{"id":59742,"date":"2025-07-12T14:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59742\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T14:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:10:10","slug":"michael-c-hall-talks-dexter-resurrection-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59742\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael C. Hall Talks ‘Dexter: Resurrection’ Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points for the Dexter: Resurrection<\/a> series premiere<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tMichael C. Hall<\/a> is back as Dexter Morgan in Showtime<\/a>\u2018s Dexter: Resurrection, having cheated death again and ready to slay more serial killer butt. The first two episodes are available to stream now.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe new spinoff follows the events of Dexter: New Blood, which ended with Dexter\u2019s son, Harrison (Jack Alcott), shooting his very first serial killer, his dad. Dexter decided it was time he be taken out, having reemerged with his dark passenger, unable to release the monster inside. It\u2019s part of the code, after all.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the first moments of Dexter: Original Sin, it\u2019s revealed that the titular killer had survived the attempt on his life and had been rushed to the hospital. The prequel spinoff, starring Patrick Gibson as young Dexter, follows the serial killer in training as he begins an internship at Miami Metro, where his father Harry (Christian Slater) is a respected detective. Dexter (Hall) explains in narration that revisiting his early years was his brain doing the \u201clife flashes before your eyes\u201d before you die. Original Sin was renewed for a second season following positive fan reception and record ratings.<\/p>\n

\n\tHall decided to continue telling Dexter\u2019s stories after the events of New Blood, halting justice once again.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cLike, Al Pacino and the mafia. It just keeps pulling me back in, I think,\u201d Hall told Deadline this week when asked what it is about Dexter that keeps bringing him back to this universe. \u201cWhen we finished the series proper and Dexter put himself into self-imposed exile, I knew we may well be revisiting him at some point to find out what the hell happened to him. When New Blood ended, I had a more definitive sense that it was the end, and I think the character did too. He thought that was a fatal gunshot.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued, \u201cBut some time passed, and I casually injected in conversations with show creatives, like, \u2018What if he didn\u2019t die?\u2019 I mean, he didn\u2019t get shot in the head. It\u2019s possible he could have survived that. And if he did, what would that look like? What storytelling possibilities would that afford us? The more I thought about it, and the more we talked about it, the more I was compelled. While Harrison didn\u2019t kill him, there was something in him that he could kill or do away with if Dexter could finally put down the burden of his penance and be lighter with this second chance at life. And what would that mean? Would he be able to do what I think he does in this season, reclaim himself, and that just became increasingly interesting. Then writers came up with an idea of this gathering that he might come upon, and plausibly so, given that he\u2019s in New York City. It was too tempting to resist. I was like, \u2018All right, let\u2019s roll the dice and bring him back to life. Let\u2019s do it.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan and John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell in Dexter: Resurrection premiere<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tZach Dilgard\/Paramount+ with SHOWTIME<\/p>\n

\n\tBefore Dexter can get out of his hospital bed, he is out of consciousness and, like Ebenezer Scrooge, is visited by three ghosts. First was John Lithgow as Arthur Mitchell, the infamous Trinity Killer, Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado, and lastly, Erik King as a very yelly James Doakes. Lithgow also appeared to Dexter in New Blood, but it was a first-time revisit with both Smits and King since their characters died in the original series.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs an OG fan of Dexter, seeing him interact with three of the most loved characters from the mothership series felt like a homecoming of sorts. This is especially true in Dexter: Resurrection, a lighter option than New Blood but not quite the blue skies in Original Sin.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThat it was pure joy for an OG fan is a big part of why I was so excited when I saw it. I was like, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s gonna resonate, and it shows just how rich the mythology of the show has grown to be.\u2019 It was amazing seeing those guys and doing scenes with them, so many years since we started. It was incredible,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou know, I think it reveals just how populated Dexter\u2019s interior landscape is. I think those guys showed up in that sort of fever dream place, when Dexter was between alive and dead. You can never say never with the show in terms of the rules of the universe and the people who can emerge. But the abiding people from the original show are James Remar and David Zayas, you know, Harry and Batista. It was so amazing to reconnect with those guys and play scenes with them, with all the history that we share and the affection we have for one another. It was a blast,\u201d Hall continued.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tL-R: Michael C. Hall as Dexter Morgan and Jimmy Smits as Miguel Prado in \u2018Dexter: Resurrection\u2019<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t, episode 1, season 1, streaming on Paramount+ with SHOWTIME, Zach Dilgard\/Paramount+ with Showtime<\/p>\n

\n\tThe most shocking reunion, however, was between Dexter and Batista, former close friends and colleagues who now shared an awkward hug and a Cuban sandwich in a brief respite from the tension that would follow. Batista reveals he had received a call from Dexter\u2019s girlfriend, Iron Lake Police Chief Angela Bishop (Julia Jones), who told him she suspected her boyfriend, known as Jim Lindsay in New Blood, was the Bay Harbor Butcher. Although she later rescinded what she said, it was too late for Batista. His ex-wife in Dexter, Maria LaGuerta (Luna Lauren Velez), had similarly suspected the same before she was murdered. For Batista, who does not know for certain that his old friend was behind Maria\u2019s death but suspects it, it\u2019s a coincidence too far.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBatista and Dexter, way back when, were friends. Batista was as close to a normal friend as Dexter ever had, and someone he\u2019s always been incredibly fond of because of his integrity, his honesty, and he\u2019s a rock. One of my favorite scenes I\u2019ve ever played is the scene in the first episode of this season where Batista shows up in Dexter\u2019s hospital room. It was just so rich and complicated. There is so much water under the bridge, and this cat-and-mouse dynamics. But it was also just so bittersweet, these guys who used to have this simple connection, everything\u2019s just fraught with complication and suspicion now. I think Dexter is really fond of Batista in a way that he isn\u2019t otherwise even convinced he\u2019s capable of being fond, like he loves the guy in his way. He desperately wishes Batista would walk away. But knowing Batista, I think he suspects that he won\u2019t, and so that\u2019s dicey. That\u2019s all I\u2019ll say,\u201d Hall teased about what\u2019s ahead between Dexter and Batista.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: The following reveals major plot points for the Dexter: Resurrection series premiere Michael C. Hall is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[39934,171,1815,39936,12135,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-dexter-resurrection","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-interview","11":"tag-michael-c-hall","12":"tag-showtime","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114840667905791076","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}