"Let's say it loud and clear before we begin: the best thing about Dexter now a full-blown franchise will always be Michael C. Hall. And, of course, Clyde Phillips, the man behind such an impeccable creation, who, as he pushes forward with his impossible narrative the killer as superhero, a cursed superhero, or better yet, a dark, elusive one delivers a masterclass in how a plot can be twisted beyond belief if it's spirit or humor aren't lost."
"A sense of humor that has been there in Dexter from the very start, a kind of self-parody that simultaneously spoofs the genre the police-station noir, a blurred, family-friendly Ripley and in which Hall's performance, the tone with which he plays the famous Martian killer (the idea at first was that his lack of empathy would force him to learn to be human as if he'd come from another planet) is essential."
"Dexter Morgan had vanished from the map. After getting rid of Debra, his police-officer sister who continued arguing with him in his snowbound cabin, though by then she was a ghost Dexter had fled, changed his name (to Jim Lindsay, a nod to Jeff Lindsay, the author of the novels the series is based on), and reinvented himself as a social man, a deer hunter working in public view in the small, snowy town of Iron Lake."
Uma Thurman joins the cast of the new plot-twisting Dexter installment within the established Clyde Phillips franchise. Michael C. Hall remains the central strength of the franchise. Clyde Phillips advances the narrative, presenting the killer as a cursed, darkly elusive superhero while keeping the series' spirit and humor intact. The series retains a self-parodic sense of humor that spoofs police-station noir and family-friendly Ripley tones. Hall's performance and tone are essential to this balance. Dexter had vanished, changed his name to Jim Lindsay, and reinvented himself as a social deer hunter in Iron Lake. His son Harrison found him after years apart.
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