Dexter surviving new blood alone makes this a 0.5 episode but imma be a little generous since I love Christian Slater and I thought he was great. Apart from that though, really no positives. We've already seen this storyline with Nurse Mary but here it's slightly more fleshed out ig, if anything it just created inaccuracies from the main show. 

The acting bar Christian Slater is awful. Whoever plays Dex has gotta really stop smirking like that and delivering his lines like he's at a stand up comedy show. Deb's actor was OK at capturing Deb tbh but the actual character of Deb is all over the place. Just being an over the top dick at times, then loving dexter, then hating him again then loving then hating, you get the point. Just very repetitive and bland. 

Masuka actor just spamming his laugh? Like idk what they're attempting here but it seems like they're trying to focus on copying the main show exactly. It's literal leeching, and the execution of it is horrendous. Haven't seen Laguerta yet and Angel was there ig? What did he even do? Couple new characters, the head of forensics girl and the captain I'm guessing before Maria. Nothing special about them, nothing to comment on.  

Feels like I'm watching cobra kai without the fighting from this dialogue and how corny it is. Deb at the party after drinking saying "That all you got" just put a frown on my face.

I genuinely feel like nothing happened in this episode, they introduced all these characters that we already know just their younger versions and instead of focusing on how to improve the characters by creating new and interesting things about them, it's like they're just focusing on cheap references so the fans go "Omg he did the thing".  

Anyway that opening is still bullshit, already knew it was happening from the trailer but yh don't see any potential whatsoever.