Lumen was the best woman for Dexter

I loved her and season 5 was my favorite. I think the storyline about living with and trying to overcome trauma was really well executed and the barrel girl gang were easily the most heinous of the Dexter villains. Rita would have been destroyed if she’d found out about Dexter. Lila was too crazy even for him. Hannah was just another psychopath at a time that Dexter felt really lonely. Angela and him are likely done. Lumen had been though a life shattering traumatic event just as Dexter had, and she’d built up the same need to kill they had. Out of all his romantic (and killing) partners she understood him the best

That being I said I understand why she left and I’m glad she’s the only of one his girlfriends to get a happy ending and it rounded of season 5 nicely. I think a lot of people shit on it because it follows season 4 (which it isn’t even in my top 4; Dexter is at his worst this season but that’s another conversation lol) and Lumen has the job of following Rita as a love interest.