I just finished this series a few weeks ago also, and I thought it was a terrible ending. This show went downhill after Rita died, in fact the Rita death season wasnt very good either but her death was a big enough surprise twist to make up for the season.
If you were watching Dexter on Showtime as it came out, waiting for each episode to come out, you'd probably be a lot more disappointed. I almost completely lost interest at the beginning of season 7, but I toughed it out til the end.. And now I wish I hadn't. The last season was just awful.
I really only watched the last two seasons because I was invested in the series. If I had to wait every week I would have lost interest just like I did with Boardwalk Empire this season.
agreed, but you're comparing Dexter to the worst payoff of all time in any series, one who's depths of disappointment and stupidity would be virtually impossible to duplicate. final season of Dexter was still pretty stupid, just less painful since expectations were pretty low going in.
After watching the whole series, I watched episode 1 from season 2 at a buds house recently and the show has changed so dramatically its kinda like when you see someone everyday you don't notice them changing as much but it was pretty jarring. The later seasons are like a soap opera, with really no interesting art direction or dialog, I forgot how artsy they were in the first few seasons with camera angles/ filters/ etc. And his inner monologue was interesting and poignant, by the end it was just used to explain the stupid "plot" "I need to get rid of this body before so and so blah blah" they should have cancelled this turd 4 or 5 seasons earlier, kinda liked the finale though, leaves you with something to think about
Astoria seems to be the consensus opinion, since the Columbia River is right behind him in the final scenes.
