Michael C. Hall hated the Dexter finale
Turns out that Michael C. Hall is one of us. He too was not a fan of the Dexter series finale. Since it's original airing in September, the finale has been universally panned by critics, fans, and now the series' lead actor. Hall said of the finale:
"Liked it? I don’t think I even watched it, I thought it was narratively satisfying — but it was not so savoury. I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque. Just inherently because of how long we’d done it, because of the storytelling capital we’d spent, because our writers may have been gassed… Maybe some people wanted a more satisfying-maybe they wanted a happy ending for him, either a happy ending or a more definitive sense of closure."
The original show-runner, Clyde Phillips who left the show after the fourth season, would have had a different approach to series' swan song.
"In the very last scene of the series, Dexter wakes up. And everybody is going to think, 'Oh, it was a dream.' And then the camera pulls back and back and back and then we realize, 'No, it's not a dream.' Dexter's opening his eyes and he's on the execution table at the Florida Penitentiary. They're just starting to administer the drugs and he looks out through the window to the observation gallery, and in the gallery are all the people that Dexter killed...All the big deaths, and also whoever the weekly episodic kills were. They are all there."
I know I most definitely would have preferred this to the detached lumberjack mess we were given in the actual episode. It's been nine months and I still can't shake the awfulness of it all. After years of great television, that was how they wanted to go out? I'm usually unnecessarily critical of series finales, but this was just another whole level of terrible.
But what's done is done, I guess. It doesn't take away from the otherwise great storytelling the show gave us in the seasons prior. And it most definitely won't stop me from buying the complete series box set soon. It comes in a blood-slide box, how cool is that?!
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