And in the Beginning...

I thought this would be cheesy but...having Michael C Hall's voice as the narrator is really a game changer. As a die-hard Dexter fan the first episode is very promising.

Deb is a little hard to adapt too but its the first episode I will withhold judgement. Theres' just something not meshing. Its like the on pre-req the have for Deb is that she curses and while she was a curser she was much more than that.

Christian Slater as Harry. What a fantastic choice. He brought the young Harry to life. What a great actor

Michelle G: Love her character, she's added a new dimension. This entire cast is stellar.

Off to a great start! Some very good decisions made from the producers. Original music, throwback original opening sequence and almost perfect casting gets this series off to a great start.

I enjoyed the flashbacks as it lets you know we are in this time period for Dexter. We may jump back to show you some backstory, but we are staying here for awhile so you can see how he learned his craft.

As others have said, the pacing is just a tad fast but they really nailed a lot of the things they needed to. I can't wait to see each character at Miami Metro begin their intersections with Dexter. Better than expected!!

You need to see it on your own, although good as a first episode if you are a fan of the series you will like it but its pace is a little fast, if you are not a fan the episode is goof too, Although I hope it improves with each episode, like the New Blood series, although I think it has even better potential, along with the next Dexter Resurrection series, I hope they finally give a good closure to the character Dexter.

And speaking more about the episode, the characters and the actors' interpretation are very good, just like the original series, I would say that it is the best of this first episode, the episode is a solid 7.5-8/10.

Start off by saying I love Dexter at its best, and I'm a huge fan of the original series. At times I've felt this franchise has let fans down, so I had pretty low expectations coming into this first episode. The last episode of Dexter: New Blood was particularly bad, and the last Dexter I have watched.

And after the intro and first scene? I really thought this show might be a complete disaster. I couldn't tell if a 'Naked Gun' level of contrived stylization was happening, or if the production was just objectively bad. Turns out, it was just a bad scene, and while I know production doesn't generally follow the chronology of an episode, this first scene just looked like a rehearsal, and likely was one of the first scenes filmed.

As the episode goes on everything improves, almost scene by scene - all the way to the ending. There were still some cringy acting mannerisms from several actors, including the lead, throughout the episode. Because it's so consistent, I'd say this is a direction failure trying to shoehorn one version of a character into another. Hopefully as this show progresses, the actors will be allowed to perform their own version of the returning characters.

I really believe after watching this first episode that this show could really become quite good. I think enough pieces are in the right place.

I felt very similar after the first episode of Dexter: New Blood, and believe that series had an excellent run of episodes all the way through the 2nd to last. About that last episode of New Blood... it appears producers of the new Dexter shows didn't like that episode either, at least it's outcome, because a re-imagining of how those events went down has begun.

The colorful Miami, the og music themes, the characters we loved portrayed by great actors, the continuous rotation from comedy to horror, the realistic dialogues etc.

This is just the beginning of course, we don't know exactly what story they want to tell with this prequel, but this first episode gave us every reason to be anticipated to see what they want to do.

Patrick Gibson does an excellent job as Dexter. Same goes for Christian Slater as Harry. I struggled to see Molly Brown as Debra at the beginning, but that's normal since Jennifer has unique characteristics. It's great cast in general.

This episode hits the nostalgia man, everything New Blood couldn't do in 10 episodes.