I want to watch House of Cards but I committed to finish watching Dexter before I move on to something else
Speaking of which, holy shit, that show fell apart during its fifth season. Julia Stiles is a godawful actress, it should have been a warning sign that the people behind the show thought she was capable of exhibiting the emotions necessary to make her character believable. Season six redeems itself until the two stupid and shitty twists at the end. Season seven is toilet tier, even Titus Pullo couldn't redeem that steaming pile. Now I'm working my way through season eight, which is wtf after wtf.
Well, I finished it. To be honest, I'm not sure Dexter was really good for any of the seasons. There were a number of high points but a number of lows that keep it from The Wire-The Shield-Breaking Bad tier of television.
Season 1 - Great season although a lot of the flashback scenes got to be repetitive
Season 2 - Should have ended it here, the antagonist's storyline became increasing convoluted and muddled as it tried to keep the viewer in suspense
Season 3 - A mostly nonsensical plot although Jimmy Smits put in a good performance
Season 4 - The first good season since the first but John Lithgow deserves most of the credit. A shitty twist at the end but I can see the point: they needed to start cutting away at a lot of the increasingly dead weight that was going to drag the show down further. There was also one scene that was disturbingly hot for perverts like myself.
Season 5 - A dumb revenge plot featuring a shitty actress
Season 6 - Reminds me a lot of seasons 1 and 4 in which they were good and somewhat entertaining. Then the show burns through that good will by having three stupid and shitty twists at the end. Again, the writers are perverts and one of the twists is pretty entertaining.
Season 7 - A fucking terrible season. Lots of tits being shown so there you go.
Season 8 - The writers basically said "fuck it" this season and went all out in terms of weird and stupid shit. I'm not a canon obsessed nerd but good thing this show never had much of a nerd following because they just shat upon the already wonky canon of the show. Little of it made sense but if you watched seasons 1-7, I doubt the baffling decisions made for season 8 would keep people from seeing it through to the end. Also a shitty cop out ending although not as bad as what AV Club made it out to be.