“Dexter” ended in 2013, with its protagonist self-exiled to the frozen North and most major characters dead.
In the intervening eight years, you may have forgotten a few details of the show — other than, say, its wildly unpopular finale.
Accepting Dexter’s antisocial tendencies, Harry channeled those impulses into hunting — first animals, then, as Harry put it, “other kinds of animals” who have escaped justice.
Deb joined him there as a police officer, working first in vice, then in homicide, and in time becoming a detective.
And that’s my burden, I guess.” As the original series progressed, Dexter seemed to move closer to authentic emotion, maintaining friendships and romantic relationships and enjoying a close bond with Deb, even as he never lost his need to kill.
“There were so many lessons in the vaunted Code of Harry — twisted commandments handed down from the only God I’ve ever worshiped,” as Dexter put it.
He often killed when threatened, but he sometimes refused to kill people — even dangerous or inconvenient people — when they failed to meet Harry’s criteria.
Knocking his victims out with a synthetic opioid, he brings them to a plastic-draped kill room, decorated with photographs of their own victims. He undresses his prey, then binds them to a table with duct tape or cling wrap.
His preferred weapon is a knife, but he knows his way around a saw — and an anchor, a cleaver and a pen.
Most of his known associates have also come to bloody ends, like his wife, Rita Morgan , his former lieutenant, shot by Deb in a bid to protect Dexter.
The final season found Dexter stalking the Brain Surgeon, a serial killer with ties to a famous psychologist.
Dexter had planned to escape to Argentina with his onetime girlfriend and fellow serial killer, Hannah McKay , a poisoner, and Harrison, the child he had with Rita.
Probably because it lacked closure, retribution and attentiveness to Dexter’s journey toward personhood.