A new stay for Dexter ! We had left him in 2013, during a completely meat finale, redo his life in a bearded lumberjack with a checkered shirt. We thought of living eternally with this final considered one of the worst in the history of series. The gods of fiction (and showtime) made it reappear in Dexter : New Blood In 2021, a come-back A little lukewarm in which he passed his son to his son and finished shot in a gunshot.
The “Bay Harbor butcher” returns to rage in Miami this Thursday at 9 p.m. on Canal+ in Dexter: The originsa prequel to the cult series of Showtime. The action took place in 1991, about fifteen years before the initial series. This new spin-off tells how the young Dexter Morgan (embodied by Patrick Gibson) became an avenging serial killer, how he shaped his “code” and how he learned to stay under the radars of the police under The aegis of his father, Harry (Christian Slater).
And it’s not over! The serial killer will soon resuscitate in a suite, scheduled for 2025, entitled Dexter: Resurrection (We can hardly do more explicit!). Why does twenty years after the launch of the original series, Dexter Morgan remains the most popular serial killer on the small screen?
“Dexter”, a morally ambiguous antihero
When Dexter Arrives on Showtime in 2006, the series immediately captivates viewers thanks to an innovative concept and a very daring narrative process at the time: the protagonist is an antihero.
Dexter follows the story of Dexter Morgan, a forensic expert, specializing in the analysis of the traces of blood, who works for the Miami scientific police. So far, nothing new. Except that at night, he wandered in pursuit of the murderers who escaped the judicial system in order to assassinate them.
Cellophane, a knife or a chainsaw, and a total absence of emotion … A particularly meticulous operating mode, which evokes the throbbing and fascinating credits of the series where we see a razor that slides on a cheek, a sharp knife Bacon, a bursting egg, drops of coffee filmed in close -up.
This staging reflects the ambivalent character of the hero, deeply complex: a normal, shy and charming medico-legal expert, a methodical and careful sociopath with a morally ambiguous “code” (he only kills criminals) night. Unheard of in criminal dramas so far!
“Trinity”, one of the best antagonists in history
The immense success of the series is also due to the masterful interpretation of Michael C. Hall, which has just completed the HBO flagship series, Six Feet Underand in 2010 won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for its incredible performance.
Long considered one of the best series of his time, crowned with 35 awards and 109 nominations, Dexter Reached its peak during the ultra-tense season 4 with the introduction of the antagonist “Trinity” (embodied by the prodigious John Lithgow), considered today as one of the best bad guys in the history of the series. Dexter will not have ceased to scuttle from its fifth season, and will end in sausage water in season 8.
“Dexter”, a model for criminal series
The series Dexter paved the way for a large wave of series centered on antiheros and morally ambiguous characters: Mad Menlaunched in 2007 on AMC or Breaking Badlaunched in 2008 on AMC.
The character of Dexter Morgan was a kind of model for modern criminal series on television: Hannibalwho follows Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist coupled with a serial killer, Bates Motelthe prequel to Psychosiswhich also addresses the themes of madness and duality, Youwho follows Joe Goldberg, an obsessive stalker who kills to obtain the love of his victims or The Blacklistwho follows Raymond “Red” Reddington, a criminal who cooperated with the FBI to capture other criminals.
“Dexter”, a strong imprint in pop culture
The series Dexter left his imprint in pop culture. In episode 8 of season 4 of Experts : Manhattanwe see an advertisement appear for the series Dexter placed in Times Square, just like in one of the episodes of season 4 of Californication (another showtime series).
In the Halloween special episode of season 23 of SimpsonNed Flanders is led by a mysterious voice that pushes him to the crime … The murders and the end credits are accompanied by the music of Dexter.
In his song Post Trauma (Groove Sessions II), the French group Chinese Man uses samples extracted from the series. In the title Same song and danceEminem refers to Dexter Morgan.
“Dexter”, a serial killer more true than life
When CBS announced in 2007 rebroadcast Dexter Due to the shortage of original programs caused by the strike of the Writers Guild of America, the Parents Television Council (PTC) protested this decision, arguing that Dexter “Should stay on a premium subscription network” because “the series obliges viewers to experience empathy for a serial killer, to encourage him to defeat, to hope that he is not discovered”. In response, CBS added warnings.
It must be said that the character has unfortunately marked criminal spirits. Dexter Morgan is regularly perceived as a model, a source of inspiration and quoted in criminal business interrogations all over the world (in the United States, Spain, Sweden, Norway, the United Kingdom, etc.) If the character is so popular, it is probably mainly because Clyde Phillips (the showrunner of seasons 1 to 4) knew how to bring us into the sick psyche of a serial killer.
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