Three Disappointments from Season 6 of ‘Dexter’

“Dexter” is a crime drama that airs on Showtime Sunday nights at 9 pm. The show follows serial killer and bloodstain spatter expert Dexter Morgan. Season 6 of “Dexter” concluded December 18, 2011, and I must say, I was disappointed in parts of this past season.

As a longtime fan of the show, here are three of the biggest disappointments from this past season.

Religion Was the Focus

As a longtime fan of “Dexter” I was not very thrilled that religion became the focal point of the show this season. Season 6 was not as good as previous seasons in my opinion, because the focus was more on what than whom, and religion just happened to be storyline. It is not that I really mind religion, although I am atheist, it is more about how religion was portrayed in the show. “Dexter” seems to have taken religion to that extreme level with the introduction of the doomsday killers, which I did not like at all. I enjoyed “Dexter” more when the focus was on a bad person getting away, but getting what is coming to him or her in the end, because it was uplifting to see justice served. Since Season 6 decided to focus on religion, it did not feel good to me when I saw Dexter kill Travis Marshall, because Travis was killing because he thought it was what God wanted. I just did not care for the angle of religion, especially for a show like “Dexter” where Dexter has no religion, and it never really was an internal conflict for him. Although I am not religious, I was almost upset that the show chose to find the negativity around religion, rather than the good that could come out of it.

Dexter Hung Out with His Brother

Season 6 also came back to the Ice Truck Killer, which was the brother of Dexter, although Dexter had killed him a few seasons ago. I was disappointed in the fact that the Ice Truck Killer went into his subconscious and took over the place of his father Harry, which was a bad idea from the beginning. Harry always provided Dexter with reason and rationale, and it always seemed comforting to Dexter, even though Harry was dead and in his head the whole time. I did not like the Ice Truck Killer coming back to be with Dexter in his head, because it made Dexter crazy, and it made Dexter do evil things he would never do normally. For example, Dexter was driving down the road with his brother in the seat beside him, and his brother coached him into shooting a gun at open signs, which Dexter would never have done otherwise. I think that the Ice Truck Killer should have never been reintroduced into this past season, because Dexter ended up running him over, and went back to Harry being in his mind. It almost seemed pointless to have him come back for a few episodes, just so Dexter could go insane for a bit, before returning back to his normal self.

Professor James Gellar Was Dead All Along

I was the most disappointed in Season 6 of “Dexter” when I saw that professor James Gellar had been dead the entire time. Throughout the season, you are led to believe that it is James and his sidekick Travis pulling off the murders, all in the name of religion and God. Then, there is a scene where Dexter finds the body of James in a chest freezer, obviously pointing to Travis as the doomsday killer. I found this absolutely horrible because James was in the head of Travis the same way that Harry was in the head of Dexter, and it was just really simple. It also reminded me of “Fight Club” where Narrator and Tyler Durden was the same person, since it was all in his head to begin with. I thought that the whole professor and student concept was brilliant, but then making the student the killer, and having the professor just be in his mind was just absurd. Plus, not to mention that when Dexter goes into the Church and sees Travis on the floor, he should have known it was Travis because there was an object over the door that led downstairs. Anyone would have known, if the professor was alive and hiding downstairs, how could he have knocked out Travis, and put the object on the top of the door to the downstairs compartment? It just did not make any sense from the beginning to have James dead, with Travis being the ringleader, and hearing James in his head.

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