Michael C. Hall returns as a murderer

If you have ever seen a film or a television program about a compulsive player, there is a scene that is certainly known. Despite all the chances, our worryed protagonist has defied his addiction and won enough money to repay the mob, to reopen the closed REC center or to buy the wedding ring back, which he pledged, even though it was the only thing that connected him to his dead spouse. It is a triumph that briefly conquered the inner demons of our hero until the antagonist looks at him and says: “Double or nothing?” And we as a spectator shout on the screen: “Keep in! You did something stupid, but you came to the top! Stop!” In this short moment of hope we forget that we are dealing with a addict.

This is the point that Dexter reached at the end of Dexter: New blood.

The 10-episode return of Miami's favorite troll series killer, which ran from 2021 to 2022, only existed for a good reason: the end of from DexterAlmost a decade before, stunk. Dexter: New blood Received the Creator Clyde Phillips and some of the series producers who were not involved in this conclusion in order to give the Emmy Prize winner series a more satisfactory resting facilities as wooden wood dexter.

And it worked! Not perfect, mind you. Dexter: New blood was rushed and derived, not just from the climax DexterBut from the countless imitators that were created by the climax Dexter. But if the newer series could not prove that the franchise still had plenty of creative gas in the tank, it became clear that this unwieldy vehicle gave precisely enough fuel to drive to a safer retirement. With Dexter Morgan apparently dead in the snow of the state of New York, who was killed by a son, who decided that he was not ready to take the father's bloody steps, was a series -friendly mix of sincerely and ironic, which stood up from the pilot to the newly discovered finale that feared that the fans feared.

Take into account Dexter: resurrectionPremiere on Paramount+ with showtime or whatever it is called when you read this to be Phillips' double or nothing other gambling on the franchise, which he has devoted so much of his professional life. If Dexter: New blood was a series that was driven by “need” forms and was reflected with a layer of tonal ceremony, Dexter: ResurrectioN only comes with “swings”, which are reflected with a general feeling of frivolity. The thing was broken. Phillips and the company have largely remedied it. And now?

The four consequences sent to critics make all the signs that this is a lark of a season as if they are playing with house money and not playing the difficult dignity they have previously restored. Subtitle aside, Dexter: resurrection feels like season 10 from Dexter (The Prequel series could just as well exist), almost relentlessly obsessed with recalls and Easter eggs and is in the same radiation of stupidity that the show so often plagued after its consensus in the fourth season led by John Lithgow. The entire grounding and clarity of the purpose that was worn Dexter: New blood is gone, but if the version of Dexter It was already borderline that you enjoy – and the show is and was always a dark comedy in the heart – there is entertainment that can be found here.

We start 10 weeks after Harrison (Jack Alcott) left his father to dead. Dexter (Michael C. Hall), I think the title of the season allows me to spoil it is not dead. He is not even arrested for reasons that have to be explained, if not justified.

Harrison, who was convinced that he rebuilt his life after he committed Patricide, started in an upscale hotel in Manhattan, where he did strange jobs for the Snooty customers and builds up a friendship with Single-Mod Maid (Emilia Suárez). (It is a missed opportunity not to overlap the Harrison's hospitality experience with that of Hometown Demi-heroine Dana Brody.) Very early on Harrison does something that indicates that he can actually be his father's son, even if Dexter: New blood It was dedicated to convincing us that this was not the case. Whatever.

Soon the arrival of an old friend and the familiar risk of force Dexter to go to New York City forced to Harrison. Accompanied by the unbearably moralizing spirit of his own father (James Remars Harry, whom the series probably has to learn to move), Dexter friends with a happy passenger with the immigrant (Nare Guma Mbaho Mwines blessing tells him of a serial murderer. reflected: “the dark passenger”.

Dexter is not amused.

You would think that there would be a satirical purpose in Dexter as the Red State tourist who arrives in New York City and flooded it in serial murderers, but there is really no. With regard to the characterization, the capture of Manhattan leads less to drive Dexter Morgan as a character than for Jason Voorhees. After the dramatic shifting of the pastellers and the visual warmth of Miami to washed out chills of the state of New York Dexter: resurrection Directors (Marcos Siega and Monica Raymund for the episodes I saw) did not quite end up in this urban environment.

This uprooting provides the ensemble of law enforcement figures, which Dexter must expertise. David Zayas' angel returns with his branded hats and his suspicion – he also delivers Dexter a cold Kubano -Sandwich, which is somehow the least credible thing in the season – but at least there is a slightly different energy that is able to be done by Dominic Fumusa and Kadia Saraf as a couple of NYPD detectives near Harrison and his hotel. Alcott is still good and continues to bring the franchise a different energy, but I am still not sure whether it is unmistakable enough to wear half of this story.

At this point, Hall is no longer so interesting as a Dexter. Or maybe more precisely what the scripts ask Hall, to have stopped as Dexter, to be so interesting. Practical everyone Dexter The season has variations on “Dexter builds a new relationship that examines it whether he is capable of love or not” or “Dexter makes a malignant buddy. It makes sense that Dexter grows and grows back – he is a more addicted and a player – but Hall seems to have lost new shades to play it.

Because that are the two most common Dexter Narrative tropics, every new season, has forced the authors to develop escalating versions that naturally increased and less plausible than the last. It is a process of creative desensitization. Dexter used to be enough to meet someone who killed a person. And then so that he hits someone who was a rising serial killer. And then to meet someone who was just as productive as Dexter. Now we have finally reached the season “Oops, all serial killers” DexterIn which he meets a complete convoy of murderers, he played with suitable wobbly by Neil Patrick Harris, David Datmalchian, Krysten knight and more.

I will not spoil the context for this entourage of psychopaths just to say that knights come closest to a dimensionalized performance. As two additional figures with questionable impulse control, who are interested in Dexter, Peter Dinklage and Uma Thurman, the setting chews with serenity, but like almost everyone else this season, they are closer to the characters, those played by Edward James Olmos and Charlotte Rampling on the less side of Dexters Rogue -Gallery than in the upper level of Dexter become. Dexter Opponent. There will be a question of whether the spectators are looking for nuances (absent) or craziness (plentiful). Volume over quality.

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It remains to be seen what exactly Dexter: resurrection Build itself in. Without the impending final, the Dexter: New blood Promised, it creates a running NYC You)? Or is it just another gambling from a show that couldn't give up while it was ahead?