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Dexter

Ninety-six episodes, then three separate series that each start again at episode one.

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Where to start with Dexter

One long series and then three short ones, and the only thing that trips people up is that the later three are separate shows that each restart at episode one rather than seasons nine, ten and eleven.

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    Dexter, season 1 Dexter

    Twelve episodes adapting the first Jeff Lindsay novel, and still the cleanest run the show ever had. Nothing before it and nothing you need to know going in.

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    Dexter, season 4 Dexter

    The season the whole show is remembered for, and the one everything after it is reacting to. Watching it out of order would give away the only thing it has.

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    Dexter: New Blood Dexter: New Blood

    Ten episodes set ten years on, and it only makes sense if you have seen the 2013 finale, because it is built entirely on the fact that everyone thinks he died.

Then what? Finish the original eight seasons before New Blood, including the finale, which is the thing New Blood is answering. Then Resurrection, which picks up about ten weeks later. Original Sin can go anywhere after that: it is set in 1991 but framed by a scene that happens between the other two, so it reads best once you know both ends.

A suggested way in, not an official one. The full list is below — tick anything off in either place.

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