{"id":5309,"date":"2014-05-08T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T13:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5309"},"modified":"2014-05-07T20:10:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:10:29","slug":"post-mortem-dexter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/post-mortem-dexter\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Dexter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dexter.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5310\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dexter.jpg\" alt=\"dexter\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dexter.jpg 640w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/dexter-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Last summer, Showtime announced that the then-upcoming eighth season of <em>Dexter<\/em> would be its last. \u00a0I remember watching the pilot episode of Dexter and not really enjoying it, and I didn&#8217;t come back until season 5, when Julia Stiles joined on for a season long arc. \u00a0Just watching those final four seasons, I could see that it was time to bring things to a close.<\/p>\n<p>The last season had some potential going for it, but things went horribly awry. \u00a0At the end of season 7, Deb had made the choice of whether she was going to protect Dexter or turn him in. \u00a0Season 8 started with her dealing with the effects of that choice, until the convoluted plot made her get over it in time to have Dexter mercy kill her, dump her body in the ocean, and then fake his own death. \u00a0Don&#8217;t worry if it doesn&#8217;t make a lot of sense, it didn&#8217;t at the time either.<\/p>\n<p>One of these days, I may go back and watch the first 4 seasons of <em>Dexter<\/em>. \u00a0After the ending, though, I don&#8217;t know if I would even want to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, Showtime announced that the then-upcoming eighth season of Dexter would be its last. \u00a0I remember watching the pilot episode of Dexter and not really enjoying it, and I didn&#8217;t come back until season 5, when Julia Stiles joined on for a season long arc. \u00a0Just watching those final four seasons, I could see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1565,4235,1568],"class_list":["post-5309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-dexter","tag-julia-stiles","tag-showtime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5997,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions\/5997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}