Warning: Full spoilers for Season 7 of Dexter follow...
With modern-era TV shows usually hitting their stride around seasons 3 or 4, while also carrying with them a creative expiration date of around 5 or 6 years, Dexter managed to do what very few series have been able to do in a seventh year: It had a resurgence. Granted, the Dexter/Deb storyline that played out in Season 7, with Deb traumatically discovering Dexter's secret, was really the story that the entire series had been leading up to, and with the end being near, the writers were able to raise the stakes and put some meat back on this show's bones. Also, the choice to not have a single season-long "big bad" this year was a great one, allowing mini-arcs to occur and the Dexter/Deb dynamic to play out in all its glory.
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