At one stage, Showtime’s Dexter was the best show on TV.
A decade after it first aired, we revisit its extreme highs and lows…
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This article contains major spoilers forDexter.
It was definitely mine.
At least Miguel Prado never uttered the word tableau.
At least characters we had gotten to know and love as siblings werent suddenly positioned as potential romantic pairings.
At least the prospect of the series endgame evoking a Monty Python song was still laughable.
So what went wrong?
And if the characters occasionally seemed a little eager to forget what should have been life-changing events?
Well, the show had new and exciting territory to wade into.
Season four has a lot to answer for in some respects.
Of course, in retrospect the automatic assumption that it could or would even try seems beyond naive.
The truth is thatDexters premise was more or less exhausted by the time season four ended.
Ritas death was the perfect catalyst too; definitive proof that Dexters actions had real, devastating consequences.
Season four could have served as a respectable ending if the potential for what came next wasnt so ripe.
Instead we got Lumen.
Imagine if season five had been the end.
Imagine if the series had cashed all its chips and spent its final run tearing everything down.
We might have looked back on the show as one to rivalBreaking Bad.
I remember the moment the show first hinted that Deb might have romantic feelings for Dexter.
And yet we still got two more seasons.
In the end, Dexter had to become a lumberjack because honestly, nothing else would make sense.
Breaking Baddid almost all the same things asDexterbut it pulled them off.
But maybe it deserves more than that.
Maybe if it came out today its fate would be different.
Any other approach is just too sad.
