Dexter now lives way upstate New York in an isolated, very rural town. Yet somehow this town is populated like the writers were playing intersectional Bingo.
There's a large Spanish speaking population somehow, and the white characters love nothing more than chatting with them in Spanish for some reason.
There's the strong BIPOC female police captain (who is also Dexter's girlfriend) who supports gun control.
She has two deputies: a strong, competent black man who everyone likes and respects, and a buffoonish white dude who plays only as comic relief.
She also has a secretary: a legless, body positive white Karen who enjoys line dancing.
And finally, there's the "lovable" fat, exceedingly gay gun and hunting supply store owner Dexter now works for.
These characters might work in Miami, but were absurd for the setting.
Despite the town's diversity, literally every "bad" character, from the town's local serial killer, to his "entitled, privileged cisgendered white son", to the various drug dealers and henchmen, to the failed school shooter, to his asshole bullies, to the rival high school toughs, were all white men somehow.
There's also the evil, white billionaire Koch brother stand-in, who the writers apparently either forgot about after the first couple of episodes, or if he was intended to be a red herring, are even more incompetent than I thought. Maybe his only purpose was to show off that our characters had the right opinions about petro-billionaires, when they attended the various protests?
Like most new shows, reboots and sequels, there wasn't a new white male character that wasn't either evil or a buffoon.
They also replaced Dexter's ghost dad with his sister, Deb, who's been morphed into a shrill, hectoring harpy. She makes Kamala seem likeable in comparison.
Dexter gives several speeches about how uncomfortable he is selling an "assault rifle" from the gun store.
The words "cisgendered, white male" and "privileged white male" are uttered unironically many times in the series.
They also try and give all of the Indian characters this absurd, unearned gravitas and nobility, which is really odd. It reminds me of the fetishization of Native culture Star Trek Voyager and The X-Files had in some of their worst episodes.
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Dexter evaded the best criminal profilers the FBI and the city of Miami had to offer for decades, but was no match for the sex-positive Asian true crime podcaster and the female, Native American police captain, who team up to bring him down in a matter of days. BIPOC GIRLPOWER!
The writers were trying to pin the real life "missing native girl" phenomenon (seen in Canada and the northern U.S.) on white male serial killers (as the Indian police captain prattles on about endlessly) but in reality this situation is almost certainly the result of the huge violence and crime problem within Native communities themselves. Yet the media keeps insinuating white people are responsible somehow, just like with the attacks on Asians over the past few years, when the perpetrators were almost entirely black.
For the sin of Dexter killing the black deputy who was trying to kill him, Dexter's son - who five minutes ago was also a serial killer - decides that he is no longer a serial killer and that Dexter must die.
Dexter also realizes that he must die, and so he dies.
The patriarch is dead... Death to the Patriarchy!
Like Bond, Han, Luke, Ironman, and Indiana Jones (next year), another white, male "superhero" character dies onscreen. If you're telling me you don't see a calculated trend here, I don't know what to tell you.
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Female writers, by any chance?
You do not have to look it up to be certain of that. Talking about privilege, if a man makes a show and flops he has a hard time getting a new one but if a woman fails is never her fault and she will only fall upwards.
Or be Kathleen Kennedy. Besides making unreasonable demands to change beloved franchises, I have no idea what she actually does for a living. She was more valuable making coffee for Spielberg.
Exactly. They are akin to minority coaches in pro sports.
A lot of them were, but the showrunner is a dude. It looked like it was about 50/50.
Numbers can be deceiving. Since MeToo, women hold all the power in the entertainment industry.
Okay, looked it up. It looks like 3 of the 10 episodes were written (at least in part) by a woman or women, but a bunch of them wrote as a "team" so the room was almost 50/50.
The most prominent is quite a doozy - she was an "award winning" writer on Ugly Betty, and was the creator/showrunner for the gender/race-swapped High Fidelity show that crashed and burned a year or so ago, that even the SJWs couldn't get behind.
That shit was on mainstream TV back in the UK. What a pile of utter shit.
High Fidelity was a great movie and I will buy the book eventually. I wonder who they thought would want to see a gender swap reboot?
jews have total power and in the global media industry, from tv to movies to news to publishing, especially including educational publishing.
jews.
50% female, 49% simps and cuckolds, maybe 1% that's smart enough to keep their mouth shut and collect a paycheck.
It only takes 50.000000001% to control a society that has universal voting. Women are already > ~54% due to men doing all of the dangerous jobs. A percentage of simps just locks in their power.
Mayer Rothschild disagrees.
jew?
I'm betting they all have rather large noses.
I don't have enough exposure to TV and advertising to even know it existed anymore. Good thing though, because while I was a fan of the original series, this remake or sequel or whatever it is you describe just sounds horrible.
Holy fuck, that exists? Why the fuck are they rebooting a show that only finished a few years ago? Is the game of thrones "reboot" already in the works too?
I'm almost impressed how blatantly creatively bankrupt the mainstream "creatives industry" can be.
That's what I thought, but apparently it went off the air in 2013.
what if the world had split off into an end universe in 2013 and we were in the hell world versions of things? hope to f not
LA thinks upstate new york looks like downtown LA
Thanks for the warning. Never watched the original, but glad it's self contained.
Inb4 Dexter has to have a young girl who, of course, is a murder prodigy far better than him, at 7yo, to take over for him
And she's a feminist who only kills "misogynists"
The coastal elites have no idea what rural life is like. They hardly ever get it right, and when they do it's because the director was from a small, rural town.
I doubt it. More likely, they simply don't care what other places look like.
This is our modern Western culture. I don't see much opportunity to combat it, as the majority is firmly onboard with this culture. Women control politics and society. That isn't going to change due to the amount of simps and cuckolds in our culture, with more being trained and conditioned every day.
Get out. Protect your own. Stop watching TV. Stop eating processed foods. Get fit, get strong. Keep your head down and avoid political persection.
women control politics and society?
But doesn't some other group control women?
Had no interest in it after season 5 and onwards was trash. I suffered through season 6 and called it quits.
Smart man...
Although 7 was actually not bad. Probably about as good as 3 or 4.
8 was a fucking disaster, but this reboot makes me think it might get a Star Wars Prequels-like reappraisal. Holy shit.
i could barely watch season 8, so as far as i'm concerned, it doesn't exist, and neither does this flaming shitpile. dexter ended not long after his wife was murdered by someone who out-serial-killered him.
" secretary: a legless, body positive white Karen who enjoys line dancing"
This had me rolling, thanks OP
I only wish I was joking.
She line-dances with no legs?
She's usually in a wheel chair, but puts on artificial legs when it's line dancing time!
Annoying SJW crap the entire season, but putting all that aside (I know, why) it still sucked.
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Angela suddenly ok with helping Harrison get away with murder because he killed a killer (?????)
Harrison siding with his Wrestling Team and Coach instead of the dad whose absence has made his entire life so miserable that he KILLS his dad, whom he just tearfully embraced ~1 episode ago, after Dexter SAVED his life of course.
Harrison realized murder is wrong and now he's cured of his dark passenger I guess? Probably not but I'm sure murdering his father in cold blood will help his psychological issues. Who knows where he's driving or what he will do when the Truck runs out of gas!
Holy shit fuck the pieces of shit writing this season.
I watched the first episode of the new Dexter and gave up. It wasn't even all the woke crap, although that should be enough. The writing was just shit. I said out loud to my wife, "if that rich gun loving guy shoots the albino buck then I'm not watching anymore of this" and then he did.
I watched it and thought the whole darkie population was so stupid cause I lived in upstate new York for a bunch of years before and never saw any black people ever except for these 3 black kids that were adopted by this gay couple that lived nearby and I have been all over upstate cause my dad did carpentry everywhere and I went with him
Dexter's Lab really went downhill, didn't it?
I blame Dee Dee.
I turned off the high seas stream the moment I saw the "climate change" protest by stronk independant whamen (which is about the 1st or 2nd episode).
As soon as you see diverse characters you know the "entertainment" is going to be woke garbage.
I wasn’t all that impressed with how the first Dexter turned out, much less a reboot.
I didn't watch the last episode and reading this I won't watch it now. They actually managed to make this ending worse than the original. Holy shit.
I had planned on watching the original series eventually but considering that this new part came out this year I’m not even surprised
Seasons 1 and 2 are legitimately great TV. 3 and 4 are a little weaker, but still pretty decent. I would still watch it with the intention of bailing at some point in season 5 or at the beginning of 6. There's a few natural stopping points.
Cool. Thanks!
It’s bad, bro. Like at the time there was a real novelty factor to it, but it doesn’t hold up. Like a CW show but on a premium channel
I disagree on it's first few seasons. It has a "heightened reality", sure, but it's meant to be a dark comedy. It's not going for hyper-realism, and I don't think it reaches CW levels of cheesiness.
Not surprised and very glad I didn't bother watching at all.
people who looked upto the character having mental issues notwithstanding, its clear that the agenda is to unwrite as many franchises as they can get the rights to
Stop blindly consuming. I now only watch old classic movies or small budget ones I find on YT.
"There was reboot?" 🤔
I downloaded the 1st episode (LEGALLY of course) but never got around to watching it to see what a shitshow it was.
I thought it was Alaska and the police captain was a native.
Don't forget Doakes and the police chief were both niggers in the old series. Doakes was the only one that didn't fall for Dexter's bullshit. Doakes was also mutilated and crippled in the books. Angel and the Jap were on the PD too and all the main killer (Trinity) was a white, well off dude.
What is weird is his girlfriend is so much like his sister. Her looks and her mannerisms are just like Debra Morgan.
The woke shit is bad but not nearly as bad as most shows out now.
it's a fictional town so they can make up whatever bullshit. it's still trash, but i had to look it up to make sure they weren't pozzing my home
Yes you are
The early Dexter books explicitly reference Moloch. Imagine my surprise when the Hollywood adaptation conveniently removes those bits.
You can download about 25 years of "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" for free from the internet archive. The shows are not setup by season/episode, but who cares, it'll make your brain feel good if you need entertainment, and Mr. Brock is the most awesome dude, 30 years before the crocodile hunter.
Just ya know, for a woke detox.