Someone really blocked me on TikTok cause I told them new blood Harrison was obnoxious.
Look, the character of Harrison was never meant to be more than a symbol. In the original show, Dexter finds out Rita is pregnant. Harrison is born, Rita is killed. Dexter sees himself in Harrison and tries to save him. He tries to be a good father. He fails.
Harrison returning in new blood MAKES ZERO SENSE. But that’s not my problem with him, it’s just how obnoxious and badly written he is. It’s evident the writers knew they screwed up killing Deb, since she represented Dexter’s human side. She was his moral compass and the other half of him. They were both raised and broken by Harry, they were trauma bonded and the results of opposite sides of abuse. Dexter was groomed into being a serial killer. Deb was chronically neglected and thought she was broken because she could seemingly never make her father proud. Their names reference deMorgan’s laws. They marked each other’s beginnings and each other’s ends. What happens to them is always reciprocal. The only logical end was for them to die together as a result of their own attempts at saving each other, but what do we get instead? Lumberjack ending.
And when I say the writers knew they messed up, it’s because evidently they tried to make Harrison into the new deb. The whole “we can only understand each other” feels so forced. Never mind the fact that Harrison was raised by the worst written character in the whole series, and who ultimately season 8 insufferably awful, Hannah McKay.
THIS WILL NEVER WORK. Harrison can never replace the bond those two broken halves had. I don’t care about resurrection season 2, season 3, or season 10. Dexter without Debra cannot logically exist.
