For all those that have yet to
watch the series finale of Dexter
entitled ‘Remember the Monsters?’, and wish to watch it spoiler free, avert
your eyes from the screen now. As usual, my reviews are not a spoiler free
environment. THERE MAY BE SPOILERS AHEAD!
You’ve been warned.
I am so unbelievably angry that
that is the way in which the showrunners decided end the series. Yes, I
certainly saw some parts of it coming, but to this extent, it’s just outrageous
to me. For one thing, who just dangles the idea that Deb will be okay, only to
kill her in the end? This isn’t Grey’s
Anatomy, this is Dexter, I don’t
want to here shit about blood clots, and vegetative states. And this is coming
from a person that finished the episode two hours ago, and had enough time to
go grocery shopping, do the dishes, and let it settle in before I reviewed the
episode. But I still feel the same.
Okay, let’s start back at the
beginning. After the usual opening credits, and recap of the season up to this
point, the show basically picks up shortly where it left off last week. Deb’s
still conscious, which completely surprised me, I thought for sure she was
either a goner right from the beginning, or at least going to be unconscious by
the time paramedics got there, but she was still awake. I have to give the
character credit for this, despite the likeliness that where they left her off
last week, she should’ve been unconscious. Quinn shows his protective edge
towards Deb by riding in the ambulance with her, and I absolutely love their
dynamic, which pains me even more. In Deb’s self-sacrificing attempt to give
her brother what should soon be a happy life, she refuses to let anyone call
him in and let him know what’s happened to her, but all we know that wasn’t
going to last.
Meanwhile, Dexter and Harrison are
rushing to their gate, when Hannah calls stuck in a bathroom hiding from Elway.
I have to say, with this, I’m happily surprised. I thought for sure the last
episode was leading to Hannah getting caught, but no, Dexter ends up getting her
out of this. Which leads to him getting the call about Deb, and he rushes to
her side. Now this is where we get the cop out. Once the surgery is finished,
Deb wakes up, and Dex and her have one of the better moments in this episode.
She basically tells him her actions are not his fault, no matter what his brain
makes him believe. If he actually took that to heart, I don’t understand how he
could just abandon Hannah and his son, in the belief that his actions only ever
hurt people. If you no longer feel the need to kill, then there would be no
reason for you to go hunting other killers, and thus no moronic bad would come
upon your family of your own accord, like the Trinity Killer, and Saxon.
Let’s talk about Saxon. What made
him the best killer for a final season? And what was his point in this episode?
He basically maims a couple people, gets caught, and ends up killed by the
rightful hands of Dexter, but what did he really do in this episode? What was his point? It was like it was just a
tiny little loose end that needed to be written out. Did anyone feel like he
was a rehashed Trinity Killer? His entire point was to get someone Dexter loved
out of the equation? Okay, so he’s not the worst serial killer this series has
had of late, but he didn’t have that oomph a final season could’ve used. I
mean, this season has been a bit lackluster for the most part, especially in
the beginning, but this whole Brain Surgeon bit was a little too lacking.
I do have to say that I like that,
for the most part, Hannah got to Argentina, and gets to have some semblance of
a happy ending, and is basically becoming Harrison’s mother, but help me out
with something. What legal rights does she have to him? I know she’s basically
on the lam, but were documents forged to make it appear that she was his
mother, at least in writing?
Here are a few more issues. Why in
the hell did Dexter throw Deb overboard and not jump in after her? That I could
get, but just throwing his sister into the ocean (did anyone else get reminded
of Jack in Titanic in that moment?) where
all his victims went, when she deserved a proper funeral for dying in the line
of duty, was weird. Also, how did he ride into the storm and somehow manage to
get to that lumberyard? And hadn’t he sold his boat? Though I did find it
poetic to have it destroyed in the end. But why a freaking lumberyard? And what
was with that random flashback to when Harrison was born?
I may have to come back to this
review, because my brain is being very much scatterbrained at the moment, and I
can’t so much organize my thoughts, so I’m going to leave this where it is, and
rewatch the episode when I get a chance and update this later this week.
My rating: 3.5 out of 5.
Best Lines:
“You’re such a friggin’ asshole.” – Deb to Quinn, after he
tells her he’s riding in the ambulance with her.
“It’s not yours to screw up.” – Deb explaining rather
poignantly to Dexter that her actions are not his fault.
All right, check this review later this week for an update.
Otherwise, check in tomorrow for reviews of Bones,
How I Met Your Mother, Sleepy Hollow, and The Blacklist. I’m off to go comfort myself with Buffy.
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