The Nordic setting of the new series seems to freeze actions and feelings, as if survival were only ensured by normality
It’s been about ten years since the somewhat disappointing season 8 finale, and Dexter Morgan has rebuilt his life: Dexter. New Blood (Sky Atlantic and Now). For the inhabitants of the town of Iron Lake, none other than the peaceful and affable Jim Lindsay, and no one – not even his partner, police chief Angela Bishop – aware of his past and the Dark Passenger, who in any case is always part of him. . The last time we saw him, Dexter had erased all traces of himself in a remote cabin, the weight of guilt drowning even his inner monologue. Dexter (Michael C. Hall) has a dual personality, according to the great tradition of the double: during the day, affable and kind to colleagues, relatives and children; at night, however, he becomes ruthless with criminals who have escaped the police.
The story, always of a high level, moves on the ridge that separates the rational from its opposite. He says yes: I am a monster, but an evolving monster. Like an old hero of the West, Dexter does justice for himself in the name of a justice he deems superior. Orphaned at the age of four, he was adopted by Harry Morgan (James Remar), a police officer who immediately notices an unbearable homicidal tendency in his son. The father thus tries to right Dexter’s perverse inclination by pushing him to hit only criminals unpunished. Here too, Dexter seeks an emotional bond with the uniform, in an attempt not to awaken his killer instinct. Indeed, the Nordic setting of the new series seems to freeze actions and feelings, as if survival were only ensured by normality, hunting, group dancing. The reboot does not disappoint, the tension accompanies each shot in a writing exercise that mixes sudden flashes with fleeting and mysterious shadows in a dramatic vision.
November 11, 2021 (change November 11, 2021 | 19:27)
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