Warning: Spoilery things all over the damn place for both Dexter and Breaking Bad...
Dexter facing off against a severely underwhelming (and slow-witted) "Big Bad" during its final season wound up, as we discovered, being the least of Season 8's problems. Even though I didn't loathe the finale as much as some of you (though the final lumberjack scene was most definitely bulls***), these past twelve episodes have been so muddled and wasteful that there's a big part of me now that feels empty about the entire series as a whole. Which is probably the worst thing you want from a final run, no matter how disappointing. And, yes, it is hard to think this now because I definitely enjoyed the first four seasons. They weren't perfect by any means, but they held merit. Hell, I didn't even mind Lumen the way some folks did. I just resented how conveniently she left the show and that her story became so closed-ended.
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