Hall does his best with what he has to work with, but sadly he has very little to work with. The writing is bad. Lazy. Careless. Boring. Dexter is hardly Dexter anymore. There's no depth to him. There's little of the sense of his emotional disconnect from the rest of humanity. And sure, he grew to apparently experience some human-like emotion as the original series wound down, but he was still disturbingly different. That is largely missing in the writing. What there is of it comes from Hall himself. And even if you can bend over backwards to suspend your disbelief with some of the stuff that happens, there's the amnesia the writer's seem to suffer from when some obvious stuff contradicts what they've done previously. And though there is a lot that does not make sense, you can still see everything major that happens coming from a mile away. Some other reviews mentioned the bad CGI and cheap looking production values. That stuff is there but doesn't bother me. I am very forgiving in those areas when low budget projects bring a great story. Alas, far from a great story here. If you miss Dex, an episode of this should be enough to convince you that you're missing nothing.
Review of Dexter: New Blood
