Dexter New Blood: Episode 1 Review Retains The Essence Of The Series With An Intriguing

Director: Marcos Siega

Cast: Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones, Johnny Sequoyah, Alano Miller, Jennifer Carpenter, Clancy Brown

Streaming Platform: Voot

Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

The dark passenger has returned. Eight years after saying goodbye to Dexter Morgan, the psychopath created by Jeff Lindsay returns to television with ‘Dexter: New Blood‘. A miniseries / season 9 that promised to compensate for the bad taste in our mouths that the end of the original series left us. Will he succeed? Not because the series is better or worse done — we’ll get to that — but because of that baggage that all fictions that return with a late sequel carry. A backpack full of expectations and sketches to try to show that this return was worth it and convince both the staunch fan and the most disenchanted. And, if by the way they attract new viewers, welcome.

This intention to please everyone makes the rationale behind ‘Dexter: New Blood’ unclear and that is often carried over to the script. For example, those false moments of tension that the series has always played with – Dexter sneaking up on someone with a machete and it is revealed to us that it is to help cut something better – remain more like a parody of themselves than as a wink. Because I hope they use them as a wink.

Dexter New Blood Episode 1 Review: Story

As a screenwriter, Clyde Phillips efficiently unfolds the story: Michael C. Hall’s character lives in a small forest town, calls himself Jim Lindsay, and has a police girlfriend. He has not killed for ten years and in fact, the absence of the characteristic voice-over affirms that idea of ​​new life. Which is not to say that he does not have ghosts from the past, that in fact he will continue to see his sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) as his current Jiminy Cricket.

The eight seasons of ‘Dexter’ have been built around the actor’s moral dilemmas. Not only the fact of leading a normal life, being happy with a wife and children, trying to hide their dark secret from them, but also neatly complying with Harry’s code and, in case his desire to kill is irremediable, making sure that the victim is someone. scum that has been rid of the system. So we come across these new episodes with a question of when and how we will see Dexter’s murderous face again. In my opinion, that moment is perhaps too early and too impulsive for what we could assume of the character we have accompanied for so long.

We cannot deny that everything indicates that ‘Dexter: New Blood’ is going to be completely faithful to its essence. Already in this opening hour it is seen that we are going to have those classic ingredients of the formula: there is a clue of a possible murderer under the radar (the disappearances that we see in the police station), the investigation carried out by your own friends (in this case girlfriend) those touches of humor and other garnishes there and here.

The Review and Analysis

Everything is there but it lacks some elegance. Even the substitution of a sequence of credits as iconic as that of the series by a poster that seems improvised, indicates a certain carelessness in the details. And it’s those details that make the difference. What we can say is that the return of Phillips, the author of which we can argue are the best seasons of the series, shows that this new universe is very well introduced and developed. We immediately have a clear idea of ​​where we are moving and what Dexter’s life has been like in these little more than two years that he has been in Iron Lake.

Yes, there are questions in the pipeline about how his life has been before getting there, but those go to a completely secondary plane when the priority is to build this new world.

The Last Words

In short ‘Dexter: New Blood‘ takes up with a little less solidity than we would have liked the adventures of the psychopath. The once great Showtime series (definitely one that put the cable network on the map) returns providing a healthy dose of intrigue and asking for some patience. We’ll see if it’s worth it the first episode is phenomenal and we are totally impressed with that.