Dexter: New Blood – The DVDfever Review – Michael C Hall – Sky Atlantic

When it came to the second episode, there were some awkward silences between Dexter and Harrison, and the latter also explains why he’s no longer with Hannah, which I’ll add below in a further spoiler.

There was also a young woman called Lily in a motel room, but it took her forever to work out that her room isn’t a safe place to be.

Overall, this was a bit of a slow episode, as it’s mostly about the characters all settling into each other, and the search for Matt, so it does get a bit tedious.

Hannah died from pancreatic cancer, 3 years ago.

Well, this episode was watchable, but for a Dexter series – and even with more beef being added to the weirdo with the killer cabin – it’s still feeling very pedestrian. Maybe Ethan will also throw something into the mix with his treatment of Zach?

This episode is no.100 of Dexter overall… And he still can’t get a decent haircut. Perhaps he should bump off his barber?

After Ethan apparently organising a ‘kill list’, and then the truth about Harrison coming out – so we know he’s the bad guy in that situation – is he going to turn out as a complete chip off the old block?

And Dexter is even getting off on this!

This series is starting to really stretch credibility, and I am beginning to wonder whether it was a wholly great idea to bring it back. Anyway, we’ll see as it goes on…

I think Dexter: New Blood is starting to throw the baby out with the bathwater, since this one-off series was starting to get ever more ridiculous. And I will give spoilers about this (hence the spoiler banner you’re currently within), so don’t say I didn’t warn you…

First off, Harrison took some funky drugs at a party, and told Audrey that his dad has a different name. Okay, she could possibly put that down to the pills that he took, but she still told her mum, aka Dexter’s girlfriend.

Couple that with the most ridiculous aspect of this episode where our lead’s former colleague, Angel Batista, was there at a conference – letting slip to Angela that he once had two colleagues who died – Debra and Dexter – the latter of whom had a son called Harrison. Most people would put that aspect down to a coincidence, but coupled with Audrey’s chat, she went digging and came up with the goods that Jim is Dexter. There’s still five more episodes to go, so how is this going to play out?

However, the more odd thing is that why would Angel go to such a backwater town? There seemed to be a mere handful of people listening to him speak, yet they still had an after-conference bar which was well-attended. Just how many people actually live in Iron Lake?? Seeing how Dexter’s house is so out of the way, the total population feels like about 10, so why would loads of people (who we didn’t see) go to such a remote place for the day to listen to dull speeches?

Oh, and however Kurt came to meet Chloe, we learned that it’s him who owns the dodgy motel where young women go to die. But he doesn’t seem the type, so is this just more ridiculous writing? I’m starting to think they really shouldn’t have gone down this road and create this series.

And if I was Chloe, I would’ve darted back towards where I’d come from, going around the building away from Kurt, not running towards him. That was a dumb move.

Unsurprisingly, Matt Caldwell clearly isn’t still alive (which we knew) but as for why someone is pretending to be him, I’m not sure I really care.

Well, Dexter: New Blood finally got back on track. I did think that he was going to take an aversion to Molly, given her Merry Fucking Kill podcast, and her obsession with the Bay Harbour Butcher, making him think drastic action was going to have to be taken, but it was Kurt to inadvertently save the day…

When Dexter and Harrison were in therapy, the latter said he doesn’t trust Dexter because he knows what happened to Rita, although he claimed not to remember her actual death. I was sure he was faking that.

I’m still not sure what Kurt’s deal is with the cabin. Why is he such a psycho? Or maybe there’s nothing secret to that, and he’s just an oddball?

As for the revelation for Angela that Jim isn’t Jim, but Dexter Morgan, that felt like it would be a big thing, but was just reduced to a “He ran off from his shitty life”, and she’s just a bit pissed off about that, instead. That’s the only weak part of the episode, unless it’s going to ramp up later. That said, there’s only four more episodes of this.

After a great episode last week, episode 7 was a bit muted by comparison. Kurt has clearly revealed himself to be the main bad guy of this season, and it looks like he’s fingered to the murder of Iris, unless something changes later on…

Also, Harrison is really shaping up to be a killer, which is an intersting twist, plus (and I did put this behind a spoiler header), this episode had a guest appearance from John Lithgow – as the late Trinity – and a shock ending!

Well, after Dexter was kidnapped, it didn’t take him too long to escape. I did think he needed to clean that knife sooner rather than later, too…

And his other half is now back on his tail, thanks to druggie Miles grassing him up.

The baseball scene was painful to watch, though.

This penultimate episode moved away from the cinema-style widescreen ratio, going back to 16:9, as Dexter told Harrison about a baddie known as Mr Wiggles, and how this linked in with his own dark passenger, but without being too descriptive.

I wondered how wise it would be for Dexter to give Harrison a gun for Xmas, but then Kurt is not going away.

However, the truth will out, and finally things have come full circle. I won’t spoil what happens, but I hope next week’s finale finds a way to bring this season to a decent conclusion, rather than get to a cliffhanger, given that it’s meant to just be a one-off series.

Well, the finale was something I certainly wasn’t quite expecting in terms of how it panned out. I will go into detail about what’s happened, so if you haven’t watched the finale yet, STOP NOW!

For a lot of the time, I thought everything would turn out fine for Dexter. It was a bit of a stretch to talk through more of the family business with Harrison, along with moving to to Los Angeles, but then it started to go South as Angie arrested Dexter arrested for Matt’s murder.

What followed, initially, was dumb, since surely she wouldn’t interview him? They’d get someone independent to do that, even in a small town as in which they’re based.

I could understand her pinning him as being the Bay Harbour Butcher, although even she didn’t quite seem to believe it, and with him turning it around to Kurt and to the women in his cabin, he could’ve got away with it, but fucked everything up and went on the run.

It really was ridiculous that with a bit of a scuffle – whilst he’s in a jail cell – he manages to break Logan’s neck. I think Logan was a lot stronger than that, and he wouldn’t have got into a tussle over the water bottle.

I then thought they might head out elsewhere as father and son, but once Harrison woke up and saw him for who he really was, he managed to shake the ‘dark passenger’ nonsense, but like Logan’s death, it was a crazy stretch that he would kill Dexter. It should’ve ended with Dexter being tried and found guilty etc, although that would’ve meant an extra episode to go through all that, and they really just wanted to bring a final ending to all of this.

However, there’s a neat moment, just as it reaches 34 minutes into the episode, as Angie goes to check out Kurt’s cabin, and Dexter breaks the fourth wall by catching a direct glimpse of us.