The “Dexter: Resurrection” of Showtime keeps the blood of the thriller killer to flow | TV / Streaming

The story of television is rich in characters who help tell and shape the story, reliably or otherwise, dating from the first “Dragnet” in the 1950s and “The many lives of Dobie Gillis” (1959-1963), and continuing with staples such as “The Wonder Years”, “Sex and the City”. My favorite performance of the genre is the dark, brooding, funny and shiny work of Michael C. Hall in the universe “Dexter”, which continues with blood and blood blood (if they were sometimes Bat-Borep goodkers) “Dexter: Resurrection”.

Hall returns to prime form as a signature character in his career, with Dexter sharing his thoughts with us via an internal narration, hallucinations of pivot characters from his past, and the constant presence of his late father Harry, played with a kind of ghostly warmth by James NEME. (Of course, Harry is a manifestation of the subconscious of Dexter, which means that Hall and NOT are a combo narrator.) Four of the 10 episodes of “resurrection” were made available for examination, and the good news for the hardcore fans of the initial series.

“Dexter: Resurrection” takes up the consequences of the events of “Dexter: New Blood”, which found that Dexter Morgan lived as “Jim Lindsay” for 10 years in the calm city of Iron Lake in New York State before his cover was blown away and he was shot in the trunk by his son Harrison (Jack Alison). We assumed that Dexter was dead and that was that – but we would not have a new batch of bloody adventures if that was the case, so we simply have to go with the gadget certainly but inevitable which finds Dexter which clings to life and experimenting fantastically entertaining visions before it knows a 10 -week coma.

What now? As a voice of the past says, “where you were wrong, it was thought that you could everything. A family and your dark passenger.” Should Dexter try to find and reconnect with Harrison, or slip into the ether and return to the long, lonely and deadly way of living by “the code”, that is to say, killing only those who are so depraved that they have it to come?

With Keen Use of On-Location Set Pieces, Kinetic Editing, and Exquisite Needle Drops Including “Bad Decisions” by the Strokes and “Red Right Hand” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Setting A Rotten Big Apple Tone, New York City Becomes The Primary Setting for the Series, Keeping a safe distance from Harrison, Who Now Works as a Bell waiting at the Empire Hotel (Nice Callback to Harrison’s Mother Rita Working as a concierge at a Miami hotel), and trying to remove his own disturbing visions and flashbacks. (Alcott considerably intensified his game here of his work in “New Blood”, creating a sympathetic but deeply disturbed character who could have inherited more DNA of his father that he did not want to admit.)

While Dexter takes a job that could serve as a possible vehicle to come back to what he does best, Harrison tries to enjoy his narrow friendship with colleague Elsa Rivera (a wonderful Emilia Suárez), live a normal life and avoid trouble. Good luck with that, kid.

In accordance with the “Dexter” tradition, the list of guest star is deep and incredibly talented, with Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Krysten Ritter, Eric Stonestreet, Neil Patrick Harris and David Dastmalchian all creating memorable turns by varying screen time. Among the new members of the regular distribution: Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine as a Kamara injury, a carpooling driver who gives Dexter invaluable advice and welcomes Dexter in his family, and Kadia Saraf as DET. Claudette Wallace, who explodes “continued” living “by the Bee Gees of her circumaux headphones as she investigates the crime scenes with a meticulous obsession. (“She sees things in a way that we do not do it,” explains her partner, played by Dominic Fusna, to some colleagues cops.) We also get the most welcome return of David Zayas as Angel Batista, who only recently learned that his former friend and colleague of Miami Metro PD, Dexter, did not allow Hurricane Laura.

The cinematography of “Resurrection” is extremely disturbing. The interiors of the hotel are bathed in autumn tones of green, gold and brown, which should be soothing but are somehow disturbing, as if joy had been stolen in these corridors. A return visit to a cleaned crime scene is framed in flagrant reds, as if the very walls were still stained with blood. The design of production is particularly notable in an extensive sequence of episode 4 which is macabre at the WTF level. Of course, all these things are windows dressing to increase the simmer work of hall as Dexter. It is Dark Kent – a super anti -hero who does not wear a cape but which will bring you in a plastic film and will finish you if you deserve it.

“Dexter: Resurrection” will make its debut with two episodes on Friday July 11 on streaming and on demand for Paramount + subscribers with Paramount + with the Showtime plan, before its alarm beginnings on Sunday July 13 at 8:00 p.m. The remaining episodes will be presented every week. Four of the 10 episodes were projected for examination.