One of the best ways I've seen a TV series closed. I recently finished Dexter which is known to be one of the worst endings. Because of that I no longer set expectations. This one surprised me.
shareI loved the ending to this series!!! The Final Scene between Raylan and Boyd was perfect!!!!
I've got no future I can plan on past tomorrow
Man, I agree, I generally hate the way series end (and of course just the general saddness that it's ending anyway), but I hated the ending of Dexter.
This show though, I was definitely pleasantly surprised! Loved it!
Just finished it myself.
I liked the show overall but nearing the end of the 5th season I was beginning to suspect that I would not like the ending or the 6th season. I knew that they wanted Boyd to be the final villain, and given the style of the show I also knew Raylan had to come out as the winner.
In the end, just like in Breaking Bad, they had to use the last season to spin more evil into an otherwise balanced anti-hero character. Boyd was never really a villain on par with Quarrels, the Bennetts, or even Bo Krauter. After his love affair with Ava he seemed genuinely inspired to only fire his weapon when he had to, and to avoid extreme measures. In season 6 we see him abandon all of that. In the very first episode we see him basically execute the fan favourite comic relief idiot Dewey Crowe. Later on we see him turn on both Ava and his crew, where halfway through season 5 we get the sense that he was heartbroken that he couldn't help Ava in prison. I find the whole concept of "the clean slate demand" to be majorly contrived. What substantial value was that anyhow? He knew they wouldn't drown his file, and it was quickly shoved under the rug of the plot, so it could just be used as a background for Ava's disenchantment with Boyd. They did the same thing to Walter White in Breaking Bad. Turning him into a child murdering psychopath and not-that-subtly explaining it as the person he always wanted to be.
In my honest opinion it did no justice to Boyd's character that he ended up the way he did.
For Breaking Bad, the whole show was about turning a man into a villain. It was about a man losing his soul. That's the whole point of Breaking Bad. And unless I missed an episode, Walt never murdered a kid.
Boyd Crowder was ALWAYS a villain. He was a criminal. An outlaw. A killer. He's a bad guy. I've never seen Boyd as an anti-hero (Raylan neither for that matter). He may be incredibly charismatic and he may be very likable (That's all Walton Goggins). But he is a bad guy.
I agree, bhammel. The first episode Boyd kills a guy whom he has vague reasons for distrusting, then almost immediately discovers that he was wrong. No remorse, just a flippant response.
Boyd was certainly an enjoyable [in the context of a tv show!] bad guy, but he was without a doubt a bad guy. Were he a real person, he'd laugh in the face of those who think he's a hero. He was a killer at the start and remained a killer to the end.
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Dexter is not the real ending. The writers were forced to change it.
Originally he should have died by lethal injection seeing all his victims and collateral damage staring down on him.
Killing Deb was awful, letting him survive stupid. Hated every second of it. F you showtime
...but they hung him anyway.
Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry.
That show was ruined by the changing producers that didn't know who Dexter really was. they were afraid to let Dexter truly be the evil psycho he was. I keep wondering how great the show would've been if Vince Gilligan or Graham Yost made that show
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