Watching Resurrection is, miraculously, like stepping into a time machine back to the early days of Dexter, when it was slyly funny and had a firm grasp on its storytelling.

Full Review | Jul 30, 2025

Watching Dexter prowl around New York City is far more compelling than him being miserable in the woods.

Full Review | Jul 28, 2025

The narrative is as interwoven and complicated as a DNA strand, and relies on the acceptance of quite a few major coincidences -- but it all works. Dexter is back, and Michael C. Hall is better than ever.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2025

The reboot is traumatic and the plot is often chaotic, but it leaves us with anticipation. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 25, 2025

This series is the third attempt to explore the cluttered nuances of a killer's relationships and psyche.

Full Review | Jul 23, 2025

It’s hard to see the franchise as anything other than a money grab at this point.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2025

We don’t think even Dexter loyalists will get why Dexter: Resurrection exists, and the first episode doesn’t give us any indication that the season’s story will be at all interesting.

Full Review | Jul 12, 2025

The entire premise of “Dexter: Resurrection” backs the franchise against a wall because a series like this relies on conflict, and now there’s so much less conflict to be had because it’s not like we have to worry about Dexter being killed again.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2025

It’s hard to shake the feeling we’re watching a higher-budget form of fanfiction.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2025

As with previous incarnations of the franchise, the going is thoroughly hokey – but it’s still tremendous fun. One of modern pulp TV’s great creations has never felt more alive than in the enjoyable Dexter: Resurrection.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2025

...this is just more of the same old Dexter – black humour, daft plot twists and lashings of bloody violence – without any real justification for existing.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2025

Resurrection is fun and pulpy in the way Dexter should be, while offering a few clever twists on the original formula. The bad news is that nothing this new season is doing is enough to validate the way it undermines New Blood's extremely good sendoff.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2025

Michael C. Hall's magnetism as Dexter Morgan is one of TV's safest bets. Adding him to a club of NYC killers is the best thing the franchise has done.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 11, 2025

Where “New Blood” tried to expand out and redefine who Dexter can be, “Resurrection” is all about bringing him back to basics, for better and worse.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2025

Based on the four episodes provided to critics, this may be the franchise's most purely entertaining entry since those earlier Clyde Phillips-helmed seasons.

Full Review | Original Score: 7.5/10 | Jul 10, 2025

Dexter: Resurrection is a good return to form for a series that seemingly had nowhere to go after New Blood.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Jul 10, 2025

Hall’s performance is as weirdly compelling as ever, and Resurrection does interrogate whether its own subject matter is an unhealthy obsession in a plotline featuring Peter Dinklage and Uma Thurman.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2025

Dexter: Resurrection does not give the franchise as much of a fresh start as the revival Dexter: New Blood did in 2021. Once it resolves the loose threads from New Blood, however, it becomes a compelling new season of Dexter.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2025

The series gleefully leans into the pulpier side of TV’s friendly neighborhood serial killer.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 10, 2025

This is the Dexter we’ve wanted to see return since the original show ended in 2013, while also furthering the story. It’s filled with thrills, dark humor, a compelling and dramatic story, and another standout performance from Michael C. Hall.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 10, 2025