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Dexter: Resurrection is currently streaming on Paramount+ with Showtime, starting July 11, 2025. Dexter is like a toxic relationship; they always start off good, but often ends badly… but we keep coming back for more! I’m just hoping, maybe this time around, they will get it right with a good, satisfying ending.

Dexter Resurrection Season 2

Everybody’s favorite serial killer of serial killers, Dexter is back with the new season of Dexter Resurrection. Also returning is Uma Thurman (Kill Bill), now as Dexter’s crime partner. To catch you up, in case you don’t keep up with Dexter Morgan, the serial killer who only kills serial killers, it started in 2006 on Showtime adapting Jeff Lindsay’s book Darkly Dreaming Dexter. The show was so successful that Showtime renewed it and the show kept pumping out new seasons, even though they ran out of book material with the first season. Still, it was good enough that we kept watching until the stories started sucking with Seasons 7 and 8.

Season 8 was one of the worst endings in television history – right up there with Lost and Battlestar Galactica (2004). The ending had Dexter’s stepsister falling in love with Dexter, then Dexter killing her (breaking his code!!!) and then becoming a lumberjack. It was simply god-awful, that when Showtime attempted to rectify the bad ending with Dexter: New Blood – they F***** it up again!!!!!! It had Dexter breaking his freaking code again by killing an innocent police officer, and then Dexter’s son, Harrison, killing Dexter. My own quote: “the ending is absolute garbage.”

The problem is that the show writers don’t understand that Dexter has a no-kill innocent code – he only kills serial killers (and only if he can prove it). When he breaks these rules, he’s no better than these other serial killers that he’s hunting.

Anyway, Showtime decided to reboot the series as Dexter: Original Sin, a prequel to Dexter. Despite already knowing all the outcome, I thought the show was pretty good. Dexter was still learning the rules and developing his skills, so it was fresh and new (and enjoyable). Even though Showtime announced a renewal of New Blood, they ultimately cancelled the show.

With Dexter: New Blood ending badly, and even though you saw Dexter die… it is amazing that somehow Dexter came back in Dexter: Resurrection. I’ve been disappointed before, but I thought Resurrection was a return to form for Dexter. The premise is that a billionaire who is a fan of serial killers have a serial killer dinner to celebrate their work. Dexter infiltrated the group by killing one of the killers and then taking his identity. It was pretty good, except for the ending (Dexter can’t seem to land the plane). There’s a lot of loose-ends, and it was unsatisfying. Dexter ends up breaking his own code AGAIN!

I was surprised to see that they’re continuing with the second season of Dexter: Resurrection. In the first episodes, Dexter is tying up the loose-ends from the first season – by killing the Rapunzel killer… and introducing a new serial killer: Five Borough Killer.

So far, I’m curious to see how it ends… but already the writing is kind of clunky and too incidental. For example, Dexter just happens to be at the kill scene of the Five Borough Killer’s second victim – so he sees the killer’s face! And then he got a new boat (Slice of Life Too), it just seems so convenient. It’s fine, as long as it makes sense, I’m on board.

Kill Jackie

I saw Amazon Prime’s Kill Jackie last month, a new show starring Catherine Zeta-Jones. It’s alright, a little too comical for my taste. The action and killing are a little over the top, but I’m assuming that is the same tone taken from the Nick Harkaway’s novel The Price You Pay.

Jackie is an artist or art dealer, who refuse to sell her work to a buyer. The scorned buyer then hired a group of assassins called The Seven Demons.

So, the series is basically about Zeta-Jones killing each of the seven deadly demons. It’s very comic-booky, and not to be taken too seriously. Whenever something as silly as this plot, you realized no matter what happens, Zeta-Jones, and her (adopted) daughter and love interest (?) will always survive. There’s no stakes, so I never felt like anything mattered.

It is a little forgettable. For example, I think at some point she meets her real daughter and her father. I don’t really understand why that was important, but in the end, Zeta-Jones is on top. I hope there is no season two, just let it die.