{"id":362205,"date":"2021-11-04T01:47:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-dexter-revival-is-pointless-and-silly\/"},"modified":"2021-11-04T01:47:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T22:47:35","slug":"the-dexter-revival-is-pointless-and-silly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-dexter-revival-is-pointless-and-silly\/","title":{"rendered":"#The &#8216;Dexter&#8217; revival is pointless and silly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The &#8216;Dexter&#8217; revival is pointless and silly<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>Eight years after Showtime\u2019s serial-killer hit \u201cDexter\u201d ended with a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/decider.com\/2020\/10\/16\/dexter-revival-new-finale\/?_ga=2.106250560.212837057.1635958994-216362629.1509754332\">notoriously terrible<\/a> finale, the show is back with a revival that\u2019s trying to smooth over its dubious legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Premiering Sunday (Nov. 7) at 9 p.m. on Showtime, \u201cDexter: New Blood\u201d is a limited <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> following Dexter (Michael C. Hall) a decade after the events of the series. He\u2019s now living in the small town of Iron Lake, NY, under the assumed name of \u201cJim Lindsay,\u201d ice-fishing from his log cabin, abstaining from murder, exchanging pleasantries about pie with the local pastor, working in a fish and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> shop \u2014 and dating cop Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), who gets called in to deal with crimes including escaped sheep.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The original series, which aired for eight seasons (2008-2013) on Showtime followed Dexter Morgan, a blood-spatter expert working for the Miami police department who moonlighted as a serial killer targeting <em>other<\/em> killers as his victims (often people who caught his attention during his day job but who slipped through the cracks of the justice system).\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Michael C. Hall stands across the desk from Jamie Chung in a store interior. \" class=\"wp-image-20019525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dexter (Michael C. Hall) is now working in a fish and game shop. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seacia Pavao\/SHOWTIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The show was a hit (drawing <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2013\/tv\/ratings\/showtimes-dexter-goes-out-with-series-high-ratings-1200662066\/\">6 million weekly viewers<\/a>, high for premium cable) because it mixed the reliable beats of a procedural with the production quality, bloody thrills and moral ambiguity of prestige drama \u2014 and included memorable turns from guest stars such as John Lithgow, who won an Emmy and a Golden Globe as one of Dexter\u2019s adversaries. The show\u2019s fatal flaw was that it could never choose whether it wanted to have Dexter face consequences or get away scot-free, and this indecisive storytelling manifested in a nonsensical finale in which Dexter threw his sister\u2019s dead body into the ocean, abandoned his toddler son and became a lumberjack \u2014 a turn that came out of the blue and was insulting to viewers\u2019 intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDexter: New Blood\u201d does give viewers some credit; when the plot kicks in to interrupt Dexter\u2019s quiet life, it passes that low bar of \u201cmaking sense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Dexter (Michael C. Hall) with his cop girlfriend Angela (Julia Jones) and Julia's daughter, Audrey (Johnny Sequoyah), right standing in a road talking while Audrey holds a sign. \" class=\"wp-image-20019562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-5.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Dexter (Michael C. Hall) with his cop girlfriend Angela (Julia Jones) and Julia\u2019s daughter, Audrey (Johnny Sequoyah), right. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seacia Pavao\/SHOWTIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His son Harrison (Jack Alcott), now a sullen teenager, has tracked him down. To make matters more complicated, Dexter falls off the wagon of his murder-free life and kills Matt Caldwell (Steve Robertson), a jerk customer in his shop who\u2019s the son of Kurt Caldwell (Clancy Brown), a big fish in Iron Lake, prompting a manhunt for his missing son. Women from a nearby Seneca Nation reservation are also vanishing, suggesting that there\u2019s another serial killer afoot. In the original series, Dexter hallucinated his dead father, Harry (James Remar), to serve as his con<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>; here, that role is occupied by his dead sister, Deb (Jennifer Carpenter).<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot going on, and Harrison even gets his own storyline in high school, which serves as the required \u201cDexter\u201d subplot that has little to do with the rest of the story. (In past seasons, this honor was often carried by Dexter\u2019s Miami P.D. colleagues.)<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that \u201cDexter: New Blood\u201d isn\u2019t as bad as \u201cDexter\u201d was at its worst, it also doesn\u2019t <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach the heights of the original \u2014 this ten-episode series isn\u2019t awful, but it\u2019s also pointless.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Jennifer Carpenter stands in the woods behind a tree, bending over and yelling. \" class=\"wp-image-20019601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/dexter-new-blood-3.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Deb (Jennifer Carpenter), who\u2019s dead, serves as a ghostly voice of reason hallucination for Dexter. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Seacia Pavao\/SHOWTIME<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This brings us to the big issue: who is \u201cNew Blood\u201d intended for? Audiences who stuck it out through eight seasons of \u201cDexter\u201d weren\u2019t clamoring for its return \u2014 and this revival won\u2019t make much sense to new viewers who skipped the original.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, \u201cDexter: New Blood\u201d feels like a vanity project so that the creative team can redeem themselves after the original\u2019s lumberjack ending \u2014 and hope that \u201cDexter\u201d won\u2019t sit alongside \u201cGame of Thrones\u201d and \u201cLost\u201d in the pantheon of notoriously bad TV finales.<\/p>\n<p>Nice try. This has all the energy of a toddler covering its eyes and assuming the outside world can\u2019t see them.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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