Dexter gets the chop but could Breaking Bad live on?
One of the worst kept ‘secrets’ in television land is official. Yes, Showtime’s mega successful serial killer drama Dexter is getting the chop and will die out this year with a final 8th season. No telling just how it’ll all end – how do you send off a serial killer of serial killers? Safe bet it’ll be traditionally bloody though.
Fans may grieve the loss but with a show like Dexter, the longer it runs the harder it is to maintain believability – especially with Dex’s detective sister Debra now well and truly in the know about his ‘dark passenger’.
Hall, who also executive produces the show is ready for Dexter’s journey to end.
“There has to be an end game. Once Deb found out, it felt like we were moving toward a place where the world as Dexter knew it would end,” Hall told Entertainment Weekly recently during filming of the 8th season.
Returning for a final 12 episodes (airing in the US from June 30) is Dexter’s serial killer squeeze, Australia’s Yvonne Strahovski while new cast members include Sean Patrick Flannery (The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones) as Deb’s boss and veteran actress Charlotte Rampling (The Eye of the Storm) as a serial killer expert.
Here’s the first teaser trailer for the final season.
Meanwhile, another celebrated cable show may just live on. Well, in a spinoff kinda way. With AMC’s Breaking Bad set to bow out stateside with eight eps from August 11 in another likely bloody finale, it seems one character may survive - Saul Goodman (Bob Odenkirk) the ethically challenged lawyer to chemistry teacher cum drug kingpin Walter White (Bryan Cranston).
The character, maker of cheesy TV commercials and a source of much needed comic value could get his own show with Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan seriously considering a spinoff with a comic bent.
“Oh yeah, we've talked about it,” Odenkirk revealed to Vulture recently after wrapping up his final scene. “Vince is still really busy with the show so we haven’t talked very in-depth about it, but he clearly thinks it’s a possibility. And I've certainly told him that if there was some way to see more of Saul then I would be happy to do it. It would be fun.”
At the cast wrap party in New Mexico last month, Odenkirk reportedly joked that “a TV show is ultimately judged by its spinoff ... ”
Catch the cast clowning around on location below while shooting the final episodes which Cranston promises to be “a rollercoaster ride to hell.”
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