I only watched the first episode so far. Liked the assassination at the start, which includes a plot point we are familiar with from Hitman 2016 (attacking the child to lure the parent out. Some details felt odd or unrealistic but I’m curious to see more at the very least.
Song/cityscape transitions usually feel a bit lazy to me though and it seems they will be quite frequent in this show 
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Just watched episode 2 of Day of the Jackal and heard a familiar voice in the short appearance of the character of Spencer. It happens to be Matthew Gravelle (IMDB), who voiced Patrick Carlisle, Rolf Hirschmüller and Corvo Black, among others.
New Alien: Earth teaser that still frustratingly doesn’t show much…but does narrow down the release date to next summer and confirms that the show is set in 2120, two years before Alien.
Doctor Who has announced that a colourised, 90 minute edit of The War Games, the last story of Patrick Troughton’s 2nd Doctor will air on iPlayer on December 23rd. They did a colourised edit of the first ever Daleks story last year. Both in colour but with heavy editing to appeal to modern audiences. What is rather galling is how much material is lost in the process, The Daleks went down to being 185 minutes to 75 minutes, and The War Games - one of the longest stories in Who’s history - is being reduced from 250 minutes to 90 minutes. Granted, those original run times had several opening and closing titles to get rid off but even still. It’ll be an achievement if this new cut of The War Games is even comprehensible.
Kindof blurs the line as well in my view of this being an official product to attract new viewers, and something that is essentially a glorified fan project. They’re even redoing Troughton’s regeneration to fit with the regeneration scenes of the new show, which to me is borderline sacrilige, especially when the original War Games has such a haunting ending.
New trailer for Dexter: Original Sin. The first few seconds already give us context for how Resurrection is going to begin. Dexter is taken to the hospital after the gunshot, and as they try to resuscitate him his life flashes before his eyes. Original Sin is him reliving his past, and presumably Resurrection will be him waking up.
This could also explain any discrepancies that may exist between Original Sin and the original series. Similar to how Young Sheldon explained its discrepancies with The Big Bang Theory by having Sheldon’s narration (in either series, not confirmed as yet which one) of events not being an accurate account of things, Dexter may not be remembering things in one of the two series that matches up with what actually happened. I don’t they could go as far as having him kill more people than we know he canonically killed, but certain other events that he described as happening, or even things that we saw happen in the original show, if they don’t line up, it can be attributed to Dexter being an unreliable narrator.
Proper Severance trailer. Watched it once, now I’m not going to think about it again until Jan. 17. (Also, not enough Turturro, not enough Walken.)
I hope Yellowjackets can turn it around in season 3. 
I like season two enough, but adult Natalie’s death felt so cheap and tacked on.
I like Yellowjackets, but the show really has the feeling of “we’re making this up as it goes along”. So I don’t know if I’ll be watching Season 3 for a continuation of the story or to see what weird directions they take the show, but I’ll probably enjoy it.
From what I’ve read, they had all five seasons planned out…but they had to pivot at the last minute when Juliette Lewis unexpectedly decided to leave the show which affected a large chunk of what they wanted to do with the modern day storyline and (obviously) led to the event Rattle mentioned.
Never seen that show, but let me guess: Lord of the Flies but with girls, and in the modern day it turns out that they did some bad shit during that time, including murder, and it’s all coming out. That about right?
I don’t know what this will be but aardman doing a Pokémon thing sounds cool
Still the funniest moment in the show. Okay tied with Prado’s rant on the Police rooftop and Arthur’s jig
Okay while we’re on Dexter, I either never knew or completely forgot that he killed a raccoon in season 5! He calls in a dead raccoon to lure in Boyd Fowler, and Boyd surmises that the raccoon was killed somewhere else and dumped there, even remarking that it had defensive wounds and put up a struggle. What the fuck Dexter, I like raccoons. More reason to treat seasons 5-8 as loose fantasy.
I think Season 5 and some aspects of Season 6/7 were good. Season 8 is erm… Season 8.
Season 5’s Formaldehyde Barrel Girl Case is a nice idea, very messed up, very Dexter, however the Police taking the better half of the season to
actually investigate the deaths and track down the correct suspects and the lack of emotion and depth character wise, the big bads had (aside from Fowler and Chase) led me to feel… eh after it was all done. None of the kills were interesting or unique, just “yay go Dexter”.
Season 6 had a strong premise with the religion theme and the comparisons to Dexter’s Code, however I felt they offed Brother Sam far too quickly and left that arc in the rough because Travis and Geller didn’t create that same dynamic. I think the reveal that Geller was killed and stored in a freezer in the Church the whole time and is Travis’ Psychotic “Dark Passenger” was a good idea on paper but I smelled it a mile away and it was basically comfirmed when they were both in broad daylight while Geller was being hunted by Miami Metro, in the scene when they were vetting the Whore Of Babylon iirc and Travis picks up the newspaper with Geller’s face on it. This season just felt like a big missed opportunity and could have served as a good season under the orginal writers I think. I mean the kills were creative and very impressive, giving me True Detective Season 1 vibes at points.
Season 7 is actually the season I’m on currently for my 2024 rewatch and Serko is such a good big bad but once again the whole Hanna plot is awful. I’m the biggest Hanna hater ever to roam the earth, I wish Serko lasted longer than he did and was the sole drama in the season. His reveal with Viktor was nicely played out throughout the season. yes I did guess and predict it as soon as Viktor died but it just added humanity and sadness to Serko, it raises the question “are you rooting for Serko and his Revenge or Dexter?” In my eyes it’s the last season of Dexter (okay in a perfect world it would be Season 4) because season 8 is not Television and Dexter: New Blood is just boring, grey and not tense in the slightest as I could predict everything better than a Tarrot Card.
I’m a really huge fan of Dexter and honestly Dexter: Orginal Sin and Dexter: Resurrection scare me, I already distain the way the franchise has gone and I hooe they don’t mess it up again, again with. The Dexter: Orginal Sin trailer gives me mixed feelings, I think the casting, hair and costume department hit the nail in the head with picks from what we can see, however is it just me or does Dexter: Orginal Sin look so… grey and muted for a Miami, Florida setting? At least it seems they’ve keeping the mournful, yet curious score from the orginal show, as seen in the trailer the other week. I thought Dexter: New Blood’s score was good but nothing beats the classics.
I’m just going to spoiler tag all of this because I’m feeling lazy.
Honestly my issues with 5 start off the bat when Dexter says that he’s seen 67 people die. His first slide box had 46 slides, and by the middle of season 4 his second box had 24 (he collected two more that season, so make it 26 by s5ep1). That’s not even counting early kills where he didn’t take slides. So they make a vital mistake from the getgo that could have easily been verified in the writer’s room but wasn’t, and then a minute later Masuka remarks “I’ve always dreamed of seeing her (Rita) naked, but not like this.” He’s a pervert but he’s not that fucked up, look at how he behaved after Batista’s stabbing in season 1. The whole season is filled with stuff like this, it’s kind of fun but it’s just not right. This is obviously because Chip Johanessen replaced Clyde Phillips as showrunner.
Unfortunately, things didn’t really improve at all with Scott Buck, who should have been a good pick for showrunner considering his veteran status on the show. But instead he just made the series really cartoonish, Doomsday was totally off the rails and completely ungrounded the show and then the next season they introduce Ukrainian mobsters? Season 7 should have been largely focused on Laguerta’s pursuit of the real BHB and the newfound tensions between Dexter and Debra (which it was at the beginning and at the end, but everything in the middle is a waste). Hannah is a hollow and inconsistent character, the only interesting thing about her arc was her classy departure at the end of the season and they still manage to mess that up in 8 by having her come back to do… nothing, really. Season 8 is just a disaster all around though, there’s really not much that I want to say about it beyond that. I actually didn’t hate the ending of Dexter self-imposing isolation on himself but the path they took to get there was comical and insulting.
I really like New Blood, I think they did a lot right. In my opinion it’s a little awkward for the first few episodes, but from the moment that Angela discovers Dexter’s real identity at the end of episode 5 and onwards I think that it turns into an excellent season that I really enjoy rewatching. My only real reservation regarding Resurrection is that I actually liked New Blood’s ending. I found it very surprising and sort of frustrating at first, but as time passed I became comfortable viewing it as tragic, poetic and beautiful. I quite frankly don’t expect them to outdo it. That said, I love the character and I trust Clyde Phillips to keep steering him in the right direction, so if they can keep up the quality then I’ll keep watching until they’re finally finished. I am genuinely divided on Original Sin though, as excited as I am for it I had mixed feelings regarding the sneak peak that they released. I’m going in with tempered expectations and a dash of optimism.
Has anybody been watching the Day of the Jackal 2024 TV show? Got some great HITMAN-like moments and having just finished off the penultimate episode, the sniper scene was so cool! Makes me want to play Sniper Assassin all night now! 
So, Original Sin. Overall I liked it. I didn’t love it, but it was fun and an interesting twist on this world. Young Deb is good casting, she felt authentic and clearly studied Jennifer Carpenter’s vocal mannerisms to portray a similar but different (younger) iteration. The same goes for Masuka, and his nine inch nail. I’m still not completely sold on Patrick Gibson as Dexter tbh but he doesn’t bother me, it just feels like watching an alternate version of a character we already know which is kind of the point of the show being an imagining of events in Dexter’s mind. Still, Gibson has too much of a southern twang to his voice for him to feel fully convincing. Also I find Christian Slater to be a somewhat bizarre choice for Harry, because he looks and sounds absolutely nothing like him, but I’m still enjoying his performance and don’t have any issues outside of just how different he is.
I like that they twist the lore a bit and make Dexter more actively responsible for selecting Mary as his first victim, they portrayed the “green light” scene exactly as they did in season 1 except they add additional context to show Dexter being more manipulative and possessing more agency. I found it interesting that he didn’t start dismembering his victims right away, which only goes to show how surprising it must have been when Harry finally saw (will see) Dexter butchering Ryness. He didn’t know that dismemberment was going to be part of Dexter’s pathology, because neither did Dexter at first.
There are some minor technical things that bother me. There’s this loud, cartoonish crunch sound that plays in the intro after Dexter takes a bite of bacon that absolutely baffles me, it sounds so bad and I really hope they edit it out for future episodes. And at the very beginning when we see Angela driving Dexter to the hospital, the cgi snow and car effects are distractingly bad. I guess they weren’t able to shoot in the winter, so their options were limited for a shot like that, but jeez they could have done it better. Still though, I love that we have the sequence at all because it’s the first genuine glimpse that we have of the story following New Blood.
So even though it’s a little off in parts, I’m enjoying it and can’t wait for next week to see more. We’re really spoiled as Dexter fans in the present day, it would have been such a shame if the show ended with season 8. Long live the Bay Harbour Butcher.
Quote blurred due to New Blood spoilers.
“When I wrote that [New Blood] finale — which was the most watched single episode in the history of Showtime, by the way — the internet went insane over it. Because they loved Dexter so much and they love Michael Hall so much,” Phillips recalls about the big reaction to Dexter’s death. “I wanted to take out ads at the time that said: ‘I only had Michael Hall for one year.’ Back when we did New Blood, I only had him for one year.”
He continues, “I didn’t want him going off to prison or disappearing into the fog or any of that business [in the finale], so I decided to be bold about it. The internet hated it.”
Then, he got a call from Hall.
“Michael came back to me and said, ‘You know what, Dexter’s in my bones; Dexter’s in your bones, Clyde. Let’s keep going. Can you figure out a way to make it happen?’ And I did,” he says.
