“I kind of have a thing about blood”), these new stylistic flourishes and changes give the impression that both viewers and Dexter himself have greater reason to be on edge. It’s almost as if, through this new visual language, the show is letting us know that it’s only a matter of time before Dexter is swallowed whole by this new town and his new life comes crashing down, even if Dexter himself is not yet aware.ĭespite the return of Dexter’s dark humor, as seen in the trailer (“Easy there,” Dexter says with a knowing smile as he recoils from someone waving a knife in a sporting goods store. The trailer depicts scenes where sunlight has been omitted in favor of cloudy skies and faces and locations draped in murky shadow, giving the show a more somber and suffocating atmosphere.
The frigid visuals seem to seep their way into viewers’ bones. There are snow-covered landscapes, darker colors of muted greens and blues, and scenes set in vast forests that convey a deep sense of isolation. The revival omits familiar elements in favor of a chillier season, both in climate and visuals, taking place in the fictional small town of Iron Lake, New York. It doesn’t seem like a coincidence that the revival is subtitled New Blood. As returning showrunner Clyde Phillips told reporters at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, “the moment the first frame comes up, you can see we’re in a whole new world… This is a completely, wholly new environment.” While Dexter devotees might have grown accustomed to the same stylistic flourishes and setting year after year, these bold changes to Dexter’s “house style” actually give the show a chance it never had before: to break free from the confines of its previous iteration and transform itself (and the character of Dexter Morgan himself) into something new and fresh. Gone is the Miami setting, with its vibrant colors, tropical crime scene locations, beachside bars, and yes, Dexter’s signature short-sleeved Oxford shirts. The initial trailer showed that things are definitely not what we’re used to seeing in the Dexter-verse. RELATED: 'Dexter: New Blood' Set Image Reveals First Look at a Grown-Up Harrison Now that we’re approaching the revival’s fall 2021 premiere, its promotional materials are hinting at a drastically different iteration of Dexter than we’ve seen before. When it was announced in late 2020 that the show would be returning as a 10-episode limited series set 10 years after the 2013 finale, fans began to speculate about the revival’s plot. And for a time, it seemed like the only ending the character would receive. It was a depressing ending for a show and character that was fond of black humor. When fans of Showtime’s Dexter last saw the titular forensic blood spatter analyst/vigilante serial killer Dexter Morgan, he was living off the grid as a lumberjack in Oregon, far away from his family and Miami roots.
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