New Blood only had 10, now Original Sin only has 10, so why?
I'm spreading the 10 episodes out so by the time I finish the 10th episode it will be May or June and Resurrection will have arrived...
But I wouldn't have to do that if they made 20 episodes instead!
It’s this awful new model they started around 2015. Dexter used to have 12 episodes, as did most Showtime shows. HBO shows had 13, and FX had 14-15. That was the Golden Age of Television — everything was great. But then they started cutting down to 10 episodes, and eventually 8, sometimes even as low as 6. People rightfully complained, and now the standard is somewhere between 8-10, which still isn’t ideal. It should be 12-13.
That’s the sweet spot. More than that, and the writers don’t have enough time to craft the story as well as they could. Any fewer, and you don’t get enough time to really immerse yourself in the narrative. Ideally, you want a show that releases an episode a week, giving you at least 3 months to live with it. That’s when it becomes part of your weekly life, part of the cultural landscape. It’s what gets people talking and brings them together.
I agree 12 or 13 episodes per season would be ideal.
Ideally I would re-watch New Blood since it leads into Resurrection.
But, New Blood was kind of depressing, whereas the 2006-2013 Dexter series was exciting and even uplifting in a way.
And Original Sin is also exciting and uplifting and has the great 90s music.
In about 5 years from now when Original Sin has completed a 5-year run, it will be fun to rewatch 50 episodes!
That's what happened with the 2006-2013 series of Dexter, I only started watching it in about 2010, so I had plenty of episodes to watch consecutively...
That's a great point about the uplifting aspect — that’s exactly what was missing from Dexter: New Blood. Like you said, it was just bleak. And I think you’ve nailed why this new series works despite the entirely new cast. Beyond the great acting, it’s simply a fun show. It feels good to watch.
Yes it does, plus they have a lot of years to play with (since Dexter is only 20), so even though its a prequel it literally could go 10 years if they want it to (or if its popular enough).
Probably won't, because most shows don't go 10 years (and Dexter only went 8 years, prior to New Blood), but Original Sin has a similar sense of excitement to the 2006-2013 series because its here to stay and its in Miami which is a fun place with fun characters.
Whereas New Blood felt like there was limit, like they only brought Dexter back to kill him off or some other unnecessary closure.
Fortunately they got massive backlash for that finale (the New Blood Finale made the 2013 finale look quite excellent), and we have Resurrection which I hope goes for several seasons.
The snow and the depressing atmosphere of New Blood may continue into Resurrection, but at least there will be a lot of suspense and excitement over how Dexter can get himself out of this mission impossible predicament.
I think the writers realize that a truly intelligent serial killer won't ever be caught, so Dexter will never be killed and never be convicted.
Plus the writers know they aren't smart enough to write an "ending" that fans will approve of.
Killers like Ted Bundy only got caught because he was sloppy, and even he escaped twice, and got caught again because he couldn't even drive straight (police pulled him over because he wasn't driving straight)...
So I think Resurrection will be about 4 or 5 seasons, and it will end with Dexter being free and happy (similar to Rambo Last Blood).
And when Michael C. Hall is 70-years-old they can bring Dexter back again, because its interesting to watch a serial killer when they are older.
No it's one season. Doesn't matter if they didn't put mini series. Almost all shows today are basically mini series. They last 2-4 10 episode seasons. Not even two seasons worth of episodes of old TV shows.
Easy to answer. The producers save money over producing 20+ episodes a year.
FYI: in the sixties it was 30-40 episodes. With actors' salary demands these days that would be impossible to pull off.
It could be worse. Some shows will only get a 6 or 8 episode per season run. I know the studios think it saves them money, but it also reduces the audience because a 9 month or longer break greatly increases the odds people will have moved on and found something else to watch.
On the one hand more episodes would be appreciated but then again there is a plethora of many other TV serieses that we would have little to no time to watch them. So nowadays we finish watching one show with ten episodes and move on to the next ten episode series. 24 episodes per season would mean we'd have to focus on a few serieses.