Dear, dear Dexter.
Dexter just finished its fifth season, and I’ve been trying to sort out how I feel about the show. So, of course, I went over to the avclub to see what they had to say. They nailed it.
Dexter’s greatest antagonist has always been time. There’s a finite amount of stories to be told within this general framework, and so long as the show remains Showtime’s signature hit, there are a finite number of things that can be done to extend the story. No matter how entertaining or fun the show can be (and it’s been highly entertaining and fun in even its most disappointing seasons), the show is trapped by the clock, by the fact that it can’t just keep running forever. The problem with this is that the show is so formulaic, its supporting cast is so boring, and its notion of its world as a clockwork one where every character has a particular story function are all so pervasive that it becomes harder and harder to care about any given season, other than how it functions within the larger picture of the show’s storyline. via avclub
That’s pretty much it for me. The ending was so tidy… so perfect, and yet so many loose ends were left unresolved. The nanny, the gangsters Deb was chasing, Batista, etc.
