Michael C. Hall hasn’t watched ‘Dexter’ finale, responds to negative backlash

Yep, this is where we are at now. Even though the series finale of “Dexter” aired over half a year ago, we still find ourselves now sitting around and taking about the show.  The fact that is even more amazing is that Michael C. Hall waited for as long as he did to address the elephant in the room: Almost everyone hated the finale. It and “How I Met Your Mother” may be two of the most-hated finales of all time, and it’s just sad that they both were so strong leading up to it.

Speaking to the Daily Beast in a new interview, Hall admitted first and foremost that he has never even seen the last episode of the show. In addition to that, he explained some reasons why it was such a struggle:

“Liked it? I don’t think I even watched it … I thought it was narratively satisfying—but it was not so savory.

“I think the show had lost a certain amount of torque. Just inherently because of how long we’d done it, because of the storytelling capital we’d spent, because our writers may have been gassed. Maybe some people wanted a more satisfying—maybe they wanted a happy ending for him, either a happy ending or a more definitive sense of closure. They wanted him to die or something, but I think the fact that he’s sort of exiled in a prison of his own making is, for my money, pretty fitting.”

When it comes to our own thoughts, our biggest problem was not necessarily that Dexter lived, but that the finale killed of Deb (who didn’t deserve it) and failed to provide really any closure at all to some of the other characters. We just couldn’t get behind Lumberjack Dexter, and still cannot.

As for the writers being “gassed,” we do blame Showtime in a sense for the show’s demise. They were operating on a work year for the final season that was three months shorter than every other year that the show was on, and not only that, but there was constant pressure on them to find an ending that pleased everyone. Instead, they got an ending that pleased no one.

There’s no saving the legacy of Dexter Morgan, but hopefully future shows learn from its legacy. If you want more TV updates on all we cover, head over to the link here.

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