The Dexter Finale Could Have Been Far Stranger

| November 2, 2021 |

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Deb Morgan (Jennifer Carpenter) and Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) in Dexter — *Photograph: Showtime*

The serial finale of Showtime serial killer drama Dexter is, let's say, non particularly well-liked.

After eight seasons of the monstrous Dexter Morgan murdering other monsters, the show'southward season viii finale let him off the hook in unsatisfying fashion. The erstwhile Miami-Dade P.D. blood splatter analyst left everything behind for a fresh start in Oregon every bit a lumberjack, making a instance for "lumberjacking" to overtake "jumping the shark" as the preferred term for televised disappointment.

With the plot prepare to pick up again in limited series Dexter: New Blood , star Michael C. Hall is once again making public apology for how things ended the showtime fourth dimension around. In a new interview with Amusement Tonight, Hall (who is also an executive producer on the show) acknowledged fan's finale frustrations.

"I totally get people's dissatisfaction with the manner the show concluded 'cause it didn't really terminate," Hall told ET. "It merely left us in this pretty unresolved funny certain place and while I thought that information technology made sense for the grapheme to find himself in that position and to put himself in this self-imposed exile afterward all the anarchy after the show, I would go why it was pretty unsatisfying… [and] infuriating for fans, they spent all this time and were longing for something that answered some questions or tied some things up or did something that the finale didn't manage to do."

Thankfully, Hall and original showrunner Clyde Phillips (who left Dexter after five seasons) have a second run a risk at an ending with New Blood , premiering at 9 p.chiliad. on Nov. 7. It remains to be seen how the show intends to actually end its story this time around. I affair for sure, however, is that it has some compelling options from the Jeff Lindsay's original Dexter book series to consider.

Rolling Stone Chief Goggle box critic Alan Sepinwall posted an interesting thought experiment to Twitter recently, writing "If Dexter had tried to do this in the final season, would it have been amend or worse than Lumberjack Dexter?"

The fastened screenshot is a Wiki entry that details the events of the third of eight books in the Dexter series, Dexter in the Dark . It reads: "The Nighttime Passenger was revealed to be an independent entity inhabiting Dexter, possibly the offspring of the ancient god, Moloch. The idea was largely disliked by critics and fans alike and was dropped from futurity books. In 2013, the writer, Jeff Lindsay, stated that Dexter in the Night was an experiment. As such, the storyline had been tested, and the idea was abased."

Well, that'south fascinating.

In the show, The Nighttime Passenger is the name that Dexter gives to his uncontrollable urge to impale. Information technology'due south clearly a personification device that Dexter is using to justify his violent sociopathy. That is the case in the books equally well…up until that controversial third entry. In Dexter in the Night , Dexter Morgan suddenly finds himself abandoned by his Dark Passenger at a very inopportune time – he is kidnapped past a murderous cult, you see. It'southward non until Dexter is despondent past the loss of his Nighttime Rider buddy at volume'southward end that it returns to him, delighted to feast on his sadness once again.

Dexter in the Dark was the first volume to be released after the Kickoff series had already premiered. In fact, excerpts from the title are attainable in the card of the Dexter season 1 DVD. While the showtime two books and seasons of Dexter correspond fairly closely, the tertiary installments of each go off in wildly different directions. Though Lindsay did indeed carelessness that Moloch plotline after volume three, it serves every bit a fascinating "what if…?" for the Dexter franchise at large.

Though the TV series never flirted with the supernatural element of its story for eight seasons, information technology's all the same in that location in the Dexter catechism should it ever desire to try it out. Information technology probable won't in Dexter: New Blood , simply hey, y'all never know! Sometimes you need a Deus Ex Moloch.

Dexter: New Claret could besides end like Lindsay'southward book series does in the eighth entry Dexter is Dead . You tin bank check out the details of that over here. We won't post them in this infinite because information technology does actually seem like a pretty plausible (and satisfying) way for Dexter to end his goggle box journey.