What I thought they did pretty well was ratcheting up the tension and keeping the pressure on as things started getting stickier and more complicated for Dex. There's a bit of a fumble at the end but they did pretty good running the ball to the goalposts. I for sure wanted to keep watching to see how ol' Dexter gets out of each newest pickle.
This is where it went off the rails for me:
When Dexter killed Logan to escape the jail in the last episode. That kinda took me out of it and was the only time I thought "oh, c'mon!". That just seems too unlike Dexter and it goes against his code, regardless of how they rationalized it. Dexter would have found another way, or could have even just choked him out instead of killing him. He's been in bad spots like that before.