(by guest blogger Chloe Trogden) All
good things must come to an end. This year, the series finale of “Dexter” is
upon us. At three episodes into the season, I am both urging on the episodes to
learn how this amazing series will come to a conclusion and also dreading the
passage of the episodes as each one signals a step closer to the end. Each
episode is bittersweet, and each is more thrilling with the knowledge that it
is providing another piece of the puzzle to what will become of Dexter and
those he loves.
Will
the police discover who Dexter really is? Will he be arrested? Will he be
killed – by the police, by another serial killer, maybe even by Deb? Who is Dr.
Vogel really, and what does she want?
I’m
dreading that the series will end in the same way “The Sopranos” did – offering
so much promise and instead quietly slipping out in ambiguity. If that
happened, it would be a disservice to the series, which has blazed a trail in
television and which deserves an ending as powerful as its story and characters
have been over the last eight years.
Here
are just a few of the reasons why – and so many other viewers – love the show: