Michael C. Hall Finds the Silver Lining in Disappointing Dexter Finale

In any poll about the most disappointing TV series endings in history, you will find the likes of The Sopranos, Lost and Game of Thrones loitering somewhere near the top of the list. Another series that regularly frequents the top of the table for letting down its loyal following is Dexter, the series that created a cold-blooded serial killer who, as well as holding down a day job with the Miami Police Department, delivered his own type of justice to other serial killers that he deemed worse than himself. After eight seasons, the show bowed out in 2013, with the anti-hero seeming to have killed himself after burying his sister Debra at sea, only to reveal in the closing moments that he was alive and working as a lumberjack in Oregon.

Audiences hated the ending and until the downfall of Daenerys and the crowning of King Bran in Game of Thrones, it held the title of the most reviled final of any series in the last decade. It seems that Dexter himself wasn’t too pleased with the outcome either, as Michael C. Hall revealed in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight that his reaction to the finale was pretty much the same as many fans and critics.

The Six Feet Under star explained, “I totally get people’s dissatisfaction with the way the show ended ’cause it didn’t really end. It just left us in this pretty unresolved funny certain place and while I thought that it made sense for the character to find himself in that position and to put himself in this self-imposed exile after all the chaos after the show, I would get why it was pretty unsatisfying… [and] infuriating for fans, they spent all this time and were longing for something that answered some questions or tied some things up or did something that the finale didn’t manage to do. But if nothing else, it did set the stage for what we’ve been up to for the last several months in this new show, so maybe that’s the silver lining.

He continued, “Just as I knew that the show didn’t sit that well in its finale with viewers, it didn’t sit that well with me and I felt like I owed it to myself to explore it further if it came up. That it made sense and it did and owed it to the character and owed it to the fans for sure.”

However, it seems that the series finally has now turned out to be just a season cliffhanger ending that took years to resolve, as Dexter: New Blood will pick up the story this weekend when it premieres on Showtime. According to the blurb for the new mini-series, Dexter is now living a normal life in Minnesota, calling himself Jim Lindsay and seemingly keeping his murderous urges at bay, but strange events in the small, tight-knit community are about to unsettle him and bring his killer instinct to the fore. With the new installment of the Dexter saga seeing the return of Jennifer Carpenter as Debra and John Lithgow as The Trinity Killer in some capacity, the question many fans have is can this provide the finale that the original series failed to provide. Having gone through a number of story ideas before production began, there isn’t long to wait to find out if they writers managed to come with something as good as everyone is hoping for. This story originated at Entertainment Tonight.

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