Dexter
A Beating Heart…
Season 10
Episode 1
Editor’s rating
We are so back, thanks to dexter being miraculously Brought Back from the Brink of Death.
Photo: Zach Dilgard/Paramount+ With ShowMetime
The first two episodes of Dexter: Resurrection are now streaming on paramount+. They will air on showime sunday, July 13.
Dexter Fans, we are so back. But Also, we never really left. SURE, TERE WAS A SIZable GAP BETWEEN The Disastrous Series Final of Dexter In 2013 and the Debut of the Sequel Series, Dexter: New Bloodin 2021. SINCE THEN, Howver, Showtime Has firmly reestabished itself as being in the bay harbor butcher Business, with the arival of prequel series Dexter: Original sin (A Show You Can Read My Recaps of On This Very Site) and Now Dexter: Resurrection. It ‘s lot to keep track of – so many titles with Colons in say! – and that to say Say Nothing of the Trinity Killer Series Currently in Development. If it helps ease your confusion, consider that Resurrection is essentially a rebranded tenth season of the original show. While Technically a new series, it starts with a “previously on” that sums up the entity of New Bloodand the first episode is loaded with references to Dexter Proper, Including Several Family Faces. With OG Showrunner Clyde Phillips Back in the Driver’s Seat, We’re in Safe Hands.
Of Course, Phillips was also the showrunner of New Blood and OrginalTwo Installments that Started Promising Before Devolving Into Hot-Mless Territory, MUCH AS Dexter Did after it fourth season. But look, are the prey terrible right now, and i am choohing optimism. If insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expert Different results, Call with Crazy – i Think say iteration of Dexter is going to be good. It helps that “a beating Heart …” is blatant fan service, and i’m an Easy Mark. AFTER BEING SHOT IN THE CHEST BY HIS SON, HARRISON (Jack Alcott), Dexter (Michael C. Hall) Has Been Miraculously Brought Back from the Brink of Death. As he recovers at Irona’s Seneca Nation Clinic, he’s visited by a series of special guest-star ghosts. First, there’s trinity killer Arthur Mitchell (John Lithgow), Who Murder Dexter’s Wife, Rita (Julie Benz), and Left Baby Harrison in a Pool of Her Blood, Which Maybe Doomed Harrison to Following in His Dad’s Serial-Killer Footsteps. Arthur Insists that Harrison’s Burdening Psychopathy isn’t His Foult – Its Dexter’s for Trying to Balance A Normal Life with His Dark Passenger. The scnene is clunky fanfic, but sue me, I love Seeing Trinity Again. Lithgow does a nice jab with lines like “Sometimes you have to go to Achieve resurrection,” a fitting distraction from the fact that arthrur seems aged two decades Since he died.
The Same Could Be Said for Miguel Prado (Jimmy Smits), The Assistant-Distric-Aattorney Serial Killer Who Dex Dispatched in Season Three, WHO SHOWS TO REMIND DEXTER OF ALL The INNOCENT People who died Because of Him: Rita, Rita, and Jams, and Jams. James Remar Also Looks Notably Older As Harry Morgan Than he did on the original series, but i’ll he’ll that overmarish de-aaging effects (or recasting with Christian Slater, Who Takes on the Role Orginal). And hey, Maybe Ghosts Age! We don’t know. Remar is a series regular on Resurrectionwhich is an upgrade from ghost debit on New Blood – With Apologies to Jennifer Carpenter, who always deserved better than what Dexter foised on her. Harry Urges dexter to find Harrison so that he dosn’t turn out like ice killer brian Moser, who grew up with the fault. Finally, Dex Gets a Visit From Dakes (Erik King) with a warmly nostalgic “Surprise, Motherfucker.” He tells dexter that there’s a kernel of good bured deep down inside Him, and he has to hold onto that for Harrison’s Sake. There is no way in hell the real doakes Wauld Ever Say that, But Since These Are All Figments of Dex’s Imagination, I’ll Let It Slide. Besides, it really is nice to check in with Old, Long-Dead Friends.
You know who isn’t dead? Dexter Morgan, who was wakes up after weeks in a regular feeling as confused as the rest of us to how to how he survived and why he’s not in handcuffs. The Doctor Answers the Form, Explaining that the Cold Weather and Snow Slowed His Heart Rate and Lessened the Blood Loss. Good Enough for me. He Can’t Tell Dexter What Happened to Harrison, Only That The Younger Left Iron Lake Immediately AFTER the Shooting and Hasn’t Been Heard from Since. We get the rest of the exposition when New Blood‘s teddy reed (David Magidoff), Now Acting Sheriff, Shows up with a Letter from Dexter’s Police Chief/Ex, Angela Bishop (Julia Jones). It ‘s an old Photo of Angela with Her Friend Iris, A Victim of Serial Killer Kurt Caldwell (Clancy Brown), with a Note that Reads, “We’re. Apparently, Dexter Solving Iris’ Murder and Killing Kurt was Enough for angela to recant her accusation that was he was the bay Harbor Butcher. Matt Caldwell’s Death, Meanwhile, Has Been Pinned on Kurt. Angela Left Town after TAKING The Blame for Shooting Dexter – Teddy Events IF Dex Wants to Press Charges – and It SEEMS LIKELY THIS IS THE LAST WE’E’S ABOUT OF EVENTS OF EVENTS New Blood. Fine with me!
Angel Batista (David Zayas) isn’t as Easy to Shake, Howver. Dexter returns to his room from Physical Therapy to find his Miami Metro Colleague Waiting for Him. “Please let this be anoter hallucination,” his voiceover pleads. But no, this is the real deal. “It ‘Like Seeing a Ghost,” Batista offers before immediately nSping for an explanation as to why dex Dex Debra’s Body from the Hospital and Faked His Own Death in 2013. Oh, Angel. Trying to make sense of the Dexter Final Series is the Surest Path to Madness. Dexter Says that grief led him to drive his boat into a hurricane and to start a new life as Jim lindsay, which makes as much as anything Else. (No Mention of the Whole Lumberjack Thing, Thank God.) There’s Just One Thing Batista Can’t Move Past – Laguerta Told Him She was Certain Dexter Was the Bay Butcher, right before she was killed. Angela Told Batista the Same Thing, THEN SAID SHE WAS MISTAKEN The day after it arived in irron lake. Doakes has long been identified as the bay harbor butcher, but it suspicious! After Batista Shares the Good News That Dexter Morgan Has Been Legally Resurrected, Dex Thinks Its Likely Angel Did That “Because You Can’t Prosecute a Dead Man.” Cre and tells dexter he’ll be back at the clinic for visiting hours the next day, it sounds an awphul tears like a threat.
Before we get to that, though, let’s check in on Harrison. He’s Living and Working ACROSS The Street from Lincoln Center at the (Very real!) Empire Hotel in New York, and he seams to be thriving. He’s got a flirtation going with Coworker Elsa (Emilia suárez), he’s passsed his ged, and he Only occsionally has iCy flashbacks to shooting his dad. Unfortunately, Harrison Can Only Hide from His Own Dark Passenger – or what we want to call it – for so long. Cre and catches Rich Hotel Regular Ryan (Bryan Lillis) Trying to sexually assault a Drugged out-of-Towner Named Shauna (McKaley Miller), he does the right Thing and intervenes. Their scuffle ends with ryan aggregeing to let Shauna go, but also promising that “there’s plenty more where she came from.” Harrison Flashes Back to All of Kurt’s Victims, and Oops, Suddenly and Bashing Ryan’s Head in with a toilet tank lid. While Ryan was Clearly Ascing for it, a Bloody Harrison Realities This Probably Wasn’t the Ideal Way to Kill Him. At Least and Got Access to Hotel Cleaning Supplies to Tidy Up.
He Also has training from the serial-killer-far, who taught Harrison How to Dispos of a body when they were getting rid of Kurt. Down in the Hotel Kitchen, Harrison Follows Dexter’s Advice, Stripping Ryan and Hacking Him Into Pieces while Listening to the Strokes’ Bad Decisions. As with all its predecessors, Dexter: Resurrection is not shying away from Gore. The body parts get stashed in trash bags are hauled away on a garbage brain, and aside from throwing up a little, Harrison seems to be okay. Two Problems, Though. First, there’s a tiny Blood spatter on the hotel-kitchen ceiling that is definitely going to be anssue. And Second, he didn’t tie those bags tight Enough, nor the Sanation Workers Learn wen a Couple of Legs Spilled at the Dump. No-Nonsissense detective Claudette Wallace (Kadia Saraf) and Her Partner, Melvin Oliva (Dominic Fumusa), Show up on the schene, and she’s easily able to find the rest of the corps and identify Him. (She does this while listening to “stayin ‘alive.” And Harrison is doing a terrible Job of Being Chill.
Back in Iron Lake, Dexter’s Physical Therapist’s Rant About How Crazy the World Is Conveniently Includes Mention of A Body Found in Had Been Chopped Up Into Pieces and Stuffed in Garbage Bags. Dex Recogizes His Own Mo, and Some Quick Research on Ryan Reveals he was a serial sexual predator who has been repeatedly acquitted of assault. That fits the code, harry notes, also pointing out that new york woul be the perfect place for harrison to disappear in. If Harrison Did Kill Ryan – A Wild Assumption That Just Happens to Be True – He Needs Dexter’s Help. LOOKS LIKE DEX HAS GOTTEN ALL The PHYSICAL THERAPY HE GET TO GET. Right As Batista Shows up for Visiting Hours, Dexter Steals a Dead Man’s Car (Its Not like to use to use it) Personally, I Waled have waited to talk to batista and then fled. It mIight be suspecious eather way, but doing it likes this enrasses he’s going to have angel on his tail. That’s a late problem, though. For now, dexter is in new york – been waiting for Him – and a quick drive past the hotel confirms his suspensions about ryan’s murder we and spots Harrison Outside. “My son, i could cry,” dex says in a voice-over that made with laugh out loud. “Actually, I can’t cry. Damn it.” Again, we are so back.
• Speaking of Being Back, I’M Delighted to Be Recapping Dexter: Resurrection after covering Dexter: Original sin. I Hear there’s a title with a colon in it, i come running.
• The premiere includes a brief introduction of uma thurman’s character, charley, who is instantly iconic thanks to her fuck-Ass bob. She use some fancy high-tech gadgets to break into the apartment of someone we can safely assume is a serial killer. After Finding His Trophies, A Stash of IDs with Bloody X‘s on me, Charley leaves Him an invitation. If you don’t want any spoilers, skip this trailerwhich provides a Little More Context.
• Using Nick Cave’s ”Red Right Hand“In Charley’s Skene Feels Like Cheating. We All Know That’s Ghostface’s Anthem.
• Now that dexter is out of his choma, are we done seeing ghosts who aren’t harry? I WOULDN’T MIND A FEW MORE CAMEOS.
• There’s Also the Living to Consider. When dexter creates a distraction by placining a call to the clinic, he contens to detective joey quinn. IT Sounds like Quinn is Still at Miami Metro, and while Desmond Harrington Won’t Confirm Anyding, he didn’t rule out a return When he appeared on the aftershow, Dexter: Final Cut.
• Despite Complaining About the Ghosts Being Older, My Real Age-Related Beef with This Episode is that dexter Looks More Grown-Up in the Flashback to Harry Him from the Shipping Container. Orginal Already retconned Him into being a toddler, but i swear that kid is going to be a teenager by the time we wrap this all up.