Dexter: New Blood

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Season 1
  • Network: SHOWTIME
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 7, 2021
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 52 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 35 out of 52
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 52
  3. Negative: 8 out of 52

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  1. JackFlynn
    Nov 8, 2021
    5
    DIversity Dexter for all you shiny critical theorists. I'll bet the writers rooms are super duper fun & just really swell.
  2. UncleWillard
    Nov 7, 2021
    6
    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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#49 Most Discussed TV Season of 2021

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 29 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 29
  2. Mixed: 14 out of 29
  3. Negative: 0 out of 29
  1. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Eammon Jacobs
    Dec 3, 2021
    80
    The Six Feet Under and Safe star slips perfectly back into the role. ... Overall, it’s brilliant to see Dexter back on our screens again and New Blood holds plenty of promise for what’s ahead.
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  2. Polygon
    Reviewed by: Joshua Rivera
    Nov 10, 2021
    51
    In repeating many of the familiar beats from the previous series, Dexter: New Blood demonstrates the same inertia Dexter and Dexter Morgan suffers from. Nothing has changed here. Some monsters are not that complicated. Maybe it’s foolish that we ever thought they were at all.
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  3. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Stuart Heritage
    Nov 8, 2021
    80
    New Blood has plenty of direction. It promises to tell a self-contained story, stripped of the flabby camp that came to define it, and to tell it well. This is a leaner, hungrier Dexter than we are used to, and it’s a little bit thrilling to have him back. Maybe I’m a glutton for punishment, but I’m all in.
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