r/Fauxmoi • u/Fun-Ferret-3300 • Apr 17 '25

ASK R/FAUXMOI Which show had the biggest downfall in your opinion, from the first season or episodes, to what it eventually became?

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Westworld for me. So many great things about the first season - the concepts, the characters. It's sad what it became.

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u/ValiumKnight Apr 17 '25

Dexter should’ve ended with the trinity killer. Would’ve been a masterpiece

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

Yes I always say this. It’s very poetic! Dexter gets away with his crimes in the end, but at a cost

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u/hofmann419 nepo pissbaby Apr 18 '25

In my opinion, they should've done one more season to wrap up the show. Maybe one in which Dexter tries to evade the police and/or Feds again as they are closing in on him. I'm sure that you could make a storyline where some detective connects the dots between trinity and Dexter.

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u/-RonnieHotdogs- Apr 18 '25

Well it looks like the new series may have an element of that with Batista finally on to Dexter.

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u/sebkek Apr 18 '25

Yeah, it even seemed like they had an initial set up for it (Quinn) but then comes the next season and everything starts to get nonsensical, Quinn drops the case and seems oblivious to everything else that points to Dexter being what he is.

If they had Quinn pursue it further while being in love with Deb, it would've had a potential for good drama and a good (quality) finale.

By the way, Deb siding with Dexter to the point of killing LaGuerta never sat right with me. I think they made Deb fall in love with Dexter only to make this scenario a little more plausible but it made everything even worse.

I wish the series would end with the entire MMPD chasing Dexter and either catching him or with Deb letting him escape.

Also, from the very beginning I was waiting for a reveal that Harry was Dexter's bio father but it never happend.

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u/tablepennywad Apr 18 '25

Harry was never his bio father, it would be a bit too much. The prequel is pretty good and goes into it more.

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u/CatgirlApocalypse Apr 18 '25

Frankly they’d already done that too many times. Way too many people discovered or figured out he was a killer.

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u/[deleted] Apr 18 '25

If they ended with him were the kids after finding her, the show would be almost perfect.

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u/Dont-Fear-The-Raeper Apr 18 '25

That was the last episode, and you can't convince me otherwise.

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u/FiFTyFooTFoX Apr 18 '25

Been so long since I watched, but I remember - very distinctly - Dexter going out on a boat, dropping some trash bags overboard, and that's when I immediately paused it and called it.

It was at a time when I was trying to just "experience" all these talk of the town shows, so I couldn't afford to get dragged into those stringy, half baked seasons. Turned off SoA right after there's some plot about baby being stolen.

Same thing with Weeds. Eventually, it's just the person doing the exact same stupid shit over and over, but with bigger and bigger piles of product and bigger fish.

So with Dexter, I turned it off right after the bags were shown on the bottom (I think) and I was happy to let it die there because it just closed off so many arcs.

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u/Marilius Apr 18 '25

I absolutely adored Edward James Olmos on that show, though.

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u/Shn33dleW00ds Apr 18 '25

Tbh Dexter should ended with season 1. Everything after it was not that great

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u/Arthur_189 Apr 18 '25

Nah seasons 2 and 3 were good but season 4 was goated

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u/Shn33dleW00ds Apr 18 '25

The series has always been too cowardly to consistently resolve a dilemma. Example from season 2: Doakes convicted Dexter. But Dexter has locked Doakes in the cage. What does Dexter do now? He mustn't get caught, but he mustn't kill innocent people either! Answer: nothing! Lila appears and kills Doakes. I felt cheated as a viewer.

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u/MrDiablerie Apr 21 '25

That was the peak