‘Dexter: New Blood’ Review: Different Name, Change in Climate, Same Ol’ Dexter

When “Dexter” premiered in 2006, audiences were only just becoming enamored with antiheroes.

Tony Soprano was putting out hits and Dr.

Gregory House was abusing his meds, but Don Draper, Walter White, and many more of TV’s thorny bad boys had yet to make their mark.

Dexter Morgan, played with an eerie sobriety and winking humor by Michael C.

Hall, fit right in, as a serial killer who only kills criminals.

Spurred on by his “dark passenger,” Dexter spent his nights stalking, studying, and slicing his pernicious prey, but even his day job (as a blood spatter analyst for the Miami P.D.) saw him obsessing over diabolical deeds and bodily fluids.And that’s just it: “Dexter” may have risen to prominence under the auspices of TV’s (second) golden age, but what it leaned on far more than its thematic dissection of man vs.

monster, nature vs.

nurture,

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