Revisiting a killer's life

'DEXTER: ORIGINAL SIN': TRACES CONVERSION TO LOVED FORENSICS COP

- Hein Kaiser

Sometimes a franchise becomes flaccid, boring and uninteresting with so much of the same that it's better to click through to another show. Well, almost any other show, just as long as it's not a Housewives franchise or the intellectually stimulating, not, Love Island shows. But Dexter: Original Sin is a killer series, in every possible sense of the word.

The prequel to the eight season original show and its sequel, Dexter: New Blood, which took place 10 years after the end of the original franchise and introduced us to Harrison, Dexter's son, and the nurture of his blood lust.

Dexter: Original Sin rewinds everything and takes us back to the when, what, why, where and when of Dexter, and how he became, well, the serial killer forensics' cop we love.

In the new show Dexter's life story is told, narrated by adult Dexter Morgan aka Michael C Hall. It happens after Harrison shot Dexter in New Blood, as his life flashes past him while in the emergency room.

It's a 10-part series and new episodes are available on DStv channel 101 and Showmax every week. The show puts audiences right back in the passenger seat of Dexter's life, and it's another wild ride.