December 21, 2024 • 9 mins
ICYMI: ‘Later, with Mo’Kelly’ Presents – Mark Rahner’s review of the new Paramount+ series ‘Dexter: Original Sin’ in ‘The Rahner Report’ - on KFI AM 640…Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I, A M six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty talks about pop culture, Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Kay if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart App. It's the Runner Report and I'm Mark Ronner.
Two things up front. I am still pissed about how
awful Dexter New Blood was a couple of years ago,
especially the ending. And I'm going to give you a
spoiler here. It's two years old. Dexter's own annoying son
killed him at the end. Number two Young Sheldon, Young
(00:50):
Indiana Jones, Young James Bond, Young Sherlock Holmes, young John Seaholmes.
I don't care about any of that. Just the other day,
Tula and I were still joking about the basin madness
of the Young Hans Solo movie and how he got
his name more like Hack Solo. These greedy dips into
the well with characters we love usually suck, but at
least they also diminish the characters. It's kind of like
(01:12):
getting into a body count discussion with somebody you've been dating.
You may think you want to know it, but you
don't usually feel great By the end of it. But
dexter Original Sin is mostly an exception to that rule.
I'm not going to leave you in suspense. I liked it,
and I found myself smirking through the whole thing. Here's
some of the trailer, and I hope there's no dirty
words in it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It really is like they say, your life flashes before
your eyes. In the beginning, there was blood in a
code I learned from my father, the code to make
sure you are different from the people that you're killed.
You a simple kill the bad guys who escaped justice.
(01:58):
Don't get caught myself.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
If anyone knows how powerful lurgies can be, it's me.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Trust me, you stay, of course you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
All dex plemi side looks good on you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Couldn't agree more about staff.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Where's my desk photographed?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The entire scene, spatter matters.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's starting to look like a serial killer art project
up in here.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And so I got myself a job.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Welcome to Miami Metro the first day of the rest
of your life.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That seems like a good place to stop it now.
When I first read that, after Dexter had died again
by getting shot by his own annoying son that they
were going back to the well with a young Dexter
origin series. My reaction was something along the lines of
you pieces of crap? Do you have to ring every
last drop out of absolutely everything? Have you no decency?
Let's be honest here. That fourth season of Dexter with
(02:56):
John Lithgow as Trinity was maybe the high point of
the series, and they should have ended it before Dexter's
sister decided she wanted to get it on with him,
among assorted other things, jump the Shark, and there's not
a living being on this planet who actually liked how
the series wrapped up. Let's just be straight here. If
it's not on lists of all time disappointing series finales,
all right, that mother, I'll write that list myself and
(03:19):
Dexter will come right after Lost. They kind of pulled
something off here, though. It's a college aged Dexter before
he becomes the vigilante serial killer and police a blood
spatter expert. We know on Love. His father Harry still
alive in this and played by Christian Slater. Patrick Dempsey
is the head of the precinct, and Sarah Michelle Geller
is another one of the cops. It's kind of freaking
(03:40):
me out seeing these actors playing the old people, because
never mind, I still have plenty of hair and the
skin of a fetus bathed in oil of ola. We're
gonna move on. Michael C. Hall narrates the show, and
the young version of him in the show is played
by Patrick Gibson. He's an Irish actor I'd never seen before,
and he absolutely nails the speed and mannerisms of Hall.
(04:01):
It's great fun to watch all that, and all the
actors doing impressions of the originals. Even the guy who
plays young Masuka the office PERV. You heard it in
the trailer. He's got the laugh down so well that
it almost steals the show. The show's got a jaunty pace,
which is what you look for and shows about serial killers.
If you like the original series, this won't actually feel
like someone's defiling it. There are moments involving Dexter's first
(04:25):
kill and his dad drilling the code into him that
seem like they kind of have a toe in Young
Hans solo territory, but nothing that'll make you shout oh,
come on at the TV, which I absolutely never do,
and never with dirty words that my landlady hears ever,
all right, publicists, listen up, here's your pull quote. Your
greed and refusal to let any decent work of popular
(04:47):
art have a dignified end makes me ill and angry.
But the Dexter prequels pretty watchable, and I would like
to exsanguinate you for that. Now here's a PostScript, a
long PostScript. Not everything's about me, but this sort of is.
As a comic book writer, I wrote a number of
Vamparella books. You know, her horror character been around since
the sixties. Where's sort of a bar at type of
(05:08):
revealing costume that would get the attention of adolescent young
comic reading boys. Different writers wrote Vampirella different ways. My
Vamparella stories we called her Vampi. They were one shot
pop culture parodies, and when Dexter was still in its
original run, toward the end, I wrote, Vamparella meets Baxter.
You got to change the name so you don't get sued,
(05:32):
And boy did I have fun with that with Baxter.
I mean, I think I called his dark Passenger. You
had references to the dark Passenger, which essentially is his
urge to kill. I called that a shadow writer, and
I took it in a supernatural and fairly disgusting direction
you'd never see in the show, while amping up the
absurdity of Dexter having these long conversations with his dead
(05:53):
dad Harry I mean Larry, because we don't want to
get sued. Now. This was before the Dexter Trevy TVs ended,
and I'm here to tell you that I wrote an
ending with Baxter disappearing to the Pacific Northwest before the
actual finale of the show that outraged everybody so badly,
in which he moved to the Pacific Northwest. I don't
(06:13):
know what they were thinking with the show. It just
seemed like they were kicking over the card table. I
was living in Seattle at the time, and my thought was, well,
the Northwest has more than its fair share of serial killers.
It's probably because of all the miserable, rainy, cloudy, depressing
weather and Dexter, I mean Baxter would fit right in there.
I didn't win anything for this, and I also don't
(06:34):
make a dime. If you read the book, it's in
a collection called Vampirella Bites. It's also got satires on
true Blood, Buffy I mean Fluffy, and other stuff you'd
probably get it free online from the library. I got
my insultingly low page rate when I turned in my
script back in twenty thirteen. And I'm not telling you
any of this because I stand again a single thing.
I'm telling you because if you're a Dexter fan like
(06:56):
I am, I love the show, you might find the
story funny. And we all have favorite shows that go
off the rails and we wish we could burn them
to the ground with satire, or rewrite them, or comment
on them somehow or otherwise just inhabit the characters. It
was even fun to write his sister deb I mean
Babs with her hilariously filthy mouth. That was what I
(07:17):
was afraid of with the trailer that she was going
to swear. I'll just leave you with this. There's going
to be another sequel series called Dexter Resurrection, with Michael C.
Hall reprising the role of Dexter. In other words, he
didn't really die after getting shot by his annoying son.
And to that, I say, you pieces of crap? Do
you have to ring every last drop out of absolutely everything?
(07:38):
Have you no decency? That's your run of report? Mo?
Are you a Dexter fan?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
No, I'm actually not, but you're making me become one
the way you describe it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, because no, I.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Never had any real interest in it. But if I
should begin, I will start with this series and watch
it in a more sequential way.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's kind of an irresistible premise, which is a serial
killer who's almost a superhero the way he has depicted.
I mean, he's got a costume that he is standard
for when he goes out to kill, and he's he
only goes after bad guys. He's a killer who kills
bad guys's and Michael C. Hall is terrific in it.
(08:17):
The whole cast is tons of fun. And I'm not
kidding you when I say watching all these young actors
do their impressions, it could easily devolve into an SNL sketch.
But it's just a ton of fun. They somehow managed
to dodge the bullet of the of the young fill
in the blank.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's usually hard for me to get into prequels because
I like to see this story advanced, not go back
to the beginning, because I know there's no stakes. If
someone was in the original series or movie, well, I
know in the prequel they can't die. Yeah, you know,
there's certain there's limitations placed upon what the prequel can
do and where it can go.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, you know, Dexter survive well, he survives everything. He
even survived getting shot by his annoying son. He survives
it all. But it's a lot of fun because it's
got the exact same look and feel and sound and
rhythm of the original show. You have it on your
shelf right along with the others if you still collect
that kind of thing, and it won't feel like crappy
(09:17):
fan fiction like some of this stuff does. I think
you might have convinced me, just might have convinced me
you're gonna owe me for another one. I wouldn't say
that it is Later with mo Kelly, You can't. If I
am six forty OnLive Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
You're listening to Later with Moe Kelly on demand from
kf I, A M six.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Forty talks about pop culture, Ron and Report with Mark Ronner.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Kay if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeart App. It's the Runner Report and I'm Mark Ronner.
Two things up front. I am still pissed about how
awful Dexter New Blood was a couple of years ago,
especially the ending. And I'm going to give you a
spoiler here. It's two years old. Dexter's own annoying son
killed him at the end. Number two Young Sheldon, Young
(00:50):
Indiana Jones, Young James Bond, Young Sherlock Holmes, young John Seaholmes.
I don't care about any of that. Just the other day,
Tula and I were still joking about the basin madness
of the Young Hans Solo movie and how he got
his name more like Hack Solo. These greedy dips into
the well with characters we love usually suck, but at
least they also diminish the characters. It's kind of like
(01:12):
getting into a body count discussion with somebody you've been dating.
You may think you want to know it, but you
don't usually feel great By the end of it. But
dexter Original Sin is mostly an exception to that rule.
I'm not going to leave you in suspense. I liked it,
and I found myself smirking through the whole thing. Here's
some of the trailer, and I hope there's no dirty
words in it.
Speaker 4 (01:33):
It really is like they say, your life flashes before
your eyes. In the beginning, there was blood in a
code I learned from my father, the code to make
sure you are different from the people that you're killed.
You a simple kill the bad guys who escaped justice.
(01:58):
Don't get caught myself.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
If anyone knows how powerful lurgies can be, it's me.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Trust me, you stay, of course you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
All dex plemi side looks good on you.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Couldn't agree more about staff.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Where's my desk photographed?
Speaker 2 (02:21):
The entire scene, spatter matters.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
It's starting to look like a serial killer art project
up in here.
Speaker 4 (02:29):
And so I got myself a job.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Welcome to Miami Metro the first day of the rest
of your life.
Speaker 3 (02:34):
That seems like a good place to stop it now.
When I first read that, after Dexter had died again
by getting shot by his own annoying son that they
were going back to the well with a young Dexter
origin series. My reaction was something along the lines of
you pieces of crap? Do you have to ring every
last drop out of absolutely everything? Have you no decency?
Let's be honest here. That fourth season of Dexter with
(02:56):
John Lithgow as Trinity was maybe the high point of
the series, and they should have ended it before Dexter's
sister decided she wanted to get it on with him,
among assorted other things, jump the Shark, and there's not
a living being on this planet who actually liked how
the series wrapped up. Let's just be straight here. If
it's not on lists of all time disappointing series finales,
all right, that mother, I'll write that list myself and
(03:19):
Dexter will come right after Lost. They kind of pulled
something off here, though. It's a college aged Dexter before
he becomes the vigilante serial killer and police a blood
spatter expert. We know on Love. His father Harry still
alive in this and played by Christian Slater. Patrick Dempsey
is the head of the precinct, and Sarah Michelle Geller
is another one of the cops. It's kind of freaking
(03:40):
me out seeing these actors playing the old people, because
never mind, I still have plenty of hair and the
skin of a fetus bathed in oil of ola. We're
gonna move on. Michael C. Hall narrates the show, and
the young version of him in the show is played
by Patrick Gibson. He's an Irish actor I'd never seen before,
and he absolutely nails the speed and mannerisms of Hall.
(04:01):
It's great fun to watch all that, and all the
actors doing impressions of the originals. Even the guy who
plays young Masuka the office PERV. You heard it in
the trailer. He's got the laugh down so well that
it almost steals the show. The show's got a jaunty pace,
which is what you look for and shows about serial killers.
If you like the original series, this won't actually feel
like someone's defiling it. There are moments involving Dexter's first
(04:25):
kill and his dad drilling the code into him that
seem like they kind of have a toe in Young
Hans solo territory, but nothing that'll make you shout oh,
come on at the TV, which I absolutely never do,
and never with dirty words that my landlady hears ever,
all right, publicists, listen up, here's your pull quote. Your
greed and refusal to let any decent work of popular
(04:47):
art have a dignified end makes me ill and angry.
But the Dexter prequels pretty watchable, and I would like
to exsanguinate you for that. Now here's a PostScript, a
long PostScript. Not everything's about me, but this sort of is.
As a comic book writer, I wrote a number of
Vamparella books. You know, her horror character been around since
the sixties. Where's sort of a bar at type of
(05:08):
revealing costume that would get the attention of adolescent young
comic reading boys. Different writers wrote Vampirella different ways. My
Vamparella stories we called her Vampi. They were one shot
pop culture parodies, and when Dexter was still in its
original run, toward the end, I wrote, Vamparella meets Baxter.
You got to change the name so you don't get sued,
(05:32):
And boy did I have fun with that with Baxter.
I mean, I think I called his dark Passenger. You
had references to the dark Passenger, which essentially is his
urge to kill. I called that a shadow writer, and
I took it in a supernatural and fairly disgusting direction
you'd never see in the show, while amping up the
absurdity of Dexter having these long conversations with his dead
(05:53):
dad Harry I mean Larry, because we don't want to
get sued. Now. This was before the Dexter Trevy TVs ended,
and I'm here to tell you that I wrote an
ending with Baxter disappearing to the Pacific Northwest before the
actual finale of the show that outraged everybody so badly,
in which he moved to the Pacific Northwest. I don't
(06:13):
know what they were thinking with the show. It just
seemed like they were kicking over the card table. I
was living in Seattle at the time, and my thought was, well,
the Northwest has more than its fair share of serial killers.
It's probably because of all the miserable, rainy, cloudy, depressing
weather and Dexter, I mean Baxter would fit right in there.
I didn't win anything for this, and I also don't
(06:34):
make a dime. If you read the book, it's in
a collection called Vampirella Bites. It's also got satires on
true Blood, Buffy I mean Fluffy, and other stuff you'd
probably get it free online from the library. I got
my insultingly low page rate when I turned in my
script back in twenty thirteen. And I'm not telling you
any of this because I stand again a single thing.
I'm telling you because if you're a Dexter fan like
(06:56):
I am, I love the show, you might find the
story funny. And we all have favorite shows that go
off the rails and we wish we could burn them
to the ground with satire, or rewrite them, or comment
on them somehow or otherwise just inhabit the characters. It
was even fun to write his sister deb I mean
Babs with her hilariously filthy mouth. That was what I
(07:17):
was afraid of with the trailer that she was going
to swear. I'll just leave you with this. There's going
to be another sequel series called Dexter Resurrection, with Michael C.
Hall reprising the role of Dexter. In other words, he
didn't really die after getting shot by his annoying son.
And to that, I say, you pieces of crap? Do
you have to ring every last drop out of absolutely everything?
(07:38):
Have you no decency? That's your run of report? Mo?
Are you a Dexter fan?
Speaker 5 (07:42):
No, I'm actually not, but you're making me become one
the way you describe it.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
No, because no, I.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Never had any real interest in it. But if I
should begin, I will start with this series and watch
it in a more sequential way.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
It's kind of an irresistible premise, which is a serial
killer who's almost a superhero the way he has depicted.
I mean, he's got a costume that he is standard
for when he goes out to kill, and he's he
only goes after bad guys. He's a killer who kills
bad guys's and Michael C. Hall is terrific in it.
(08:17):
The whole cast is tons of fun. And I'm not
kidding you when I say watching all these young actors
do their impressions, it could easily devolve into an SNL sketch.
But it's just a ton of fun. They somehow managed
to dodge the bullet of the of the young fill
in the blank.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
It's usually hard for me to get into prequels because
I like to see this story advanced, not go back
to the beginning, because I know there's no stakes. If
someone was in the original series or movie, well, I
know in the prequel they can't die. Yeah, you know,
there's certain there's limitations placed upon what the prequel can
do and where it can go.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Yeah, you know, Dexter survive well, he survives everything. He
even survived getting shot by his annoying son. He survives
it all. But it's a lot of fun because it's
got the exact same look and feel and sound and
rhythm of the original show. You have it on your
shelf right along with the others if you still collect
that kind of thing, and it won't feel like crappy
(09:17):
fan fiction like some of this stuff does. I think
you might have convinced me, just might have convinced me
you're gonna owe me for another one. I wouldn't say
that it is Later with mo Kelly, You can't. If I
am six forty OnLive Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app
Speaker 1 (09:30):
You're listening to Later with mo Kelly on demand from
KFI AM six forty
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