If I've been asked to name one TV series without any progression of degradation in quality throughout all the seasons, I would say "Dexter", and to be fair enough this series has already taken a major step for being the best TV series ever made, at least for the genre. The latest season of Dexter showed how this season can be better than all the former ones, which is very unlikely to happen these days. I can give a dozen examples of TV series getting worse from season to season, sometimes a complete disaster being a pure wastage of time. 'Heroes' is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. Being a fan of Dexter from the start, I was amazed to watch all the fabrics of breathtaking storyline in every season. Without any major disappointment, I've been able to watch this nearly superhero series ever since. I started sixth season with considerable amount of confusion and a hidden fear that, it's time for another great series to be ruined. But this supreme tale of life and death has turned into a saga of a mastermind last year, and we have nothing to do except bow before the landmark it made.
Michael C Hall hits us again with his silent and a very weird way of making an effective impression of a nearly human serial killer. His dedication to portray the character Dexter and the consistency he maintained from the first is really admirable. In every season his character had to go through significant changes which affected the whole plot later. He managed to not only adapt with the changes, but also made an advantage of it and facilitated the evolution of a serial killer to an angel of death. My confusion about this season was the possibility of a failure or major flaw in the storyline because of the sudden death of Rita & unexplored real fatherhood of Dexter. Despite all my bad expectations, turns out Dexter is not a lousy dad at all besides being the carrier of the dark passenger. Story of this season was like a challenge to Michael C Hall because it's a reformation of his well known character 'Dexter'. Somewhere between the season Dexter got all confused and disturbed, finding no hope or no answer to all of his questions, question of belief, question of righteousness and overall question of his inner bestiality. After all this, introduction of a very short lasting but effective character Brother Sam, made a remarkable and somewhat questionable impact on Dexter. And then the obvious meeting between the big bad of this season Dooms Day Killer (DDK) and the angel of death Dexter, couldn't be more exciting. The actor has that much maturity and potential to portray all of this flawlessly till the end. Outstanding performance from the actor, expected and delivered undoubtedly. There's a rumor going on that he is renegotiating his contract and claiming a million per episode of the upcoming season which is causing a possible termination of the series. It would be absolutely stupid to discontinue this extraordinary series on a salary issue, anybody can tell that Michael C Hall is worth much greater than that.
Another very important aspect of this series is how successfully it can make an way through the tragic ending of the only regular romantic relationship of Dexter & maintaining the subtle tone of morality without introducing any new female lead. Now I think this has been the only dysfunction in the overall story and dragging the once-not-so-important character Debra Morgan to that lead is not the best decision at all. This process of reformation has been plotted from the former season and with the promotion, responsibility and psychotherapy sessions it's been prominent that Deb the sis is not that messed up little sister anymore, her character is going to be significant than ever in the next season. But I have to admit that the idea of the incestuous relationship between those two is very disturbing and creepy to some extent. Jennifer Carpenter has overcome her excessive overacting in the former seasons & this whole emotional meltdown stage suited her well. She has found her place in this truly great storyline.
A good series requires a good lead actor, but doesn't necessarily depend on him totally. The balance also had been made by some very good piece of acting from the fellow actors. Travis Marshall himself alone was not sufficient enough to be the big bad, Prof. James Gellar represents the gap between average disturbed human mind and an evil mastermind psychopath.When Dex found Gellar dead in the church, within a moment, a work of giving a surprise to the viewers & introducing another dark passenger, should have been done with artistic accuracy. That's another flaw which got fade during the last three episodes. I still hope to get a better explanation in the future seasons but again one has to admit that a major shocker like this only fits in a series like Dexter. Edward James Olmos was a perfect choice for the dark and twisted character of Gellar, with his oldish look and mysterious face he managed to make a believable appearance as a spiritually misguided genius. Some characters have lost their charm and importance, most notably Lt. Laguerta and Quinn, reminding us that their time has come to get off the show.
Now I'm going to write about some scenes or presentation of events that forced me to re-evaluate the series from the first season and helped me getting the greater view. Starting with the same old 'Dexter'ous beginning of every episode, the observer & adviser father figure Harry Morgan who's actually not there, significant number of killings with least exposure to violence, all these are the sweet memoirs to me. This season added another one to the list, the door is ajar & the camera moving to find a Dad Dexter bathing his little boy Harrison, the bubbles are flying so are my imaginations how far this series can go to find the true path of righteousness concealing his true identity even to his own son. 'Dexter' gave me a lot of good times and I'm looking forward to get more of those melancholic scenes to be inscribed in my brain forever.
