By Chris Snellgrove
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Dexter and How I Met Your Mom are two fully totally different exhibits which have one thing unlucky in frequent: every has a collection finale so dangerous that it retroactively ruins what got here earlier than, making it arduous for followers to revisit even the best episodes. Dexter’s ending was so dangerous that I hesitated to take a look at the surprisingly respectable follow-up collection New Blood. However as soon as I did after which scoped out Dexter: Authentic Sin (the prequel slashing its means by the rankings), I made a decision that now was the proper time to look at the unique Dexter present work its bloody magic on Netflix.
What To Know About Dexter
When you’ve by no means watched Dexter earlier than, you need to know its wild premise (ripped straight from Jeff Lindsay’s Dexter novels) earlier than you add it to your Netflix queue. Our title character is a forensic specialist with the Miami Police Division who has a startling secret: he’s a serial killer who has been pushed by the violent urges of his “Darkish Passenger” since seeing his mom brutally murdered. He was raised by a cop who educated his adoptive son to solely kill dangerous folks, and Dexter should now navigate a double life as each a mild-mannered blood-splatter analyst and a ruthless vigilante assassin.
Dexter (in contrast to many exhibits on Netflix) has an awesome solid, together with Michael C. Corridor (in any other case greatest recognized for Six Ft Beneath) who gained a Golden Globe for his highly effective efficiency. Different nice solid members embrace Julie Benz (of Buffy and Angel fame) as Dexter’s love curiosity and Jennifer Carpenter (horror followers will know her from Quarantine and The Exorcism of Emily Rose) as his potty-mouthed sister. And with out entering into spoilers, later seasons herald nice visitor stars, together with Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, John Lithgow, and lots of extra.
If the solid of Dexter doesn’t encourage you to tug up your Netflix account, you could be excited about what number of awards and nominations this present a couple of quirky killer has acquired. The present was nominated for a formidable 24 Primetime Emmys and took house two of them, simply because it was nominated for 10 Golden Globe awards and took house two statues. As for Corridor, he personally took house a kind of Golden Globes in addition to Satellite tv for pc, Saturn, and Display screen Actor’s Guild awards for his chic efficiency as Dexter.
For probably the most half, Dexter impressed critics and followers alike lengthy earlier than it landed on Netflix. On Rotten Tomatoes, the collection has a essential score of 71 p.c, and audiences gave it (through the Popcornmeter) 81 p.c. This goes to point out that although the collection has a legendarily horrible ending, most who watched it felt that it was greater than the sum of its elements and that its creativity and intelligent execution for many of its eight seasons outweigh the present fairly epically stumbling over the end line on the finish.
The Proper Time To Revisit
Plus, New Blood actually did its greatest to redeem the unique present’s weird ending, and Authentic Sin has confirmed to be a intelligent prequel that provides some crunchy context to our title killer’s earliest adventures. Collectively, these two follow-up exhibits did what I as soon as thought was inconceivable: make me within the unique present regardless of its extraordinarily flawed finale. And now that Dexter is on Netflix, I’ve been having fun with rewatching certainly one of premium cable’s boldest and bloodiest creations.
Will you discover Dexter as rewarding if you watch (or rewatch) it on Netflix, or is that this one collection you’d quite go dump into the Gulf Stream? You gained’t know till you press play. And if you happen to’re something like me, you possibly can stay up for a gap title sequence (one which gained a Inventive Arts Emmy, no much less) which is able to by no means make you wish to skip the intro.
