Desperately Dissecting “Dexter”

Steven Barnes
8 min readAug 25, 2020

I didn’t want to re-watch the last season of Dexter. I loved the hell out of that show, but that last season fell apart, just seemed…ill conceived and executed.

But Tananarive insisted, so it got into our daily rotation. We watched season 7, and something interesting happened: I realized it wasn’t as bad as I remembered. Oh, it was flawed, certainly. But it was different this time: I began to believe that I understood what they were trying to do. And saw the connection between Dexter, 24, Breaking Bad, and Batman.

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Steven Barnes

Steven Barnes is a NY Times bestselling author, ecstatic husband and father, and holder of black belts in three martial arts. www.lifewritingpodcast.com.