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Dexter: New Blood executive producer Scott Reynolds says that the revival will have a much different focus than the original Showtime series.
Dexter: New Blood will have a much different format than the original Showtime series.
In an interview with Variety, executive producer Scott Reynolds explained how the 10-episode revival of Dexter will differ from the original series, which ran for eight seasons on Showtime from 2006 to 2013. “We also broke the format of what we were doing before,” Reynolds said. He said the original show had a “Big Bad and smaller bads,” that they would “find, stalk and hunt and wrap them in plastic and kill them — like eight to 10 bad guys each season.” For the revival, Reynolds said that “we stepped away from that a little bit and made it much more personal. It’s about Harrison. It’s about family life. It’s about a father who is a murderer — a serial killer — and the effect that that has on everybody around him.”
Reynold’s comments align with those made by showrunner Clyde Phillips during the show’s panel at the Television Critics Association’s press tour, who explained that the revival will address how Dexter’s abandonment affected Harrison. “[Y]ou can’t do a show about Dexter’ without including the theme of fathers and sons,” Phillips said. “His son has always thought he was dead and then found out he was alive and has a great resentment.” According to Phillips, Dexter will have “a lot of work to do to win his son back and prove that he’s a good father.”
Showtime recently confirmed that Dexter’s son, Harrison, would return for the revival with a set photo featuring Harrison actor Jack Alcott standing next to Michael C. Hall’s Dexter in a wooded area. Harrison was introduced in Dexter Season 4 as the son of Dexter and Rita Morgan. However, Rita was eventually murdered by Arthur Mitchell/The Trinity Killer, portrayed by John Lithgow, who is confirmed to be reprising his role for the revival as well. Harrison, at the end of the original series, was in the care of Hannah McKay, one of Dexter’s love interests following Rita’s death.
The revival, or Season 9, will reportedly pick up where the original series left off after Dexter faked his death and fled Miami. He is now living in a fictional upstate New York town called Iron Lake as a sales associate for a fish and game company under the alias Jim Lindsay, a reference to author Jeff Lindsay, who wrote the book that Dexter is based on.
Dexter ran for eight seasons on Showtime, starring Hall as Dexter Morgan, a forensic blood-spatter analyst moonlighting as a vigilante serial killer. It was announced that Dexter would be returning to Showtime as a 10-part limited series in 2020, promising a better, more satisfying ending than what was provided by the original series finale.
Dexter: New Blood will premiere on Showtime on Sunday, Nov. 7.
Source: Variety
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