Warning: Spoilers ahead. Further analyses to come!
We all make rules for
ourselves. It’s these rules that help define who we are. So when we break those
rules we risk losing ourselves and becoming something unknown. Who is Deb now?
Who am I? …Is this a new beginning, or the beginning of the end?
As we’re all hanging on the cusp of a new year in
our own crazy lives, so are Dexter and Debra passing over into foreign
territory as their new year—their new
life—is rung in with a tragic taste. Based on what we’ve witnessed in this
breakneck season of change upon violent change, what kinds of resolutions can
we say that the characters still standing will make? Where have they been and
where are they to head in light of their choices and the un-chosen things that
have been thrust upon them? Let’s take a sweeping glance at Dexter’s latest
chapter before the ball drops, and kiss goodbye a wild year filled with our own
insanities as well as those of America’s favorite, if endlessly-conflicted killer!