From Tony Soprano and Vic Mackey to Walter White and Don Draper, these antiheroes’ complex emotional lives made them uncomfortably easy to root for.ĭexter Morgan’s foibles wasn’t misogyny, uncontrollable rage or moral compromise, he was a serial killer. Picture: Seacia Pavao/Showtimeĭuring Dexter’s original run, the character was part of a wave of male antiheroes whose deplorable natures made them all the more compelling to watch. But it was what it remains.ĭexter: New Blood is set 10 years after the original series’ finale. As far as how it was executed, perhaps we could’ve done a better job.

“I felt like there may one day be unfinished business that revealed itself to tend to, but I was not in a place where I was champing at the bit to take that on.

“Just as Dexter was reeling, I think I was reeling to a degree, running on fumes,” he confessed. Hall, who played the role for nearly a decade after coming off five critically acclaimed years on HBO series Six Feet Under, admitted he was “running on fumes” by the time the series drew to a close. Hall told that from his perspective, the original finale “lacked a sense of closure and I knew that would likely be frustrating for people”. It ranks among the most controversial endings for a long-running series as the shot faded to black with the titular antihero sitting in a log cabin all on his own, on the other side of the country.ĭexter star Michael C. In 2013, after eight years, the series about a blood-obsessed serial killer went out with high-soap bangs and then, a whimper. There’s an image etched in the memory of Dexter fans who stuck it out to the very end: Dexter Morgan, lumberjack.

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