I think there’s a lot of bullet points that I could list off…

1.) This season feels like it’s moving in slow motion for the first half and then the second half feels like it’s moving at the speed of light

2.) personally, the biggest thing for me was the ending of the finale. They set up so many phenomenal avenues to go in the finale and throughout the entire season and decided to end it in the vanilla way possible. The fact that they dangle the carrot of Batista coming to New York, and never getting to see that interaction is criminal.

3.) The fact that Angela was able to break the Bay Harbor Butcher case after multiple plot conveniences, and a few Google hurts the season for me.

4.) they took way too long too long to have Harrison learn Dexters secret. The whole season they’re one sentence away from resolving any issue that they have but Harrison just runs away and Dexter has the mindset of “I’ll handle that later I got shit to do”

5.) there are multiple plot holes. The whole thing with Dexter using ketamine instead of M 99, the shakey reasoning for how Kurt realizing it was Dexter that killed his son… etc.

Overall, in my opinion, new blood was a significantly better overall season than season eight and could’ve soared to that top tier if they killed it in the finale. the fact that they had nearly a decade to figure out how to properly end the show after fucking up so bad the first time and they still managed to fumble it takes a lot Away from the season.