Michael C. Hall, Like You, Wishes Dexter Morgan Would Have Died

Michael C. Hall gets candid, says he wishes Dexter Morgan would have died.

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At this point, it’s difficult to remember that, once upon a time, Showtime’s Dexter was an excellent TV drama. In its first few seasons, the gruesome and tonally varied series, starring Michael C. Hall as a serial killer with a somewhat admirable moral code, was one of television's best character studies; futthermore, in its fourth season, Dexter was all-around spectacular, featuring one of the small screen’s all-time great villains, the Trinity Killer (played by John Lithgow).

It’s tough to recall those better days, though, since Dexter jumped multiple Godzilla-sized sharks throughout its final three seasons. And, cringe, it ultimately wrapped up in what will remain one of the worst final TV seasons ever—by, yes, turning Dexter Morgan into a bearded, lonely lumberjack. (That still feels ridiculous to say and type, let alone believe actually happened.)

Hall himself, it turns out, shares some of the audience’s disappointment over how Dexter concluded. In an interview with IGN, the actor, while promoting his superb new indie thriller Cold in July (seriously, everyone needs to see it this weekend), discussed the show’s final season quite candidly. If you, like millions of other reasonable Dexter viewers, still think the character should be dead, or at least in prison (since, you know, he murdered countless people over eight seasons’ worth of TV), you’re about to like Michael C. Hall a whole lot more.

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Which, of course, would have been so much better for all of us. Because, lumberjack.

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