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lipinoFeb 10, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It was a mixed bag until the finale, which turned out to be Game Of Thrones season 8 level bad. Some good, some bad, and then pure turn-off-the-TV trash. Basically, Dexter had to act out of character in order to be caught. Very similar to Game of Thrones, where characters had to behave unlike themselves in order to suit the ending. If you have to change the characters to suit your ending, maybe your ending needs changing.

Dexter was sloppy throughout the season, going after criminals that he knew were being targeted by cops, at the places the cops would surely show up. Yes he had been latent for many years, but being rusty doesn't mean you become stupid.

The Harrison relationship was frustrating and went nowhere, then rapidly went somewhere, and then nowhere again. Briefly I thought it may actually be very interesting, if Harrison was actually hunting Dexter, suspecting him of being the Bay Harbor Butcher and killing his mom. But no, they didn't delve into anything that interesting.

In order to suit the ending, Dexter had to become completely bonkers at the end, needlessly killing a cop to needlessly escape from prison from a charge that never would have stuck. And somehow we are to believe that his son killing him will somehow be healing, that he'll live happily ever after. That it won't completely destroy him and make him worse than Dexter. I had to fast forward to the credits from there, it was just too dumb to watch at that point.… Expand

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Hassan-TanakaJan 16, 2022

Good, sometimes very good, acting, decent visual effects, interesting music and some politically correct trash. One could say 8/10, until the last episode. It was terrible. Much worse than so much hated finale of the original series. To avoidGood, sometimes very good, acting, decent visual effects, interesting music and some politically correct trash. One could say 8/10, until the last episode. It was terrible. Much worse than so much hated finale of the original series. To avoid spoilers let's just say that the characters, especially the main one, defy logic and well established patterns of behaviour.

When you flavour a cake with some c*ap, the whole cake becomes c*rap.… Expand

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AggroKmTFeb 21, 2022

The Original Series was great Not only great it was awesome. But they killed the last season with a Bad ending. Oh dear i was Very nervous about the New Show. And at first there was the "Dexter" spirit. I still cant belive they did an evenThe Original Series was great Not only great it was awesome. But they killed the last season with a Bad ending. Oh dear i was Very nervous about the New Show. And at first there was the "Dexter" spirit. I still cant belive they did an even worse ending than the Original Show.

Im Very sad about that season 1-5 were. excellent and the Soundtrack were allways on Point … Expand

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AngryShark92Jan 9, 2022

I really wanted to be proven wrong, but when I noticed the political feats of the first episode, I was worried about this series’ trajectory. I thought politics would get in the way of competent writing as it so often does these days, and itI really wanted to be proven wrong, but when I noticed the political feats of the first episode, I was worried about this series’ trajectory. I thought politics would get in the way of competent writing as it so often does these days, and it seems as though it was indirectly linked to its downfall.

After seeing the diversity checklist in the first episode (gay couple, amputee, indigenous female chief, competent black officer, moronic white male officer, climate change, anti-billionaire/capitalism), I figured it was just the virtue signalling that every terrible writer nowadays likes to throw in for pandering, and that it would all be overcome by a decent series. I truly hoped that it would not get worse, but I cannot help but think that it is the reason why the writing went the way it did.

The characters are awful, and the actors are all pretty disappointing. Angela, has almost no flaws outside of being a mediocre adoptive mother, Audrey and Harrison are stereotypical angsty teens with limited emotional range, Logan, again is flawless, Mr. Krabs (Kurt Caldwell) is very dull and wooden, and Molly Park is just incredibly annoying and sums up every leftist influencer stereotype you can think of. None of these characters are particularly interesting, which is why it is sad to see them get more screen time than Dexter does.

The subplot for Audrey and Harrison (melodramatic school issues) is entirely useless, it does not do anything for the actual plot, so why is it even included? Angela’s history again, is entirely irrelevant, it connects for one episode and doesn’t really mean much because you can predict what happens ahead of time. As for Kurt, not too interesting as an antagonist I must say, he’s no Ice Truck Killer, or Trinity, he’s just a generic bad guy to oppose Dexter. None of these subplots add anything to the show and they are the reason for the boredom of filler in the middle episodes.

In the original series, almost every episode (if not advancing the main plot) was either a different potential target for Dexter which usually had a good backstory, or was about the personal/professional lives of the surrounding characters that linked back to the main plot. In New Blood, none of the side stories have anything to do with the plot or have any meaningful exposition to enrich the characters, it just felt like filler. Now, the reason I mention that politics would potentially ruin the show is because of how the story would have to be manipulated to cast certain characters in a better light. Starting off, every evil or incompetent character in this show is a white male, not surprising for this day and age, but it makes things more predictable. Angela, who they remind you is of indigenous descent and a single-mother, is absolutely impeccable, she was able to piece together so many vague clues with zero context to put together the whole picture of Dexter’s past, partly because he has suddenly become incompetent in his “trade” he has applied for decades, and made several mistakes, which is way off character, and I honestly think partly because she is a token female minority character in a day and age where they are the best at everything. You can hate my politics all you want, but it just seems really convenient that all of this evidence, including Molly’s monologues on the BHB, seem to get pieced together so easily. Especially when Dexter is so good at covering his tracks and having the foresight to prevent these types of issues, and so Dexter had to be toned down. The problem with that is you have to literally emasculate and dumb-down the beloved title character to make all of this seem possible and plausible. The Dexter in this show, is not the same Dexter from the original series. This version is boring, weak, and watered down. The version everybody wanted to see was the cold, calculated, dark-humored, intellectual sociopath of old. It made sense that he was “dull” in the first episode, but this a guy who has fooled family, friends, colleagues, and specialized investigators for well over 2 decades, and has fooled this current group for over 2 years. It’s just a shame what they did to him, and how this whole plot played out.

+ Wanted to put Michael C Hall here, but even he doesn’t look like he is enjoying this

- Terrible writing
- Terrible acting
- Terrible casting
- Terrible ending
- Boring antagonist
- Annoying characters
- Horrendously slow pacing
- Ruined Dexter as a character
- Incredibly predictable
- Too many inconsistencies
- Harrison’s entire arc is truly irrelevant

My score is a zero, they ruined Dexter, end of story.… Expand

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moonstruck4uDec 5, 2021

Lacking everything that made me love Dexter. Suspense? Nope. Character ambiguity? Nope. Teenage angst? Yes, but nothing new here. Debra? Loved your character in the past but now you too have caught the boring infection. Voice over? Yes, butLacking everything that made me love Dexter. Suspense? Nope. Character ambiguity? Nope. Teenage angst? Yes, but nothing new here. Debra? Loved your character in the past but now you too have caught the boring infection. Voice over? Yes, but just not with the endearing irony of the past. M. C. Hall, still love you but damn, you need more meat. And more humor.… Expand

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oculusdexterJan 10, 2022

WORST. ENDING. EVER. The season was really good until the last episode which completely destroyed everything. The last episode is complete and utter spit in the face. To avoid spoilers, let's just say that some of the main charactersWORST. ENDING. EVER. The season was really good until the last episode which completely destroyed everything. The last episode is complete and utter spit in the face. To avoid spoilers, let's just say that some of the main characters completely lost any ability to think and act logically, and showed an absolutely extreme level of hypocrisy and double standards. And it resulted in an ending that doesn't make any sense from either logical or moral points of view. Don't watch this. And btw, poor Ethan.… Expand

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MetaALEX21Nov 23, 2021

Absolutely impossible to watch, sheer disappointment, each episode is worse than the previous one.

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vkrepkiyJan 15, 2022

Fсkd up the ending within 15 minutes. Who wrote this unlogical bllsht?! Everything was great until that. Fсk u.

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michajsenJan 20, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Know Your Enemy.

Harrison, slowly lowering rifle, says, "I've thought of you my whole life, grieved for you, searched for you, & since I've found you, I feel I could love you Dad, but I don't want to be you. Go."

That's how it should have been written. That's true love. Forgiveness & compassion.

They utterly missed what could have been THE Dexter moment.

Instead, they write that trite holier than thou sludge & hand us yet another absolute trash ending.

It's amazingly unspeakable just how one (Clyde Phillips/showrunner) can know, write & present an amazing character & product for 4 seasons, yet at the end (twice now & throughout the new season), completely unhinge & totally destroy everything that was previously built. It's sacrilege.

Just like baseball teams, Clyde Phillips needs a "closer" because clearly he cannot pitch a full game. (unlike King Vince Gilligan of Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul - THE best shows of their genre) Storyboard anyone, anyone?… Expand

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corwin84Jan 14, 2022

The dumbest scenario ever. So many storyline failures, no logic in actions, bad acting. I'm very angry, great TV series is ruined!

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Czech1201Jan 11, 2022

aaand here we go again, terrible ending at first and even worse ending now, great job..

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LuisJorgeToroJan 9, 2022

In Admiral Ackbar's famous words "It's a trap!"
It seems the people behind this revival secretly hate their fan base.

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LonelyDinosaurJan 11, 2022

Final episode ruined everything. Дальше мне лень по английски что то писать заморачиваться, как и сценаристам этого финала. Зачем вообще трогали.

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gunnyartNov 13, 2021

I had high hopes for this, but I was so disappointed. They went out of their way to hit every “Woke” agenda item possible. Preachy leftism from start to finish.

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ScooterBoy1992Nov 19, 2021

This is just hard to watch. They struggle to come anywhere close to what made the first 4 seasons of Dexter good. It's now a cheap cliché melodrama with some guy that used to be a serial killer.

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HannibalBDec 5, 2021

I've tried to like this show. I wanted to like it. I love Dexter. From the beginning of this season, I've felt a lurking sense of impending disappointment. I've overlooked the strong female characters, the obnoxious teens, the brainlessI've tried to like this show. I wanted to like it. I love Dexter. From the beginning of this season, I've felt a lurking sense of impending disappointment. I've overlooked the strong female characters, the obnoxious teens, the brainless police, the unbelievable human reactions. But episode 5 is so lazy, so contrived, so filled with impossible coincidences, and silliness, that I don't know if I can watch anymore. This isn't Dexter. No matter how dark things got, the original Dexter was always fun. Things moved quickly. Any cheating with the plot was earned. If I have to pinpoint the problem with this season, it's the over-emphasis of Harrison. There's just too much time spent on him. I don't think it was a bad idea to have him appear in Dexter's life, but it would've been so much better if he had remained a bit of a mystery, if we didn't see too much of him. But we see way too much of him feeling sorry for himself, emoting, and just being boring. It drags down the pace and leaves us with little hope that he can surprise us in the end. Making him a mystery would've been so much better.… Expand

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daniel_Jan 24, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Is it possible to create an even worse ending than Dexter had? This show proves that it is.… Expand

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Medeiro2014Mar 4, 2022

Bad script, its sad how they destroy an amazing character and story, of course there are time where you say... Dexter dont do this, a forced story with a simplistic exit. Shame, i love this series :(

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FonvisinJan 16, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. To begin with, the series has absolutely nothing to do with the previous eight seasons.

You will find practically nothing here that would connect the original painting with a modern miserable likeness.

From the very start, the series is filled with cardboard characters in the form of a black cop!, a mestizo sheriff!, a disabled person! and Asian reporters. Seeing these characters in the first episodes, I guessed the ending of the series correctly. It would be foolish to expect anything else from American tolerance. Dexter's character is more than completely changed, from a cold, unfeeling predator, he turned into a cozy homebody living in a nice little town. Fantasy! A man who had no feelings for all 8 seasons was changed beyond recognition by the script. We are shown a cardboard studio city filled with the same characters without backstories, without any purpose and interaction with the plot. They are all lifeless, speaking in short phrases and silly jokes. Everything about the show is rigged to take the story to its ridiculous ending, there are no plot twists we're used to seeing in the original 'Dexter', we don't see Hall constantly slipping over the edge. He does not make incredible decisions, his eyes do not shine as before. From a crouching tiger, he was turned into an old sick dog who lost his grip. This series has nothing to do with the previous one. Here everything is set up so that the viewer would condemn him for his dark past, stop seeing him as a fighter against evil, Batman, an arbiter of justice, and see only an old maniac. The Dark Passenger, Harry, the codex, Debb, all of the character's main features, weaknesses and internal dialogues are simply deleted from the series. This series was created for the sake of tolerant by American standards, the completion of a huge seven-year work on the coolest movie maniac. In other words, this is Dexter in a modern way, on a modern agenda. The viewer is not offered to make a choice, he is forced to kneel and kiss the boot.

It is very difficult for me to sum up what I have seen. After repeatedly watching the previous 8 seasons and reading all the books in the series, I am convinced that the series ended on the last episode of season 8 many years ago. Rest in peace.… Expand

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metacritiqueurJan 3, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Tout allait bien jusqu'au dernier épisode. Ils avaient réussi à mettre en place une relation père-fils acceptable. Dexter aurait pu former Harrison, mais les showrunners ont cédé à la facilité et la bêtise. Le seul à même de comprendre et d'aider Harrison devait donc mourir ? N'importe quoi !

Donc là, le gamin est venu pour retrouver son père, le tuer, et repartir fonder une vie "normale" comme si de rien n'était ? Sans remords, et alors que la veille il partageait enfin son mal être qu'il a en commun avec un père qu'il a cherché des années ? Aucune logique chez les scénaristes en bout de course.

Une série de plus dont la fin est bâclée.… Expand

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valrondJan 10, 2022

Episodes 1-9 were good, then they **** it up again like in season 8, it's even worse than the original finale.

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MartyMcfacepalmNov 23, 2021

If you want to watch a show about a mysterious small town in the cold, just watch Twin Peaks instead. As someone who was a fan of pretty much all of the original series of Dexter (The only ones I truly disliked were seasons 6 and 8) DexterIf you want to watch a show about a mysterious small town in the cold, just watch Twin Peaks instead. As someone who was a fan of pretty much all of the original series of Dexter (The only ones I truly disliked were seasons 6 and 8) Dexter New Blood is a ridiculous, conceited, politicized rehash of the first few seasons of Dexter. The Harrison storyline is not even original because they already used it with the trinity killers son Jonah coming back. Clyde Phillips gets far more credit than he deserves. I gave this show a chance and watched the first few episodes, but every other line of dialogue was filled with cringe inducing leftist lectures that were extremely out of place. I may have enjoyed this show despite that if the storyline was interesting but it most certainly is not. Dexter’s motivation for the first murder was also absurd, he did not find proof or evidence he just based it in on one line of dialogue that he learned while visiting the police station. Dexter also has no chemistry with his love interest like he did with Rita. This show is absolute garbage, as I said before just watch Twin Peaks instead.… Expand

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bumbacladJan 24, 2022

Dexter: New Blood gave me covid. No, but seriously, it is just leftist propaganda through and through with absolutely no regard for logic or story telling. Just watch the first episode on Amazon if you don't believe me and see for yourselfDexter: New Blood gave me covid. No, but seriously, it is just leftist propaganda through and through with absolutely no regard for logic or story telling. Just watch the first episode on Amazon if you don't believe me and see for yourself why it will not be worth paying for as I feel ripped off even though, with prime, I watched it for free.… Expand

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Meta-ReviewsJan 16, 2022

Sadly a truly unique show was been polluted by sloppy scripting and woke politics.
If you loved the original series you're in for a let down as New Blood had so much possibility that is flushed down the drain in 1 episode, ending the show for good.

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WreckWrenDec 31, 2022

That was about the only way it could get worse after the terrible ending to the original series.
Awful. 0 seems harsh because... I guess the video plays. It could be slightly worse.
NOT MUCH, THOUGH.

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DexEngineerMay 3, 2022

Lazy location, bad acting... actors are bored or something is wrong with them. Most time boring. Childish dialogs. Dexter's son is one bad ignorant. Besides lack of good actors and good acting. Waste of time. Either victim of low budget ofLazy location, bad acting... actors are bored or something is wrong with them. Most time boring. Childish dialogs. Dexter's son is one bad ignorant. Besides lack of good actors and good acting. Waste of time. Either victim of low budget of amatourish director.… Expand

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DemetriuspulaJul 11, 2022

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. THEY KILLED DEXTER! BASTARDS! IlLOGICAL ACTIONS OF THE HEROES WHICH LEAD TO A BAD END… Expand

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BlizzardsukksJun 27, 2022

Disappointing and bland Sequel to a Masterpiece. Cant emphasize enough how poorly this is written… the forced „woke“ Elements are the Cherry on top of your brown Cake.

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ZuchetoJun 26, 2023

Absolutely terrible writing... As with every show nowadays, they have to make the white male character an idiot or a villain. They completely destroy the character of Dexter from start to finish and everything in between is utterly boring.

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AlanoSilvaPBFeb 24, 2023

Espero que tenha sido uma alucinação coletiva, pq eu vou fazer de conta que isso aqui não existe!
Horrível

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KoeplerFFeb 7, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. The worst resurrection of the franchise. It looks like the series was created to kill Dexter and close the storyline of him… Expand

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