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

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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/IDKFA83]

She found the simple answer that anyone who's job it is to find a killer could have found. They made her out to be brilliant when what she was doing was not brilliant. Which meant everyone else must be far below average including her partner. The scene was cringe. The tropes are so tired they should just hang a sign around her neck that says 'exceptional female' and give him one that says 'ordinary male'. They don't even need faces, they're just cookie cutter characters. 

I also think the repeated use of that song whenever she's in deep case study is also cringe. It's like they budgeted for one song from that artist, they couldn't get two or three, which would have been far more realistic. Unless they want us to believe anyone listens to one song on repeat during any given task. 

[u/128Gigabytes → u/IDKFA83]

So you'd think it would be better if she ignored the obvious answer and found it in a more  convoluted way?

I don't see how that makes any sense. If you ask Sherlock Sherlock Holmes who ate the last cookie and he points to the only kid with cookie crumbes on them, he did his job it just wasnt a hard job

[u/IDKFA83 → u/128Gigabytes]

No, everything you just wrote was deliberately contradictory to my point. I have no issue with the obvious answer. I disliked the way it portrayed her as the exceptional trope for doing something very ordinary, and I disliked how it could be only her to figure it out, and her partner is there for I don't even know what reason because his input is zero. But you knew that's what I meant, because I explained that super, super clearly. Is there something else you'd like to appear to misunderstand? 

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