"When people start bingeing this after the finale, I’m confident the numbers will continue to go up. "As I mentioned, this show is a huge asset," Phillips said. Regardless, in a conversation with Deadline, show-runner Clyde Phillips seemed confident in Dexter: New Blood's value to Showtime, in addition to confirming his interest in continuing Harrison's story. Whether that means another season of Dexter: New Blood, or a series under a new name following Harrison, we'll have to wait and see. We're willing to bet that the Dexterverse will continue somehow. Will There Be a Season Two of Dexter: New Blood? Thankfully, in addition to Alcott, Dexter: New Blood's show-runner seems down for another season. For Jack Alcott, the Finale Is Just the BeginningĬonsidering that none of us, really, saw that coming, we're a a bit curious about the future of Dexter: New Blood-or more accurately, if there will even be a future at all.Would Dex have killed likable big-hearted Batista or wimpy-funny Masuka to save his own skin? We'll never know. Then they let Dex off the hook again with LaGuerta when Deb shot her. The writers let Dex off the ethical hook about what to do with Doakes when Lila killed him. And can you imagine how Masuka would feel after working side-by-side with Dex and admiring him all those years? Moreover, twice the show has set up a huge ethical conflict where Dex is forced to choose between himself and a colleague, then maneuvered to have another character get Miami Metro blood on their hands instead of Dex. But I really wanted Batista to have a juicy arc this season and see how he would react to such a huge betrayal. But when a series launches about a guy who's a serial killer working at a police department, the central tension is "When will his coworkers find out and how will they react?" We got that to a degree in seasons 2 and 7 with Doakes and LaGuerta. We got a fun substitute scene in that interrogation room with Dex, Quinn, and Batista, where the show flirted with Miami Metro getting a clue. The gang back at the station never learned Dexter's secret. And, perhaps she could have had a couple of compelling scenes with Harrison where you felt like she added value to his life, preferably with Dex observing this (instead of the instantly notorious treadmill scene).Ģ. If this is the direction the show wanted to go, Hannah should have returned earlier in the season and not made her entrance by drugging the Morgans. There just hasn't been enough groundwork laid in the series for us to feel hugely comfortable with the idea of Hannah taking care of Dex's young child. Then Dex and Hannah seem to rather abruptly declare their love for each other an episode or two later and suddenly they're making plans to flee the country. This year she comes back, drugs Deb and Dex, and murderers her husband. But Hannah was a dangerous serial killer last season who we didn't remotely trust. In this episode once again we have Harrison gushing about his affection for Hannah. The show tried mightily to convince us Hannah is a great surrogate mom. (By the way, not that it matters, but doesn't she have a couple hundred thousand worth of stolen jewelry back at her apartment? Yeah, that's right, bet Dexter writers thought we forgot about that.)ġ. I suspect some viewers who have strong anti-euthanasia beliefs will be upset Dex did the full Terri Schiavo, but that didn't bother me-Deb wouldn't have wanted to "live" like that. Instead, Deb was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and got shot by a psycho that Dex decided not to kill-whoops. It would have been nice if Deb's death also somehow accomplished something for her character's arc and struggle which have been so compelling over the last couple of seasons. The point of her death seems to mainly serve as one final lesson for Dexter. But here, that's also what's happened with Deb. Those victims are murderers, so we don't mind him leeching off their deaths as a growth opportunity. In the show's kill room scenes, Dex often extracts some valuable growth lesson from the person he's dispatching like he's some sort of self-help vampire. She basically died without knowing she died. On an emotional level, there's something a bit disappointing about not having Deb expire in a more active guns-blazing way.
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