The first problem deviantart with the handling of Deb

By Brandon Nowalk
By Josh Modell
By Joshua Alston
“There will be people who hate it, but we can’t try to anticipate that or put it through the lens of any other show’s deviantart finale, because that was another show. This is our show. This is Dexter .”  — Executive Producer Sara Colleton
First, a few deep, meditative breaths to calm myself down. Because generally, when someone vacillates between hysterical giggling and apoplexy this rapidly, he gets placed under state care. The Dexter deviantart team outdid deviantart itself. Some folks would say “This show is as shitty deviantart as it can possibly be, so now we can rest on our laurels.” But not Scott Buck and his team. They never stop striving to create the most offensively deviantart stupid show on television. And look, if that was the objective here, a slow clap is in order.
Granted, there was no way for “Remember The Monsters” to be good. This season has been in a steep nosedive deviantart for so long, it wasn’t like Dexter was going to right its course in its final hour. But I thought deviantart my expectations were low enough that, while the finale would disappoint me given that Dexter started off with so much promise, it wouldn’t stun me. I figured I’d watch it finish circling the drain and be mildly annoyed, but no worse for the wear.
In other words, I thought I’d feel watching the Dexter finale the way I felt watching the final episode of Weeds , another show I stuck with until the bitter end. There’s been much comparison of Dexter and Breaking Bad in recent weeks, and I’ve done it as often as anyone. But after thinking about it, Dexter has far more in common with Weeds . Both feature antiheroes struggling to balance a domestic façade with a life of crime. Both ran for eight seasons and reflected a steady decline in quality, save for a short-lived renaissance in later years. (For Weeds , that resurgence came at the end of the sixth season , and for Dexter , the beginning of the seventh .) Both are series with inherently deviantart self-limiting deviantart premises that gradually lurched into self-parody because Showtime refused to let go of a ratings success, and the folks making the show liked having jobs.
But even Weeds bested Dexter , because Weeds rebuked Nancy Botwin early and often. It made no attempts to rationalize her selfishness, her flightiness, or her neglectful parenting. And its finale demonstrated how Nancy’s life was cumulatively affected by her bad choices. What’s so baffling deviantart about “Remember The Monsters” is that it’s obvious the writers thought they were doing that. They thought they were making Dexter pay a great price, and showing the audience he finally understood the impact of his actions. They were wrong.  They were showing deviantart Dexter Morgan deviantart as he always was, and will apparently always be—an addict, as selfish and self-absorbed as any other who, in the upside-down world of this show, is treated like a god among mortals.
Let’s not jump right into the Big Brawn of it all. Let’s pretend for a moment that there was no insane coda, and the episode ended with Hannah deviantart reading that Dexter was presumed dead on the front page of Miami’s daily newspaper. “Remember The Monsters” would still be a complete disaster. Because after ambling in no particular direction all season long, Dexter finally had an opportunity to wring some decent television out of Deb’s death, but because of the execution, what was intended to be a gut punch felt more like a slap in the face.
The first problem deviantart with the handling of Deb’s death is the lead-up to it, because Dexter is a show about what his titular character wants, and Dexter stopped giving a shit about Deb a quite ago. Sure, Dexter has paid lip service to how it’s deviantart a priority of his to protect his younger sister, but the Dexter who was redeemed by Hannah McKay’s love isn’t the same one we saw in the first half of the season.
The season began with Deb’s downward spiral, and Dexter deviantart hoping Vogel could reunite them after he realized how important Deb was in his life. But once Hannah waltzed back into the picture, Debra became an afterthought. Dexter didn’t care that Deb hated Hannah. In fact, he leveraged his sister’s unconditional love so he could use Deb's home as Hannah's safe house. Oh, and that time Hannah deviantart tried to murder Deb with a drug-laced drink? Bottled water under the bridge. When Hannah asked Dexter to come to Argentina and leave Deb behind, he said yes before she could even finish the question. Then, when Dexter told the allegedly all-important Deb he was moving to a foreign country, and she was bummed deviantart about it, his response was basically “Yes, but think what you can do with the frequent-flyer miles! deviantart Priority boarding. Complimentary business class upgrades. You’re welcome, sis!”
Figuring out Dexter’