Dexter Season 8 Finale Spoilers, Review Roundup: Dexter Ends on a Whimper … From the Critics

Dexter Season 8 Finale Spoiler: Dexter ended its run on a whimper … from the audience.

Dexter Season 8 Finale Spoiler: The last episode of “Dexter” didn’t satisfy. I won’t burden you with my own take, right now, but here’s what the reviewers are saying about the Dexter Season 8 finale.

People magazine, says “Showtime's Dexter ended Sunday night on a note of ponderous sorrow and penitence. You might as soon have expected Hannibal Lecter to open a funeral home for the indigent, or the Talented Mr. Ripley to sculpt balloons into animals for nursing-home patients.”

Ouch, but that wasn’t the worst of it. According to Den of Geek US, the Dexter Season 8 finale “was bad enough to sour the whole series, a part of me wishes I had just gave up on the show after Rita’s death at the end of season four. I can’t even express how angry I was about this ending” and “part of me is relieved that I won’t have to endure one more shallow and dull episode of a program that used to be great.”

Den of Geek UK says people will talk about the Dexter Season 8 finale “for years to come, even if only as a stern warning to writers about when it's best to conclude a successful show.”

So what happened? Is it because Michael C. Hall's Dexter Morgan tried to grow a beard and got a job as a logger?

All those great serial killers in one place, Dexter’s squeeze, Hannah McKay (Yvonne Strahovski) the Brain Surgeon, something should have happened besides making the audience more depressed than Dexter was as an unhappy lumberjack.

People says "Michael C. Hall and Jennifer Carpenter both gave excellent performances from episode to episode – sexy and clever. And at least two of its eight seasons are classics: The first, with the Ice Truck Killer, and the fourth, with John Lithgow as the Trinity Killer—the most psychologically believable of any of the show's villains and, as a result, the one truly scary one. “ and Dexter season 7, “the surprisingly intense ménage of Dexter, Deb and Hannah.”

Variety said "That said, it was long since time for the series itself to breathe its last. And in this case, that farewell came too late to feel satisfying - or merciful."

TV. com says "It's kind of fitting that it ended this way." But that it "could have been worse."