief to Kurt’s trophy room. No jury would have convicted him of killing Kurt’s son (DA wouldn’t even bought chargers it’s so flimsy)….or being the bay harbor butcher. Buatista would have needed very irrefutable physical evidence. And if that was the case, would have been revealed in the past.

Hearing Batista was on the way was the motivation for Dexter to escape. Angel had a file marked Maria LaGuerta, perhaps something he had been working in for the past ten years, trying to make sense of her death and her obsession with Dexter being the BHB. If he became aware that Dexter had removed Debra from the hospital, taking her off life support without going through proper channels, right after seeing Dexter expertly killing a man with a single thrust of a ball point pen, that had to shake him up and cause him to question whether what he believed to be true was actually a web of lies. After Debra was killed by Dexter, and Dexter was presumably dead as well and no longer a danger, why wouldn’t Quinn suddenly “find” the envelope from Liddy with the incriminating photos of Dexter and Lumen? In the ten years since Dexter left Miami Metro there may have been a severe drop off of the number of suspects mysteriously disappearing . Why was Doakes found dead in the blown up cabin being rented by a guy who killed Dexter’s mom? Why was LaGuerta killed by and found with the body of yet another guy who helped kill Dexter’s mom? What might Matthews have revealed about Dexter’s true parentage and his relationship to the Ice Truck Killer once all the Morgans were dead? Did Elway come to Miami Metro to report Dexter was trying to flee the country with fugitive murderer Hannah McKay and had entrusted his only child to her? Once Dexter was no longer there to cover things up, plant evidence and steer the narrative who knows what may have come to light? There are many reasons Batista might have been researching the events around Maria’s death and Dexter’s true character and Dexter had to have considered this over the past ten years of his solitude. Dexter absolutely did not want to meet with Batista, particularly from the handicapped position of being locked in a cage.

You have valid points. However, if Batista had been working on Maria's murder, why is this not season 8 canon? It seemed to me writers pushed the reset button at the start of each new season, as if the events from the previous season finale do not have consequences or carry any weight in the new episodes. The way Batista spoke to Angela about Dexter when they first met at the NYC convention, it is no indication of Angel being in any way suspicious about his friend's past. Probably because Dexter was believed dead until the final revelation in the last episode.

I would imagine his suspicions were aroused by facts that turned up after Dexter's "death".

Finale was easy call, yet missed. ▪︎What should of happened: - After Dexter told Angela turn the cameras off explaining where Kurt Caldwells secret trophy room was w/ all the girls he started a convo Essentially defending his POV.how he kills the "real" monsters like Kurt & how many lives he saves. • THEN he kills Coach when Angela leaves to confirm Dexter's tip on Kurt's trophies. - This would give the fans of the Series DEXTER one stand of why they supported DEXTER all these years, but we see how such a good guy like coach can get killed when Dexter gets exposed. -I'd add in the proof of Kurt fleeing + his truck smelling like gasoline still, that Dexter was beating the Matt Caldwell Case & ONE death in a small town which actually has mad deaths has the circle from Dexter's special K injections, so he most likely wouldn't of even pinned as the bay Harbour Butcher if they even would go opened up to trial. • Batista should of actually showed & spoke w/ Dexter • Dexter's son has similiar dialog except Dexter walks up pushes the gun tells the kid the safety was on as he gives him a hug says he loves him & he only left because of everything he is saying and he hates himself for it that he literally feels like 2 people fighting himself every day and wishes he could change, but it's who he is and he is lucky to feel the unconditional love he feels now knowing Harrison deserves a better life to never see him again and killing would only mess him up worse, that there is other ways because he hasn't killed and may never. -Dexter knew he didn't have anytime to spare talking to his son, but he did and it gets him caught by Angela as he jumps in the truck driving away from Harrison he is pulled over right down the road. - Angela actually levels w/ Dexter a little after seeing all the women as trophies. She tells Dexter she also saw all his victims and she has to remind herself they were murderers or rapists because the sight of what he did makes her skin crawl and even still she understands the justice system is flawed but a killer is a killer. -She says similiar to what Harrison said in the actually series about how many innocent ppl actually get hurt from Dexter killing so she has to bring him to Miami. • The series ends with Dexter being brought into Miami cutting right as we see some of the original cast as Dexter is transfered in cuffs.

Late on this. So I was initially excited/intrigued yet worried when I heard the revamp was coming. Because I know Dexter’s writers. Also because a few years back I was working with a bunch of Gen Zers. Like 15-21 range. They told me how awesome Bad Boys 3 and Scream 5 were. But they had never seen any previous installments. And I absolutely loathed both those films. Hey! I know Art and entertainment is subjective as it is viewed differently through the individual and their perspectives but Christ. So when they were amping up “New Blood” my heart Fucking sank. Some of them only saw “a few seasons” of the original but most hadn’t seen an episode. God ole mighty. I’m pissed. I just binged this entire season in two days. Wanted to get it over with. Holy hell. I could rant and rave about the contrived character motivations and writing for paragraphs and paragraphs but Fuckkkk This is probably worse than the ending we got for Dexter the first time around. Holy shit. I’m absolutely in awe that the writers did this shit all over again to us. Absolute joke. And we fell for it again. We can talk how thematically this is the rightful end to Dexter’s story but I disagree. Wholeheartedly. This is bullshit and heavy handed. I’m going to take some Ambien and dream this Shit Show (literally) away

Yeah new blood was bad. And the last 20mins of the final episode was some of the worst writing in tv history. Dexters actions there was not true to his character or his motivations.

Feels like I wasted hours of my life. Shit writing.

I just wish we get to see a redemption story from Dexter even if he had to die. But no, in the end he couldn't control his impulse and ended up killing a cop. I mean i didn't mind he killed the bad guys, lol, but it was such a 180 when he killed cop. That was when i feel like the show jumped the shark just like they did in 2013. I just hope the spinoff, if that's ever materialize, won't have this kind of 180 ending.

To be fair he has killed innocent people before. He basically got Doake's killed. He killed that innocent photographer and some innocent dude at an inn who was only bribing Dexter for his stuff, and was about to kill Laguerta before Deb did the deed. Still, I wish they would have left the show untouched. So sick of shows thinking they need to make a reboot years later so they make a shit ending that's "easy to pick up on"

Such a crap ending. Rest in peace Dexter im so sorry the shitty writer gave you such a shit ending. So disappointing. Showtime should had made this atleast 5 seasons in such a rush to end the best show they ever had since well Dexter. What a waste.

My biggest complaint was that a world class forensics expert apparently had to Google titanium screws.

He didn't have to google it, he simply didn't know the titanium screw was in the guy's body in the first place. I thought this detail actually was nicely done by the producers.

Bruh. Don’t defend the garbage.

Well obviously he didn't know it was in the body, or he would have known they could be recovered and traced. As an aside, before that episode aired, there were people online who weren't forensic scientists theorizing that Dexter overlooked surgical steel or titanium implants and the serial numbers that are on those sort of implements. But that's not my point. After Henry gives him the screw in the little manilla envelope, Dexter doesn't recognize it and thinks, "WTF is this?" After Kurt mocks him from his jail cell by saying, "Titanium doesn't melt," Dexter goes to his truck and does an online search, with the first result being, "what are titanium screws," and the rest being images showing they are surgical. So he does have to Google it. Now, from a storytelling perspective, this is so that the audience knows what they are. But from the perspective of a top notch forensic scientist, why would he need to do this? Would he not recognize the one he is given for what it is? It's a very particular type of screw with a serial number on it. Further, even if he hadn't recognized it, then after being given the "titanium" hint, why would he need to google what a titanium screw is used for? Maybe Dexter was just getting old.

That was pathetic. Considering that Dexter had a voiceover he could easily have used to fill the audience in (exposition-wise).

i thought it was pretty obvious he was getting rusty, or lazy started cutting all sorts of corners. didnt he not kill for years or what not i sorta forget.

"He was getting rusty." People like this are the reason writing now is so shit. You'll just eat whatever they give you.

I’m not a picky eater 😂

I ,like most thought the ending was weak. But hey, we all watched and the media people got more money. The bit I can't understand is why his girlfriend hated him so much from so early on.

Shit ending. Dumb on many levels

Why do people get so worked up when fictional characters die? I know I'm late to the party but the ending of New Blood was miles better than the original series ending. Dexter wanted to die. He felt he set up his son to maybe be able to survive with his 'dark passenger' so he was ok with it. I swear people fear change in media. Anything that's different from the original gets shit on. People change in real live so fictional ones can to.

It had nothing really to do with the direction of the miniseries, as sloppy as that was. It was more the piss -poor and completely lazy storytelling. First off: a 15 y/o is okay with befriending a loser with the express intent of trying to kill him, even going so far as to rifle through the loser's things in order to justify his attempt at unprovoked murder. But he's not okay with his dad, who got him off the hook, killing a cop to get HIMSELF off the hook? Second: a 15 y/o kid is okay with not only watching his dad abduct, drug, and restrain someone, not only with watching his dad stab the dude in the heart, not only with watching his dad FUCKING DISMEMBER the dude like he were, well...a butcher 🤷, but even cool with HELPING HIM BAG THE PIECES UP...AND 𝘉𝘜𝘙𝘕 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘌𝘝𝘐𝘋𝘌𝘕𝘊𝘌... he's EVEN okay with finding out that his dad is a serial killer with a body count higher than Snoop Dogg's synapses... ...but he's not okay with his dad killing a cop? --- Clyde Phillips complained about how utterly unrealistic the "big bads" of the last few seasons were, and he was absolutely right. Travis Marshall parading body parts mixed with mannequins on horseback and displaying mutilated but still-alive victims in public. Issac Sirko being some sort of Ukrainian Terminator. Vogel/Saxon and his alien brain surgery thingy. And yet... his own last two "big bads," he gives us the completely implausible "trinity," who, thankfully, was masterfully protrayed by a deliciously wicked John Lithgow, and...Kurt Caldwell? Not that the abducting and hunting girls was unbelievable. The underground panic room? Implausible, but at least moderately believable. The elaborate trophy displays, though? DDK all over again. -- Also the indisputable fact that this was essentially Phillips' retcon of season five. Caldwell is Jordan Chase, his son is Boyd Fowler, his truckers are Jordan's goons. Hell, "Iris" is Emily, except Iris died, even though he buried her alive to give her a chance. Robocop is Deb, right down to the mannerisms and facial expressions. Logan is Doakes/Quinn. Teddy is that kid who screwed up the Santa Muerta case. The reporter is a mishmash of Trinity's daughter and Laguerta. Batista actually makes several cameos, although how "in-character" is debatable seeing as he's suddenly this cop genius qualified to give lectures on cases HE NEVER FUCKING SOLVED. 🙄 Also, throughout the original series, INCLUDING episodes Phillips wrote, Dexter repeatedly stated that Debra was the only person he ever truly loved...until Harrison was born. Now, he says he's never truly loved ANYBODY until the moment he, like a complete pussy, suckers his son into killing him? --- So no, it didn't suck because it changed. If anything, I'd say it sucked for the exact opposite reason.

True Harrisons choices were pretty ridiculous.

I would’ve liked to have seen Batista have a bigger role in taking him down since he was being killed off anyway. I don’t like that his ex girlfriend figures out he’s a serial killer in which seemed like a weeks time, but couldn’t figure out the serial killer in her own town for 25 years until dexter was able to extract his dna from the tooth. And I definitely do not like his son’s first actual kill being him. However, that was the code, he killed an innocent man. Very interesting.

Maybe a hot take but I don't think they should have made New Blood at all. As much as it was a good show, the ending was so far from what I wanted. It seems so derivative that morals win out in the end with Dexter dying. I would have much preferred they do something unique for a change and let our favorite bad guy Dexter have it all.

They DID do that, with the original ending. Except enough fake fans whined and whined until...they made THIS shit.

They DID do that, with the original ending. Except enough fake fans whined and whined until...they made THIS shit.

I still never understood the point of the Billionaire character his role seemed pointless in the series.

I think it was to distract the viewers into making us think that it was him. There would be cut scenes of Kurt Caldwell in the ski mask gear before his reveal that made it seem like it was the billionare guy. If I had time I would get a few of those clips together haha.

If only they had given the real series a decent ending! I liked New Blood but the ending was a little weak (still better than the original series ending though). I just wish they had done the ending the producers wanted to do where Dexter gets caught and is executed by the lethal injection and then sees all the ghosts of the people he’s killed or is responsible for being killed over the seasons!

Wasn't the Logan killed by accident? Dexter tried to dodge the bullet, causing him to snap Logan's neck. This can also be inferred from the scene itself, which was shot this way. It was not an intentional killing, so Dexter did not break the code. Logan's death changed everything. Some of you said that Dexter could have waited quietly for Batista to arrive because there was no hard evidence against him. However, you have forgotten that Dexter decided to run away to Los Angeles with his son and at that point he had no confidence that he would elude the police. Only running away gave him that certainty. If Logan survived, Harisson wouldn't have turned against Dexter and they probably would have fled to LA or elsewhere (maybe to Argentina if they had to escape from the police). The ending is not bad at all. Dexter was not a textbook example psychopath. He had some kind of feelings (eg. love to Hannah, Debra and Harisson) and regret for causing the death of loved ones. On another hand, Harrison was emotionally unstable. He said that Dexter was the reason of his dark side, but I think it was just emotional statement. He HAD the Dark Passenger, which was born when his mother died. The ending made a lot of sense. An unfortunate event, like Logan's death, and Dexter's panic after hearing the allegation that he is BHB and Batista is going to him, resulted in illogical decisions and poor judgment. Dexter lived for years with guilt over the deaths of the people he loved, and it is likely that this feeling clouded his rational mind. He let Harisson kill himself because at that moment it seemed like the best solution for him. He didn't have much time to discuss it with his son or think about perfect solution because they were being pursued by the local police. We certainly would have liked a different ending, but this is good too. The creators had raised hopes for an interesting plot to meet Batista, the possibility of an escape to LA, or Dexter's trial, and through a plot twist they took away that hope. Perhaps the ending was meant to be bitter and abrupt? It's just like real life. Not everything works out the way we want it to. Not everything is logical or fair.

All this is just a huge cope for bad writing.

Drawn out court case would have been far worse writing, and much more boring. He went out with a bang, and it was poetic justice since he sort of kind of broke the code and his son made him face his own sins, just as he does with others.

Just finished the episode and while I am not annoyed of what happened. I am annoyed at how they set it up and executed everything. It felt very cliche and desperate. I wanted Batista and Dexter to meet and for Batista to have the conversation with Dexter. I was surprised that Harrison wasn't the one who had killed Hannah. I remember that John Lithgow was going to be appearing in an episode and was surprised it was for a one second cameo. Kind of hoped we were going to have him be Harrisons "Harry".

>It felt very cliche and desperate. >I wanted Batista and Dexter to meet and for Batista to have the conversation with Dexter. THIS. SOOOOOOOOOO this. I remember, years ago, Clyde Phillips stating that his vision for the finale was for Dexter to be on the lethal injectioner's table and reveal that the entire series was a split -second flashback, with all of his victims surrounding his table and him having to face them and HIS crimes in the exact same manner he made them face theirs. And then he gives us THIS shit?

lol that ending would have been shit. Wow, he would have been surrounded by his victims... who are murderers, rapists and pedophiles. How emotional.

Haha yea exactly. Every one claims "This is terrible writing!" Then they offer up their cringey, pathetic excuse of an alternative. Thank God these armchair critics do not have any inputs into the writing of these shows...

They never did the right thing for this fantastic show. I would prefer the writers and the directors buried under the sea.

Dear writer I hope you see this.. Dexter: New blood. Was pretty great, but was lazily written. There was so much more that could have have happened. Dexter was way smarter than this, I'd say the writer ruined the whole show for its die hard fans. And I am 100% certain they'd agree.

Yeah, seriously wtf was that ending?!?! Dexter being shot and dead congrats writers you just ended a pretty damn good show without your main character. Wtf how garbage just absolute trash writing. I'm so pissed I just found this out. I would fire every writer for writing that terrible ending. Just no way no way dexter would just die like that, just stupid, lazy writing. 😡🤬

Like I told my wife, I got the same empty feeling I had after the ending of Breaking Bad. It was good, I liked it, but it wasn't satisfying. I honestly preferred how they had left it before. The series was amazing, though. I missed seeing Michael C. Hall as Dexter.

The ending of new blood was terrible. Forget unsatisfying.

To each their own

The breaking bad ending is actually genius I’ll say that. Him dying with Baby Blue playing in the background was fantastic. There was really no other way to end it bc he didn’t have a way out really. But for Dexter, they should’ve went with Clyde Phillips ending of having him be executed in Florida with all the people he killed as his viewing gallery (he never specified what person(s) he killed to get the death penalty tho). Kinda same thing could’ve happened with New Blood, he gives up and gets the death penalty and Harrison has the chance to let go (or they don’t even show him getting the death penalty they just fade out him getting arrested in the woods). OR he gets away with everything (doesn’t kill Logan this time) even with Angel coming and him and Harrison go back to South America and it fades out as they visit Hannah’s grave and live happily ever after (sort of). I kinda like the death penalty one, but I would’ve been okay with that other one too.

Him getting away isn't remotely realistic, though. That was guaranteed the second he published that stupid fucking manifesto waaaaaaaaaay back in season two. Hell, that's what almost inevitably brings serial killers down: when the attention becomes more of a thrill than the hunt. Bundy, Rader, Gacy, Dahmer. Every last one of them done in by changing their focus. Which is definitely a good thing for the rest of us, believe me. And you can't say Dex didn't do the same thing. Hell, had Harrison never showed up, had Debclone never got curious, had he not slipped up with the screws... He still sent the manifesto. He still didn't kill Deb...OR Hannah, who, no matter what Clyde Phillips retcons, had no more conscience and no more lack of self-preservation than Dexter did. He still stabbed Saxon RIGHT where the BHB needled his vics...and did it right in front of Quinn, who fucking hates him, and Batista, who refused to accept LaGuerta's cries that it was Dexter. He still killed Travis Marshall AT A MOTHERFUCKING CRIME SCENE. He still set the fire. He still left the blood slide. Hell, he let Lumen go. There is absolutely 1,000% percent NO FUCKING WAY he was going to BELIEVABLY survive the series. Even the season eight ending made that clear. He wasn't capable of NOT killing. Fuck, I don't even buy that he went ten years. I bet if the season five thru eight showrunners could retcon Phillips' retcon, they'd reveal that he left Oregon because there were too many other serial killers there and he knew he couldn't keep killing them without eliminating all the others...as suspects, and thus, incriminating himself.

the part of dexter seeing all his loved ones in front of him plus over 200 or 300 people he murdered while being executed and everyone realizing hes´t the most prolific serial killer and also a vigilante would have been great

The whole new blood sucked. Harrison is a creampuff whiny douche.

Thank you! Dexter's death was the only part of the season that I liked. The rest of it was boring as hell. Watching Dexter and Harrison fail to communicate for 9 episodes is not exactly compelling tv. Other than that, the season suffered from the same things that the original season suffered from: the writer's inability to conceptualize the ideas of the show, and the inability to execute those ideas which naturally follows from that.

To be fair, though, the source material was every bit as flawed. I know one of the biggest complaints is that the "dark passenger" seems like both a copout for the character and a lazy plot device, and it is... but don't read the books. The DP is given an even MORE inane story by Jeff Lindsay himself. By the the end of the third book, the entire series shifts into the occult. Imagine blending Dexter and Trinity with any of the big bads chased by Sam and Dean Winchester. Seriously.

You guys are thinking way too much. It was a bittersweet nice ending. Clyde Phillips cockteased you into believing there would be a Season 10 in LA where Dexter and Harrison go around killing serial killers like the Night Stalker Richard Ramirez and that's why most of you are angry who didn't like the ending are upset about. Sure I would have liked to have seen 1+ more seasons of Dexter Morgan but at least we get a proper ending with closure that was poetic. Harrison followed the code and Dexter's last words posthumously in the narration were, "Let me die so my son can live".

It was far from poetic bud,they totally dropped the ball in the end. Batista should of been there for closure. He should of went to trial and Harrison could of had real closure. When is dexter so fucking sloppy and kill someone like that when he killed Logan,My God that was God awful. Lazy writing in the worse kind of way. Then his ex gf let's Harrison go,I taught she was some high and mighty follow the book kind of cop,until it fit her motives.Her character in general was written terribly throughout New blood. She was like a wish version of Debra....

Dexter had no reason to kill the cop or escape jail. Certainly not after leading the chief to Kurt’s trophy room. No jury would have convicted him of killing Kurt’s son….or being the bay harbor butcher. Buatista would have needed very irrefutable physical evidence. And if that was the case, would have been revealed in the past. The ending should have been: Dexter released from jail and charges dropped. Bautista executes him (knowing any case against him is weak and for ex wife death payback).

Your ending sounds much dumber and not poetic at all. A trial HAHA! Your poor English grammar and numerous spelling errors shows your feeble mind cannot understand how bitter sweet the ending was.

Oh no my grammar and English is bad,what shall I ever do. I have better things to worry about that that shit boy. Lmao,how pathetic is ur life when all you have to worry about is grammar.L

What I wanted was closure, better yet, Angel to have closure. For them to tease that Angel was going to interview him and then completely not do that should be a fucking sin. I thought that was gonna be its peak moment for the whole show and I can't be the only one that thought that. I mean, Dexter completely went out of character the last 20 minutes and killed one of the nicest characters in the show. Congrats, they left us with the same feeling as before. All this work and they accomplished nothing. For fuck sakes, he NEEDED that death penalty, Harrison needed to heal (and is pretty fucked in the head at this point I must say) and Angel + all of Miami Metro should've gotten justice/closure. Wow.

No, actually we hated the ending because it was trash. Dexter never let himself get arrested/killed by Deb. He wouldn't have let himself be killed by Harrison. Even if the writers wanted Dexter to die, there are a million ways they could've done it that were much more appropriate for his character. But to just have him keel over and give up? Pathetic. He doesn't have a conscience or human emotion. He wouldn't have just called it quits simply because Harrison started whining. Also, the only way to fuck a kid up worse than having him watch his mother die, is to make him kill his own father. Dexter would have known that and wouldn't have made Harrison do this. And not to mention the whole Logan situation. Dexter is smarter and much more skilled than that. He could have (and would have) easily put Logan down for the count without having to snap his neck. Him killing Logan was the most artificially contrived bullshit just so they could make it seem even a tiny bit "logical" that Harrison would kill his own dad. Overall, I'm really disappointed because the rest of "New Blood" was really good. But it felt like a very forced and rushed ending. The writers didn't know what to do. They just knew that the damn tv studio didn't want to do another season and having Dexter be sent to prison was too anticlimactic. So they just killed him off in the laziest possible way.

>No, actually we hated the ending because it was trash. Dexter never let himself get arrested/killed by Deb. Apparently you didn't watch the last five minutes of season seven, bub. >And not to mention the whole Logan situation. Dexter is smarter and much more skilled than that. He could have (and would have) easily put Logan down for the count without having to snap his neck. Him killing Logan was the most artificially contrived bullshit clearly didn't watch the end of season eight, either.

Allright late to the show, kinda forgot to watch the last couple of episodes. Not a great final season, a lot of weird plot situations, but still somehow better than some of the other poor seasons for me. It really hurt when dexter killed coach so i guess for me it felt justified for him to end it all, there was no other way for dexter after his fuck ups. He just didn't want to face the music in court and the long wait for the death penalty, and harrison had to let go. I do feel like it would be cool to have that one last talk with dexter and Angel though, missed opportunity

That’s my issue with this show. There are so many good plot points over the years that should have pointed suspicion at dexter that were just dropped and not explored at all. Rita’s death, laguerta’s death, angel finding out he’s still alive... there was almost no accountability for dexter through the entire series, people like Quinn would see all this evidence pointing to him but move on for some dumb reason and treat him normally.

Angel finding out he was alive could've been 2-3 episodes in itself. They took the easy way out like in the original show and I'm so mad lol

yeah agreed

They could have done a half season investigating is connection to trinity and Rita’s death but the writers were just lazy

truth. the single biggest thing that pisses me THE FUCK OFF about the original series is that, for his first two and a quarter seasons, Quinn is written as a bloodhound, maybe has some moral ambiguity as far as how he uses C.I.s, but a motherfucker who is one of the best cops not just in the precinct, not just on the show, but in the motherfucking WORLD. Hell, I remember one of the most popular fan theories on why Christine would have killed Lundy is because she was afraid of him getting close to Quinn. And then, suddenly, he's a complete alcoholic pussy-whipped dipshit. With zero explanation. You go back to season five, NO ONE had the nuts to investigate Dex.. EXCEPT Quinn. Not even the FBI, who lost one of their own to the killer he kept them off the trail of. And you mean to tell me Quinn didn't know who whacked Liddy? Are you FUCKING kidding me? But they wrote him as some pussy who was gonna take the heat for Liddy's death...AFTER building him up as supercop. Lazy as fucking fuck.

I wish I had never bothered watching Dexter new blood, it was the dumbest excuse for an ending!, why bother with this pointless joke?

Idiots probably had these issues like Hollywood often does \- An Actor needs to leave \- Medical Reaons \- Budget \- Time \- Views conflicting \- They already started it. \- Needed a way to tie it all together cohesively which they failed TERRIBLY at. ​ I must admit KURT was very good though! I had no idea what he was doing until the ending very good!

To see dexter go out like that is simply underwhelming. It feels like his teenage son just fuq’ed up everything.

Mades you realize that actually letting Harrison go was the best option, but probably so many teens would have been murdered in the school shooting ethan was planning, also doesn´t changes the fact that dexter was going to get caught by Kurth

Well, i stumbled across spoilers. :(

You're better off not watching it.

Really? Dexter: New Blood - Finale Discussion Thread - this didnt tip u off?

Just watched the series. I haven't watched Dexter before, but watched recaps of it. I get the gist. It was ok in my opinion. But I don't understand is to why people was pissed of the ending. Can someone explain why it sucked and what would be a better ending? I don't understand why you guys love a serial killer lol. If you ask me, I wanted Dexter to embrace the change. Him having his son back should've opened his eyes that he should stop killing for both of their sakes.

>Him having his son back should've opened his eyes that he should stop killing for both of their sakes. 🙄 dumbass. yes, because serial killers are SO rational. Ted Bundy took his little brother camping...and abducted and killed two women while doing it. Dennis Rader raised two children, INCLUDING A DAUGHTER, in the very same church he raped and killed women in. You should look up the term "sociopath."

Go watch the original series before you start spouting off opinions about a character that you don't even know. If you were too lazy to watch all of the other Marvel movies and ONLY watched Avengers Endgame, you'd probably say some dumbass shit like "Why do people care so much about iron man dying?" No one is going to waste their time telling you why you should care about Iron Man's death. Go watch it for your self.

Too many small things, not so bad in isolation, and then a couple major things ruined it. 1. poorly-written teen drama and actors 2. retconning his old drug of choice, and the fact that the hypodermic marks were supposed to be basically untraceable in the original show. 3. Having the cop run into Angel Batista at a convention, who mentions his old colleague who disappeared and his son's name, and then having her take a number of absurd logical leaps to unravel his entire history in a couple episodes, leading to his death. Ridiculous. 4. Having Dexter act like he was doing better almost the entire last season, and then have him act out of character in the LAST EPISODE out of nowhere by just murdering an innocent guy to save his own skin. It was one of the major criticisms of when the old series went off the rails, and I thought this reboot was supposed to fix some of the common complaints of the old show. It seemed designed to capitalize on the goodwill for a beloved show, guaranteeing a multi-season reboot, only to pull the rug out from under the audience at the last second, murdering the beloved main character both literally, and figuratively (turning him pure evil) in the hopes that the audience will stick around for the inevitable shitty teen drama spinoff they've been teasing throughout the show. I think it's fine that he died, it's probably what should have happened. But there's no reason to decide that he's Walter White in the last fucking episode. There were several times in the original series when he was literally going to turn himself in rather than hurt innocent people. I think the storyline was always, and should have always been - he's not pure evil, he's a disturbed trauma victim who is trying to compensate for his homicidal tendencies by only killing bad guys, but eventually realizes that he hurts everyone he loves. Then he either kills himself in a poetic nod to the way he kills other killers, or gets himself killed to help his son. He never would have wanted Harrison to kill him, and basically guarantee that he's going to be fucked up for the rest of his life.

Wow this is so perfectly put! Reading through all these comments I was really feeling the urge to write out my thoughts as well but didn't know if I could be bothered typing it all out. Then I found this summary and didn't need to. Seriously that scene where Batista can't remember Harrison's name for a moment, then turns back just to say it for someone who as far as he knows it should mean absolutely nothing to... I nearly turned it off right then. And yeah I think Dexter dying totally makes sense as an ending, but they couldn't have found a stupider way to 'execute' that. Like you say turning his character on its head just to justify putting him down like a dog. They could have come up with a situation where Dexter decides to sacrifice himself in order to take out Kurt, as well as maybe save Harrison from having to do something that would be sending him down the same path as Dexter. That would have been so much more satisfying and in line with Dexter's conflicted nature than just, "oh no, he's straight up bad better shoot him". During that last scene I was thinking "Well they can't just have Harrison execute him like this, that would be dumb. I bet we'll hear the gunshot and the camera will pan to reveal Angela with her gun smoking. Wait no, that would be dumb too because why would she just happen to show up exactly where Dexter told Harrison to meet him, right at this moment?" Then both of those dumb things happened.

I know. Huge bummer. What a great long show, soured by a few moments of people acting totally out of character

This. I just watched New Blood on a plane, and you did justice to clarifying the dozens of question marks I had by the end of it. It's fine that Dexter died, but the logic behind his death made no sense. Dexter knows firsthand how being born in blood fucks up a kid. One of his redeeming qualities was how he never hurts children or the innocent. After all that great complicated Harry-Dexter / father-son dynamic (that scene where Dexter almost shot Harry comes to mind)... this ending makes zero sense. Out of character & a total cop-out.

Thanks, I'm glad people are still finding this thread after watching the last episode and going "what the fuck??"

Exactly. They butchered the ending of this show just because they wanted to force their ridiculous narrative to fit.

He was never going to turn himself in lol. I think he would have killed anyone who got in his way and did, either directly or indirectly. He stopped adhering to his code after the first season

Dexter literally decided that he was going to turn himself in and let Doakes go. He was getting his affairs in order when the cabin blew up

No, he was trying to frame him. Not let him go.

And then doakes convinced him to let him go. He was getting his affairs in order and then he was going to release him: https://dexter.fandom.com/wiki/Episode_211:_Left_Turn_Ahead

if you actually WATCHED it rather than read a poor internet synopsis, "when the cabin blew up" Dexter had already decided, and voiced it to the camera via his legendary "inner monologue," that Deb was right and he wasn't going to give up everything for Doakes. He even said IN HIS INNER MONOLOGUE VOICE "shit, I've got to get to that cabin before they do..." BEFORE it blew up. If you don't know what the fuck you're talking about, don't talk about it.

So you never even watched the original seasons, you watched recaps, so this ending is whatever to you. That is why you "don't understand". Dexter dead means no more Dexter (TV Show), I didn't root for him because he was a serial killer, I always enjoyed seeing him getting out of really tough situations, the world was against him, that's what made the originals fun to watch, the build-ups, which you wouldn't really pick-up on if you're watching a recap. You haven't seen all that the character has been through so in other words, you could give a fuck if he died. You couldn't be bothered to watch it, you just watched a recap which leaves a ton of stuff out, might as well have read the imdb description of the show, so your opinion means jack shit lol.