Dexter showrunner and Michael C. Hall on finale *SPOILERS*
The finale is available via streaming but if you are waiting until tonight to watch it beware of SPOILERS under the cut.
“This was inevitable,” says #DexterNewBlood showrunner Clyde Phillips of the show's ending https://t.co/k9sloCrp0F
- The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) January 9, 2022
- The series ends with Dexter being exposed as a serial killer and ultimately killed by his own son, Harrison. Showrunner Clyde Phillips says the ending was inevitable and it wouldn't be fair to the audience to have Dexter 'get away' with his crimes again.
- Phillips says he approached Michael C. Hall with the idea of killing off Dexter and Hall was enthusiastic about it. He thinks the miniseries was a chance to redeem the show from its previous ending.
- Phillips would be interested in doing a potential spinoff with Harrison as the lead but nothing is confirmed. (There is apparently a Dexter-related announcement tomorrow.)
Michael C. Hall breaks down 'Dexter's' finale do-over: 'Be careful what you wish for' https://t.co/mWVI6mVcjb
- LAT Entertainment (@latimesent) January 9, 2022
- Unlike the previous finale, Hall is satisfied with this ending. “People moaned about an ending that was admittedly open-ended and without any sense of closure. I guess you have to be careful what you wish for.”
- Describes Dexter's fate. "“Out of the desire not to get caught, Dexter kills someone that in no way fits the code,” Hall says (Dexter killed police sergeant and high school wrestling coach Logan to escape from his jail cell). “And it’s someone that his son, who he loves above all others, revered. In that moment, Dexter apologizes to another human being for all he’s done to that person, and experiences a sense of connection to a person he’s never experienced before. It’s like, ‘I’m having a full experience of being a human being now, and could you please kill me because it’s unbearable.’”
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