Serial Killer Thriller Sequence On Netflix Is Excellent To Watch Thanks To New Present

By Chris Snellgrove
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Dexter and How I Met Your Mom are two utterly completely different reveals 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 first rate follow-up collection New Blood. However as soon as I did after which scoped out Dexter: Unique Sin (the prequel slashing its approach by the scores), I made a decision that now was the proper time to observe the unique Dexter present work its bloody magic on Netflix. 

What To Know About Dexter

In the event you’ve by no means watched Dexter earlier than, it is best 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 (not like many reveals on Netflix) has an awesome solid, together with Michael C. Corridor (in any other case finest recognized for Six Toes Underneath) who received a Golden Globe for his highly effective efficiency. Different nice solid members embody 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 moving into spoilers, later seasons herald nice visitor stars, together with Jimmy Smits, Edward James Olmos, John Lithgow, and plenty of extra.

If the solid of Dexter doesn’t encourage you to drag up your Netflix account, you might be fascinated with 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 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 vital score of 71 p.c, and audiences gave it (through the Popcornmeter) 81 p.c. This goes to indicate that regardless that 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 finest to redeem the unique present’s weird ending, and Unique 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 reveals 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 one in every of premium cable’s boldest and bloodiest creations.

Will you discover Dexter as rewarding whenever you watch (or rewatch) it on Netflix, or is that this one collection you’d relatively go dump into the Gulf Stream? You received’t know till you press play. And when you’re something like me, you’ll be able to sit up for a gap title sequence (one which received a Inventive Arts Emmy, no much less) which can by no means make you need to skip the intro.