If it wasn’t evident from from the headline, there will be spoilers for Dexter New Blood below.
The ending of Dexter New Blood wasn’t quite as bad as Dexter’s original ending but it was still pretty bad. I think the final scene was supposed to be nice and poetic? Harrison is driving away after having shot and killed Dexter while Dexter’s voice reads the letter that he sent to Hannah after faking his death; the final line reading, “Let me die so that Harrison can live” as if that’s what he’s actually finally done now that he is really dead. Harrison is going to end up dead or in jail in like a year tops and that’s all because of Dexter. In the course of about 3 days he sold the kid on the idea of being a vigilante, had him watch as he killed a man and dismembered his body, then had him shoot and kill him but still kind of in the name of vigilantism so Harrison still has that idea in his head. If I had to guess, Harrison is going to try to be the vigilante version of Dexter that he originally had in his head but quickly get killed or caught because he didn’t really get any training on how to do it.
As much as I would’ve loved a happy ending for Dexter, I get that he’s a serial killer bad guy and doesn’t really deserve one, but I always wanted a happy ending for Harrison since the original show even if they made him pretty unlikable in New Blood. Harrison was just an innocent kid who didn’t deserved to get messed up by Dexter which I guess was kind of impossible once they brought him back this season. A show about Harrison returning with no issues and Dexter never killing again and them living happily ever after as a normal family wouldn’t attract any viewers but that’s kind of a nice idea right?
Finally, on more of a side note, I’m upset that they teased us with the Dexter/Batista interaction and never gave it to us. I was very very excited about that possibility when he first showed up at the cop convention in NYC but I didn’t think they’d do it. Then they gave us the “I’ll be there first thing in the morning” scene with Batista and I thought we were about to get a freaking sweet scene between those two but they were just teasing us.
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