Dexter: New Blood' retains the essence of the series with an intriguing but careless return

 The dark passenger has returned. Eight years after saying goodbye to Dexter Morgan, the psychopath created by Jeff Lindsay returns to television with ' Dexter: New Blood '. A miniseries / season 9 that promised to compensate for the bad taste in our mouths that the end of the original series left us . Will he succeed? For now, and having seen the first episode (which Movistar + premieres today), allow me to be skeptical about it .

Not because of the fact that the series is better or worse done — we'll get to that — but because of that baggage that all fictions that return with a late sequel carry . A backpack full of expectations and sketches to try to show that this return was worth it and convince both the staunch fan and the most disenchanted. And, if by the way they attract new viewers, welcome.

This intention to please everyone makes the rationale behind 'Dexter: New Blood' unclear and that is often carried over to the script. For example, those false moments of tension that the series has always played with - Dexter sneaking up on someone with a machete and it is revealed to us that it is to help cut something better - remain more like a parody of themselves than as a wink . Because I hope they use them as a wink.

By the way, from here, slight spoilers from the beginning of the series.

La bloody vida of Jim

As a screenwriter, Clyde Phillips unfolds the story efficiently : Michael C. Hall's character lives in a small forest town, calls himself Jim Lindsay, and has a police girlfriend. He has not killed for ten years and, in fact, the absence of the characteristic voice-over affirms that idea of ​​new life. Which is not to say that he does not have ghosts from the past, that in fact he will continue to see his sister Debra (Jennifer Carpenter) as his current Jiminy Cricket.

All eight seasons of 'Dexter' have been built around the protagonist's moral dilemmas . Not only the fact of leading a normal life, being happy with a wife and children, trying to hide their dark secret from them, but also neatly complying with Harry's code and, in case his desire to kill is irremediable, making sure that the victim is someone scum that has been rid of the system.

So we come across these new episodes with a question of when and how we will see Dexter's murderous face again. In my opinion, that moment is perhaps too early and too impulsive for what we might suppose of the character we have accompanied for so long.

We cannot deny that everything indicates that 'Dexter: New Blood' is going to be completely faithful to its essence . Already in this opening hour it is clear that we are going to have those classic ingredients of the formula: there is a clue of a possible murderer under the radar (the disappearances that we see in the police station), the investigation carried out by your own friends (in this case girlfriend) , those touches of humor and other garnishes there and here.

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