Dexter’ Season 6, Ep. 13
This is the way <i>Dexter</i> ends: not with a bang, but with a series of boring chases, preposterous coincidences, and an intriguing (but wholly predictable) last-second revelation that is not necessarily too little, but is far, <i>far</i> too late.
- Showtime
- We know how you feel, Deb.
Well gang, we made it. It hasn’t been fun, or particularly rewarding (especially for those of you not getting paid to watch), but at least it’s over. Mazel tov!
But for a season finale, especially one to cap a season as lackluster as this, there was startlingly little to elevate it beyond any other dumb episode this season. I was thinking we’d at least get a little more Adama action, but no—that plot point has sailed. This week, once again, it’s all Angry Travis, doing the strange things that Angry Travis does, now that he’s a completely evil unhinged killer for God who has absolutely zero problem with, say, kidnapping a child and murdering him. (Speaking of, the writers would really appreciate it if you could please disregard the gentle, conflicted soldier-for-Jesus persona he copped for 75 percent of the season. Thanks!)
Episode starts out with Dexter clutching a floating piece of lifeboat debris. Sometime in the morning, the debris stops floating (I guess because, uh, the sunlight changed the wood into something non-buoyant), but luckily he’s picked up by the Helgado, transporting Cubans to Maimi. Why not just let him swim to shore? I guess so one of the passengers can tell Dexter that God is looking after him (thus explaining all the convenient plot points to come), and also so Dexter has someone to kill before we the audience can get bored and change the channel.