Reputed Miami Police bloodstain analyst Dexter Morgan (Michael C. Hall) hasn’t killed for 10 years. His name is now Jim Lindsay and he earns his living behind the counter of a pretty hunting and fishing shop in a quaint New England village.
Think here of the decor of Gilmore Girls or any sweet movie and cheapo Hallmark Christmas Party with its annual pecan pie competition. Dexter / Jim goes out with the local police chief and dances in line (phew!) With his neighbors at the local pub between two bites of nachos and a swig of IPA. Yes, it’s cheesy as well, all lying on a carpet of artificial snowflakes.
Ah yes, Jim / Dexter lives in an ascetic log cabin, in the middle of the forest, and he loves to run in overalls in the snow like in the Rocky movies. Adios the muggy heat of Miami, Dexter / Jim wears the winter beanie as he donned the tight-fitting t-shirts at the time.
This sequel to the popular bloody series, which comes eight years after a disastrous finale where the red-haired skinner faked his own death in a hurricane, before reappearing in an Oregon lumber yard, will arouse no compulsion, no outpouring of love. pleasure. It’s just ordinary, very disappointing, too slow, none at all up to the first four seasons, which were so compelling and original with the hunt for the Trinity Killer (John Lithgow).
The first episode of Dexter: New Blood was deposited Sunday evening on the Crave platform of Bell Media, which will release a new one every week. I saw four of them this weekend and I won’t be rushing to tackle the last six.
Obviously, the murderous impulses of Jim / Dexter, who imposes a discipline of military life to repress them, emerge in a bath of hemoglobin. And, of course, the Miami serial killer once again unwraps his old paraphernalia of scalpels, choppers and plastic rolls. It smacks of déjà vu. The viewer is not concerned that Dexter is making a fatal mistake. This intriguing cat and mouse game no longer exists.
The story then wanders into a conflict with Indigenous people and a plot modeled after the Columbine Massacre, which has been shown too many times, in too many series. Also, several secondary characters go beyond the stage of caricature and it’s embarrassing to see them babbling in a so-called horror production.
At the same time, several young women disappear from the reserve near the village, captured by a man who can hardly be seen in the first four hours. The most interesting of Dexter: New Blood, which will land in French on Sunday, December 5 on Crave, is the arrival of Dexter’s teenage son, Harrison (Jack Alcott).
Father and son saw their parents butchered before their eyes. But Harrison seems more balanced and sociable than his dad. Still, something is wrong with this brilliant teenager with nebulous motivations.
In the first draft, it was Dexter’s foster father, the benevolent Harry, who served as his moral conscience. Remember, the famous code that allowed Dexter to behead bad guys who deserved it, it came from Harry.
In Dexter: New Blood, it is the dead sister of Dexter, the mischievous but sympathetic Deb (Jennifer Carpenter), who takes over this role of ghost. But with an aggressiveness and anger that detonates in this cerebral and calculated universe.
In short, this resurrection of Dexter will displease the amateurs of the beginning and will certainly not create new addicts. Who will watch her, then?
ADISQ in free fall!
It did not take a well polished crystal ball to predict that the ADISQ gala would tumble in the polls of the firm Numeris. The questionable choices made in the construction of this very ordinary ceremony as well as the election evening on the 24-hour news channels caused the fall of the Quebec music festival.
Sunday evening, 677,000 people watched this gala heated by Louis-José Houde, down 33% compared to the ratings of 1,015,000 viewers that were collected in 2020. In 2019, ADISQ had retained the attention from 1,230,000 fans, almost double Sunday. The downward trend of all Quebec galas does not seem to be slowing down, on the contrary. On LCN and RDI, coverage of the municipal elections involved a total of 459,000 telephones, which roughly corresponds to the net loss of the ADISQ gala in 2021 compared to that of 2020.
At VAT, Masked singers pranced at the top with its 1,497,000 followers, followed by Revolution (1,134,000), from VAT 6 p.m. (983,000) and The goose that lays golden eggs (866,000). Double occupation in the West approached ADISQ with 559,000 die-hard listeners, who witnessed the “magic” of the moment Bell, introduced just when the beautiful Marilou was about to go by the wayside, hey, hey. A happy coincidence, right?