Review: Dexter: Resurrection, "Call Me Red" | Season 1, Episode 4
"A dinner party for serial killers?"
What do you do when you need to introduce someone even more evil than a serial killer? Easy: You make them a venture capitalist.
One could easily imagine the weaker version of “Call Me Red,” one that fell into the trap of New Blood: Dexter endlessly haranguing himself about his failings as a parent and his desperate desire to do right by Harrison, with everything else taking a back seat. Thankfully, Clyde Phillips and company have learned their lesson. Dexter is at his best when confronting the evil in others, and being pulled in different directions—trying to satisfy his Dark Passenger while still doing right by his family and those he cares about. Because the character wants to have fun, just as much as we want him to; the series flies when embracing that fundamental duality in Dexter. Too much emphasis on either side of the equation, and it tips into either weightless trash or self-serious hokum.
Instead, this episode gives us Krysten Ritt…