Dexter - New Blood

A very worthy example of how to rehabilitate the unsuccessful conclusion of an otherwise utterly delectable series and how to "wrap up" the whole Dexter story. Dexter's character hasn't lost a shred of his charisma in all these years and is still just as fascinatingly ambiguous, easily (im)penetrable, and morally confrontational. The main villain can boldly rank alongside the most distinctive villains from the entire original series. It's remarkable that even today, this exceptionally punchy sequel ranks among the absolute top of the crime series field. [85%] (13/01/2022)

The creators struggled to maintain consistent quality throughout the ninth season. Each episode left a different impression on me, which was reflected in the varying ratings. The final episode, however, was a sheer disaster that left me quite disappointed. After finishing the ninth season, my overall impression is that perhaps this storyline shouldn't have been filmed at all. The eighth season finale already had me frustrated, and just when I thought I'd cooled down after ten years, an even worse disaster came along. / Lesson learned: Want to enjoy a great series? Watch Dexter and skip the eighth and ninth seasons. (23/05/2022)

A surprising independent project, which with the removal of time works slightly better than a potential ninth season. And for how long the creators were working on making this, they are now a bit like bulls in a china shop and at the moment they should be picking up the pace, they're standing still, and when it would be better to wait, they're rushing forward so quickly that I can't even look around and the plot is already someplace else. And yet what remains the same is the atmosphere, which brings back that paranoid spectacle even without the sun and Miami beaches, in which the main character spins suspenseful wheels in all directions. The acclaimed and hated finale is definitely not the best work, fortunately it is not the worst either and easily repairs the damage caused by the finale almost a decade ago. It's just a shame that it rushes there the most frantically of all, because at that moment the viewer is already picking up on how the whole series could end and is only wavering over who will kill whom and with whom, who will stay with whom, and is only rearranging the figures in such equations. However, because the creators let the viewer wander for a very long time, it is possible to insert almost any composition into the puzzle about twenty minutes before the end and when it finally comes to breaking the bread, it loses weight in the emotions that the previous nine episodes had been trying to absorb. Dexter - New Blood does not rank among the best of the series, but it reaches with surprising ease the level of the third, sixth, or seventh season, the sufficiently good and highly watchable ones. I would be a bit more satisfied without the glaring logical shortcuts, where many things are unrealistically facilitated for the main characters (see the very convenient conference or the increasingly faster drawing of conclusions), but the main goal was achieved. The series, which I considered one of the best even after the fifth season (at least out of the ones airing at the time), suddenly became completely irrelevant to me at the first finale, because it felt like the creators were making a fool out of me. Now it definitely doesn't matter to me and my memories of Dexter as a whole have finally brightened. (21/01/2022)

A decent continuation, but weak ending to one of my favorite series. Dexter is back to reinstate his lost reputation and just a while after we get him exactly where we all wanted to see him and began purring with delight, the writers stick a knife in our backs and definitively bury the series with its illogical conclusion. Of course I am bothered by how things ended up with Dexter, but what most bothers me is how he acts completely against the grain of how his real me would behave and the incredibly improbable connection of flimsy clues from old cases. A good series, a crappy ending. (10/01/2022)