While Dexter has become most notable over the years for the way the show ended, there’s no doubt that the series had delivered great entertainment for almost a decade. The earlier seasons are credited for bringing the best stories, although the later years did have good arcs to their credit.
On the other hand, there’s no denying that there were some storylines that fans not only thought were bad but downright hated. This is mainly due to these stories featuring polarizing material or making characters behave in certain ways that they shouldn’t have had. With the revival underway, it’s worth checking out the best and the worst the series brought forward.
10 Hated: Dexter Losing His Dark Passenger For Hannah
It was hoped that a significant manner of character development would make Dexter change his killing ways, but he just became worse and worse due to his love for Hannah. This storyline showed him becoming a whiny loverboy who gave up his dark passenger all of a sudden.
It didn’t seem natural since Hannah herself was a killer, so there was no logic behind Dexter wanting to be a normal person if the person he was with didn’t align with his thought process. The arc itself was shoddily handled as Hannah kept crisscrossing over her feelings for Dexter.
9 Best: Dexter's Fascination With The Trinity Killer
It sounded very elementary on paper when Dexter found out the identity of the Trinity Killer to be Arthur Mitchell as he could easily end him. However, he learned that Arthur was a family man, which fascinated Dexter since he wanted to learn how Arthur balanced his killing activities and his normal life.
This led to a deconstruction of Arthur’s life, as it slowly became clear that he was a fiend who kept his family under constant threat and abused them. It showed how even Dexter could be thrown off by how terrible someone could and that he made a mistake thinking he could ever learn something from Arthur.
8 Hated: Debra's Affair With Lundy
Debra’s overall love story with Frank Lundy was good since it was a genuine love for both parties. What didn’t work was how she cheated on Anton when Lundy came back into her life, which took much of the sympathy factor away from her.
She’d gotten much happier before this and being unfaithful to Anton to go back to Lundy was a step back. Not to mention how Lundy’s death soon after turned her into a complete mess, so the whole story was all for nothing.
7 Best: Vince Masuka Learning To Be A Father
It wasn’t until the eighth season that Vince Masuka actually got a plotline, before which he was there just to make the kind of jokes that memes are made of. In this storyline, Masuka found out he had a daughter and vowed to be the father he couldn’t be before.
This ended in Masuka finally growing up and ditching his immature ways, as he got his father a job and became a responsible person. After watching him act like an overgrown manchild for so long, this was a great way to complete his role on the show.
6 Hated: Laguerta's Obvious Attraction Toward Dexter
There are certain mannerisms on Dexter that only true fans can understand, but not even they can understand what was going on here. In the first season, Maria Laguerta had a subplot where she was inappropriately attracted to Dexter, to the point where it seemed like harassment.
The reason why this is hated isn’t solely because of her behavior, but because it didn’t make sense she suddenly dropped all this and pretended she didn’t try to jump on Dexter. It makes her character inconsistent and also causes the first season to seem rather crude.
5 Best: Lila's Corruption Of Dexter
When Dexter came across Lila, the latter became obsessed with him and lured Dexter into having an affair with her. Being with Lila turned him into the worst version of himself, as Dexter became more malicious and had no care for hurting others.
This was a great way to show Dexter could very well become a true baddie if left under a bad influence, eventually opening up for Dexter to realize that Lila was bad news. It also delivered one of the best kills in the series when Lila got what was coming to her.
4 Hated: Every Time Dexter Tried To Get An Apprentice
This was a recurring angle that never quite stuck, instead it made Dexter look like a bad teacher. It’s one of the mistakes the revival needs to fix, as the potential protege plot just doesn’t suit a guy like Dexter who works best alone.
The cause of its failure was the fact that none of his apprentices stuck to their roles, with Miguel using Dexter to kill his rivals, Lumen simply leaving when Jordan Chase was killed, and Zach being taken out by the Brain Surgeon. All in all, there was nothing that came out of such stories.
3 Best: The Mystery Of The Brain Surgeon
While the execution of the plot after Oliver Saxon’s reveal as the Brain Surgeon was so-so at best, Season 8’s mystery over who the villain might be was a good one. That’s because Dexter didn’t realize what a big threat he was under until he was too late.
Viewers knew there was something boiling under the surface with Evelyn Vogel’s ties to the Brain Surgeon, and the parallels between Dexter’s mother-son relationship with her and the villains were engaging enough to carry on the entire season without revealing Oliver Saxon’s identity until the end.
2 Hated: Debra Falling In Love With Dexter
Just about every Dexter viewer despises this storyline, seeing as it involved Debra falling in love with her adoptive brother. Moreover, it also has to do with the fact that it went completely unresolved, what with Debra simply acting as if it never happened.
The problem was that it came out of nowhere, with Debra’s therapist telling her that she was in love with Dexter the whole time, and Debra easily accepting it. Fortunately, the show didn’t go all the way with the angle, but there’s no ignoring that it did play out at least for a little while.
1 Best: Doakes' Pursuit Of Dexter
If there’s one pair that oozed chemistry the whole time, it would have to be Dexter and James Doakes. The latter hated Dexter’s guts since he realized long ago there was something off about him. Every scene they shared was packed with tension, mystery, and even humor.
The first two seasons had the arc of Doakes pursuing Dexter take center stage, as he kept zeroing in on Dexter’s truth. Due to this, it made for a heartbreaking death when Doakes was killed by Lila, as the dynamic between him and Dexter ended.
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