Dexter: Original Sin Episodes 2 and 3 Review

WARNING: SPOILERS ahead for episodes 2 and 3 of Dexter: Original Sin.

After an over-the-top debut episode, Dexter: Original Sin Episodes 2 and 3, “Kid in a Candy Store” and “Miami Vice”, found a similar nostalgic flow to the original series. While Dexter: Original Sin episode 1 “And in the Beginning…” covered several expected narrative beats from Dexter In the first season, it failed to effectively establish a natural balance between its old characters and new faces.

With the fall of the double episode of Dexter: Original Sinthe prequel series not only pays homage to its classic predecessor, but provides tangible hints that could really fill the big shoes left by the Michael C. Hall-led classic.

Dexter: Original Sin episode 2 reveals who Dexter's second kill was after Nurse Mary, while Dexter: Original Sin episode 3 finally introduces Maria LaGuerta after she was left out of the first two episodes. Christina Milian is rightfully presented as Mariawhich perfectly captures and elevates Luna Lauren Velez's original version. Patrick Gibson's “Dexterisms” only become more frighteningly accurate as Original sin throw it away. Harry's story – which began with the shocking report of Deb's biological brother's death – quickly becomes one of the most fascinating parts of the new series.

Original Sin achieves a compelling, nostalgic Dexter feel in episode 2

Dexter's early kills and Harry's flashbacks become increasingly compelling

Dexter: Original Sin episode 2 still spends a good portion of its runtime setting things up for the remaining eight episodes. Fortunately, everything falls into a familiar rhythm as Dexter learns the ropes on the Miami subway. Now that we've gotten past the Nurse Mary exposition and over-the-top licensed music (there's still a fair amount of it in episode 2, including an interesting Alice in Chains ending), it's easier to see how much care was put into the prequel series.

Giving Miami Metro's Dexter's Signature Donut Offerings Its Own Origin Story was a great Easter egg that speaks volumes about the quality of the Original Sin composition so far. What might have seemed like imitations in Original sin premiere – mainly of secondary characters like Batista and Mauka – are much more fleshed out and polished in episodes 2 and 3.

Once Dexter sets his sights on his next target, a predatory loan shark responsible for the deaths of members of his own community, the addictive and visceral core element of the original series begins to enter the fold. The development of the main story, along with Laura Moser's increasingly engaging flashbacks to an old-school Harry, begins to reduce any doubt that a Dexter prequel series without Hall in the spotlight couldn't work.

The classic Dexter is back in full swing, hunting new target Tony Ferrer in episode 3

Gibson is killing it as Dexter and gets him back into true form

After Dexter puts “Handsome” Tony Ferrer in his crosshairs at the end of episode 2, he embarks on his first kill in episode 3, which involves him going undercover to get closer to his target. This classic Dexter approach is arguably what was missing from New bloodwhich featured the antihero completely out of his element in the freezing winter of upstate New York.

Original sinThe premiere of couldn't escape the inevitable series of questions we had going into it. Can Gibson really do Dexter? Will the new characters mix things up? Can a 2024 prequel capture the storied tone of the original 2000s series, set in 1991? For the most part, the premiere proved to have a lot of potential, which already started to pay off in episodes 2 and 3.

Ferrer is a perfect mid-season Dexter side questwhile the main narrative involving a masked man who kidnapped and mutilated a judge's youngest son takes a back seat – for now. Dexter: Original Sin Episode 3 is when the series really starts to feel like a whole new season of the original, like a Dexter season 0 rather than just an attempt at one.

Episode 3 offers great tension at just the right time, utilizing Dexter's eagerness to kill Ferrerr alongside Harry's growing concern for Laura as she delves deeper into the cartel as his informant. Knowing what's coming, here's hoping there's at least one big reveal about Laura Moseror even Dexter's drug-dealing biological father, Joe, before his horrific shipping container scene.

Dexter: Original Sin episode 3 successfully replaced the initial anticipatory questions about the series' quality with genuine intrigue about where the story goes next, feeling more and more like a vintage season of Dexter with each passing scene.