10 Most Hated TV Finales Of All Time
2. Dexter - ‘Remember The Monsters?’
Fans of Showtime’s serial-killer-as-protagonist drama have been fairly clear about two things in the years since the show limped to a halt. One, that the show never came close to the heights of season four’s gripping cat-and-mouse game with the Trinity Killer, and two, that the series finale was the worst possible way to end the show.
Slow and meandering, season eight represented an even steeper nosedive in quality. Valuable time had been wasted on redundant subplots for supporting characters old and new. Meanwhile logic and consistency had sunk to new lows, the unstoppable stupidity of Miami Metro’s homicide department now having spread to Dexter himself. Worse, it was all so boring.
One critic even penned an open letter to the network asking them to skip the last four episodes and go straight to the finale. If he’d known what was coming he wouldn’t have bothered.
Dropping the ball once again, showrunner Scott Buck doubled down on the dumb, delivering a finale so tedious and mind-numbingly stupid that pretty much everyone sat through it shouting OH COME ON every two minutes.
By the end, with Dexter having inexplicably survived a shipwreck in a hurricane and begun a new life as a lumberjack (OH COME ON), they’d moved on to throwing food at the TV. Buck has since graduated to screwing up sure things for Marvel with wilfully mediocre first seasons of Iron Fist and The Inhumans.