Dexter: New Blood: Season 1

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Dexter: New Blood

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SHOWTIME | Season Premiere Date: November 7, 2021

Summary: Dexter has been living in upstate New York for 10 years as Jim Lindsay when events threaten to bring back his Dark Passenger.

Genre(s): Drama, Suspense

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Glenn Garvin

Nov 7, 2021

What makes New Blood worth watching is the return of a couple of grisly old friends. Hall and Carpenter may be playing their characters the same old way, but that's as memorable as ever. Read full review

Candice Frederick

Nov 2, 2021

It's thrilling to watch a series find its footing once again, one that is as chilling as ever, and come into present day grappling with today's complex ideologies of redemption and a potential myth of goodwill. It is as dark as it is thoughtful. Read full review

Lorraine Ali

Nov 8, 2021

This miniseries revives old themes but drops in enough new conflicts — internal and otherwise — to pull the narrative forward into fresh terrain. Read full review

Rob Owen

Nov 4, 2021

Whether “Dexter: New Blood” offers a decent ending that the original run lacked remains to be seen, but for “Dexter” fans there will be comfort in the familiarity of this new iteration. Read full review

Daniel Fienberg

Nov 3, 2021

Based on four episodes, it can be said that Dexter: New Blood is neither as bad as seasons six through eight nor as good as seasons one through four. It’s a story about a man trying to move on and find a place in a new world, frustratingly told within a show that seems determined to pretend that nothing in the television landscape has changed at all. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 5, 2021

We’re introduced to a few intriguing subplots, including the arrival of a true-crime podcasting star named Molly (Jamie Chung) and the mysterious machinations of Matt’s father, who is played by ever-reliable character actor Clancy Brown. Mostly, though, “Dexter: New Blood” could use a transfusion of excitement and edge. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Nov 2, 2021

Neither he [Dexter] nor New Blood come to feel sharp enough to justify his return as anything but a nostalgia play for a property whose finale likely preempted a lot of nostalgia. Read full review

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infin

Jan 16, 2022

This season of Dexter is as good as the best moments of the previous show. Michael C. Hall is on point, still as terrifying and likeable as ever. I hope the show returns for the long run.

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jdinalt

Nov 29, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is Dexter's redemption, just finished the 4th ep and holy ***** what a twisty turn this series is, I don't understand the negative reviews, stuff needs to happen for the main story line to progress. Also they are just complaining about 1 person in a wheelchair and straight up racism/homophobia.

Anyway, if you ignored the last season (which was terrible) like me, this seems to be a fresh start for dexter, I hope it gets to continue. Again, it's not about the story in one episode but the arc of the series, which so far has been awesome… Expand

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Barlosthecrit

Nov 25, 2021

Most of the bad reviews here are just people complaining about the showing having minorities. At least to hide your racism/homophobia next time.

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kruegerb

Dec 7, 2021

I was surprised to see Dexter return to TV. I think the show is pretty good but it's hard to live up to the original.

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UncleWillard

Nov 7, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. That's a lot for the season opener. Poor Jim, we hardly got to knew ye. Just enough to get in all the diversity hires. Indigenous police "chief"/lover, check. Wheelchair-bound dispatcher/receptionist who line dances with artificial legs whose probably plucky, check. Gay boss, check, married to probably Episcopalian minister, check. Harrison shows up to connect Jim to Dexter, but even with all that set up, we didn't really get a lot of Jim before Dexter came back. Too much happened in the first episode, and that makes me nervous.… Expand

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JackFlynn

Nov 8, 2021

DIversity Dexter for all you shiny critical theorists. I'll bet the writers rooms are super duper fun & just really swell.

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sub2seanranklin

Dec 5, 2021

oh please what a lame excuse for dexter 3 episodes in and is boring as s**t. episode 2 is one of the only tv episodes that has 0 redeeming qualities to it. The first episode was only exciting cause it was a brand new start. just finished episode 3 and it was boring as s**t, harrison doesntoh please what a lame excuse for dexter 3 episodes in and is boring as s**t. episode 2 is one of the only tv episodes that has 0 redeeming qualities to it. The first episode was only exciting cause it was a brand new start. just finished episode 3 and it was boring as s**t, harrison doesnt belong in the show he makes it boring with his sh***y side story line with the garbage cliche highschool drama. come on, dexter killed a person almost every episode please dont bother. also i made an account just to make this review. yup im done with dexter now. after finishing the episode it was just pretty predictable what was going to happen with harrison and i thought it was pretty clear in the first episode that kurt was the other killer, i mean did the writer expect us not to predict that? and another thing wrong with new blood is that harrison found dexter, i mean dexter hasn't used the name "dexter morgan" in 10 years so there are no records of how dexter got to iron lake any where and plus hannah didn't know he was going to iron lake so she couldnt have told harrison to go there. Theres literally no way how harrison could've found dexter and they still haven't explained how dexter survived the hurricane. episode 5 has definitely been the better episode by far but thats not saying much, dexter has made way to many mistakes which is out of character for him and it still focuses on harrison to much, its called dexter not harrison. dexter shouldn't be dating the cop or know anyone from iron lake it was really stupid of him to do that and they still haven't explained how dexter survived the hurricane and how harrison found him cause again it would literally be impossible for harrison to find him, i hate harrison's actor so much. also explain this kurt crap already, the only reason why people like this is cause they're blind sided by nostalgia and can't realize how bad this new season really is and how many flaws there are.… Expand

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  Air Date: November 7, 2021
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