Resurrection Revives The Franchise After New Blood’s Disappointing Ending
Warning! This article contains SPOILERS for Dexter: Resurrection season 1.Even if you gave up on Dexter a long time ago, Dexter: Resurrection is the perfect reason to get back into the iconic crime thriller franchise. Despite growing to include four Dexter shows, the Dexter franchise has had a rocky history. The ending of the original Dexter was infamously controversial, and the 2022 sequel series Dexter: New Blood didn’t help rehabilitate its image.
A lot of people wrote Dexter off as a lost cause a long time ago. The original show was already declining before its controversial ending, and the ending of New Blood left a sour taste in many fans’ mouths. Despite that rocky history, though, Dexter: Resurrection has completely revitalized the franchise. If you ever liked Dexter, you have to give Resurrection a chance.
Dexter: Resurrection Gives The Franchise The Comeback It Desperately Needed After New Blood
Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan in Dexter Resurrection, episode 7, season 1.Zach Dilgard/Paramount+
As previously mentioned, Dexter was in bad shape after New Blood. There had been two separate wholly disappointing endings to Dexter Morgan’s story, and New Blood was much darker and more grim than fans were expecting. Dexter was barely hanging on after New Blood, and Resurrection was quite literally a resurrection for the franchise.
Dexter: Resurrection basically took everything that New Blood did that didn’t resonate with fans and fixed it. It was much lighter in tone, Dexter was freely killing again instead of being berated by Deb’s ghost, and Harrison became his own, much less annoying character. Resurrection was a complete 180 for the franchise, and it injected new life into Dexter.
Simply put, Dexter: Resurrection season 1 is a masterpiece. It’s arguably the best Dexter story since Dexter season 4, and that even includes the outstanding Dexter: Original Sin. It has given longtime Dexter fans, like me, a taste of the glory days again. Thanks to Resurrection, Dexter finally feels like the premiere TV show it once was over a decade ago.
Dexter: Resurrection’s Season 1 Finale Has One Of The Franchise’s Best Future Setups Ever
If you needed any more reason to jump back into Dexter, there’s also a great chance that Resurrection season 2 will soon be confirmed. For the most part, Dexter as a franchise has had very definitive season finales. Besides Dexter seasons 4 and 6 — when Rita was murdered and when Deb caught Dexter killing Travis Marshall — each season finale could have been the series finale.
Dexter season 1’s finale, for example, wrapped up the Ice Truck Killer storyline, while Dexter season 3’s finale wrapped up Miguel Prado and saw Rita and Dexter get married. There was obviously more story to tell after those finales, but if Dexter had gotten canceled, they would have made for fairly definitive endings. Resurrection, however, is an exception to that trend.
Clyde Phillips, the creator of Dexter: Resurrection, has previously said that he envisioned the show as a multi-season series.
The ending of Dexter: Resurrection season 1 basically requires another season to wrap things up. The finale just revealed the New York Ripper’s identity, Harrison is just starting his journey to becoming a cop, Dexter just stole Leon Prater’s files, and Joey Quinn and Vince Masuka still have to react to Angel Batista’s death. There are so many stories that Resurrection started and hasn’t finished yet.
Unlike previous seasons of Dexter, Resurrection can’t just end after this season. There are too many loose ends and unanswered questions for it to not get renewed. Because of that, it looks like Dexter: Resurrection is going to last at least another season. That, combined with its sheer quality, makes Resurrection the perfect excuse to get back into the world of Dexter.
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