Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10
Cast: Michael C. Hall, Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, David Zayas, Ntare Guma Mbaho, Kadja Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Emilia Suárez, James Remar, Peter Dinklage, David Magidoff, Jason Alan Carvell, Darius Jordan Lee, Jill Marie Lawrence, Reese Antoinette, Eric Stonestreet, Steve Schirripa, Emily Kimball, John Lithgow, Erik King, Jimmy Smits, Marc Menchaca, Max von Essen, Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Neil Patrick Harris, Krysten Ritter, David Dastmalchian, Lesley Stahl, Christian Carmargo.
You can’t keep a good serial killer down, not permanently it seems, the need to have an avenging angel on the streets taking down those who indiscriminately kill, who maim and murder with a sole goal, a solitary purpose of gratification is one to which our darkest fantasies and fears are rooted in and explored with the ever emerging true crime fascination adding weight of retribution to its core.
We may despise the serial killer, sit in well lit rooms out of reach as we talk in hushed tones to friends whilst all the time keeping a wary eye on them to see if they display any worrying signs that they too could harbour such inclinations, but we all seem to be enamoured by them, focused on their brazen, shameless, audacious acts as eagerly as we might pour over the back pages of a newspaper with the final scores in a day’s football calendar.
It is almost with little wonder that television audiences have rejoiced at the return of Dexter Morgan, played by Michael C. Hall, and his dark passenger who hunts down those who kill and then dispatches them to their own fiery hell.
In Dexter: Resurection, the recently shot, former forensic blood splatter analyst for Miami-Metro Police Department resurfaces from out of his coma, and finds out that his son committed a crime using his methods, taking down a would be rapist and then in his father’s same methodical manner, separated the body into parts, and in a panic placed the evidence in a way that it would be found, would be investigated, and with his old friend and Miami Detective finally putting the pieces together of Dexter’s life, it seems now more than ever the Bay Harbour Butcher’s existence is in turmoil.
Following on from the one season series of Dexter: New Blood might have been considered a gigantic leap in viewer’s appreciation; the almost perfect wrapping up of a character’s story suddenly given extra time, opening up new wounds and relishing the opportunity to start again, only this time it is with an expressed desire to bring down those in New York who have formed a like-minded club, aided by venture capitalist/ philanthropist Leon Prater, as well as save his son.
It is to the continued resilience of the character and the appeal perhaps of restitution of order in the hands of a sociopath that gives Dexter its continued time of television; a story of a man driven to do good by doing an evil thing, and one that makes this latest chapter a riveting tale.
Ian D. Hall