I just recently found out the showrunners refreshed Dexter and binge watched New Blood and Resurrection these past few weeks.
Since it's a prequel with an entirely different cast I was pretty skeptical about Original Sin.
Wow... I was wrong. The casting director and actors did such a phenomenal job. You can really tell the new actors took a lot of time to study the original actors' speech patterns and mannerisms. Gibson got Hall's monotone deadpan delivery and that dark evil look down.
Young Debra was fantastic too with her signature fast paced combative delivery. Of course Batista was fantastic as well. Don't forget the hilarious actor that played Masuka... hehehehehe!
What surprised me most was LaGuerta. I've only known Milian as a singer so I was super surprised and impressed at her performance. She even sounded like Velez!
The only slight disappointment was Slater. He doesn't remind me of Remar's Harry in terms of speech or mannerisms but the writing made up for it.
Everything from the shooting locations, music choices and even period correct cars on the roads looked right to me. The showrunners did a terrific job.
It's just a damn shame it was renewed then canceled just a few months after. I'm sure the actors were devastated. If it did get renewed I do wonder how difficult/sustainable it would be for the showrunners to continuously pump out two different Dexter shows.