The hit series Dexter, a television show that has been aired by Showtime for years, is finally coming to an end. Dexter is a serial killer who actually kills serial killers, and throughout his life has been troubled because he lives two lives, one with his son and step sister, and his real job with Miami metro homicide. The other however, which involves killing serial killers and dumping their bodies off his boat, leads to all of his problems. After eight fantastic seasons of the show, the last episode will be revealed on Sunday night at 8pm. Why am I telling you this though? Why does anyone care?
In class, we discussed how America has created this perfect type of movie, where the plot starts with the main character at a high point in the road, and then something happens to the character so that he goes down. Don't be surprised when his or her life starts to improve back to where it was however, because this is what happens all the time in your typical American movie. The hit television show Dexter has ran with a theme like this nearly every season that has been aired, where Dexter starts off great, but then people start to die, commotion is created, and Dexter needs to solve his problems. Every season has ended with Dexter catching one or multiple serial killers and fixing his problem. With the season finale coming up, Showtime.com took a poll and asked Dexter fans if they would rather see Dexter either go to jail, die, or get his five year old kid taken away from him, or if they would rather see Dexter escape the country with his kid and his new girlfriend. 93 percent of voters said they want Dexter to end its legendary run with a great ending to compromise for the plot plummit that took place in the beginning/middle of the season.
What this leaves me with is a couple of questions. First, as Americans, I don't understand why we always want that perfect ending. Is it because it is what we are used to seeing? Or does it reflect the kind of people we are. I would personally like to see a darker ending to the series, because I am sick of having to deal with the same, easy to expect plot that American shows and movies end with all of the time.
