I'm going to review this as season one even if, at the time of writing, no second season has been confirmed. I rewatched "Dexter" over lockdown ahead of the new appendix series that was due. Little did I know at the conclusion of that, that not one, but two spin off series would continue to the Dexter storylines.
Dexter Morgan (Patrick Gibson) is a young man whose murderous urges, stemming from childhood trauma, are being managed by his father Harry (Christian Slater). Dexter's obsessions come in handy though, when he joins his father at Miami P. D as an intern in the forensics team. From that position he can select targets for elimination based on those who deserve it.
I thought it was impressive how well many of these actors do solid impressions of the actors who had the roles in the future, or the past, depending on your point of view. Gibson and Molly Brown, who plays Debra in particularly are spot on. Other than that, the show settles into the same sort of storytelling that that original series did. There's weekly monsters that Dexter must dispose of, but also there's a much larger case, involving kidnapped children that he tries to get to the bottom of. There are origins for a lot of his motus operando, including the blood cells and the disposal techniques. We resee a version of the story of Harry and Dexter's biological mother, which we know has an horrific ending already. We also see a young Brian Moster in and around the cases, ahead of his role in the first season of the show proper.
Essentially it works like one of the better seasons of the original series and, whilst get we've only got limited capacity for stories before the show catches up with itself, I'd certainly like some more of this before we're done.
