dexter's subconcious is busy enough with harry, and i'm mildly annoyed at how angsty he gets over it. While I don't want the last sequence to be a dream sequence, i'm pretty annoyed that it worked out that way. Dexter isn't supposed to have everything work out for him smoothly at the end, although he makes the best of a shitty situation. I mean in season 1 he had to
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, and even though the show basically got set back like a sitcom to the routine for the beginning of season three, it was still a messy climax that was pulled off well.

season three ending was dexter overpowered, incapable of being restrained or prevented from doing whatever he wants to do, with no morally dubious acts to blur the line between (super)hero or serial killer, which is what interested me in the show in the first place. and then he
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which, while we should have seen it coming, was just too much saccharine television for my taste and completely killed off my desire to watch season 4.