'While DexterNewBlood helps replace the bad taste of the original series finale, outside of some exterior components, it doesn’t do much to redefine much about 'Dexter.''
In the pantheon of shows known for having the “worst series finale” of all time, Showtime’s “Dexter” is right at the top. Since the episode titled “Remember the Monsters?” originally aired eight years ago, anti-hero serial killer Dexter Morgan faking his own death and pivoting to becoming a lumberjack has been a shorthand for what a show shouldn’t do when it finally ends, even if it’s ending on top or on its own terms.
When “Dexter: New Blood” begins, a decade has passed and the titular anti-hero has shed his identity, going by the name James “Jim” Lindsay and working out an outdoor supply store in the fictional small town of Iron Lake, N.Y. Jim/Dexter abstains from killing, whether it’s humans or even animals — Iron Lake is a big hunting town — and he is beloved by his fellow townspeople.
His son Harrison , abandoned by Dexter with his then girlfriend in the finale, returns to his father’s world, and as the revival progresses, Dexter struggles with the possibility that Harrison is nothing like him — a well-adjusted teenager who doesn’t have the same “dark tendencies” that he’s had, as well as the possibility that perhaps Harrison does. In the original series, child Harrison didn’t have a personality to latch onto, so the series has a blank canvas on which to work.
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