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I would say New Blood was better than season 8 and probably 6. There are things about New Blood I liked, but the whole time I was watching it I just kept thinking “okay, now it’s about to get really good” and it just never really all came together for me.
Nov 2, 2021 · Billed as a 10-episode "limited series" — which reunites star Michael C. Hall with Dexter's original showrunner, Clyde Phillips — New Blood is not Trinity good, nor is it lumberjack bad. Based...
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Nov 8, 2021 · Reviving Dexter was never going to be an easy task, but Dexter: New Blood is a welcome return for the self-righteous, contemplative killer. The season eight finale saw Dexter Morgan (Michael C ...
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By Matt Fowler
Updated: Jan 14, 2022 5:35 pm
Posted: Jan 14, 2022 5:27 pm
Warning: The following contains full spoilers for all of Dexter: New Blood, which is now streaming on Showtime. For more, check out reviews of each episode below:
Dexter: New Blood Premiere Review
Dexter: New Blood Episode 2 Review - "Storm of F***"
The use of Jennifer Carpenter's Deb now as Dexter's new ghost, his revived conscience if you will, was mostly effective. Yes, there were times she just acted the same way Ghost Harry did and was a source of constant warning/nagging, but other times she was used to make a huge impact. Like the way she existed in the first episode, just lovingly by Dexter's side most of the time (which was repeated during his death), or how she helped Dexter work his own son's high school crime scene in Episode 4, "H is for Hero."
Plus, there was the terrific beat in Episode 9, "The Family Business," where Deb said "please don't" right before Dexter told Harrison about the murders. For the most part, Ghost Deb was well executed. It was better than, say, John Lithgow's return as Trinity for the quick Season 4 bathtub flashback, which, when you think about it, was all done for misdirection purposes. It was meant to hammer home that Harrison had a similarly styled Dark Passenger, when in fact he didn't (and it wound up being a crucial tipping point in the finale).
Yes, there's more story to tell
No, let it end here
Maybe, it depends on what the angle is
Setting Dexter up in a completely new environment, with a whole new supporting cast (plus some well done moments with David Zayas' Batista), was a great choice, though only a few members of the ensemble got to squeak through as actual characters while the rest just played the quirky backdrop game. The original Dexter series had grown stale from a cast standpoint and eventually the various stories of the people surrounding Dexter grew to become one of the most tiring, and weakly executed, aspects of the show, so giving everything a fresh coat of paint was awesome. Bringing back Harrison, though, ten years later, now a troubled teen looking for answers, was the certified linchpin for New Blood's success.
Yes, there were a couple of things introduced near the beginning that never paid off (billionaire Edward Olsen, that bear by the cave, Harrison's mystery gap years, etc.) but the strengths of New Blood were bold and present enough to push those into the realm of minor consideration. On top of this, despite this being a tighter and more focused season than usual for Dexter, with fewer episodes, there were a couple of mid-level straggler episodes where we had to sit with Dexter and his inner monologue for too long while he made assumptions and choices we knew to be mistakes. That's kind of a hallmark for the series as a whole, for sure, but this was the type of nostalgic callback we didn't need. It was enough that the entire season of New Blood was Dexter making one grand mistake in thinking that Harrison could, and should, be molded into a serial killer the way he was. That's all we needed.
Angela was the hero we needed to take down the Bay Harbor Butcher.
Showtime hasn't announced whether there will be a second season of New Blood, or any other continuation of the Dexterverse. But showrunner Clyde Phillips isn't counting it out. "This show is a huge asset," Phillips told Deadline in an interview after the finale. "When people start bingeing this after the finale, I’m confident the numbers will continue to go up. It’s up to Showtime to make the call to me if they want more. If they ask me if I’d like to make a continuation of this, I would say yes. I have a lot of things going on but I would drop everything for this and say yes in one second."
Likewise, Jack Alcott had some terrific moments as Harrison once it was established in "H is for Hero" that the boy had dark, violent (and manipulative) tendencies. New Blood played things close to the edge with Harrison as an occasionally annoying teen complaining about a situation (living with his estranged dad) that he put himself in, but ultimately Harrison's search for direction, meaning, and connection moved this series toward its devastating conclusion where Harrison got to stand as the one person who could point out the biggest flaw in Dexter's (and Harry's) ideology: that you don't kill innocent people even if you're cornered/caught. Dexter killing Deputy Logan was us getting the answer to a huge question that lingered from way back in Season 2 and it cast a massive, necessary shadow on our beloved anti-hero.
Dexter: New Blood wasn't without flaws, but the core story between Dexter and Harrison, including the enormously improved series ending, was enough to craft a wickedly welcome return (and new final chapter) for the series. The time away, complete change of scenery, and new characters helped set the stage for a fitting and formidable finish for the ...
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Dexter: New Blood was sinister, sad, and satisfying as the new ending for the saga of Dexter Morgan.
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Nov 9, 2021 · Dexter: New Blood tries to reboot the once-popular Showtime series by bringing back Michael C. Hall in a new setting of New York but mostly reminds viewers of old shortcomings.
Synopsis. Set 10 years after Dexter went missing in the eye of Hurricane Laura, the series finds him living under an assumed name in the small town of Iron Lake, New York. Dexter may be embracing...
Dexter: New Blood: Created by Clyde Phillips. With Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Julia Jones, Johnny Sequoyah. Ten years after faking his death in Miami and moving to Upstate New York under an assumed name, Dexter gets an unexpected visit from the son he abandoned.
