10 Worst Dexter Episodes

The Dr Vogel angle that dominated much of season 8 ramps up a notch here without actually ramping up the entertainment factor.

With the dangerous, psychotic son she cruelly abandoned back, she decides, rather than fleeing, to make him some breakfast. Meanwhile, Deb's hated nemesis, Hannah McKay, is now living with her at her beach house because even when Deb hates Dexter, she apparently does whatever to please him.

There's also the continuation of the Quinn/Jaime romance that was never particularly compelling to begin with. It's obvious to even the most disinterested of viewers that this is one relationship not built to last given Quinn's perpetual infatuation with Deb.

In perhaps the peak of the series' general silliness in the closing stretch, Harrison falls off a treadmill in a scene seemingly guest-directed by Tommy Wiseau. From the stilted, cumbersome dialogue between Dexter's kid and Hannah to his turning into a much larger stunt double mid-fall to the editing, the whole thing is just bizarre. It's almost hard to put into words the absurdly disorienting nature of the show's most poorly directed moment.

Of course Harrison's tumble is a plot device to further exacerbate Hannah's weird fugitive situation, a storyline no one really asked for or wanted in the first place. Between this and Dexter's increasingly counter-productive obsession with killing Dr Vogel's son, this clumsily handled episode was one of many disappointing notes in the show's much derided eight season.