![]() ![]() That all changes when two wayward sons arrive in Iron Lake. But Deb is proud of the person Dexter has become. His inner conscience, once represented by his adopted father Harry, now assumes the identity of his deceased sister, Deb. Jim is dating the town’s chief of police, Angela (Julia Jones), and hasn’t given in to his Dark Passenger in over ten years. ![]() Dexter: New Blood does not erase the disastrous final season, but finds Dexter Morgan away from the Pacific Northwest and now living life as Jim Lindsay, a clerk at a hunting goods store settled in the fictional small town of Iron Lake, New York. When it was announced that the show would be returning, my first question was “Why?”Īfter watching the premiere, “Cold Snap,” that question hasn’t really been answered for me. Dexter proved to have an interesting premise that was simply unsustainable. The show could not lose its procedural formula and suffered for it. Whenever another character stepped in to save Dexter from making a difficult decision, and this happened a lot, stakes evaporated. Dexter got close to facing consequences, but the writers recoiled every time. As the character was pushed more into traditional leading man waters, the worse things got. Occasionally Dexter would introduce an interesting thread or end an episode on a cliffhanger that felt like it had potential to develop into something juicy, only for the subsequent episode to immediately return to a weird, Dexter-worshipping status quo. #DEXTER S01E01 DOWNLOAD FREE SERIES#What proceeded was a series that completely went off the rails and progressively got worse until its frustrating, perplexing, awful finale. I was eager to see if the show had the ability to recapture its former heights. Season 5 felt a bit like a letdown but didn’t necessarily spell doom for the series. Like everyone else, I thought that season 4 was a gripping watch, and the finale had my mouth agape and mind racing, wondering where Showtime would take this unconventional drama next. This sounds completely ancient, but I had binged the first five seasons using DVDs I ordered from my local library. Dexter was the first show that I was assigned to review. ![]() I started writing for Den of Geek as a college student in 2012. While first-person writing is often avoided in my reviews, I can’t resist it when talking about Dexter. This Dexter: New Blood review contains spoilers. ![]()
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