Madcap monroe12/16/2023 It helps that Carpenter is back as basically a new, imaginary version of Debra that delights in twisting the figurative (and sometimes literal) knife in Dexter’s gut she and Hall bounce off each other well.īut the supporting cast doesn’t really make much of an impression, save for Clancy Brown as the failson’s wealthy father with his own secrets. ![]() Otherwise, the show around him doesn’t match up to his dry comic sensibilities, which leaves him with few avenues to let that twinkle out of his eye. The problem is that Phillips and crew don’t give him as much to do, even in such a lead-fronted show the show at its height recognized that Dex worked best when he relished his serial killing proclivities, which only come in fits and spurts of crimson here. ![]() Stacked the Dex: It’s really mostly Dexter that works here, Hall slipping back into the deadpan charm of his most iconic character without skipping a beat. Dexter has so much more to lose, and such fewer avenues to hide in, which makes his dilemma a bit more riveting than the relative anonymity of a bustling Florida city. It doesn’t help that the Iron Lake Sherriff’s Department seems a bit brainier than the space cadets at the Miami Metro PD, right down to their new CSI immediately guessing the general order of events. By the end of the first episode, he’s fallen off the murder wagon, so to speak, but now there’s a much smaller pool of suspects on which to pin the blame - a problem even for someone of Dexter’s forensic genius. One of the more interesting wrinkles to the show’s conceit is how its small-town setting complicates Dexter’s usual M.O. But in switching the Miami heat for New England chill, it’s left the show feeling somewhat frozen as well. Based on the four episodes provided to critics, New Blood has some of the DNA of Phillips’ original run in its best moments, it’s sly and cheeky, and approaches the surrealistic verve of the show’s early seasons. Hall more time in the role, right down to bringing back Clyde Phillips, the show’s original showrunner. New Blood feels like an attempt to correct that sin, not to mention a convenient way for Showtime to revive a beloved IP and give Michael C. The original series, based on the books by Jeff Lindsey (Dex’s new nom de plume is a clear nod to him), started out as a riveting, darkly funny take on the vigilante antihero before descending into madness, chaos, and a notoriously sloppy finale by the time it reached its eighth season. Now he’s back with a chip on his shoulder, and more in common with Daddy than he might care to admit.īack in Crimson: To a certain extent, Dexter: New Blood recognizes how redundant it is. That’s not all: his bloodlust coincides with the arrival of a new serial killer that’s set up shop in town, not to mention the untimely arrival of Harrison (Jack Alcott), Dexter’s now-teenage son, whom he abandoned in the finale to keep him away from his murderous life. (Instead of his adoptive father Harry, it’s taken the shape of now-deceased sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter), the devil in his ear who acts as his grim anti-conscience.)īut naturally, Dexter: New Blood isn’t about to saddle us with eight episodes of ol’ Dex going ice fishing and generally being a nice guy before long, he’s set his sights on a juicy morsel of a new target, a rich failson who totally get people killed on a boat a few years ago. He’s even dating the town sheriff, Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), and has successfully tamped down the so-called Dark Passenger that drives him to kill. He’s set himself up as Jim Lindsey, the unassuming town sweetheart, who mans the local hunting shop and brings cinnamon rolls to his customers. ![]() Last we saw him, he was a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest now he’s packed up and moved to the sleepy, snowy upstate New York village of Iron Lake. The Pitch: Over a decade after the original series’… let’s say controversial finale, Dexter Morgan ( Michael C. The post Dexter: New Blood Can’t Quite Bring Its Madcap Antihero Back to Life: Review appeared first on Consequence.
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