Dexter is an acquired taste. How you move from distancing yourself and eying detachedly his moves in the beginning of season 1, to wanting to find more about him towards the end of that season, to rooting for him in season 2, to feeling more involved in season 3, to feeling every pang of his pain and suffering in the ending of season 4... is a testimony of this series growth, involvement, action, drama, thrill, and well even comedy relief with Deb.
Unfortunately, as with everyone else here, I think the show went downhill from there onwards. Season 5 was acceptable. Season 6 was painful to watch, and its only redeeming quality was in the last scene where everything somehow makes sense (albeit not even remotely in a satisfying way) with the "oh God" words uttered at the end of 12 religion-axed episodes. Season 7 was so uncharacteristic that I don't even remember any of it, except some parts of the finale. Season 8 was meh, predictable, and almost an insult to the viewers who stuck with Dexter until the end. So many characters were added as fillers, as if the writers didn't know how to create content for 12 episodes. Contrast that with the riveting breath-taking first four seasons and you know how disappointing that is.
I read a lot about the finale, to try and see the different points of view, and the one article that stuck with me was an interview with the showrunner who explained all of the writers decisions with it. The problem with it? It was logical, a bit too logical, a series of very obvious cause-effect relations that lacked any of the original Dexter's surprise, unexpected twists and smart moves.
Dexter will always live with me as the series with the most ground-breaking first 4 seasons, and I'll choose not to remember what happened afterward.
Review by Rita El KhouryBlockedParent2014-04-19T15:46:03Z
Dexter is an acquired taste. How you move from distancing yourself and eying detachedly his moves in the beginning of season 1, to wanting to find more about him towards the end of that season, to rooting for him in season 2, to feeling more involved in season 3, to feeling every pang of his pain and suffering in the ending of season 4... is a testimony of this series growth, involvement, action, drama, thrill, and well even comedy relief with Deb.
Unfortunately, as with everyone else here, I think the show went downhill from there onwards. Season 5 was acceptable. Season 6 was painful to watch, and its only redeeming quality was in the last scene where everything somehow makes sense (albeit not even remotely in a satisfying way) with the "oh God" words uttered at the end of 12 religion-axed episodes. Season 7 was so uncharacteristic that I don't even remember any of it, except some parts of the finale. Season 8 was meh, predictable, and almost an insult to the viewers who stuck with Dexter until the end. So many characters were added as fillers, as if the writers didn't know how to create content for 12 episodes. Contrast that with the riveting breath-taking first four seasons and you know how disappointing that is.
I read a lot about the finale, to try and see the different points of view, and the one article that stuck with me was an interview with the showrunner who explained all of the writers decisions with it. The problem with it? It was logical, a bit too logical, a series of very obvious cause-effect relations that lacked any of the original Dexter's surprise, unexpected twists and smart moves.
Dexter will always live with me as the series with the most ground-breaking first 4 seasons, and I'll choose not to remember what happened afterward.