Where do I begin? Before talking about the episode itself, I suppose it’s appropriate to take a quick look over the season as a whole, allowing me to come to some general conclusion about it by its termination. If you’ve been keeping up with my reviews, it hasn’t escaped you that my ratings for this season of Dexter have been fairly, if not very, positive. However, this is not necessarily a reflection of show’s quality, or rather, it is not only a reflection of its quality. As a long-time fan of Dexter and an even longer-time fan of Michael C. Hall, I tried fairly hard to avoid bashing it and even went so far as to defend its weaknesses on some occasions. However, now that it’s all over, I don’t really have any legs to stand upon.
Early in the season there was hope. With episodes in hand, there are always innumerable possibilities about where things are going and as I pointed out last week, season six has ticked along fairly slowly. So, with things close to the chest, there was still some mystery. Brother Sam came into and swiftly exited Dexter’s world, which was the true beginning of the season’s downfall. But nothing takes the “ruined the entire season” trophy quite like Travis and his imaginary friend. It’s easy to see where the writers were trying to take this story and why they went the direction they did (somehow, it seems that a fair percentage of the populace of the internet were genuinely shocked by the reveal, thus validating the attempt), but it just didn’t work for me and many others.
