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Christmas special episode 2: Dexter New Blood

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  Dexter New Blood  2021   Dexter new blood, set 10 years after the original series follows Dexter under his new life as Jim Linsey in Iron Lake, New York, a small, isolated town, covered in snow during the Christmas period the show is set in. The episode in this limited series that covers Christmas day is episode 9, titled ‘The Family Business’, and entails Dexter, under the alias of Jim Linsey, finally reconnecting with his estranged son. The episode begins with Dexter explaining to his son Harrison that he hints down serial killers, and ‘scares them back into becoming reformed’, leaving out the part about killing them in fear Harrison wouldn’t understand. The episode then moves onto Dexter and Harrison spending Christmas day alongside Dexter's girlfriend and her adoptive daughter before being interrupted by a visitor. This visitor was Kurt Caldwell, who after discovering the evidence found out that Dexter had killed and incinerated Kurt's son, all whilst Dexter k...

Christmas special episode 1, The Office UK

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The Office UK  2001-2003  The Office UK is a staple show in British TV history, first aired in 2001, it follows the day to day lives of office workers in a paper company in Slough. The Christmas special episodes were the final 2 episodes of the series, set 3 years after the events of the main series, and catches up with the employees of Wernham Hogg. David Brent (played by Ricky Gervais, one of the shows main writers), now a traveling salesman, is seen attempting to make use of his brief moment of fame from the in universe ‘documentary’ that was the first and second series of the show to make some money appearing at youth events, whilst other staple characters such as Tim and Gareth remain at the office. The central event over the episodes is the office Christmas party, where the main characters reunite. A major part of this is seeing Tim and Dawn meet again, Dawn flying back from Florida to attend, one of the series most compelling relationships, finally concluding and ...