Well, apparently, Showtime is to blame as the writers were put in a corner with the network’s instruction to not kill off the title by Season 8’s end. Now for the moment we have been waiting for: the infamous final episode in which Dexter fakes his own death, starts a new life as a lumberjack, and leaves virtually the entire fanbase horribly disappointed.
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It is almost surprising that it would not prove to be Dexter’s most controversial moment.ĭexter Was Originally Meant To Die In The Series Finale Rita’s death remains a staple of horrific and saddening character write-offs in TV history. We all knew when we were shooting this and looking at Julie in the bathtub, and the little boy on the floor, what it was gonna be for the audience when they saw it. It ended up being the last scene that we shot, so that we could get as many extra people out of there as possible. So we had to plumb it so we could get the blood in and then get the blood out.
It was a bathtub on a soundstage, so there was no real plumbing. Prop master Joshua Meltzer went into detail about how the haunting imagery of the Season 4 finale’s conclusion was achieved in the following quote from a Vulture article profiling Dexter’s most frightening sets:
Rita’s Death Scene Was Challenging and "Surreal" To ShootĬonsidered one of the series’ most shocking and perfectly executed scenes is the one where Dexter Morgan finds his wife, Rita (Julie Benz), dead in a bathtub from which her blood is running over onto the floor, where his infant son sits.
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