"Fire and blood! Fire and blood! Fire and blood!" Yes! she thought, it is not the horse that fucks the dragon. "I guess mine are just a little unique.Like many classic fantasies, our humble hero encounters a seemingly insurmountable obstacle - in this case, an equine erection - but with great struggle and pain learns to master her hidden talents and overcome it, pun unfortunately intended. "Humans have always dealt with death through rituals," muses Dexter in one of his many grave voice-overs. The opening sequence is set to Iggy Pop's "The Passenger," an on-the-nose reference to Dexter's so-called "dark passenger," and the writing has its share of groaners. There's a decided and familiar lack of subtlety, too. The revival wrestles with some of the same problems that plagued the original, from a penchant for toothless "will Dexter get caught?" fakeouts, to lazy logistical cheats (go ahead and stroll right into that crime scene, Dexter, even though you now work in retail).
Without seeing all 10 episodes, it's impossible to say yet whether New Blood succeeds. But it's also hard to fault Phillips, Hall, Carpenter, and company for accepting Showtime's offer to burnish the tarnished legacy of this once-great series. Was the world clamoring for more Dexter? No. Still, I think it's fair to say that most of us were able to move on. The original Dexter finale was bad, and fans were understandably disappointed. Complicating matters, this bloody backslide coincides with the unexpected return of Dexter's teenage son, Harrison ( The Good Lord Bird's Jack Alcott), who tracked down dear old dad after learning he didn't die in a boat accident all those years ago. When we meet him, our antihero has been kill-free for nearly a decade - until an infuriating encounter with an obnoxious customer (Steve Robertson), who happens to be the wayward son of a local businessman (Clancy Brown), prompts Dexter to fall off the murder wagon. But Dexter's only true companion is the hallucinatory vision of his dead sister, Deborah ( Jennifer Carpenter), a one-woman Greek chorus and ever-present reminder of Dexter's violent past.
Everyone knows him as Jim Lindsay, the personable clerk at Fred's Fish & Game and boyfriend to Iron Lake's police chief, Angela Bishop ( The Twilight Saga's Julia Jones). Ten years after faking his death and disappearing into the woods of Oregon, former vigilante murderer Dexter Morgan (Hall) is living a quiet life on the opposite coast, in the snowy upstate town of Iron Lake, N.Y.
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