I see the Dexter complete series set was listed as one of the Prime Day specials. That's odd. Amazon typically just uses the Movies/TV part of the sale as a stock dump for things which are getting new editions.
...oh.
Huh.
Let's watch some people die, shall we?
You get one more chance.
That's more than most series get.
Don't screw it up.
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...you know, sometimes the best thing to do is just let something die.
Particularly television series.
Don't force it along, wheezing and gasping for breath, just to try and get a few more pennies out of it.
Give it some dignity.
It's suffering.
Just...let the poor thing die, already.
The best series get the early axe treatment (hello Firefly) , and the rest is milked until "Jumping the shark" does not even cover it halfway...
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Here's the thing. Dexter died already. It was just a rather... ignominious death. Something so pitiful and weak that the main question was not whether it would have been better to suicide earlier in existence, but when. The joke of the series has always been that every viewer needs to choose their own execution point. Some end their journey immediately after the conclusion of S4. I say it's possible to get all the way through S6. A few soldier on and complete the next with some degree of dignity intact.
But I have never met anyone who thinks Season 8 was a fitting conclusion.
The Wild Cards way to put it remains "I went through all that @#%^ for a blank book." This was worse. We went through all that for plaid.
The 'til-now final season was, for the most part, an extended joke on the viewership. All anchors fell away. Characterization was ignored. It was, in many ways, just about the worst possible ending, and it nearly ruined every bit of the past just through sheer proximity.
Which is why this is my central feeling about reviving the series for S9 and one more shot:
They can render a more excruciating conclusion. But at this point, they would pretty much have to be going for it on purpose. Because as rancid as S8's final moments were, S9 might just improve on it by sheer accident.
The writers get one more chance to account for themselves. And they have so much to account for...
I stopped watching Dexter after season four. It wasn't intentional, at first, the circumstances that had me keeping up with the show just changed. But by the time that situation righted itself, I had heard...things. So I never bothered to continue. I already got stung by Lost, once is enough.
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Speaking as someone who did finish: I did enjoy S5, although I may not be in the majority on that one. S6 is tolerable, although the twist can become comedic for some and Chapter Two apparent for others. My recommendation would generally be to stop there.
S7 was an extended group of strange choices, and everyone suffers accordingly. There are a few worthwhile moments, but not many.
S8 is a joke.
No one laughed.
Prerequisite "the books are better!"
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I might have to see about watching seasons five and six then. I did enjoy Dexter when it was good.
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With one exception.
You know which one.
I will not speak the name.
I ain't typing it neither.
"Dexter" post season 4 reminds me of the old "Mork & Mindy" show.
Started GREAT, went downhill & in the end it wasn't a cancellation it was a mercy killing.
You ever watch "Mork & Mindy" series, my advice is
Watch season one, debatable on season two & do NOT watch season 3.
"Dexter" usually makes it onto the list of "10 lamest/most disappointing series endings"
5377855 I stopped watching Sherlock when he died. Then recently I found out it was still going. Because he wasn't dead. Darnit. I need to buy more DVDs.
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UK Sherlock? He was shown to have faked his death in the same episode...
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The first three seasons are pretty much the same.
Epic episode - decent episode - epic episode.
The forth is decent - strange - weird as fuck. Avoid. Unless you find Benedict Cumberbatch unbearable in a moustache.
Murdoch Mysteries is still going quite strong, so unless they roll a natural 1 on season 14, I remain non-cynical.
(I cannot say "hopeful" as being hopeful for anything, in any aspect, would be a lie.)
Which is probably as well, since it and Supergirl and Agents of SHIELD - haha, both ending next season (the latter not having had said season shown in the UK yet) - and MAYBE Doctor Who, is literally all the only live-action Telly I bother to make time for now, and even the number of animated series is vanishingly small and the majority of THAT watching is Cleaning The Room Telly now.
I honestly never got into this one. I'd be more interested if the other Dexter had another go at a comeback. Hmm. What is Genndy Taratovsky up to these days?
...
Hotel Transylvania 4. Well, we all have bills to pay.
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He's paying for this.
It can be presumed the money is going to good use.
Let's see. How to describe Dexter Morgan for the masses...?
He's a serial killer. But he's your favorite serial killer.
It's possible that I had a degree of training for accepting this kind of character: remember, the CDA's viewpoint human representative is a Euthie. That old WoD magical Tradition which says 'Some people need to die' and acted accordingly -- and very, very carefully. Dexter is the fully mundane version of that, where the only monsters around are what he's hunting -- and Dexter himself. But he's a very neat monster. He was raised that way, with care and love.
Dexter's adopted. (Don't ask what happened to his birth parents -- but he swears it wasn't him.) He was brought up by a police officer, who quickly spotted both the signs of a budding sociopath and the fact that his son was trying to hold back in the presence of family. And Harry Morgan quickly realized that there was no cure. It didn't matter what anyone did: this child was going to become a murderer. It couldn't be stopped.
It could, however, be aimed.
Harry had been a cop for a little too long. He'd seen cases slip through the cracks. The guilty getting off on technicalities, the rich buying private justice. So he taught his son how to be a serial killer: the kind who never got caught, because Dexter would know every trick the police used in searching for him. But he also provided a Code: only kill other killers. Investigate, verify, strike -- and clean up the place afterwards. Be a neat monster. And also, here's how you act like a human being, because you'll need to be good at that.
So Dexter Morgan works in Miami's police forensics department, as a blood splatter analyst. Access to records allows him to find the cases which hadn't been resolved as they should have been, and so he gets to pick his victims from an endless selection. But he does have certain concerns. Like the fact that his foulmouthed sister is also a cop. One of the precinct sergeants just hates him. He has to remember to buy doughnuts in the morning, because passing them out is how you pretend you're human. Dating is expected of a real human, but his beard seems to think it's getting serious. (He does like her kids.) And of course, he has to be a neat monster. Clean up after yourself, make a good breakfast the next morning, and always, always remember when it's appropriate to smile.
He's really good at breakfast.
Four strong seasons. (The bad news, as said above, is that there were eight.)
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And the whole shebang was taken straight from the original books, too. (It was a retcon; he was originally supposed to have been genuinely killed off but the fans hounded poor Doyle until he had no choice but to write more.)