Creators:
Clyde PhillipsComposer:
Pat IrwinCast:
Michael C. Hall, Jack Alcott, Clancy Brown, Jennifer Carpenter, Julia Jones, Alano Miller, Johnny Sequoyah, Jamie Chung, Michael Cyril Creighton (more)VOD (1)
Episodes(10)
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Cold Snap (S09E01)
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Storm of Fuck (S09E02)
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Smoke Signals (S09E03)
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H Is for Hero (S09E04)
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Runaway (S09E05)
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Too Many Tuna Sandwiches (S09E06)
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Skin of Her Teeth (S09E07)
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Unfair Game (S09E08)
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The Family Business (S09E09)
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Sins of the Father (S09E10)
Plots(1)
The world at large believes Dexter died in a tragic boating accident, and in a way the world at large isn’t wrong. Far from the life he knew, living under a false name in the small town of Iron Lake, NY, he’s successfully tamped down his Dark Passenger for nearly 10 years. With a normal job and a Chief of Police girlfriend, it seems he’s got life under control. Until his son shows up and turns his world upside down. Rattled, Dexter yields to his homicidal urges and soon finds himself on a collision course with a very dangerous local. (Paramount Home Entertainment)
(more)Reviews (5)
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.
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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.
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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.
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So, I finally finished all nine seasons of Dexter. What a ride, friends! The final addition approached it smartly, shifting from the sunny and attractive setting of Miami to the snowy and remote town of Iron Lake in New York. I welcomed this change with open arms. I liked the more modern style of the new ninth season; it still featured Dexter's monologues and took quite a bit from the past, but I felt some innovation. The antagonist finally instilled fear again after a brief hiatus; being a serial killer of young girls sounds chilling on paper, but the actor playing this antagonist delivered a masterful performance. I might be in the minority, but I didn't find the character of Harrison disruptive at all; on the contrary, he worked as a flawless catalyst for the various subplots. The final episodes provided a viewing experience where the atmosphere was literally and figuratively palpable. Sure, there were a few inconsistencies, but the creators' decision on how to end the story of this beloved character seems successful to me. And that's what matters. For me, it's 8/10.
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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%]
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