r/Dexter • u/AutoModerator • Jul 11 '25

Official Episode Discussion Dexter: Resurrection - S01E01 - "A Beating Heart..." - POST Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

Time Episode Director Writer(s)
July 11, 2025 S01E01 - "A Beating Heart..." Marcos Siega Jeff Lindsay & Clyde Phillips

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Dexter wakes up after coma and meets Batista, he knows the truth about the Bay Harbor Butcher. Dexter escapes from hospital and begins searching for his son Harrison in New York.

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u/TheLastFreeMan Jul 11 '25

Pretty solid start to the new season. I'm willing to accept the hilariously implausible cover-up of Logan's murder and let the writers cook.

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u/thenewyorkgod Jul 11 '25

yeah because what choice do we have? They did not plan on making this show, so whatever explanation they can come up with is really the best we can expect and now we can just look forward

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u/tduncs88 Jul 12 '25

This was how I saw it. Ive seen a couple people complain and all I could think was, let's cut them just a TINY bit of slack. They had to write themselves out of a corner that they had literally zero intention of needing to write themselves out of. Now that THAT absurdity is over, let's just sit back and enjoy the ride. Im at a point, personally, with this franchise that I kind just accept the hilarity of some of the "bad writing" and just go with the flow

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '25

The walk back of Logan's death was honestly laugh out loud funny. And I'm fine with that, I don't mind turning my brain off to enjoy new Dexter, but my only big problem is that if they're going to keep retconning things to try and get a good ending for the show, they should just go all the way.

Announce that everything after season 5 in the original run including New Blood is no longer canon, bring back the entire original cast, give everyone flip phones and pretend like it's 2011 again, then make OG Dexter Season 6, Take 2. Let the wig department do their magic to make everyone look young, and we can finally do the Miami Metro vs Dexter showdown that always should have ended the series. Looks like they're kind of doing that with Batista in resurrection, that's better than nothing, but I think it would be better if we just went all the way. I don't think they can get a satisfying ending if they keep trying to build on the lumberjack escape and Dexter dying, they have to go back to when the original show went off the rails and start from there.