If ever a show needed a fresh start, it was Dexter. Thankfully, our antihero is back on thrilling form – despite making two of the stupidest choices a murderer could
Well, the good news is that he’s shaved. When we last saw Dexter Morgan, it was 2013 and he was busy suffering through the very worst major television finale in living memory. Having killed his sister in an act of mercy, he had survived an apparently unsurvivable hurricane and made it to Oregon, living under an assumed identity, with what appeared to be three clumps of orangutan pubic clippings taped to his face.
But no more. The long awaited – if not exactly anticipated – reboot Dexter: New Blood (Sky Atlantic) is finally here, and our serial-killing antihero has a smooth face again. Better still, it has also given us a reason to look back on the Dexter finale with something approaching gratitude. If nothing else, it had the foresight to remove Dexter from the candy-coloured caricatures of Miami and hurl him somewhere new. This guaranteed any reboot a fresh start. And if ever any show needed a fresh start, it was Dexter.
