10 TV Shows You Should Stop Watching Before The Final Season

Dexter is well-known for having a progressively more frustrating and disappointing narrative.

It’s a show that manages to ask so many interesting and complex questions, yet also somehow avoids answering or even confronting a single one of them.

It’s a good premise: a serial killer with a moral code, who is still completely incapable of feeling emotion or remorse. Great! Until you start slowly suggesting that maybe he can feel things and maybe he can change, only to abandon it every time we might be coming close to resolving a single dilemma.

Over and over again, Dexter has the slate wiped clean for him so he conveniently doesn’t have to break his own moral code. His relationships and actions increasingly hold no consequence, his supposed character development screams to be evidenced but he quickly evades any actual display of change.

It’s all incredibly annoying.

The most recent season sees Dexter sailing off, lamenting how he has to leave Hannah and Harrison to protect them from himself. This maybe, just maybe, could have been a time for redemption: for one final sacrifice as he steers into a hurricane.

Alas, no.

If it weren’t for this being another example of him getting to start over free of consequence, the most annoying thing about this might be how unrealistic it is for someone to float into a hurricane on the open ocean and somehow survive to go and live out their lumberjack dreams.

What started as an exciting show with a new, interesting concept devolved into a repetitive disappointment. If you quit a bit early, you’re not missing much. When grafting through the eight seasons currently out there, I’d give the same advice as they do for gambling: when the fun stops, stop.