Dexter Resurrection: It’s a miracle! (critical)
Our favorite serial killer returns to life, from this evening on Canal +, in a suite as absurd as exhilarating, which draws a line on “New Blood” to better reconnect with the spirit of the first seasons. The killer takes over service in New York and it works wonderfully.
“But how is it that you are alive? Are you worse than a villain of horror film! You are like Michael Myers! You never die?”
The disbelief of the young Harrison resonates in us with a skillfully controlled sarcasm, when the son finds his serial killer as a sire that he thought he had shot down months ago. No, Dexter Morgan was not dead in the woods at the end of New Blood (as we know in fact since the broadcast of the prequelle series). He survived. And hop, here it is on foot to start hunting… How?
We don’t care, tells us at the outset this new series, which sweeps away from the back of the hand the final sacrifice of the Bay Harbor butcher, then about to be unmasked. Using a most doubtful medico-scientific explanation, she draws an express line on New Blood events, to better embrace what she really is: a real new season of Dexter.
After a few weeks of coma and rehabilitation, the killer tries to find his son, who left for his life in New York. Aware of the trauma he suffered to his child, he intends to repair his faults. But in a Big Apple where there is no shortage of murderers, the predator who was sleeping in him will wake up suddenly. And the pleasure of the hunt will be reborn …
Yes, we are faced with a “resurrection”, in every sense of the word. This new iteration of Dexter, megalopolis sauce, miraculously manages to recreate the atmosphere so singular from the beginnings. It’s cool, loaded with exhilarating nostalgia. And Clyde Phillips finds the pleasure of writing impossible situations to better wedge your tortured antihero. His narrative, dense and winding, deploys a crowd of parallel intrigues, the most exciting of which features Peter Dinklage and Uma Thurman, alongside brilliant guests (like Neil Patrick Harris or Krysten Ritter).
Admittedly, all of this is based on several incredible coincidences and large, perfectly assumed strings. So much so that it is difficult not to have the feeling of looking at a luxury fan fiction, a little wobbly, almost voluntarily absurd. But what a treat! We find with this suite the thrill of the first seasons that we thought disappeared forever. Halleluia!
Dexter: Resurrection, to see on Canal + from Thursday August 21 with 2 episodes per week.
