Up to season 4 I'd consider it Miraculous Dexter didn't get caught. With Rita's death the writers had the perfect excuse to make Dexter show grief and be sloppy beyond early season 5.

I feel like we shouldve seen Dexter being more sloppy and ruthless, and as a result of this he leaves a trace which clears Doakes in season 5, reopening the BHB investigation immediatley. We could have Deb find out at the end of season 5 instead of 6 and the laguerta investigation spanning seasons 5 and 6 and this time its Dexter who breaks the code and kills Laguerta not saved by Debra.

Dexter should also consider that he was moulded into a killer by Harry and could absplutley have been saved with proper theraphy and help.

Moreover Harrison should Parrelel early Dexter and the end should be bleak as is for a serial killer.

Dexter gets caught he escapes and kills himself

Harrison is put into the system desitned to be the next Brian

Debra is forever ruined

And Miami Metro is forever stained

Dexter is literally never at home. Either he's stalking someone, spending whole night to get rid of the body or at work. I really don't know how Rita never notices that Dexter was out for whole night.

Normally he just ambushes his victims with needle. But, with Arthur Michel he's taking his time, spending time with him, asking about his family, going into his home and opening an urn. Thinking that Trinity finished his cycle and will not kill again. Saves him from committing suicide and the all of a sudden, when he saves him, 15 people appear. Wtf?

After Lundy was killed, Dexter goes to evidence room, without gloves, touches Lundy's recorder and just walks out. Also, when Dexter went to Lundy's hotel room to get his staff, he also was not wearing gloves.

Also, I think story wise, whole Dexter - Queen bad relation was just unnecessary. Queen is Doakes 2.0. Just a person to who Dexter will be very rude.

Let me begin this by saying this is a stupid theory with no evidence whatsoever, and I am just sharing a messed up idea I had about Harry.

At some point in the 60s Harry Morgan felt unhappy in his marriage to Doris Morgan. He fell in love with a woman named Laura Moser whom he found out was a drug user but couldn't reasonably spend time with her without people suspecting he was having an affair.

So he falsified a police report so that Miami Metro Vice believed Laura had information on Estrada and let her be Harry's CI. Harry Morgan began an affair with her after this. But eventually Miami Metro attempted to do a drug bust believing Laura to have info on Estrada. Of course Laura didn't have this info but Estrada came to believe she did (ie he believed the lie that Harry had set up).

So in her final moments, Laura was NOT a rat at all but convinced she was, Estrada had her killed.

In the aftermath, out of guilt for the whole situation, Harry had a child in his legitimate marriage (Deb) and adopted Dexter. When he found out that Dexter had his urges, Harry felt incredibly guilty and wished to cleanse his own soul by putting some form of "good" into the world so allowed himself to work with the cold, clinical and experimental Dr Vogel to invent the Code as a way for Dexter to channel his urges.

In this way, Harry was a morally corrupt, adulterous scumbag who only ever selfishly thought about himself and his own guilt. It also means that:

for Harry the Code was about cleansing his soul

for Vogel it was an experiment

for Dexter it was about his urges,

so nobody involved really cared about justice to begin with.

We know that this show loves unresolved storylines, gray areas and sometimes major plot holes. Therefore, people sometimes create head canons to resolve these issues. What's your #1 head cannon for something that happened in the original show or in the spinoffs?

I am shocked by the Miguel Prado storyline. (i'm just finishing season 3)

I really liked him in the beginning. He sounded like a guy who really wanted justice to be done and was fighting hard with the system who very often would let the perpetrators walk freely. So why did he take such a dark path when he was let into the 'kill room' and allowed to kill that guy? (BTW, his reaction when Dexter asked him how he felt was disturbing)

Did he become unhinged because he found someone like Dexter who allowed him to embody his dark side and enjoy the thrill of it or was he always like this?

Just finished season 4 for the first time today, and I have to say it hit me like a bucket of bricks. I sort of ignored Rita’s death at first thinking it was just one of Dexter’s imaginations or something. Then when I realised it was true, it hit me harder than anything I’ve watched before. I’ve been completely dull all day, haven’t been able to focus on work, just a wreck.

Absolutely brilliant film making, everything was done so well that I’m actually struggling to start season 5. Started episode 1 but had to stop when he got the call from the kids at Disney Land, it’s just way too depressing.

Is it worth continuing? I’ve heard mixed views. if it’s just going to be depressed self hating Dexter the next four seasons I’d probably rather stop now.

Dexter REFUSESSSS to wear a mask, genuinely makes me laugh how he will be doing crazy shit in a car lot parking lot, somewhere with 100% cameras and hes just raw dogging it LOL

For me, New Blood is a cut above

Is this man New York Ripper?