Normally when someone is given series regular status in the final season of a series, I would call that bittersweet. You finally get a big role in a television show, but it’s not going to last long. This is especially true in the case of those recurring actors who receive a promotion in a show’s swan song season. It kind of seems too little too late to me. Thankfully, in the case of Dexter’s Aimee Garcia, the Showtime series’ future is so up in the air that her recent promotion to regular may have a lasting effect should Dexter find itself renewed for a ninth – dare I say even a tenth – season.

The news of Garcia’s bump in status comes from Deadline and shouldn’t come as much of a shock. She’s been recurring on Dexter since Season 6 as Jamie Batista, Dexter’s nanny and...