This is exactly what i thought when i watched the season finale.

I realize that I'm a little late in posting, but I felt inclined to reply to some of the posts that didn't like this season because Dexter became too unwound and forgot his code. First, considering the changes he'd been through in a short time, I would expect him to act on his primal first instinct instead of relying on his training. Sometimes losing someone can cause you to forget simple things you knew before and when you're acting on instinct, this can be compounded. In fact, I'd be disappointed if he'd kept his head during the season considering they didn't really touch on his reaction to Rita's death quite as much as I expected when I saw the trailer for this season.

Second, I think people are forgetting the optimistic and obvious sense of the story looping back to its beginnings at the end of the last episode. Dexter finally learned how to juggle family, job, and killing - and his problems with Quinn seem to be relatively fixed for now. The narrative at the end of the show sounded like the old Dexter, the one in the first episodes of the series.

It's true that the show is no longer relying on flashbacks or the appearance of Harry to constantly remind Dexter of the code. However, I think this has a lot to do with character evolution. Harry probably didn't imaging Dexter would be in contact with his biological brother, or that he would get married and have a child of his own. These are normal aspects of life that even Dexter didn't realize were in his future. It makes sense that his journey through the various relationships he's formed in the series would pull him away from the seclusive lifestyle Harry trained him for.

extremely disappointing. You now have dexter completely violating the code, killing police officers, and also have the miami police department assisting him. Quinn knows he killed the cop, didn't say anything. Deb had them cornered, knew they had committed murder, and let them go. The pretext for it? To make the audience root for the killer(s).

The premise way back when was him exacting revenge on those the system didn't get. Now it's become him getting revenge on people before the system even has a chance to take care of them. And innocent people are getting murdered by him along the way.


This ex-cop, the photographer, and frankly doakes too was dexter's fault. And before you say dexter was justified in going after the ex cop because that cop had kidnapped him, then think about the fact that dexter did the same thing to doakes!

The whole show has now become ridiculous, and this was the end of it for me.

I won't be following it in season 6, it's just become too unbelievable...

You can measure a great show/movie by how intense you feel as you watch it. No matter how many holes there were in the plot I never relaxed or lost interest for a second. I am sure all those who wrote something negative about the show feel the same way. The story/writers keep you wanting more, what else can you ask from a TV show. Can't wait for next season.

I love this show! Last season was intense and this season had highs and lows. I did not like or believe the Lumen character. If a woman had been sexually tortured as she was, there is no way she would have gotten involved as quickly as she did with Dexter. No way. And, to walk around in a hotel in the open where she might encounter her abductors? no way.
I think the Nanny is really perceptive and sees a little too much of the real Dexter.
Also, when does Dexter really work? He is out runnning around and chasing suspects, does the guy sleep?

Dexter is what happens when we get in the same mix great writing and awsome actors. As long as both "ingredients" stay together, I expect Dexter to keep entertained for a looooooooooooong time.

Speaking of plot holes, what happened to Dexter's turned over and crashed car? Deb would have had to see it, right? How did they get rid of it and the body in under an hour? Just turned it over and drove off? No one noticed his car was ruined? HUM.

Worst season of Dexter, but still entertaining.

I can't believe nobody is furious at the gaping plot hole of Deb being contratulated for closing/solving the Barrel Girls case when she never found Jordan Chase. I assumed when she told the "vigilantes" that she'd give them an hour to get out of there, and then call it in, that she would actually call it in and that "it" was the dead body of Chase. That she got credit for closing the case implies that she called it in and the police found Chase's dead body and thus the barrel girls case was closed. But Dexter and Lumen took and disposed of Chase's body. How could that be possible, and why would they even bother, since Deb already saw it? Also "closing the case" due to Jordan's dead body means confirmation of Deb's vigilante theory and that means a new case would be opened by Miami Metro Homicide. Even though Deb was confident that Chase was the last conspirator and thus the last person the victim/vigilantes would kill, the police still have to investigate all these murders, deserved or not... especially someone as high-profile as Jordan Chase. Do the police know that Jordan Chase was murdered? If so, where is the body? See, it makes no damn sense. She couldn't have closed the Barrel Girls case without catching Jordan Chase or confirming he had been murdered. All the other cops knew about deb's vigilante theory and her prediction that Jordan would be murdered next (he was the last one alive), so the dead body of Jordan Chase would confirm her theory was right. But there was no dead body of Jordan Chase because somehow, for some unknown and illogical reason, Dexter and Lumen took the body and dumped it. But deb somehow got credit for closing the case anyway.

Plot holes like this are unacceptable.

I think it was always going to be difficult for Dexter S05 to top Dexter S04 (or even S03 for that matter). So I understand the 'disappointment' with the season among some.

But judged by itself, this season was really strong. Once again, great casting and writing. Pacing was good. Just the right ending, although I was hoping for something more climactic.

I hope the last few seasons are as strong. Here's an idea (if the producers are reading TVSquad): cast Martin Sheen for S06. I think he could really bring something terrific and dark and interesting. Maybe even out-Lithgow John Lithgow, if that were possible.

Overall, I liked this season (I know A LOT of people didn't). It was more existential and not so dark, which I'm sure alienated the nihilists. I felt all along they were alluding to the epigraph of E.M Forsters' Howards End, "Only Connect". A lot of fans wanted to have Deb uncover Dex's "secret life", but the curtain separating them at the camp was RIDICULOUSLY symbolic.