{"id":136893,"date":"2024-12-14T09:42:55","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T02:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136893"},"modified":"2024-12-14T09:42:55","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T02:42:55","slug":"showtime-prequel-beats-a-dead-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=136893","title":{"rendered":"Showtime Prequel Beats a Dead Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt is seemingly not possible for \u201cDexter,\u201d as a franchise, to move forward. In the final moments of the sequel series \u201cNew Blood,\u201d which aired eight years after the original series finale in 2013, Michael C. Hall\u2019s serial killer was fatally shot. (Or at least, he <em>appeared <\/em>to be \u2014 more on that in a second.) This development, on its surface, marked the end of the road for one of the defining leads of the antihero era, a role Hall had been playing for 15 years at the time. Sure, yet <em>another <\/em>follow-up, \u201cResurrection,\u201d would pass the torch to Dexter\u2019s son Harrison (Jack Alcott). But if network Showtime wanted to keep wringing drops from this blood-soaked towel, the only direction left to go in was back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIncredibly, the prequel \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/dexter-original-sin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_dexter-original-sin\" data-tag=\"dexter-original-sin\">Dexter: Original Sin<\/a>\u201d tries to have it both ways. Not only does the 10-episode season \u2014 advance screeners of which were not provided for critics \u2014\u00a0 wind the clock back to 1991, when a 20-year-old Dexter (Patrick Gibson) graduates from the University of Miami and makes his way into the local police department as a paid intern. The show, created by original \u201cDexter\u201d showrunner Clyde Phillips, also undoes the seeming finality of \u201cNew Blood.\u201d As it turns out, Dexter survived, and the events of \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d are framed as memories he mulls over while on the operating table. Before introducing Gibson, the camera zooms in so the \u201cEmergency Room\u201d sign instead reads \u201cEmerge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe immediate, insurmountable problem with \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d is that the same superfans who form its target audience are already familiar with its major events, because \u201cDexter\u201d itself was chock-full of flashbacks. Christian Slater may be new to the part of Detective Harry Morgan, but it\u2019s long-established \u201cDexter\u201d lore that Harry helped his adoptive son channel his \u201cDark Passenger\u201d to more (debatably) constructive ends by targeting other killers. Even the identity of his first victim, a nurse who preyed on her patients, is locked into the canon. There aren\u2019t many gaps left in Dexter\u2019s early life for \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d to fill in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOriginal Sin\u201d opts to steer into the skid, embracing repetition rather than putting in much effort to avoid it. Dexter\u2019s coworkers Batista (James Martinez) and Masuka (Alex Shimizu) are introduced exactly as they will be in the first series, right down to their costumes: Batista is a gregarious mensch in a fedora, Masuka is a skeezy lech, and both are already installed at Miami Metro. While Maria LaGuerta (Christina Milian) at least gets a backstory as a new detective who\u2019s been publicly critical of the homicide department\u2019s disproportionate focus on white, well-off victims, she\u2019s not <em>that <\/em>far removed from the woman she\u2019ll be in 15 years. Gibson spends most of the premiere in a ridiculous wig of surfer curls; by the end, he\u2019s got Hall\u2019s haircut, and his inner monologue sounds suspiciously like his predecessor. (Hall returns IRL for the opening scene, but retreats to the sound booth to provide narration throughout.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDexter may be a relative novice at 20 years old, yet he already has his M.O. of wrapping his victims and their environs in plastic \u2014\u00a0both to restrain them and allow for efficient cleanup \u2014\u00a0dialed in. His sister Deb (Molly Brown) is a bratty teenager, and there\u2019s a faint whiff of novelty to \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d as a demented family sitcom about a grieving family with some deadly secrets. (In 1991, Deb and Dexter\u2019s mother has recently passed away.) Dexter\u2019s first kill, initiated by the nurse poisoning Harry when he\u2019s hospitalized after a heart attack, is intercut with Deb\u2019s high school volleyball game. But there\u2019s not enough to unseat the impression that \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d is just playing back the hits, right down to a soundtrack of \u201890s touchstones like \u201cIce Ice Baby.\u201d The show could\u2019ve taken more time to get Dexter in the swing of things; instead, he satisfies his bloodlust and lands the job in 45 minutes of screentime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOriginal Sin\u201d offers some new information via Harry, who gets his own garishly color-saturated timeline set in the 1970s. But the device just turns into an echo of the \u201cDexter\u201d flashbacks, and calls attention to how much the slight \u201890s timeline is in need of padding out. The \u201cfresh\u201d faces in the \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d ensemble are themselves avatars of nostalgia: Sarah Michelle Gellar plays Dexter\u2019s new boss, while Patrick Dempsey appears as the mustachioed, helmet-haired police chief. (At least the hair and makeup departments are having fun!) \u201cOriginal Sin\u201d doesn\u2019t draw any new life from a piece of IP that\u2019s now old enough to vote. It does, however, represent the profit-chasing retrospection that\u2019s devouring culture from the inside out like a termite infestation. All that\u2019s left is a hollow structure to be blown away by the next Miami storm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<em>The first episode of \u201cDexter: Original Sin\u201d is now streaming on Paramount+ and will premiere on Showtime on Dec. 15 at 10 p.m. ET, with remaining episodes streaming on Fridays and airing on Sundays.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/tv-reviews\/dexter-original-sin-review-showtime-prequel-1236249178\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is seemingly not possible for \u201cDexter,\u201d as a franchise, to move forward. 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