After Sunday night's polarizing series finale of Dexter, many fans and critics were left disappointed and angry by the ending.

The series finale aired at 9 p.m. Sunday night and numerous long-time viewers of the show were upset by the relatively anti-climactic ending. At the end of the finale, Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) is seen with a beard and working at a logging company in a town far away from Miami. The serial killer gives a vacant expression to the camera, suggesting complete numbness before the series cuts to black and officially ends.

Fans of the series tweeted that they were "disappointed" by the finale, while others called it outright "terrible." Critics did not take kindly to the finale either. The Huffington Post wrote that Dexter fans deserved better than that finale and called it the lamest series finale since Seinfeld.

Vulture wrote that the exile ending felt too safe and said that the finale was close to being one of the worst in television history. They added that the finale actually raises more questions than provide answers, such as, what happens to Dexter, Hannah (Yvonne Stahovski) and Harrison (Jadon Wells) in the future?

Series producers Scott Buck and Sarah Colleton talked to Entertainment Weekly in a Monday interview about the finale and why they chose to end it the way they did.

"It seemed like the ending that was most justified," Buck explained. "In season 1, you saw this guy who was so compartmentalized. The last couple seasons have been about breaking down those walls by having his son and his relationship with Hannah and having Deb [(Jennifer Carpenter)] discover who he is."

Buck added that it took having Deb die in the finale for Dexter to take a step back and look at his behavior and his life.

"[His fate] wasn't something that happened to him but his decision. He had to bear the burden of deciding his own fate," Buck said.

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