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Jan 10, 2022 · Editor’s Note: The following contains major spoilers about the “Dexter: New Blood” finale. CNN — Unlike many revivals, “Dexter: New Blood” came armed with a clear sense of purpose and mission,...
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Updated: Jan 10, 2022 5:35 pm
Posted: Jan 10, 2022 5:25 pm
The following contains spoilers for Dexter: New Blood's finale, "The Family Business," which aired on Showtime on Jan 9. For more, check out our review of last week's episode.
Dexter: New Blood nailed its ending with a taut, emotional chapter that crackled with accountability. "Sins of the Father" may have only taken place in a sparse amount of locations, mostly the Iron Lake police station in fact, but it built itself up wonderfully to a morbid, necessary conclusion, one that gives the series as a whole an exponentially better ending to hang its hat on.
Okay, first things first: is Dexter dead? For now, right in this moment, he's definitely Schrödinger's Dexter. For the purposes of this extra final season, New Blood, he's gone. And it feels right. If, however, the powers that be at Showtime want more, there's wiggle room, perhaps to do a Dexter behind bars "Silence of the Lambs"-type story where they approach him, on death row, for help with a new killer. That's not wholly objectionable, but it certainly would undercut the final moments of this episode while also probably leaving a bad taste in fans' mouths given that this finale was great and anything more would risk sullying the series again.
Full episode specifics aside, "Sins of the Father" gave us the biggest thing that was lacking in the original finale. It gave us Dexter being exposed to the world as the Bay Harbor Butcher. Of course, most of this will happen off screen, in the future of the world of the show, once Angela fully tells her story, but whether Dexter lived or died, got caught or escaped clean, it was crucial that someone knew he was the Butcher... and lived. What's more, Batista now knows and it'll possibly give him some Laguerta closure (though Deb actually killed her).
Sure, it would have been awesome for Batista to actually come face-to-face with Dexter, but given the timeline of the episode, it just didn't work out. It was enough that the threat of Batista, who was catching a red-eye flight, sent the calm and collected Dexter into a panic, one where he had to pull out all his trump cards. And it was a fight-or-flight mode that sadly ended in the death of Deputy Logan.
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Not my favorite but better than the original ending
"Sins of the Father" sent the world crashing down around Dexter's ears, but it took its time. Sure, his world imploded back in the original finale, where he was also on his way out of town, but that was because Deb had (dumbly) died. It had nothing to do with being actually found out as the Butcher (which is why the Season 2 FBI storyline always felt weird as a sophomore season story, and not the finale angle). Here, Dexter was a few days out from leaving town when Angela freakin' burned him bad.
First, she brought him in for Matt (Kurt's final "f*** you!"), but, slyly, Dexter had a possible way out of that, enough to make him a little overconfident. He had no idea Angela had the Butcher in her back pocket and Michael C. Hall's performance in the moment when she brings it up is awesome. He shuts up instantly, and you could see the mechanisms working hard and moving fast in Dexter's mind. That's when he played his own ace and revealed Kurt's trophy basement. This was a slow boil episode with some terrific tension, where every chess move made sense. It even made you wonder if Angela, after being shown the horrors Kurt committed, her life's investigation basically, would start seeing things Dexter's way. Maybe.
The last line of Dexter's note to Hannah -- "let me die, so my son can live" -- holds a lot of weight. Of course, it could mean spin-off (Harrison with Ghost Dexter?), if we're being commercially crass, but more so it was meant to spell out the difference between Dexter and Harrison's anger. Harrison himself even nailed it when he realized he's bit...
Dexter: New Blood's excellent finale was full of necessary, wrenching confrontations and an unfortunate murder that was crucial in completing Dexter's doomed journey. Harrison needed to know that his dad's dark deeds also extended to innocent people who might reveal his secret (like when Dexter was thinking of killing Molly) and "Sins of the Father...
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Dexter: New Blood's finale was a fitting end for the Bay Harbor Butcher and his sinister saga.
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